Recent content by gnarlygninja

This just gave me a flashback to the first time I got a sunburn on the now bare top of my head...that was a bad weekend. You've got a nice collection of hats.

I relate to this, I like them (and I'm bald now) but I've got too much millennial angst about hats. If I put anything besides a baseball cap on, I just flash back to the guys who walked around wearing the cargo short/graphic t/trilby combo and take it off.

It's definitely the Shagnasty, he's talked about it before. IIRC the skinwalkers were all going to be humans who changed shape, because that's what the books he had said they were, but then he looked into it more (and looked at more NA sources).

I have a vague memory of reading an article about that particular combo being common in parts of California because of early 20th century immigration and miscegenation laws, but I don't remember where. All I know is they're not in the parts near me, which is a shame, because it's what I'd like...

Speaking as an extremely white person, who grew up in an environment where people wouldn't have understood why you'd need to clarify they were white people tacos because they'd never encountered anything else and assumed all tacos were like this, you might be overthinking this. It's difficult...

I'm not trying to argue with this, just stating a related bit of trivia, but at least three artificial sweeteners were discovered by people not following this procedure.

Take a look at the history of the wiki page, it was updated but there are a few editors who have removed reference to the controversy because they don't think the sources are good enough. Eventually they won the edit war.

It was not a one and done, they'd been saying that sort of thing for a long while before that. I think you'll find for that a lot of people the sentence for that sort of thing is much, much, much longer than 5 years.

That's a question that deserves a complicated, thought out answer but my immediate thought is since iirc there are very few degrees of separation between them and the for profit ones (they share employees or board members or both) I'd say yes to a lesser extent.

It's probably a little bit of that. I've never been to the UK so I can't speak for the work differences, but in my experience with US fast food there's a pretty strong correlation between how the fast food place treats its employees and how often the order is wrong.

I think they were specifically talking about the "most stuff under copyright should be in the public domain" part, not the part about companies continuously extending the duration (although the last time they tried, it failed)

The best thing about game stores imo is not having to wait for shipping. I like being able to go look at a thing, pick it up, and leave with it. But the experience is really dependent on the store, if a woman walked into the store I went to in college people would act exactly like that scene...

It is very difficult to take your appeals to the common man angle seriously when in almost each of these posts you seem very willing to screw over the common man in the exact same ways you're criticizing, then defend it with "well, rich people can do it so why shouldn't I?" The answer to why you...

I don't really understand why you would bother running thought experiments about a bill and the impact it might have without reading it. It's pretty short, take a look at it. https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB412/id/3100490

I'm not sure it's fair to characterize that post this way. The comparison was indirect, to the point that if dragoner had said Ecclesiastes instead of Lincoln I'm not sure there would have been any fuss, and limited to the specific aspect of workers not being paid for their labor. That's hardly...