gharial

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by gharial 11y ago
The only instance in which an officer should ever be firing a weapon in the field is to stop a target that is posing an immediate and lethal threat. In that situation, shooting to kill would be perfectly justified. Why can we not address
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by gharial 11y ago
Because, over the long term, a single lion is infinitely more important to the survival of our own species/planet than a single human or even several million of them.
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by gharial 11y ago
The hunt was illegal, hence both "guides" being imprisoned in Zimbabwe. The chance that a single penny went to helping the country or its people is precisely zero.
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by gharial 11y ago
There is no "their" and "our" problems - extinction affects humanity on a global level.
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by gharial 11y ago
I don't believe the majority of people take issue with hunting solely because the animal is "beautiful". Not many people seem to have a problem with hunting deer for meat or to regulate their populations. Those I've disc
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by gharial 11y ago
According to this article, there's evidence to suggest that keeping orcas in captivity is detrimental to their well being. Why does having that evidence suddenly mean having an opinion on what to do with it is off limits?
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by gharial 11y ago
Again - then why not just explicitly ban it altogether? Why say it's allowed under certain parameters and then ban users anyway when they meet those parameters exactly as required? They obviously have a list of products/transactio
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by gharial 11y ago
They're trying to prevent the "evil feminists" from ruining the fun by doing it themselves.
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by gharial 11y ago
https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses >Video game or virtual world credits: Sale of in-game currency unless the merchant is the operator of the virtual world I am. >Virtual currency or stored value: Virtual
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by gharial 11y ago
I recently reached out to Stripe to get their opinion on whether or not I should bother trying to integrate stripe.js with my browser based game. I obviously didn't want to invest the effort if they were just going to shut me down a fe
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by gharial 11y ago
I really couldn't follow his logic at all. Being able to come up with a working (perfectly correct) solution somehow implies a developer is probably "dumb" or "lazy"? As if a truly "smart" or gifted progra
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by gharial 12y ago
You're presuming a bit too much there. I don't understand how you figure my age factors into some sort of false transition period or that my experience is any less real because it happens before an arbitrary age, though.
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by gharial 12y ago
>What changed? I hit my forties It's pretty well documented that people in your age group are generally early risers and that people in young adulthood tend to be night owls. Getting older and having your preference change is hardly
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by gharial 12y ago
The mentality of people who support this kind of environmental destruction is baffling. "I have the right to a profitable business even if it means slaughtering an entire species to the point of extinction and ruining ecosystems nation
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by gharial 12y ago
This is definitely true. I've been labeled on occasion as "not passionate" for not being willing to work myself into the ground at 60+ hours a week with a four hour round trip commute. That's not to say that I won'
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by gharial 12y ago
Nice writeup, with the exception that you should never, ever "love something so much you'd do it for free" in a professional setting. I get that the intention behind the statement isn't literal, but that kind of attitude
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by gharial 12y ago
I love the stereotypical NYC snobbery and unapologetic narcissism at the beginning of the article. As if living in one of the boroughs with eight and a half million other people somehow makes you distinguished. The whole attitude runs entir
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by gharial 12y ago
I work in Manhattan and visit fairly shitty areas of Brooklyn and Queens regularly. These past few weeks have been the first time since I moved here that I've felt safe in the presence of cops. I'd read about enforcement being dow
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by gharial 12y ago
You're not "facing withdrawal", though. You are choosing to withdrawal due to what reads like an inability to handle day to day situations. I certainly don't think forgoing relationships implies anything about someone&#x