I don’t think we’re contradicting each other. Sometimes the manufacturer themselves (or other Chinese entities) will be the ones creating the spec.

It also makes sense that the trash products, which compete exclusively on price, will mostly be coming from the area able to manufacture products for the lowest price. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t also able to manufacture higher quality things when requested to.

It doesn’t matter where it’s produced, what matters is who designed it and for what market. Things tailored for the mass US market are usually designed to minimize the cost of manufacturing above all else. Things tailored for Europe are a little earlier in the enshittification process.

There are tons of high quality products manufactured in China, the only difference is that the specs for those asked for high quality, while the things you associate with Chinese manufacturing are when they were asked to make trash.

Yeah, at least explain the physics of some advanced fucking.

Yes, these are social norms, and those are taught.

I don’t think we’re using the same definition of stigma.

Stigma is a profound, unfair negative belief or stereotype attached to a person or group, causing shame, social rejection, and discrimination.

I’m having a hard time making any of the stuff you’re saying make sense with that definition, and the whole word is inherently social.

The fact is that a lot of people think it’s nasty to fuck your brother, and that you should stop fucking him when you realize you’re related to him. I see the nuance in this situation, but a lot of people don’t, and if they maintain the relationship they will have to deal with those people. It’s already hard enough to deal with homophobia without this on top.

I’m not sure what biological stigma is supposed to mean. Sexual relations between siblings gives most people the ick regardless of technicalities, and that is a social stigma, the only kind of stigma I’m aware of.

While the medical concerns with incest don’t apply here, the stigma of having sexual relations with a relative usually doesn’t take such technicalities into account.

Sounds like you’re doing it the Rocky Bottom Way

I kind of miss Perl, and still write it sometimes. More often than not I end up with python, though, due to the built-in json parser. Everything is json or yaml these days.

I’m guessing this is next to a golf course, and people try to keep playing the ball after it lands in the cemetery.

This article says the director was a friend of a friend, and “the first animated film made in Scotland” played on his national pride.

It also says I got the order wrong, and that he declined all those roles after The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bizarre-story-sean-connerys-final-film/

I agree. If it looks like that on the inside, why show the cross section?

Holy shit, I never even heard of that, and the poster gives me an idea why. Was this by request from his grandkids or something?

Most functional War of the Worlds merch.

Sean Connery turned down both Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn’t understand the scripts. He turned down Dumbledore in Harry Potter because it was too fantastical. Then he tried a reverse approach where he accepted the next role he didn’t understand, because clearly that was where the money was at. So he accepted Allan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie which flopped hard. Then he ragequit the industry and retired.

Grocery store apples in Seattle are actually pretty good, and the above statement still holds true.

Also somehow the King James version is authoritative, after who knows how many links of translation phone games?

We’re going to be saying that a lot.

Usually, yes. But in some movies they drive the plot. The sex scenes in A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) are hilarious, help establish the character, and are a pretty challenging wank.

Remember to only mark the worms that are fucking.