The ‘copyright claims’ (patent violations, actually) are currently being challenged in court, that is… what the lawsuits are about.

They are also not settling out of court… they’re in court already. Meaning that the eventual settlement will be that adjuctated by the courts.

Given the total extent of damages and violations that Nintendo was originally claiming… and Nintendo’s reputation as a litigious legal juggernaut…

The common expectation, when this all started, was that Nintendo would be able to functionally sue PalWorld out of existence.

That is not what seems likely to happen.

Instead, it looks like PalWorld is going to walk away from this with some scrapes and bruises, but mostly intact, Nintendo is having to massively scale back the extent of violations and damages they claiming, because basically, their legal foundation for much of it was dubious.

Yeah, not a total victory for PalWorld, but surviving at all is an incredible victory, in context.

Part of why it is an incredible victory is that it shows that Nintendo can be successfully fought in court, and you can come out intact… as opposed to just being afraid and conceeding to their demands, assuming you would certainly lose in court.

Halo effect is real, most people aren’t self aware enough to realize that they do in fact bias their judgements of others based on how attractive they find them.

And then that gets hyper magnified through our little pocket black mirrors that most commonly destroy your attention span, thus ability to deeply consider any concept or do deep introspection, and it creates an incentive structure for people to turn themselves into superficial advertisement mascot people, which itself then becomes culturally normalized.

My, ahem, blind guess would be probably not, as they’ve… not been widely and thoroughly domesticated for 20,000+ years?

Huh! You’re right, I did not know that.

Huskies are… much closer to being actual wolves though, genetically speaking.

Seems like this applies to malamutes and samoyeds as well…?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii

Toxoplasma gondii (/ˈtɒksəˌplæzmə ˈɡɒndi.aɪ, -iː/) is a species of parasitic alveolate that causes toxoplasmosis.[3] Found worldwide, T. gondii is capable of infecting virtually all warm-blooded animals,[4]: 1  but members of the cat family (Felidae) are the only known definitive hosts in which the parasite may undergo sexual reproduction.[5][6]

Can infect basically any mammal, but cats are their preffered hosts.

They kill rats.

Keep the granaries uninfested.

And roughly half of them also carry a parasite that rewires the brain/neurological DNA of humans via epigenetic manipulation.

Also they can be adorable.

Another element that could be at play here:

He thought it was a dog.

Dogs, because we domesticated them, have muscles around their eyes, that allow them to make eye/eyebrow expressions.

Wolves do not have these. Because they’re the ones we did not domesticate for millenia.

So, if he was expecting dog expressions… wolves literally cannot make the same facial expressions.

They essentially always look like they have RBF, in comparison to a dog.

If we ever get terrestrial radiotrophes en masse, at that point… at that point, I blame the 5G.

Yep. To attempt to tl:dr;

Shaheds are more like cheap, slow, cruise missiles, tomahawks.

They’re meant for attacking stationary or very nearly stationary targets, on the ground.

Not interception of in flight aircraft.

Its… possible that this was essentially an ATC vectoring failure … because there is no monolithic ATC in an active war zone.

He really did just like… essentially commit / attempt to commit infanticide, knowingly, multiple times, after being told not to, in the episode with the frog lady.

Its like how in the Wonder Woman 84 movie… yeah she functionally just raped a guy who was under mind control, mind control that she caused.

Just… lemme help folks out with the corpo speak here.

‘leading-end’

Ok now watch this ->

‘lead-ending’

mind explosion gif

I regret to inform this variant/iteration of Rei that her mother simply didn’t appear to do much raising of any kind.

Somebody has been playing the clown in SS13 for perhaps a bit too long.

It’s… it’s become method acting.

We are not safe

… his retort to Stavros clowning on him about not getting his dick sucked was essentially:

Do I get my dick sucked?

… dude why are we talking about this? So anyway…

He also claimed he did not need to shower, because he does not smell because he is not fat.

… dude is literally the uber basement dweller, it… it sounds like you’re describing a fantastical stereotype when you just run through things he seems to think are totally normal.

If one is said to ‘wax lyrical’, would this not carry forward to ‘wane gibbous’, meaning to gibber as an ape?

Yeah, precisely.

There are actually quite a lot of regulations, in not all, but a lot of US states, that mandate varying levels of safe storage of firearms.

The problem is that to actually enforce that fully, you’d basically need surprise food inspectors, but for guns… which would probably run into the 4th Amendment… or, you’d have to actually revamp the 2nd Ammendment to mandate that people be required to regularly retake/retest on some kind of firearm safety course… I dunno.

But yeah, an actually responsible gun owner… probably has something like a dedicated sand bucket to point a semi auto weapon into, while they are verifying that its fully unloaded and cleared, juuuuust in case some kind of uncommanded discharge happens when you’re racking the slide to get the (potentially) chambered round out.

And yeah, never sweep anybody (or a place where anybody could be, within a mile) even with a gun you personally just unloaded. Never finger a trigger when you don’t need to. You just don’t do that.

I would at least say its possible the dog discharged the weapon, but it doesn’t matter, the situation where that is a thing that can happen should never have been allowed to arise… and yeah, the situations you describe that lead to an ND occuring are much more likely.

Here’s an attempt at another one.

If you have a short sentence that tells a tale, but has been through a few rounds of ‘telephone’…

… perhaps what you have is a quip of Theseus.

A modern upgrade to the ancient metaphor/philosophical quandary.

Still as apt, but probably more broadly relatable, at least to us veteran navigators that sail the digital seas.

… Maybe a good name for a repair shop or right to repair advocacy org, something with Theseus in it somewhere.