Rhaedas

I’m not up on Naboo politics, guess she had a good speech writer. She was the youngest ever elected (was her successor younger still?) Maybe it’s the idea that the kids have a better idea of where things need to go than the adults.

Such abilities would be dangerous not only in romance relationships, but in any. And yet we see Jedi around all these Senators too. Maybe the Sith were onto something.

Yes, depicting a 14 year old Padme Amidala.

Oh, so that’s how he killed his own businesses. Let’s scale it up, what could go wrong?

I just pulled my statement based on reading wiki’s entry on abolitionism which does mention what you point out. I don’t think what I said was wrong as much as not specific enough, but my main point was that there was no major movement that a Presidential candidate could rally with and gain votes to win. It took a war for one to push such an act through, left a scar that never healed, and cost him his life.

Wikipedia disagrees with it being that old. It’s a product of the Enlightenment but even then took time to grow into a large movement.

1/4 of Presidents lived in a time and society where owning slaves was accepted.

Not nearly the same degree as slavery, but I see a lot of reaction stuff to comedy and movies from the 70s and 80s and younger people are shocked at some things that were typical back then. Doesn’t mean anyone is wrong either way, times just change. Obviously slavery is wrong, but the period of time always needs to be considered when making judgements. Would have any of those Presidents made it into office, or even been not run out of town if they had been full on abolitionists? It’s a lot like our current time where we can’t seem to have candidates that push for extreme changes because they wouldn’t get support, even if it would help most of the voters.

That is very true. You can’t try to analyze it, you just have to accept it as true no matter what. To do otherwise can break that belief. It’s why many non-believers used to be Christians until they broke this rule.

Which statement crossed the line for you?

Anything from the Bible can be interpreted differently. Render unto Caesar seems to support some rule following, even if it’s used as a separation principle between earthly and heavenly things. Was Jesus a full-on anarchist? Maybe selectively, but given everyone was to be servant to God it wasn’t absolute.

Depends on the product. From an original AI research point of view this is what you want, a model that can realize it is missing information and deviates from giving a result. But once profit became involved, marketing requires a fully confident output to get everyone to buy in. So we get what we get and not something that’s more reliable.

I thought this would be a link to the Red Skull scene finding the Tesseract.

I agree that it seems the level of security was a factor before, during, and after the event. But anyone can claim “if I was there” after the fact. The takeaway is how this is motivating such groups to get ready for more, an excuse for violence.

So they only use algae-only oil. Still doesn’t change the point.

This is shifting blame. Fossil fuels are vegan in the sense of origin, however the harm done to the biosphere in using them is not vegan. Therefore a vegan using fossil fuels in a dependent society is to blame.

Sure. It’s not the much higher percentage of people participating in this, it’s the vegans. At least they’re making attempts to change, unlike the rest of us.

Exactly. I haven’t done a movie outing in a long time, but the after-movie discussions with one or more people is always the best part, while it’s fresh in your minds. You can do the same online, and it’s great too, but it doesn’t have the same “rush”.

I don’t know if it’s still a thing as generations move on, but I remember when people objected to putting their credit card info into a web form even if it was HTTPS, yet they’d gladly read their card number over the phone.

Maybe he’ll get out with just a fine and a probation for a year from washing his car, or handling a hose in general.

Or the clock is now digital and no one understands what the numbers on the pole were for, but are scared to remove them in case it breaks things.

In some aspects this results in situations that the original Star Trek 3-D chess has with its movable platforms. The issue with chess variants is always how it adds while not unbalancing the game, and that’s a difficult thing to test since chess by itself is complex even with its simple rules.