You know, wild, insane conspiracy theory, but maybe the mental breakdown is more than just aftereffects from the stroke.
What if some republican patsy at a three letter agency has some serious blackmail on him? He's a public figure, his actions easily scrutinized. As a senator his time, statements, and votes are public, and the government itself is doing the blackmail, so he can't turn to anyone. If he resigns they release the blackmail. The only way to not have the blackmail released is to fake these issues. Or maybe the pressure is actually breaking him, who knows.
Small correction: the deputy killed was not one of the deputies present at the killing of the son. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/04/us/ohio-rodney-hinton-jr-arrest-hnk It was apparently deputy with ten years on the job who shot the son, while the deputy killed had 35 years.
I'm mildly amused that you think there are any gamers on lemmy that still use microsoft. Isn't it mandatory to use linux to access the fediverse? ;)
For ubisoft, I have no idea. Everything I seem to read around here indicates most are dissatisfied ever since one of the assassin's creed games a decade ago or something.
it’s not great to legally compel people to say things, especially when saying those things is directly in violation of their sense of ethics
Are you aware of how the mandatory reporting laws came into being? It is absolutely fucked up beyond belief. Anyone who doesn't report these sorts of crimes has no ethics.
Ah, yes... tradition! Because the way things have been done is the way they must, should, will be done! Something being wrong is still wrong despite any length of time it has been done.
The prisons that hold death row inmates are not private, for-profit companies. The numbers have been falling steadily and are incredibly low. Still a problem, because that number is high enough to have stupid amounts of influence, but it has nothing to do with death penalty costs. Those are all because we afford death row inmates a large amount of appeals, which costs 'lawyer money' where some prosecuting lawyer pretends he wasn't on a salary and they claim it's worth X hours x Y wage, and the defense attorney does the same but with a little more truth because he is getting paid by the hour.
It’s at this point, the close range scans indicate not just some “organic gases” but trillions of organisms , all of them alien, and worst of all, possessing a chirality opposite to your own.
Your immune system and their pathogens, and your pathogens, are wholly incompatible. You touch anything, you get sick and die, and they get sick and die.
Organisms on earth use right handed chirality without issue. Even humans manipulate some. Eating an alien would probably go poorly, but interacting with one (all you mass effect fans out there can lose the burgeoning boners, creeps, I mean in something as light as a 'handshake scenario') wouldn't be some terrible biological curse. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10851380/ I'm trying to scratch my head to remember because it's been a while, but I think there are archaebacteria that use the D forms even more than the normal incorporation into peptidoglycan. It's not a death sentence.
Pretty sure they won't be flying again. If I remember it, barring exceptional circumstances, like being shot down by your own fleet, if your plane goes down your flight days are too.
Those are the reviews that are good! Acknowledge what you are/like, and then say why it did/didn't meet what you prefer. I prefer negative reviews because they're usually more specific and I can pick out what I will enjoy or be turned off by in a game.
Take your bets on how long until one of the idiots tries to monetize it. You just know that several of them began filming before taking any action to save themselves.
You're not wrong, but there are a lot of places in america where law enforcement presence is a long way away. Those places also typically have two lane highways and not much, if any, shoulder. That makes stopping the truck easy enough. Add to that the heavy presence of hideaways in the forests around, and you could jack a fair amount from a truck and shuck it into your box truck before skedaddling to a rural dirt road and all of its pullouts right quick.
It feels like such a silly example now that I know the game, but tales of symphonia made me give up for about three years before coming back and beating it. There's a section where you're supposed to go to a specific city to progress, but there's a semi-secret long way around that lets you experience a different character's story early. Well, I somehow sucked at following directions and went the semi-secret way, and then couldn't figure out how to get ANYWHERE that let you do anything. I wandered around the same continent for several months (playing a few hours a week) before moving on.
Jesus, the finding people thing was tough, but finding the quest item that I had already looted from a grave and either dropped or sold to a random merchant? Game ending, man.
Yum, I guess. My sink is pretty far from food prep, and my body is in the way, so hopefully my insect intake is only going to be coming from poorly regulated peanut butter factories.
The real issue with 'immunizing' yourself against venoms is that you need to have enough antibodies ready to go in order to neutralize the relatively large amount of venom injected when the venom is injected. Just having the memory B and T cells isn't fast enough, usually. That means you have to keep the antibody count high by continual injections. The typical ramp up time for antibodies is 14 days on first exposure, and 3-7 days on second exposures, pic from an old friend who teaches immunology courses. Compare that to the typical amount of time it takes for the venom to cause damage or kill you: something like 20 minutes for the black mamba (though it usually takes a few hours, per that article), 10 minutes for one of the deadliest rattlers (wow, I didn't know 10 minutes, that's fucking fast, though again, that's probably on the small probability side and it usually takes longer), and generally within hours for most species.
I'm actually amazed. There are way less around me than I thought there would be.