Ah, but that’s jail time if they prove it.

Ok but I mean, how many of those birds are pigeons and rats? That’s a service…

Edit: i was incorrect. Mist, steam or fog are no longer water vapor (ie, water in gaseous state), but condensed water droplets.

Care, that birth control won’t work without the missing string.

I’m not a fan of white skirts but that one I’d try…

There are definitely worse worlds than one where UBI is what comes out of the AI race… One can dream.

Inb4 no one contributes voluntarily, so they make it mandatory.

I can see the headlines: US invents taxes.

NGL, was expecting a rickroll.

The US is irrelevant in these conversations.

It’s a global imperative, as well as in most nations own security interests, to become independent of fossil fuels.

What needs to be agreed is how the willing are going to fight back against the oil baron’s billions, because they’ll do anything, anything, to remain relevant and profitable.

Not sure about public domain. Perhaps a non-commercial license would be best - this way fans can carry on the work, but others wouldn’t be tempted to profit off of the IP.

How I love the tag feature!

See you around!

Good strategy, use few words to keep people guessing if you’re that dimwitted, or just being paid per post by your masters.

God forbid you try to explain yourself and confirm which one it is.

Yes, not even inside games.

When we’re out of the house like during vacations, the kid will automatically warn me when I forget to turn on the VPN because of the ads he gets.

What?

The government is doing its job, protecting consumers from predatory and monopolistic practices, and you’re crying “oh no, the poor billionaires”??

Quick google search says they sell like 600 million tickets a year, so it’s still $1B per year. They only had like $3B in profit last year, won’t you think of the shareholders?

Yeah? Well when you PRESUME you make a pres out of u and me.

On point with the video, it cracked me up. Well played.

We’ve all been there. Do you need me to go grab something for you?

Ok that’s one fucked up family. Out of all of them, god only saw fit to smite one of them? Sheesh.

Well the article says that

the brother of a man who died without children is permitted and encouraged to marry the widow. However, if either of the parties refuses to go through with the marriage, both are required to go through a ceremony known as halizah, involving a symbolic act of renunciation of their right to perform this marriage.

So, permitted and encouraged, but not forced into it. Except by god it seems.

To add to this, the most closely related passage in the bible is in Genesis 38, where this guy Onan was ordered to have children with his brother’s widow so the child could inherit his brother’s estate.

This seems to me a bit outside your usual family obligations, and so did the guy because while he engaged in sexual intercourse, he “spilled his seed” on the ground to avoid fulfilling this familial duty.

God didn’t think much of that and killed him on the spot.

The tale is usually linked more to the “sin” of contraception, but it seems like a much more pragmatic story: it’s best you knock up your brother’s widow than have everyone start a war over the spoils.