MossyFeathers

WHERE IS HE??? ALL THE OTHER PICTURES HAVE HIM BUT I CAN'T FIND HIM. WHERE'S SADDAM!?

I'm imagining this video but with "Saddam Hussain" instead of "cookie monster"

I'm almost completely out of the loop as well; I've heard people say that he's denied the accusations but that there's a lot of evidence against him, I've heard there's not enough evidence against him, I've heard he's admitted to some of it, with others saying he's fully denied it, etc.

I'm kinda concerned about him stepping back though. I'm not sure how much of what made Good Omens good was Neil Gaiman. If he was the driving factor that made the series high-quality, then maybe he should finish the series (season 3 was going to be the last) and then step down.

I'm conflicted. If the accusations are correct then he's a highly manipulative piece of shit at worst, clueless scientology victim in serious need of thorough professional deprogramming at best (his family growing up were scientologists, and I've seen some speculation that growing up in scientology probably had a huge effect on his concept of consent and there may still be things he thinks are "normal" that need to be addressed).

As such, if the accusations are true, then the right thing to do would be to let him go. At the same time though, Good Omens was written by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman. It'd suck to see the last season end up trash because Gaiman stepped away and whoever replaced him didn't have the skill to properly finish the adaptation; and it'd be especially tragic if we later discovered that the accusations were false or high embellished (the latter would still make him a creep and a sex pest, but not a full-blown manipulative serial abuser).

Yeah, I'm sure South Africa emerged from apartheid just so they could defend a colonizer.

I'm pretty sure it's a joke to refer to some form of mysterious, unknowable power conducted by secretive practitioners or something. However, if you're gonna get upset about it and accuse people of being bigots then you should probably be more specific about which religion you're referring to and what's wrong with their statement. There are a number of religions that get called "voodoo" like Louisiana Voodoo, Haitian Vodou, Hoodoo, and Juju. Some of these religions encourage secrecy, others don't. Some incorporate magic, others don't. Some use talismans, others feature spiritual possession, and so on.

Edit: like, I'm not saying you're necessarily right or wrong, but you gotta be more specific if you want to clear up misconceptions, and you have to make sure you have your facts straight. You can't just say, "X is wrong/bad" and expect everyone to go along with it if they can't see why it's wrong or bad. Yes, you could just tell people to shut up and get with the program, but the kind of people who are willing to just "shut up and get with the program" probably are not going to be strong supporters because they don't really understand what they're supporting.

You know, he could have gone down in history as the angry meme man who told people they were fired on TV; and his crimes and shitty personality would have likely gone overlooked until after his death. Instead, he ran for president and this is how everyone is going to remember him. Incoherent, rambling, unstable, stupid, out of control, and demented; all while being regularly trotted out in front of the media by his own party like he's some kind of show animal.

I don't feel pity for him, but I can't help but be amused at how he didn't just shoot his legacy in the foot, he blew it up with a grenade.

their profit comes solely from them denying claims. if they paid all claims they would have no profit.

Well, yeah. If someone claimed I owed them $20m because their dog died, I'd deny that too (unless it was life insurance for a show dog or something).

Insurance was originally profitable because the idea was to bring in more money than you pay out, but set the margins so it's worth paying for as a service (covering things so the cost of a payout is high to make the service worthwhile, but the chances of actually paying out are low, to make the service profitable).

However, over time you are correct that it shifted to focusing on finding ways of putting profits over quality; which came with all kinds of legalese to avoid payouts, among other things (like rigging the healthcare system so the cost is always high, so their costs appear low in comparison).

So you're kinda right, but you seem to be conflating the American insurance market with insurance as a concept.

You can try that argument with kraft singles or Velveeta, but not with string cheese.

Also, kraft singles and Velveeta are actually kinda real cheese, iirc the reason why they aren't allowed to be sold as such because they contain a significant amount of added fats, oils, and other things to make them softer and more gooey. However, they still contain a significant amount of cheese.

No, Microsoft worked with Sega on the Dreamcast.

One important thing to note, because I see this a lot: this doesn't mean coastlines are literally infinite in length; it's a demonstration of how our current measurement system is flawed when it comes to coastlines. Coastlines can be measured in a way that'd make them finite, however the system works well enough that (it sounds like) no one has bothered to come up with a better, widely adopted alternative.

Also, I think I've read this can be applied to borders in general? That they use the same system for measuring the borders between countries, states, cities, etc. so any border could become infinite if the precision gets high enough.

Hey, I just started using the Internet guys, what's good? I've heard there's millions of cool sites you can check out, but most of them are just, like, junk? It's weird, they're pages that just have links to other sites, which themselves are full of links to other sites. Where's all the user content?

That's because people are insane and unhinged, and love whipping themselves up into frenzies.

Tbh, they probably deserve to die.