Echinoderm

There are men who report being disciplined or fired for so much as saying “I like that outfit.”

I work in this area, and in my experience, there is way more going on than just a compliment about an outfit whenever someone is getting disciplined. Employees who claim that usually have no ability to self-reflect about the extent or appropriateness of their behaviour.

It's more than just being about "stupid" people though. After all, who benefits from deliberately under-funding and attacking the integrity of educational institutions?

"Thank you, but we follow Martian facts here, we aren't interested in your Venusian ways."

I vote the 7 August should hereafter be declared "Succulent Chinese Meal Day" in tribute.

Gotta chase that sweet, sweet live service money though.

The bananas won't be fooled, because everyone knows that bananas are straight until they get picked and the banana bender puts the bend in them.

It's not really a debate about continuing to rely on fossil fuels. For context, in Australia the conservative coalition (for some reason) has an idealogical bee in its bonnet about investing more heavily in renewable energy sources, instead arguing that nuclear energy production is the way of the future.

I thought it must be too garbled for someone to have honestly thought it was a sensible message, but hadn't seen it before. Thanks for the extra context.

The thought of seeing someone shouting "Train!" still gives me nostalgia.

It looks like something "sci fi" from a 90s video game, when low-res polygon models were the best computers could do.

Including humans. I'm not going near the person launching pinecones at my head from their yard.

But quoting it implies it’s an invalid claim.

Interesting. I read the quotes as meaning: someone else said it, it's not just some opinion we made up. In this case, it was reporting the coroner's official finding.

In other words, I understood it to be reinforcing the claim rather than invalidating it.