An island in Florida facing the Atlantic, Xi doesn't need to do a thing that a hurricane won't do first
It's more that the Culture believe they have a moral imperative to combat fascist ideologies and do so through subterfuge that enhances the contradictions of those societies. It is explicitly viewed as morally gray that they interfere at all. When the Culture destabilizes the fascist Azad Empire by delegitimizing how their society chooses leaders, hundreds of people die in the immediate uproar. When the Culture wars with the Idiran Empire, which practices theocratic slavery, 850 billion sentients are killed, and it takes about 500 years for the war to become justifiable to many Culture citizens that lived through it.
Soviet machines barely worked which is why the Soyuz has a pathetic safety record compared to the space shuttle. Hang on, I'm getting a memo.
Replika chatbots are already doing that
Could be an extension of producerbrain "Second screen" ideas where you need your media to be able to hold or relate the attention of someone that's doing something else. Bigger, louder, simpler, repetitive
They had a pretty good start and then realized songs for car commercials are where the money is
If you lose 15 million votes and your opponent gains like 40,000 you've definitely fucked up
It's not even like needles are expensive, this is some of the most heinous penny pinching
It feels dicey in some way to boil an entire continent down to what resources are extracted from it as a form of liberation propaganda.
/r/Star citizen refunds or something
No, it's the most unbelievably hamfisted anti-abortion, utilitarian ethic screed I've ever seen, poorly disguised as your standard YA dystopian fic.
Unwinding is, in universe, the process of completely taking someone apart and using all their pieces as medical transplants for others, and parents can choose to have their kids unwound up until the age of 16 or something for any reason. It's the trolley problem variation where the surgeon kills one person for their organs to save five that need transplants.
The summons also range from totally useless through to cannon fodder through to You But Tankier so the spirit summon experience is exactly what you make it. For every player that used the mimic there's probably five that used the first wolf summon the whole way through.
And having played Elden Ring 3 Times and then tried DS3: the bosses in DS3 are a joke that I mostly got on the first try because the ER bosses are much faster, with shorter warning windows, longer combos, and shorter recoveries, and that annoying delay before launching into their moves. ER is absolutely balanced around using summons.
Garrys Mod is Roblox without the capitalists exploiting children for profit
Just individual server owners or whatever
Don't you need to be personally harmed to bring a suit? Who's personally harmed by Trump writing himself a pardon? The prosecutor's ego?
It is of course a stupid and useless action since clearly being a crime guy didn't stop him from assuming the presidency, and pardoning himself will just get the hogs baying in approval, so idk
United Health had also just done massive layoffs so it's all customers and any ex-employees
I had a 3 hour session once where I wasn't really bothered for the first 2.5 hours, then it hurt real bad, and then I had to crash for half an hour at the studio to get the shakes out from the adrenaline / dopamine rush. Ate a granola bar and hit the road and took a nap when I got home.
BDSM isn't entirely about pain or violence. That's the sadism and masochism part, wherein someone derives pleasure from causing pain or receiving pain, typically not specifically for the pain but the psychological element of being in a position of power or submission to someone else. The physical sensation is frequently secondary, but can be a source of additional stimulus. If you've ever gotten runner's high or felt a rush after getting a tattoo, it's sort of like that. Your body supplies endorphins after pain or exertion, and if you're already in a state of heightened sexual stimulation the pain drives you even higher and you don't really feel it, especially if your mind is preoccupied in a submissive state. If you're the dominant partner then you're probably not getting off from hurting someone, you're getting off from asserting your will onto them and seeing them get off to it.
Most BDSM inflictions of pain aren't shit like knife play or burning or strangling or anything that would even leave a mark. Depictions of BDSM in pornography are no more real than anything else in porn and are often taken to a greater extreme than anything real practitioners go for.
Sex specifically with the intent of causing pain is not what BDSM is.
If I'm not being compensated for time and money spent commuting I'm being ripped off. If I must be in the office I should be paid for the time in transit because I wouldn't be in transit if not as a condition of employment
What crime did the driver commit by not delivering treats? Crazy and I hope the union boosts him