True. Think of how many you'd be able to inspect from up there!

That's the heart of the issue, though, isn't it? Most people do care about the state of their washing machines even as countless children have nothing to eat. People chastise their kids for not eating their vegetables by saying "kids are starving in Africa," without doing anything to help any kids in Africa. People want more for themselves even while acknowledging that others have so much less. Studies like this assume that human selfishness is negligible, while it's actually one of the largest variables that needs to be factored in. Most people don't actually care about human suffering unless it's happening to someone they personally know - they care much more about their washing machine.

Forbidden PEZ

Fuddruckers still exists, but they've downsized significantly since the mid 2000's when my friends and I used to go there a lot in high school. There aren't any locations left in my state anymore.

Ah, man. Usually I can talk myself out of purchases like these, but this was my very first video game console, and I got it with those specific games...

Runescape made a lot of changes that people didn't really like, but they mostly just kept pushing forward with everything, and it eventually became modern Runescape 3, which is the non-old-school Runescape. Then, because a lot of people were lamenting how different the game had become compared to the classic experience of the mid-2000's, the developers opened up old school runescape, based on an old copy of the game from 2007 they happened to find.

Over the years new content was added to the old-school version that separates it from Runescape 3, making it a completely different experience, and that new content can only be added if enough of the playerbase agrees to it, making the changes generally positive in the eyes of the players. Old school really feels like a game from the mid 2000's, where pay-to-win mechanics and the like are few and far between, while modern Runescape 3 feels like any other modern game where you either pay your way through or slog through content that seems tailor-made to make you just want to open your wallet to avoid it.

Technically those trees generally became coal, while oil is generally from marine life.

The thing is that they don't think the government thinks they owe taxes. They think that what we know of as the government is a fake organization that we don't have to listen to, we just think we do. My mom was one of these people, and though she died over a year ago, my sister and I are still in a legal battle with the organization she was a part of, because they keep saying that the state of Minnesota doesn't actually exist, so the laws that govern it don't apply, and that means they have the right to do whatever they want with the money that was supposed to go to me and my sister.

Yeah, definitely. The main character really wants people to get along, but still stands up and fights for his people when they're threatened. It's a much better balance in my opinion.

Yeah, I started watching this anime because people said it was like That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, but it's far too heartless for me. I had to stop watching before even getting to the end of season 1.

To what extent do they have to talk about it, though? Can they address it, come to the conclusion that it's infeasible (while subtly tucking millions of dollars from game companies into their pockets), and consider the matter settled? I understand that governments are meant to keep corporations in check to benefit the people, but functionally they keep the people in check to benefit corporations and their "lobbyists" (bribes).

Yeah, she had just broken up with her boyfriend and found a bunch of "self-help" youtube videos that basically just said everyone who disagrees with you is a narcissist, then the algorithm started recommending her videos that said everyone who disagrees with you is actually an "energy vampire" literally and maliciously draining you of your life force. From there she got into all the crazy health conspiracies - which of course happened right as she was diagnosed with DCIS, which is easily treatable, but if left untreated becomes breast cancer. She dove head-first into all of the conspiracies after that, throwing money at anyone claiming to cure cancer so long as the method wasn't backed by "big science," and died of breast cancer a few years later.