Mark Zuckerberg The Tobacco Industry says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media Smoking and teen mental respiratory health.

There…fixed it.

The impact brain chemistry has on all sorts of things is very poorly understood.

It’s not just an impact. Everything we are IS brain chemistry. Emotions, thoughts, wants, desires, likes, dislikes, skills, talents… they’re all just a combination of chemicals and firing synapses in the brain. We are biological meat bags. There’s no such thing as a soul.

Yeah. Sadly it’s a trap that no one is immune to. Correlation doesn’t necessarily imply Causation.

Do you think Jackson Delacroix Vance grew the beard so he would look less like the result of Adam Lambert fucking a Cabbage Patch doll?

I’m honesty sitting here trying to remember the last Ubisoft game I actually enjoyed. And I mean truly “couldn’t put down” enjoyed. Some of the older Assassin’s Creed games were fun, but the same endless gameplay loop was meh, even then.

I’d almost have to go back all the way to those original Rainbow Six games for something that felt (to me) fresh and innovative.

You mean making the exact same cookie-cutter game loop for more than a decade isn’t a good idea!?

Dazed and Confused

Great. That means it’s only a matter of time before Hank Hill and his Hillbilly Sask Party decides to do the same thing in Saskatchewan…

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Since we already know, thanks to Pulaski’s ageing incident, and the Picard, Ro, Guinan Kid incident, that cures are as easy as stamping a previous pattern onto them during transport, technically any one of them would be better than an actual doctor.

Throw them into the pattern buffer, upload the last stored healthy pattern from their most recent beam-out. voila…all fixed.

Early on in TNG he even says he can detect if humans are lying from the minute physical changes (although the writers clearly drop that later

We can’t have TOO many reasons to get rid of Troi…

Easily Converter Now. So darn handy.

Not a full on extinction event, but the late bronze age collapse has always fascinated me. So much do that it led me to pursue archaeology in college.

So many theories, everyone has their favourite, but yeah, what ultimately caused every near eastern civilisation as well as the Mycenaean Greeks to just all collapse and disappear over a relatively short 200 years or so (archaeologically speaking a blink-of-an-eye)

People are brainwashed into not knowing the difference between big “S” socialism and " Capitalism with a strong social safety net".

There isn’t a single developed western nation that is the first. They’re all the second. We’re not “socialist” and less free than the good ol’ Murica. We just know that your capitalism runs better if your population isn’t struggling…

He also calls her a Fascist and a Communist; completely oblivious to the fact that those are three very separate things…

He’s an idiot who shouts out whatever strings of words he thinks will make his smooth brained followers hoot and howl.

I’m not excusing it by any means. I’m just saying he doesn’t actually know what the fuck he’s saying, so its not worth the oxygen to even try to respond to it.

Since this is giving me Don Beveridge vibes (R.I.P), I remember when RedLetterMedia’s Best of the Worst Black Spine edition had his customization seminar on their first episode.

They were laughing and thinking he was some kind of lunatic conman for all of the supposedly nonsense things he was spouting about pushing whopper buttons and deficiencies of PK and a bunch of other stuff, and I’m just sitting back thinking “nope…I understand every word he’s saying.” Because not only do I have to live currently in an environment where my upper managers emails are filled with such nonsense, but my first job was AT Burger King when I was 16 in 1992 and guess what…

THEY HAD A LITERAL WHOPPER BUTTON!

It was used by management to tell the staff when to keep more burgers in the warming tray and when to lower the supply based on customer traffic. They implemented it because…“75% of the time the Whopper was being served cold”

“Push the Whopper Button” is shorthand for being efficient with when and where you’re spending your resources so that your not wasting them where you don’t have to and not having them available when you do.

Depending on the context of the business, it could also mean exploring new product categories, like a bicycle maker deciding to get into the skateboard market because it happens to be popular. Or in the context of an online news website, a “vertical” is whether you are writing about tech, or health, or pop culture, etc…

When I wrote for MUO (very briefly) I was assigned to the creative software “vertical”; writing articles about video editing software, updates to different paint/art programs, etc…

“Deficiency of PK”

HIT THE WHOPPER BUTTON!

Does any real human actually write their “s” from bottom to top?

Oh no no. That’s not what I mean. Its not about that old chestnut of “It’ll make kids violent!” (It won’t)

its just realistic, modern war games against realistic depictions of contemporary humans is just something that I find distasteful to be used as “goofy fun with friends”

Its like playing paintball in a church.