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iirc, immediately after the video, the spear thrower approached the owner of the drone and offered to either pay for a replacement or repair.

Edit: yeah, pretty much exactly as I remembered it, https://www.rbth.com/blogs/viral_in_russia/2016/05/15/russian-knight-shoots-drone-out-the-sky-with-a-spear_592923 Original source

https://www.tumblr.com/thedepressionoftrees/684142341581357056/the-haiku-bot-instructor144 Thread with the runestone

your wish is my command

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skáldskaparmál

(Was in an argument with one of those brain dead culture war idiots who genuinely thinks that the latest god of war game had ""gone woke"" with its depictions of Odin & Thor, almost anyone can tell you that GoW's Thor depiction is mythological accurate, but right-wingers also apparently take issue with the depiction of Odin as a behind-the-scenes plotter instead of an uber-stronk war god. Odin in the mythology is repeatedly shown to plot, scheme, and lie, when I brought this up, they called me a slur and asked me to provide a single instance of Odin intentionally plotting. In Skáldskaparmál, one of the stories is how Odin stole poetry for the gods and humans, he does this by plotting and lying.)

Honestly its not just any WW2 game, but any remotely popular game's updates pages, when steam points & awards got added, several people set up bots to spam every update post on large games to say "Add pronouns and rainbow flags" banking on the conservatives giving them the jester award, others have it set up to spam "Dont give into woke and add (whatever buzzword is currently popular)" so they can get other awards, and like the morons they are, conservatives keep falling for both, giving awards and reacting in the comments.

LGBTQ+ people and allies have mostly stopped opening the comments on updates due to this, so there are multiple instances of people just openly calling for the extermination of anyone LGBTQ+ that never get reported or removed on the updates pages of otherwise not rightwing games.

Forums are supposed to be moderated by the company that makes the game, this means that if someone makes a nazi post and the company has no moderators, or has moderators that are also nazis, reporting it does nothing, even if it's blatantly against Steam's TOS.

Something seriously needs to be done about it.

Don't forget the whole issue of the "(non sexual) drag acts are pedophilia" "being gay/trans/etc is child grooming" "Kissing someone of the same gender in a public space should be illegal" arguments that would allow conservatives to sterilize/chemically castrate anybody lgbtq or gender non-conforming due to the whole "Think of the children!!!" moral panic.

Hell this almost happened in Florida when they passed the bill that allowed forced chemical castration of people convicted of sexual battery, as well as that anti drag show bill which punished drag show performers with sexual misdemeanor charges, but also had a proposed amendment to change that to a sexual battery charge.

youtube is plagued with these bots that either copy someone else's comment (normally positive of the video creator in order to avoid being auto deleted) or use some chatbot to come up with phrases, the picture is always some attractive woman or sometimes just straight up images from porn, when you click on the profile the banner image or profile links will contain a link to either a scam site or an onlyfans page. They generally also bot upvotes on their comments in order to get better visibility

If I had a quarter for each time someone has explained eldritch/other-worldly concepts to me via an analogy using ants I'd have a dollar, which isn't a lot but it's strange that it's happened 4 times

I saw that thread, there were some extremely weird and gross responses, one person wrote like 6 paragraphs on how they couldn't stop using it, with one of the reasons being they "liked the mouth feel"??? It's baffling the lengths people will go to to justify saying a slur.

There's also the privilege of living in a location where vegan alternatives are readily and frequently available, vast swaths of the US are in what's known as "food deserts", locations where "residents’ access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or nonexistent due to the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance" (https://foodispower.org/access-health/food-deserts/) these locations also tend to have high obesity or diabetes rates due to the fact that the only food easily and cheaply available is high in sugar. Add in things like the increased price for even simple vegan foods (like rice and beans) and you might be starting to see the picture, as much as some people would LIKE to be vegan it is literally not possible for them without either taking on substantial additional costs or completely upending their life.

A lot of the reason people who are otherwise pro-vegan (like myself) tend to dislike online vegans is that they will, consistently and smugly, while in a location and economic position where its easier to get vegan options, berate people for eating animal products without ever considering the possibility that its MUCH harder to get non-animal product based foods in certain areas

Alright, I looked at the poll, its DEEPLY flawed, firstly there were only 875 (434 men, 429 women, which only adds up to 863, with no other gender options listed as responding, where are the remaining 12 people?) respondents, that is an absurdly low sample size for all voters across all states, secondly, the responders aren't indicative of the general population, 598 (~71%) of the people who responded to the mentioned question were white while only 241 (~28%) of the respondents were any other race, according to census.gov, the percentage of 'White alone, non-Hispanic' population as of 2020 is 57%.

There are other issues I don't have time to go into, like that they mainly collected data from phone calls and that they aren't listing the distribution of respondents across states, but all in all I would not use this poll to draw any conclusions, and the article being titled like that is at the very least being disingenuous if not actively malicious in order to generate clicks/impressions