Small high-powered magnets, specifically

Small strong magnets are harmless to play with – but if they are ingested or inhaled, they can become attracted to each other and join up in the digestive system. If left untreated, this can result in major tissue damage, sepsis and even death.

So basically banned for this exact reason.

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile unlocks and offers to let you switch to ‘Pretty Princess’ difficulty if you die too many times in a row.

My favorite will always be the ‘Spent 15 Hours at the Alien Strip Club’ achievement in High On Life.

That was all for “personal use”.

Immortality is such a mixed bag depending on the exact mechanics behind it.

You simply won’t die of old age, but can be killed by anything that would kill a normal person? Probably fine.

Almost any other interpretation opens the doors for some absolutely horrific states of being that you’re just unable to escape from.

Watermelons

I’m sure there’s some external influence, too. My corpse tolerance would be a lot different if it’s extremely hot outside than if it’s chilly. If I’m at risk of heat stroke, I’d maybe even swim with a corpse making audible noise. If I’m physically on fire, I definitely would.

Gotcha, thanks for the context.

Maybe the real question is, “How large would a corpse have to be to stop you from swimming in the pool?”

Why are they putting Israel and Israeli in quotes? Are they implying that it wasn’t actually Israelis perpetrating this, or that it isn’t actually Israel performing the investigation? Or is this some political statement I’m not privy to?

It’s only really noteworthy because it affects everyone at the same time. If everyone had an individual outage for the same duration at a random time, it wouldn’t even be noticeable in most cases.

The longer this goes on, the more I think that he isn’t even really aware of most of the things that are happening. The dementia concerns mixed with how weird his public talking points are just reinforce that. It’s like he’s got contacts both internal and external that are feeding him disinformation that he’s not cognitively capable of sorting out from reality.

He seems to flip flop on important issues daily based on who the last person he spoke with was - not just soft promises he made to that person, but hard policy adjustments from day to day. Ukraine and Russia are examples of this; one day, he seems like he’s sucking Putin’s dick, the next day he’s talking about how awful he is.

Other people in his administration seem very much to be the ones in charge some portion of the time, and that could just be them failing to put the masks on before public appearances.

There was also a weird sound bite during one of the national guard deployment discussions, where he was questioned about the supposed riots he was sending them to quell, and he said something to the effect of, “Is what I’m seeing on TV different from what’s happening in reality?” - made me seriously wonder if he’s being shown footage of some riot somewhere and told that it’s a US state rioting against ICE.

I don’t know, the whole situation is really weird. I’m fully on board with believing he’s just evil, and I think at his core, he is, but I also think he’s being manipulated. Maybe it’s just because I’d find this easier to cope with in some minute way if it was a case of elder abuse in the White House, rather than… whatever is actually happening right now.

Give him a firm list of things that, if accomplished, will guarantee him the Nobel. Put all of the progressive policy asks on the list. Let him grapple with that one.

Well, the fact that 87% of the respondents were from Canada already proves that it isn’t representative. Was the survey posted to lemmy.ca, perhaps?

I don’t have a better survey to share, but I think we could probably do better than this if we re-ran the survey now and made sure it was publicized on all major instances / communities.

Jesus, that headline is awkward. I thought it was saying that the heroes who saved the children had been hit by a drone.

Velcro on the back of the clipboard and on the side of the cart? Stick the clipboard to it for easy retrieval, and you don’t have to carry a bag.

The whole series was fantastic, really. Absolute masterpieces of writing and voice acting.

I can’t verify the truth of it, but I heard that the catalyst to the porn ban was a meeting where they were pitching Tumblr advertisements to some company, and wanted to demonstrate how tags and engagement works, so they pulled up the #McDonalds tag live to demonstrate and they got a screen full of Ronald McDonald porn.

The royal formerly known as Prince?

I play D&D whenever I can find a group to play with, and kobolds have long been my favorite ‘race’ to play as, so I’ve accumulated a collection of kobold characters. Many of the folks I chat with online know me through that lens, so I made it my online identity. A coterie of kobolds, if you will.

Plus, the mental image of a group of kobolds sitting in front of a computer - maybe with one on the mouse and two on the keyboard, typing away together NCIS style, amuses me.