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"Bandy-bandy is a burrowing snake, so Freek Vonk from the Naturalis Museum and I were surprised to find it on a concrete block by the sea," Bryan Fry, an associate professor at Queensland, said in a news release. "We later discovered that the snake had slithered over from a pile of bauxite rubble waiting to be loaded onto a ship."

voldothegr8 posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

Lawyer [for people trying to sue MGM resorts] says suit is outrageous.

In other news, amateur meteorologist says sky is blue.

Oh I agree MGM shouldn't be held responsible, that's not the point though. The point is how tactless the act of suing every victim is and the PR shitstorm and people who won't stay at their properties now probably isn't worth it. If I owned it, I'd deal with the litigation of people suing and leave it at that.

My guess is the "lawsuit" is seeking an immunity from lawsuit, not monetary damages. That's why using the term "lawsuit" is misleading to the average person because it usually implies suing for compensation.

Coffeebeanz posted...

Nomadic View posted...

spanky1 posted...

I'm not sure I understand. The victims are suing MGM, so because of that, MGM is suing the victims? Can someone explain this better?

Yeah, it doesnt make any sense. My assumption is the facts are being misconstrued to push a narrative, as seems to be the case with most news stories these days.

I pretty much always assume this

MGM Resorts International has filed suit against all Las Vegas massacre victims
Lawsuit attempts to head off any future litigation by ruling that the company has no liability for injuries or deaths at Route 91 Harvest Music Festival
MGM said 'years of drawn out litigation are not in the best interest of victims'
Lawyer for some victims said the suit is 'outrageous' and 'bordering on unethical'

How are her boobs? >_>

is she a real native or just a white person with some native blood?

when I was in school I lived near a rez that shared our school district. and most of the kids from the rez looked totally white due to interbreeding. actual pure natives were rare and the majority of the kids I saw were like at LEAST 50% white but usually even more. the local tribe was very loose and lets you claim membership with only like 10% native blood. it's dumb

and of course everyone wanted membership cause they had casino benefits

Are her parents okay with her dating a white person?

KhanJohnny posted...

DarthWendy posted...

- Is she for or against the name and symbol change of the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins teams ?

- Does she call you "my little white devil" ?

She's probably against those names based on everything else I know about her politics.

I'm not white goddammit.

Oh, my bad, I just assumed you were white based on... well, assumption.
Correction : Does she call you "my little [insert colour here] devil" ? Although it wouldn't work as well if you aren't white :(

- Is she for or against the name and symbol change of the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins teams ?

- Does she call you "my little white devil" ?

Also does she have big titties

have you apologized for all the mass genocide and racism your people have done and continue to do to her race?

Does she own a casino or related to someone who does? Either way, get ready to take advantage of the financial benefits.

What are her thoughts on Listerine?

Has she touched your teepee?

KhanJohnny posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

KhanJohnny posted...

Is this one of those things where they count people who play Candy Crush as "gamers"

who cares? its really unimportant. The definition of "gamer" has been changing for a while to accomodate the new forms of games that have been coming out.

It's not a bad thing. There's no benefit in exclusion or elitism. Maybe gamers can even get more respect and less stigma in society as people get to understand the culture more. and that's a great thing.

It actually is very important to the question at hand. Why should console games, which are likely male dominant, have 50% female protagonists, if that's not who the consumers are?

If the consumers of story-driven console games are men who want to play games as men, then why should they not get what they are spending their money for in order to satisfy a political preference?

Yeah, because it's story driven console games that have been the biggest sellers these past 5 years or so...

Why even make story driven console games at all when multiplayer fps games have been the main consumers? Forget the niche market and focus only on the biggest consumers.

KhanJohnny posted...

However, I don't think there is a large demand for female protagonists

In general this might be true but people don't know what they want until they see it. There are still countless opportunities for creative, profitable, and popular female leads, the only thing missing is the vision to actual create them.

KhanJohnny posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

KhanJohnny posted...

Is this one of those things where they count people who play Candy Crush as "gamers"

who cares? its really unimportant. The definition of "gamer" has been changing for a while to accomodate the new forms of games that have been coming out.

It's not a bad thing. There's no benefit in exclusion or elitism. Maybe gamers can even get more respect and less stigma in society as people get to understand the culture more. and that's a great thing.

It actually is very important to the question at hand. Why should console games, which are likely male dominant, have 50% female protagonists, if that's not who the consumers are?

If the consumers of story-driven console games are men who want to play games as men, then why should they not get what they are spending their money for in order to satisfy a political preference?

well, have males said that they prefer having the great majority of characters be male? (or female?) I also dont think it said "story driven console games" in terms of the breakdown.

I personally think it's good to have some balance, and have both men and women in all sorts of roles (i.e. women =/= eye candy). It's good to have variety, because that imitates real life.

KhanJohnny posted...

Is this one of those things where they count people who play Candy Crush as "gamers"

who cares? its really unimportant. The definition of "gamer" has been changing for a while to accomodate the new forms of games that have been coming out.

It's not a bad thing. There's no benefit in exclusion or elitism. Maybe gamers can even get more respect and less stigma in society as people get to understand the culture more. and that's a great thing.

i wonder if it's easy to have the biggest drop-off if you're the biggest cause that's barely even tying

Maybe it's because of his rhetoric towards Iran

Libya was a wreck long before the west intervened.

People forget that by the time we intervened the country was more or less totally destabilized and in a civil war

ROFL @ comparing Libya to Iraq.

At least he moved on to the other side early.

Didn't have to deal with the shit and how crap life is.

My insecurity read this as being super condescending because of the age I gave, lol (not really). Thank you.

KhanJohnny posted...

How old are you TC

31

No.
It's about norm replacement.

Liberals believe in normal things like equality.

Conservatives believe in off-the-wall shit like unsustainable economic systems and gays being sent to an eternity of torture simply for existing.

This is tangentially connected to the rise of post-modernism philosophies in the latter half of the twentieth century, which examined many of the societal norms that had been assumed to be natural and good for centuries and concluded that many of them weren't natural or healthy but were self-replicating rules governing social behavior that existed only to maintain the status quo.

One of the biggest relations there, was that the status quo was not ideologically neutral or apolitical, but that it eschewed politics that were most convenient for assuring it's continued survival, and that those politics were often openly hostile to people who feel outside it's definition of 'normal.'

KhanJohnny posted...

He's the avatar of the author/writers moralizing at you to make sure you know exactly why the scientists were wrong.

Then it failed because I dont think the scientists were wrong. The security and everything else about the park seemed to have taken all the necessary precautions. It was the insider (Newman from Seinfeld) that mucked everything up. He was crooked as hell to begin with. The things that went wrong had little to nothing to do with any design flaws of the park itself.

FreezerDoor posted...

Someone said he is back and it got closed almost immediately.

someone claimed @KhanJohnny is Dawkins but he's not.

that's why I said Arabish. it wasn't quite arabic people of today. The egyptians were a race that no longer exists. but if I had to compare it to a modern race I would probably pick arab

there was some black people there but most egyptians and most rulers were arabish type people

But Europeans love Trump, according to Big Don himself.

What's wrong with Ancient Nubia? Nubia had pyramids too.

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Welcome back, Mr Dawkins.

KhanJohnny posted...

DirkDiggles posted...

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DirkDiggles posted...

LightningAce11 posted...

https://twitter.com/Xsquader/status/1017361517375868928

They weren't labeled schizophrenics. They were either labeled heretics or possessed by Satan and burned at the stake or tortured to death.

Do you have a source to show that that was the common practice in 2000 years of Christian history?

Yeah, let me look through my ancient scrolls and sandscript tablets.

Great! Take your time. I'll be waiting for your response.

The Renaissance

The burning of the so-called heretics, often people with psychosis, began in the early Renaissance and reached its peak in the 14th and 15th centuries. First published in 1563, De praestigiis daemonum (The Deception of Demons) argued that the madness of heretics resulted not from supernatural forces but from natural causes. The Church promptly proscribed the book and accused its author, Johann Weyer, of being a sorcerer.

From the 15th century, scientific breakthroughs such as the heliocentric system of astronomer Galileo (1564-1642) began challenging the authority of the Church. Man, not God, became the focus of attention and study, and it is also around this time that anatomist Vesalius (1514-1564) published his landmark De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (The Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body). The Fabrica represented the first serious challenge to Galenic anatomy and brought its author considerable fame and fortune. By the age of 28, Vesalius had become physician to the Holy Roman Emperor (neither Holy nor Roman, but in fact the Emperor of Germany), Charles the Quint.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201206/brief-history-psychiatry

KhanJohnny posted...

DirkDiggles posted...

LightningAce11 posted...

https://twitter.com/Xsquader/status/1017361517375868928

They weren't labeled schizophrenics. They were either labeled heretics or possessed by Satan and burned at the stake or tortured to death.

Do you have a source to show that that was the common practice in 2000 years of Christian history?

Yeah, let me look through my ancient scrolls and sandscript tablets.

LightningAce11 posted...

https://twitter.com/Xsquader/status/1017361517375868928

They weren't labeled schizophrenics. They were either labeled heretics or possessed by Satan and burned at the stake or tortured to death.