It’s such a shame. Children have so much curiosity for the world.

Adults should realy nourish that, not kill it.

I’ve worked with children in that age range (6 and older) and it’s realy crazy what they come up if you give them a bit of room to experiment with their ideas.

I agree completely.

It comes down to wanting the best for yourself and only for yourself. There can’t be any other motivation for destroying a whole planet in order to get a live with vastly more money than you could ever spend.

I do this for all my character as a dm and I think it is gear to add that visual layer for player who like it.

Before it would be image search and take what a er is closest to the character. I think wonky Ai pictures, despite all their downfall, are a real improvement in this usecase .

Good point. If the wizard did this you also would never know that such a song existed. Hence your “worst song in the world” spot would be filled with a different song the instant the spell hits.

It shows how such categories as “the worst” and “the best” are only constructions of our mind.

Just that they are actively recruiting people from STEM.

Not only that, we have a couple of social science people around too :-)

I could tell you the facts, like how stopping eating meat is one of the easiest ways to make a huge change. I could give you some studies, show you how almost every report on climate change in the last 15 years has listet going more plant based is part of their recommendations. But you know what? I’m just fucking over with people that aren’t grown up enoth to even do the slightest little change in their lives.

We deserve the future that awaits us.

Your plan is to require every individual on the planet to make sacrifices that could kill them and their loved ones? You think that’s actually achievable?

No. I complete not registered the second half of your sentence while quoting it. No fucking idea how that happend. Complete brain fart on my end.

So what’s a realistic approach to the problem:

Getting billions of individuals to change across the planet? Which requires most of them and their families to die?

AND

Changing a few dozen companies.

Changes like this don’t happen in an empty space. If you have an Eco aware consumer base it help a lot.

Having a consumer base that is aware of and cares about the environment is going to help a lot on that regard.

Good start. Then go vegetarian of even vegan and you should be good ;-)

Let’s say it’s a postmodern interpretation of the meme idea.

Ravens: taking notes

Are you fucked off about the title? 😉

Yeah, it is. The conversation was about gender roles, until you brought in rape.

Was it tough?

I’d phrase it differently. Unrealistic expectations of the opposite sex [^1] exist by both sexes, but that there outcomes for women when the stereotypes of men hold true are often more dangerous. One is saying it isn’t sexist; the other is saying that there’s a vast difference in risk.

Then rape isn’t part of the risk you were talking about here?

The “Would you rather a bear or…” question could be reused in a very uncomfortable way. You could swap men with a group of yoing, black, inner city men and rural white men for women. But instead of demonstrating that men are the issue and women the victims, suddenly it’d be black men who are the victims and rural white men the problem. And, yet, the fear and the risk of confirmation of stereotypes is the same - only in this case, believing those stereotypes makes people racist.

Fear of rape, among others. Which I wanted to show is backed by the data.

Also: there should be a Godwin’s Law for rape. The conversation was about household stereotypes. That was a bit of a leap.

I’ll leave this here.

Across their lifetime, 1 in 3 women, around 736 million, are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner – a number that has remained largely unchanged over the past decade.

https://www.who.int/news/item/09-03-2021-devastatingly-pervasive-1-in-3-women-globally-experience-violence

In the US it’s 1 in 6 women (and 1 und 33 men).

https://rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence

And last but bit least:

Nearly 99% of perpetrators are male.

https://www.humboldt.edu/supporting-survivors/educational-resources/statistics

So no, jumping to rape is not a leap. The fear of sexual violence is part of beeing a women. I don’t know a single women that wasn’t in a situation that did or did almost resulted in sexual violence.

It’s not part of beeing a men. I have never in my life feared about sexual violence and I share that with the vast majority of men.

Seven years on, the utility has not delivered on its clean-energy sales pitch. NW Natural has more retail gas customers than ever. It supplies them little, if any, renewable natural gas. It sells them as much fossil natural gas in an average year as it did before. And it wages steady battles in the courts and in local city halls to keep the gas flowing.

SEWARD, Mark – Died at Gooseberry Cove, Trinity Bay, on the 2nd inst. [January 1891], Mark, youngest child of Thomas and Rosanna Seward, aged 4 years.

SEWARD, Peter – Died on the 10th inst., Peter, second youngest son of Robert and Mary A. Seward, aged 2 years.

SEWARD – Died on the 14th inst., infant child of James and Mary A. Seward.

SEWARD, Richard – Died on the 15th inst., Richard, youngest son of Joseph and Louisa Seward, aged 4 years.

SEWARD, James – Died on the 19th inst., James, second youngest child of James and Mary A. Seward, aged 2 years (Evening Telegram, January 29, 1891)

https://swahsociety.com/records/obituaries/obituaries-1880s

Do you believe that climate change is largely driven by human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels? If not, is there a different cause you would cite?

Didn’t say yes.

Here I agree, the question isn’t answered.

But:

Do you believe climate change is making disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves more intense?

Almost said yes.

"The science is clear. Extreme weather will only get worse, and the climate crisis will only accelerate.’’

How is that not a yes?

Should climate change be addressed through government action or market forces?

Practically a yes. I award a half credit

“Under Harris’s climate plan as a 2019 presidential candidate, she advocated for a blend of government action and market forces to combat global warming.”

It’s not a yes because this is not a yes or no question. It gives a very clear answer though. How is this half credit?

Do you support clean-energy tax credits such as those for electric vehicles?

Again half credit. Not an actual yes.

“In 2022, Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which provides hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies for electric cars and other clean-energy technology, including tax credits for clean-energy and energy-efficiency home projects.”

That answers the question, again.

So, in 3 out of 4 questions the answers are very clear. And giving a “long” answer to a complex question is, in my opinion, appropriate.

What’s cake day?

sending random stuff to developing countries is one of the problems.

Relevant Video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HpjbkQr0JAE