To be fair, I think we’ve been in the midst of a political crisis for some time.
Although, I agree - I think Andy Burnham winning Makerfield would be the flashpoint for the leadership contest that has been looming for the past few months.
Maybe this is the only way things will settle down.
Next year? Hard to say. If Starmer gets ousted, which looks more and more likely, then that’ll probably mean a cabinet reshuffle. Honestly can’t say I’ve been too impressed by Rachel Reeves’ efforts, but then again I imagine it’s hard to totally insulate the economy from a mad bloke who’s seemingly trying his level best to destabilise the entire world.
If Burnham or Miliband do get elected, then I imagine we’ll do ok.
Is this just like, free money? Or are there strings attached?
What does a cantaloupe say when he sees an attractive honeydew?
“What a melon!”
Ha, it’s, er, complicated. It kind of follows on from Headmasters, but is set in a world where people don’t know about transformers. Optimus Prime seems to have never existed - there’s a robot that looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but isn’t, and nobody even bats an eyelid.
The Deceptions/Destrons are led by two powerful human sorcerers following commands from a weird glowing alien blob with tentacles called Devil Z.
The Cybertronians spend most of their time disguised as humans or monsters, and it’s the actual humans that become the heads for giant robots.
Masterforce really feels like it’s its own thing. I just think of it as an alternative universe, like TFA. Trying to make it fit in causes too many headaches!
Absolutely! I’m currently working my way through the absolutely bonkers Transformers Super-God Masterforce for the first time right now.
A lot of the stuff from the 80s is pretty hit-and-miss on revisiting, but some of it is still gold. In general, anything produced since 2000 is much higher quality.
I like the scope for world-building and story-telling possible in animation that isn’t really feasible otherwise.
I like animation for both kids and adults. I like western stuff and animé. But mostly I just love the medium - I even collected animation cels!
He needed root access.
In the UK, unless you’re self-employed, taxes are just kind of automatic. It just gets handled by your employer.
If you’re self-employed, and especially so if you’re VAT-registered, it can be a bit fiddly. For most people, however, it’s just handled invisibly.
The PS3 hit, Fat Princess.
Cool fantasy setting, much fighting, clear objectives (princess kidnapping) - perfect LARP stuff.
Plus whoever is the princess gets to be fed cake all day.
Is this a The Thirteenth Warrior reference?
If so, it’s literally the first one I’ve ever encountered in the wild!
FWIW, and I’m only mentioning this because of the phrasing of the question, plastic surgery isn’t named after ‘plastic’ (the noun), but for ‘plastic’ (the adjective). Plastic surgery was used as a term decades before plastic (the noun) was even invented!
But anyway, to answer your question, people tend not to use silicone in implants so much nowadays, preferring saline instead (as another person said). The main reason is that it is much less problematic if there is a rupture.
Leaking silicone is not immediately dangerous, but does need to be removed - which is difficult as it can squidge about under other tissues, causing mischief as it goes. Saline, by comparison, will just get absorbed by the body, usually harmlessly.
You know, this makes total sense.
I was searching online trying to work out what Ireland had done, but a typo explains everything.
People die.
In cases where someone meets an unfortunate grizzly end, like being eaten, there’s an obvious reason. But more often than not, people just stop being alive.
Imagine you have no knowledge of science, how would you explain this? An hour ago, this body could move, could breathe, could do normal things. Now it can’t.
Something has changed. Something is missing. What was once a person is now a thing, a body.
It stands to reason that the missing bit is the key to what makes people human. It’s clearly not a physical thing - the body looks the same - so it must be something intangible.
Tie this to the fact that people are very good at detecting other people around them. We’re especially good at sensing when we’re being watched (in person, not through cameras, obviously). We also find ourselves in situations where we feel like we’re being watched when no one possibly can be watching.
So we have a fundamental element of human-ness as something intangible, and we also have situations where it feels like someone is there when there’s no-one around.
It wouldn’t take a massive leap to associate the two.
Once you have human spirits established as a fact, it’s not such a stretch to imagine other intangible beings are responsible for other unexplainable elements of the world - the weather, crop yields, health, fertility, etc.
Oh, yeah - I 100% agree. I was just trying to convey how ludicrously easy it is to grow your own. There’s no way you should base an entire survival strategy on just potatoes, despite how plausible Matt Damon made it seem.
Get yourself a patch of soil, even if it’s just a couple of growbags, and grow potatoes. They’re like a magical self-replicating food. When you harvest them, keep some aside to plant later. One potato produces 5-10 potatoes easily, scale up for infinite potato glitch.
If you live in the UK or EU, you can even literally just plant ones you buy in the vegetable section in the supermarket. In the US, they often treat these with a growth inhibitor to extend the shelf-life, they won’t grow as easily.
Seed potatoes are guaranteed to produce healthy plants, but cost slightly more. You can buy them from garden centres or online.
Saw this in !autism@lemmy.world but it was removed before I could reply.
What country are you in? What part of the country?
Once we know that, it’ll be much easier to direct you to useful services.
I think you’d be surprised at just how few Catholics follow this specific rule! According to the NCHS, 98.8% of sexually experienced Catholic women had used contraception at some point in their lives. (“sexually experienced” in this context means ever had vaginal sex, and the sample size was 10,122 people)
Here’s the direct quote:
Across religious affiliations, 99.7% of women with no religious affiliation, 99.3% of Protestant women, 98.8% of Catholic women, and 97.6% of women affiliated with other religions had ever used a contraceptive method
8% of people think contraception is morally wrong?!
Yikes - that’s practically 1 in 12 people.
Both produced in South Korea? 🤷♂️
I only buy stuff if I’ve been obsessing over it for a few days. Basically buying it just to free up that head-space.