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Yes but you'd struggle to get close enough to make a reliably good shot. Ranged shots are what rifles are for.

Here's a summary of just the claims:

Claim: Rapid onset gender dysphoria and transgender social contagion is making people trans.

Fact: Rapid onset gender dysphoria and transgender social contagion is not a validated theory, has been widely debunked as pseudoscience by major medical organizations.

Claim: Stephanie Winn, a “licensed marriage and family therapist,” spoke out in favor of “approach gender dysphoria in a more considered way” but then was “investigated” for conversion therapy.

Fact: Stephanie Winn suggested the treatment of transgender youth with acupuncture to “see if they like having needles put in them” and stating it could “help spark desistance.” She also pushed the idea that transgender men should be estrogen to make them feel more feminine.

Claim: Transgender people may actually just be gay, and transitioning is a form of “conversion therapy.”

Fact: Gender and sexuality are different, many transgender people identify as gay or bisexual after transition, and gay acceptance is higher than trans acceptance.

Claim: 80% of transgender individuals desist from being transgender if they go through puberty without intervention, and another study suggests that 30% of individuals stop taking hormone therapy medication.

Fact: Detransition rates are estimated to be between 1-4%. The study citing an 80% detransition rate is based on faulty outdated data, using criteria no longer in use. Furthermore, the study indicating a 30% discontinuation rate is based on military families not refilling their prescriptions through Tricare, rather than actual discontinuation of hormone therapy.

The rest of the article is well worth a read, though. In particular, the part under the first claim where they claim "several researchers have documented the phenomenon", when in fact there are only 3 sources: Lisa Littman's personal website, a retracted article by Michael Bailey (Lisa Littman's treasurer), and another article by Lisa Littman herself.

Go north!

Even then, though, you don't need pistols for hunting.

I really wanted Shou to ask Cotton if he was affiliated with Russia.

Brave is not a business that should be supported. Also, I'm pretty sure they just use Bing for a back end.

There are also a few paid search engines that people say are good.

Keep it, or donate it somewhere else.

Surprising he still wants to donate it to the museum after they grassed him up.

Generally yeah, product placement in the storyline is a bad thing, and worse than regular product placement. But Evolution was so subtle, so funny and unexpected that it somehow worked. The brand wasn't just paying to have its name mentioned throughout the movie, it was a kind of last minute, almost self-depricating presentation in a vaguely endearing way - not a certainly endearing way, but one that didn't piss you off. The characters who first promoted Head & Shoulders were literally the biggest losers of the story up to that point. The purpose of mentioning Head & Shoulders was to make fun of the seriousness of the drama and the whole premise of the movie.

Meanwhile, Olive Garden was only presented in a positive fashion in Sonic, not just by the incompetent military but also the main human character, such that you couldn't really be sure they were telling a joke by mentioning it - because they weren't, the purpose of mentioning it was purely to service the brand, at the expense of the story.

Shazam 2 is not a good example lol, except as a generally bad movie. If you're drawing parallels with Sonic and Shazam that really doesn't bode well for Sonic.

I do remember the Skittles insert into Shazam 2, but by that point the movie had really lost so much credibility that I couldn't have cared less. Meanwhile, Sonic was a generally good movie that was somewhat ruined by product placement and Carrey's alt-right lines. While he was the villain, many of his lines were never presented in such a way that you were meant to disagree with them.

I can't remember the Power Rangers one off the top of my head, but my go to example of good product placement, that was even integral to the storyline, was the movie Evolution. Head and Shoulders was so subtly woven into things in act 3, then right at the end all the main characters did a bit promotion, and that part had me laughing my head off.

Olive Garden was just randomly shoehorned in, not once but 3 times, with the first Sonic movie. That really broke the immersion for me and harmed my enjoyment.

Maybe not being bothered by it is more of a US thing, what with the nature of TV ads over there.

In general the movies were pretty good, but I couldn't help but be a little put off by Robotnik's far right wing undertones along with all the product placement.

I for one would love it if Disney would move on, from Florida.

Then let's see what Ronda says as his state's tax income goes down the toilet.