Scientifically accurate rendering of the event:

The franchise has shown over the years that dinosaurs prefer to eat corporate executives and animal abusers. It is also clear that children are safer alone with dinosaurs than with Trump.

Always a great day when science confirms that supervillain origin stories are now on the cutting edge of possibility.

They do but not like mammals do. Injury occurs, their nervous system responds, but their “brain” does not register it to the same degree it would in animals with more evolved brains. This video is a good example of the processing power of insect “brains”. The mantis is processing “eat” and the pain of being gnawed in half simply can’t over power the drive to eat. There’s not a mammal or bird that would ignore being chewed in half just because it was enjoying a succulent meal. Recognizing that different animals process pain in a way different from others is not license to disregard their pain or lessen the suffering, it’s just acknowledging that different systems process hurting in a different manner.

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There’s no shortage of vegan friendly hot sauces that reference “ass burning” in their name that were left out of this study.

I’m gonna stop you right there because you’re flirting dangerously close to Victorian prudishness with a modern spin. There is absolutely nothing new about non-reproductive sexual behavior and the practice is not limited to humans. We’ve found sexually explicit images in cave paintings, Mesopotamia, a lot in Greece & Rome (including homoerotica), and the Kama Sutra is about 2000yrs old. Humans, including adolescents, have been jerkin’ it for centuries before the invisible hand came along.

What has occurred is that the accessibility, volume, and content of pornography has expanded and changed. Where people might have previously spanked it and finished in a few minutes then gone on with their day, now they can delay gratification and spend hours gooning to a never ending supply of whatever form of visual stimulus they want, including content that was never even intended or attempted to be pornographic. The pornography itself is not addictive, the physiological and mental stimulation is. For some, there’s a need to explore and indulge riskier sexual behaviors and fetishes to achieve the rush they got previously. I was pretty excited when I saw my first nudie mag at 8, by the time I was 16 it wasn’t as exciting because by then internet porn had become accessible. But, had nudie mags remained my only option for such content, I would have continued to masturbate to nudie mags.

There’s also nothing inherently wrong with the idea of pornography, voyuerism, group play, sex toys, etc so long as all parties involved consent to the activity they’re engaging in. Humans like sex, they like masturbation, they like watching others perform it. Again, consent of all parties involved is the key factor. Truly understanding how to give and respect consent in what can be a high consequence interaction is why we set hard lines about age of consent and prohibit (or attempt to) minors from such activities, but also know that many are exploring and engaging in such behavior privately or with peers regardless. There’s a healthy, normal aspect to that because it’s human nature, and then there’s the dangerous side because porn of every sort lacks a lesson in consent, is often unrealistic/fantastical/deviant, and often treats the passive partner as an object for the pleasure of the active partner (typically women, but trans, “twink”, animals, and children are also depicted as such).

This is the danger of porn to malleable minds who are responding to the biology of sex drive but do not yet have the confidence/skill/capacity to build healthy relationships where they can build intimacy and eventually engage in sex with a willing, consenting partner. Some end up forgoing the effort to find a partner entirely and meet their need with porn, which is a sad and unhealthy avenue. Other take the lessons of objectification and violate the boundaries of other. And the worst make their most deviant, dangerous, and hurtful fantasies reality. Some would behave like that without having been exposed to porn, but I would argue that porn is having a strong influence on the spread and normalization of truly deviant fetishes, like beast/child/gore/rape.

The commodification of sex is older than capitalism, it was being bartered and traded since… since forever. What capitalism has done is make a normal human behavior a profitable vice. Adults embracing their sexuality, recording it, selling it for other adults to view is not problematic so long as everyone who made it consented to the acts recorded and consents to the recording being put out for consumption by strangers. The internet has created a platform where it’s impossible to tell if those criteria were met before the material became permanently available and globally distributed, as well is a bastion of anonymity that can be accessed by anyone of any age. You can try and put up guardrails but humans are just going to figure out a workaround if they are inclined to do so. Pandora’s box has been opened, and even if there is no money to be made people are going to view, share, and trade porn. If you shut the internet down people would revert to whatever media forms were available to do the same. Even if you magically erased all porn, people, including adolescents, would still masturbate. What might diminish is the frequency and amount of time they spend doing so as well as the cultivation of deviant fetishes and objectifying partners.

The people trying to create a “solution” aren’t doing so because they see that some forms of porn production and consumption is problematic, they see human sexuality as problematic. They’re not trying to steer how porn is produced and consumed into a healthy manner, they treat sexuality outside of their concept of divine purpose as deviant. Plus it’s a “rules for thee not me” attitude, especially when the people pushing it support one of the world’s most infamous and abusive deviants. The human need for sexual stimulation/release is like the human need to eat and drink. Capitalism didn’t invent it, it just exploits necessity.

Good point. Kids know too much and get addicted too early. Adult know too little and can’t tell the difference between lies and reality. Everybody consumes way too much porn. That’s it, everybody put their phones in the garbage. No more Internet, everyone gets a landline, rotary dial, call on the other end does’t disconnect if you don’t hang yours up.

Well, when in Rome, do as the Vandals.

“Welcome, to Paleogene Park.”

Admittedly, the kids having to hide in the kitchen from a pack of Eohippi doesn’t hit nearly as hard.

Byproduct of the US educational system. They can’t handle reading much more than a sentence before immediately posting their opinion about what they think the article is about.

Also, this article verifies what seems like it should have been a predictable cause/effect problem. Plenty of places have deforested their land and suffered mudslides, desertification, erosion. The US destroyed its prairies and got a dust bowl. The failure to predict that foresting grasslands and other areas not previously forest would result in ecological disruptions seems shortsighted. But, live and learn, do better next time.

Every device you run today has an Operating System of some kind, so this bill could impact all devices.

Not all devices.

God bless these chucklefucks for targeting the tools of the 1st instead of the tools of the 2nd. Why use words when you can use lead?

A pocket full of pitchblende might help. But also, might give you some new forms.

Trump has never been much for requiring consent, especially when spreading herpes.

Man, I’m mid-40s and not particularly thrilled by the concept this could only be mid-journey. I’m down to stick around so long as I can contribute something to my community, not in the capitalist sense but the social sense. At the point my existence is a drain on resources and I’m living just because I can… fuck that.

On the bright side, robot dogs don’t die when the pig they’re assigned to leaves them in a hot car. Also, nobody cares if a robot dog gets shot/stabbed/kicked.

Only idiots bring a gun to a drone fight. However, it is perfectly acceptable to bring your limited edition Andúril replica to finish off any boogaloos that were merely wounded. 1d8 slashing (1d10 if using it two-handed).

Imagine spending thousands of dollars stockpiling assault rifles and ammo for your revolution only to have your entire milita wiped out when some nerd with a $100 homemade missile blows-up the UHaul you all piled in the back of.

Hell no. Climate change is one of those topics that minds are made up on before the person even runs for office, whether that be denial, indifference, or proactive. People that use it treat it like a new Bible with the idea that as “the sum of all human knowledge” it has some magical insight into humanity. Still, they cherry pick responses that validate their established beliefs and ignore any that would refute or challenge them.