This seemed to elude to the demand for leather slowing and the supply staying the same. We export way more than import. There is a PDF linked in there that shows where their information stems from. I will say I didnt read all of the PDF not sure if I got tired or bored reading it, haha. https://usleather.org/news-events/if-we-stopped-using-leather-would-fewer-cattle-be-reared

A wiser person than I, I would have tried to discuss it and convince them they couldn’t possibly be. All the while thinking I’m putting myself down and saying reasons I’m flawed and them somehow taking it as me being kind and vulnerable. Relatonshps are probably better that way. Where I take the I out of them /s

I have no way to confirm accuracy but this made me wonder how much cow hide is thrown away and not made into leather. About 15% apparently ends up not being worth the shipping and such so it ends up in landfills. Millions of cows having wasted parts, all because every American doesn’t have a proper leather kink… Sheesh

Biden put an executive order for $15/hr 3 months into office. That doesn’t do anything for us because we don’t work for the executive branch, that has to be done by congress.

So that means there were corporate Democrats in Congress that didn’t support raising minimum wage to 15 by 2025 as proposed.

So in A New Hope R2 trudges off looking for Obiwan at the beginning of the movie. They are both captured by jawas and are going to be sold for parts. Owen needs a droid that can communicate with his moisture evaporators and diagnose issues. R2 is useless in this capacity. He buys C-3PO. C-3PO tells him to buy R2. The entire series would have been over right there as R2s memory would have been wiped by anyone without a translator there. 10 minute short film about how the Almighty Empire who does no wrong thwarted a terrorist organization.

Oh and Empire Stikes Back famous hyperdrive issues are diagnosed by “plugging C3PO up to the hyperdrive” so he could download/diagnose and spit out any hardware repairs needed while performing any software changes needed himself.

Yeah he is a translator/protocol droid he isn’t the most useful in a crew who all speaks galactic basic and is running from blaster bolts. But he did everything he was supposed to do just fine. People just don’t care to see a droid plugged up to a moisture evaporator doing “nothing”

He served as a translator when Padme was a senator

People mention the ewoks

He was a diplomat for the Jedi for a bit

Believe he I infiltrated the first order as a spy or some shit as well…

But one could argue Luke would be dead if C-3PO hadn’t told him R2 had taken off and subsequently followed him.

Permanence isn’t forever. Sorry your comment had me laughing in my head about the idea of object permanence truly meaning forever and it not being relative/subjective.

Your fingers are much more dextile than the ship that landed on the moon as well, it doesn’t mean your fingers can get to the moon without other means if transportation though

If the rocket isn’t FOSH I want nothing to do with it, lol

Some people do. Also long term constant propaganda machines wear people down. It isn’t hard to find people who pointed out Vietnam was bad but then supported Iraq or such. The number of people who supported the idea of setting up a universal healthcare system when voting for Obamas campaign, then also voted for Trump in 2024 is non zero.

Thankfully it isn’t everyone, otherwise I think our suicide rates would grow even larger with people realizing they don’t want to live in a world where they don’t give a fuck about anyone but theirself.

Acne is like cement scrapes/burns… Any/all genders prefer not to have it.

The difference is most of them don’t believe in any of it. It’s just entertaining to them. Find ten people who say like astrology and ask them to make base a life deciding event on it all 10 of them will make the decision on factors outside of astrology.

An easy way to tell, if they ask what month you were born in, they don’t believe in astrology… As the months don’t line up with the stars.

Mercury is in retrograde, Mars and Saturn coloring apparently was not screened for… So they got flagged

I don’t think they even advertise it as free, if they are it should be illegal/made illegal as it is only with the purchase of their subscription services.

Apparently if you give someone lethal injection in the U.S. they have over a 7% chance of having complications with it.

So I guess it’s more likely probs lethal injections

I was under the impression that had already been done. Much of the time a person would have to ask for a stamp. A good example is I got a passport when I turned 18 back in 2008. When doing so I checked the box to get a passport card with it. When I later traveled to Canada and the Caribbean or what not the Passport card is accepted (also works for Mexico but I never went).

There is no place to stamp a card (basically a federal drivers license size for your wallet)

So… It couldn’t have been a formal requirement since at least then

Wild pandas appear to have hit a low in the 1980s and have since been able to recover some do to just that. It’s just going to take a long time. In the 80s we were down to apparently around 1100 in the wild, now there are around 1900.

So if people remember to not be dicks I assume wild pandas will be fine again someday

If the blockchain already exists and used the resources yes it was horrible. But what really is the argument to say it’s bad to use the one already generated. You don’t have to use any more resources to make it. Essentially copy paste of a prime number that was already found right? Maybe I don’t understand how they work well enough

So what does any of this mean to those out of the loop?

New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985).

The supreme Court ruled kids 4th amendment right to require a warrant was not eligible to be upheld in public schools.

So when a student steps onto the property of a public school that right is suspended until they leave.

As for being able to detain a student they absolutely can within reason. The courts have decided that the rights of a parent extend to the schools to detain a child do to the fact that the parents are not there.

Thus the “right” to go where you want does not truly exist for a minor whether they are on/off a public schools ground.

Kids have “rights” just not the same rights as an adult.