chooky
1d ago
Yamal was born in Spain and lived there his whole life from what I can tell. I view Argentina and Spain as among the teams doing the very least fudging about nationality.
chooky
1d ago
Hollow Knight is absolutely must play, though potentially you already have it on your console. It is every bit the equal of Super Metroid. Its sequel, Silksong, is better but also not as perfect.
chooky
1d ago
The hair melding into cheek AI image tell is a funny one in that the manga/anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, widely considered a genre peak of character design, very famously features a main character who constantly presents a mystery of where his hat ends and hair begins.
chooky
4d ago
Food is soooo much better than 40 years ago, in general. Here is an example. Soft Batch Chips Ahoy are kind of gross, though less gross than other Chips Ahoy. In the 90s, there were a revelation. Restaurants are also drastically better than the 80s and 90s. Maybe there are some arguments that some produce could be worse, but a) don't forget the rise of bioengineered tasty brussel sprputs and b) lord knows few people were not just garbage cooks back then.
chooky
5d ago
I can understand not liking Blood Meridian - it is awfully grim and gory, sometimes cartoonishly. But what is the proposed common theme it shares with The Dark Tower and Two Towers? To me, The Two Towers is very much fundamentally hopeful - the world has evil and dysfunction, but it can be and is meaningfully confronted with heroism. In Meridian, heroism is rare and stands no chance.
chooky
6d ago
"Forward" instead of "forwards" would be a very simple solution if this is indeed the case. Mispelling ick!
chooky
6d ago
It seems obvious that a surrogacy contract should cover birth defects. If I were a client, there is no way I would sign something that did not give me an out: an explicit abortion scenario or, as you suggest, the transfer of custody and legal rights/obligations to the surrogate as the surrogate's option, possibly with further financial support in the contract depending just how rich I am. I also would not sign something that did not let me require a hospital birth or even c-section, with these again being problems that can be solved with money.
chooky
6d ago
Surely the fundamental argumeny here would also include the relative efficiency of electricity used in EVs versus fossils used directly in EVs. Electricity has some transmission/generation loss, while ICE seems like it produces a lot of waste heat. How do these net out?
It does seem like a safe assumption that solar will rise in prominence.
chooky
6d ago
I think Missy Elliot is there for the 90s hip hop and R&B sound of Are You That Somebody, Sexyback, Pony, etc. She is definitely cooler than Timbaland and had a few genre-shattering songs as an individual artist, but Timbaland is the one who should have made the list since he is the one who made Aaliyah's genre peaks.
Flock is pretty expensive for cities and seems to have trouble clearly showing an impact on violent crime reduction. It is often hard to beat the financial argument, with equity/privacy being a great excuse. Without ceding the privacy grounds, I would suggest critiques based primarily on efficacy/cost.
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