exocrinous

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

First off, that's an incredibly reductive description, especially considering Moffat ran it for a few years. Second, The Owl House is 100% a kids show and had much better stories than the last time I watched Dr Who

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Some comic-book events feature a black Superman, and that raises questions about whether Kryptonians coincidentally match every ethnic group on Earth

Not exactly, but they have dark and light skin. Krypton's red sun is a big deal in Kryptonian health. Kryptonian communities living closer to the equator would probably evolve higher melanin the same as humans did. Actually, light-skinned Kryptonians require a bigger suspension of disbelief than dark-skinned ones do.

And obviously the racial dynamics between dark and light Kryptonians wouldn't be the same as on earth. It would depend upon factors like the shape of continents, the location of arable soil, of large herbivores and of predators, and of minerals.

Fun fact: swords made out of meteorites are a common trope in Japan, because Japan has poor iron and big mountains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah that's the way it was before their job was automated. But now you don't need them to work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Carbon somebody else's problem

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

A wrench, hammer, screwdriver set, and pliers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

After 6 hours of being with other teenagers my age, the last thing I wanted was forced social interaction just as I was getting ready to unwind. For the first half of high school, I was at the train station reading a book. The second half, I had the good sense to start using a phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Hey look a guide on how to look like a cishet white man

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Humanity has never built anything that has intentionally lasted 10,000 years

You don't know what those cave people were thinking when they drew those pictures.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Just because you don't remember being told common sense facts, doesn't mean you weren't. It probably happened at some random time without you making much of it, you just incorporated it seamlessly into your worldview. Now you look down on others for needing the same support you did when you were a child.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Sex workers are real workers, but princesses are sex bourgeoisie.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I'm a soulist. Soulists are always saying things like that. It's the best version of leftism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

These pods are only used on rails with very low ridership. They would switch to a train if ridership increased.

Look at it this way: you can have a train that has a capacity of 100 people, but it only runs once a day due to the low demand, and only 2 people want to ride it at that time of day..Or you can have 10 pods, which do not require as much railway maintenance, and they can carry the 10 people who actually want to use this railway, completely on demand.

Yeah, a train is better if you want to move ten thousand people a day at peak hour. But this is a cheaper way to move ten people at different times across a day. And it's a cheaper way of inducing the demand that would justify the more efficient kind of expansion.

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