palebluethought

Dang, that's a true vent.

But just to ensure you're pointing your justified rage in the right direction -- YouTube is essentially legally forbidden to stop copyright trolls. The DMCA makes it impossible: it spells out extremely specific terms for what YT has to do when it receives a claim, including, basically, the assumption of guilt. The content has to come down as soon as they receive the claim or they're in violation of the law, even if it's obviously frivolous. And there's little to no recourse against those who abuse the system.

The DMCA and copyright law in general is just broken, basically

"digestible" and "nutritious" aren't social constructs, so no. If your body can transform it chemically in a way that produces energy, it's food. Otherwise it's not. The same things are food regardless of your culture.

I'm really trying to make this one make sense, but it's just not happening. Can you rephrase?

I've had the 2x. It's definitely one of the spicier things you can get off a normal grocery store shelf. Even as a big spice fan it's right on the edge of what I actually find enjoyable. Not over the edge, though, it's my favorite ramen

This game ruined "story" for all other games for me. Every time I hear pretty much any other game praised for its writing, I can't help but roll my eyes internally. If they only knew

Well, for the most part, it's just flowing into the ocean, like it always does. Evaporation over land is a very minor part of freshwater loss.

"bird on shoulder" points to temple

Everyone is talking about dominant and recessive genes, so I just want to clarify a couple things.

The way your body directly uses genes is as a blueprint to construct proteins. Your cells are always producing proteins from the genes in all your chromosomes. It has complex ways of regulating how much of each it produces, but your body doesn't care what chromosome it's coming from. Once an embryo is fertilized, there's really no distinction between "mom" chromosomes or "dad" chromosomes, as far as the embryo and its protein machinery are concerned.

"Dominant" and "recessive" characterization is about how those proteins affect your body at the macro scale, not whether your body actually uses the gene and produces its proteins -- it always does that. For example, brown hair is a dominant trait, and blonde is recessive. But this is because producing any amount of brown pigment will make your hair brown, regardless of what other pigments you're making, simply because it's darker. Literally the same as combining blonde and brown paint. It has nothing to do with whether the genes are actually being expressed -- the brown hair gene doesn't stop the blonde hair gene from making its pigments.

I think you drastically overestimate how much companies care about online "boycotts"

Perhaps "always-on display" is clearer? Keeps it from turning off when idle

I just don't understand how people can get so sucked into gacha games. All the art design, the game world, all the other stuff they try to use to camouflage the slot machine, none of that stuff works more than a few hours. Once you see the "seams" of the skinner box, once it becomes blindingly obvious there's nothing to find at the "end" of chasing higher DPS or whatever, why do people continue? It loses any sense of fun the moment it happens.

Chemists learn it without being taught linear algebra ¯_(ツ)_/¯