The “Middle Ground Fallacy” has done a huge amount of damage in areas where there are objective truths like climate change and now apparently public health.

Be the change you want to see in the world…

Follow authors, not characters. Most authors will have more cohesive stories during their run and you can basically ignore the rest of the continuity (at least while you’re reading each specific author).

Plus if you find an author you really like for one franchise, you’ll probably like them in other franchises, too. It’s also a great way to discover new characters. Fire example, I really like Jeff Lemire’s independent and Vertigo comics, so I tried his Moon Knight arc and now Moon Knight is one is my favorite characters (at least for certain authors)

Also, try reading some smaller/independent/creator-owned comics. A lot of the time, it will be the same author for the entire series, so they can be more consistent with the continuity and frequently have one cohesive plot for the entire series. Hellboy is a great place to start if you like Batman and/or Lovecraftian themes and monsters.

I obviously love talking about comics, so hit me up with more specific preferences and I’ll give you some more recs

Edit: Also, don’t spend so much time looking for continuity. These are all just fictional characters we use to tell stories. In “Dark Knight Returns,” Frank Miller was telling a different story with a different point than Mike Mignola in “The Doom That Came to Gotham,” which is different than Jeph Loeb in “The Long Halloween.” These are all fantastic Batman stories, and trying to make them all fit the same continuity takes away from the stories themselves.

Of course she is.

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Edit: and I didn’t even notice the Prince poster the first time

Zyklon B might not have been developed as a chemical weapon, but Haber was instrumental in developing and advocating for the use of chemical weapons explicitly on humans for Germany and Spain both during and after WWI (source)

I COULDN’T QUITE HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY CRANKED HOG, BUT I THINK YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT DEFINING GENDER!!!

THE PACK IS ALL ABOUT INCLUSION!! I DON’T CARE HOW YOU MF’ERS SELF IDENTIFY, YOU’RE ALL MY BROTHERS AS LONG AS YOU LOVE CRANKING THAT HOG!!!

AROOOOOO!

I must have been remembering that his research between the World Wars lead to the development of Zyklon B muddled that up with some other chemist (maybe Otto Ambros?). I’ll see if I can find my source.

Edit: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.

Don’t get me started on the Haber process. My students will tell you that I can and will go on for half an hour about how it prolonged WW1 and is one of the first commercial processes to make use of Le Chateliers principle.

Also, probably best not to spend too much time idolizing Fritz Haber, as I’m pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler. edit: I mixed up Haber with someone else, but his research was foundational in developing many German chemical weapons, including Zyklon B

Edit 2: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.

Really a fascinating bit of science history

Fun fact: German Chocolate Cake is actually from Texas. Either the cocoa company or the baker (I can’t remember which) was named “German” and I think the original name was “German’s chocolate cake”

People coming from privilege can still be progressive and want to enact change. I’m not sure why you’re denigrating this man and his actions based solely on the circumstances of his birth.

If there’s anything that would get Congress to enact gun control laws, it’s targeted gun violence against the 1%.

The article discusses how that change is not statistically significant and other possible reasons for the results.

1. Pulp Fiction: Perfection
2. Reservoir Dogs: he did so much with so little, and I love the idea of a heist movie that doesn’t show the heist
3. Inglorious Basterds: Beautifully cast, and Tarantino’s first collaboration with Christopher Waltz is just amazing. Plus that scene in the bar keeps you on edge for an unimaginably long time before letting the shit hit the fan.
4. Kill Bill (1+2): just an amazing soundtrack and he perfectly captures the essence of both samurai films and revenge films.
5. Django Unchained: somehow perfectly fuses blaxploitation and westerns. Plus, more Christopher Waltz
6. Jackie Brown: the least “Tarantino” of the Tarantino films, but still a pretty good flick.
7. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: pretty good and I love when Tarantino rewrites history, but I don’t generally like Hollywood movies about Hollywood as they usually feel a little too much like a circle-jerk.
8. Death Proof: I like it for what it is, but it’s not really a feature-length Tarantino movie, so it doesn’t really scratch the itch.
9. Hateful Eight: I grew up on Westerns and love Tarantino, so I really wanted to love this one, but it wasn’t really very good. The premise of closed-room Western is fascinating and it was almost great, but the last third/quarter was a huge letdown

It’s the same reason you never see Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus in the same room…

Thanks for the explanation!

You recover faster and better, because you distribute the new connections throughout the tissue, you don’t have this one rigid perforation to tear, so you don’t have to be healed up all the way before you can get back on your feet

Isn’t this a function of the surface area, though?

You’re doing the Dark Lord’s work, many thanks 🙇

Source? I’d love a higher res version or a print I can purchase

I think you actually have that backward. In general, a jagged tear heals quicker than an incision because there is more surface area in contact between the two pieces, so a larger number of cells can be working to repair the tissue. That said, I’m not a doctor and it’s been 10 years since my wife and I looked into this before our first kid, so I may be misremembering.

My dad is one of those “worryingly concerned about self-defense” boomers and I got an LED/lithium ion maglite-ish flashlight last year for Christmas.

It still doubles as a bludgeon and it’s rechargeable and puts out like 5k lumens, so while I didn’t think I needed anything like it, it’s quite handy if you live in the mountains like I do. Nothing scares off a couple coyotes or a bear like just blasting them in the retina with a high-end LED photon cannon (short of an actual shotgun with bean bag rounds like my neighbor uses)