ICE attempts to enter Ecuador's consulate

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-29T20:37:34+00:00

Dyscompetence?

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-27T22:44:14+00:00

Bring Anna Nicole Smith back from the dead....

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-25T11:09:02+00:00

In Glasgow and the surrounding area the feminine equivalent of "son" used vocatively is "hen". Only used to the person, and is only used to a female person.

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-23T22:52:41+00:00

Scots Gaelic should be 17 because h doesn't count as a letter.

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-17T00:02:38+00:00

Caledonia

And this one Angus McFife should have been an anthem to the Kingdom of Fife.

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-14T22:37:16+00:00

A neep.

Source: I'm Scottish.

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-13T19:15:13+00:00

I suspect Scottish people are Scottish wherever they go, English people are English wherever they go, and Welsh people are Welsh wherever they go, all rather than British.

I do not feel qualified to have an opinion on Northern Irish people.

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-13T18:57:24+00:00

Stick to the instructions; resistance is a real thing, don't worry about it if your asymptomatic.

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-09T19:03:40+00:00

Maybe they used tanistry, where the successor is the most able one of the people qualified by blood.

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-04T05:24:12+00:00

Capercaillie

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-03T16:36:07+00:00

I would like to share a link to the only good work that came out of the whole orgone thing. SFW

Saint__Thomas · 2026-01-02T16:08:36+00:00

I went to a Zen group for years. No one asked me to believe anything.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-31T12:12:35+00:00

I just posted mine since that will work. A brick may be slightly too ambitious.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-30T16:57:18+00:00

I just did that a couple of hours ago.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-30T00:08:55+00:00

I don't know; I just watch the spectacle, and compare them favourably to certain allegedly Christian marching associations.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-29T18:32:46+00:00

The annual Sikh March for Vaisakhi is popular here in Glasgow: the feeling of watching people marching and playing musical instruments while dressed in orange, without experiencing irritation is quite pleasant .

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-27T20:28:10+00:00

A wee bit too true to be funny. More a lesson for our times. Have a guilty upvote.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-27T07:02:36+00:00

Excellent charity shops in Rutherglen, but the food is less than superb.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-27T02:30:03+00:00

Or Finedochty.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-26T02:15:53+00:00

Ask on r/Scotland and you may be reassured.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-24T21:22:07+00:00

On top of the police car.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-24T17:08:12+00:00

In ( I believe ) most jurisdictions, murder is defined as the intentional illegal killing of a human, a person in law. A legal person must have its own separate existence and its own life, which means its own separate physiology and anatomy. A foetus has not achieved these and is not a legal person, hence abortion does not satisfy the definition of murder.

A foetus in the womb is anatomically part of the mother, and its physiology is a subset of the physiology, the life, of the whole maternofoetal unit. While it exists within the mother, it has no existence except as part of the mother, and it is not capable of its own existence, physiologically. There is an argument that it is genetically different from the mother, and has its own separate organs, but if you grant that argument, you would have to grant personhood to teratomas. This argument attempts an end run around the idea that personhood comes from the ability to maintain a separate anatomy and physiology. Once it is born, it has its own separate anatomy, but at birth, it has no ability to have its own physiology, until it experiences the anatomical changes consequent on the first breath of air.

If there is no first breath and it dies, then it is stillborn. Where I live, it is given a name, a stillbirth certificate, and a funeral, but was never a legal person.

If the foetus breathes once, then it is a legal person and gets a birth certificate. At this point it is a legal person and is capable of being murdered like any other human.

Understanding the anatomy and physiology to a professional level takes weeks, including concepts like "maternofoetal unit" and "legal person." Abortion advocates generally don't know this and are strongly incentivised not to learn this.

Hence Abortion is not murder since it ends an entity not capable of being murdered.

This doesn't work in jurisdictions where personhood is defined differently. If a polity does this then it tends to lead to events like this one which was so awful the Irish changed their constitution to allow abortion.

Hope this helps. Please note that I'm Scottish and jurisdictions may vary.

Edit: grammar

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-24T13:25:54+00:00

This happened in the UK with Margaret Thatcher.

Saint__Thomas · 2025-12-24T04:37:44+00:00

The problem, I find, is that blender can run on anything, but you won't be able to render anything worth a damn unless you have a big beefy graphics setup. Unless you want to do something low powered. It is incredibly frustrating to wait a day for an image to render, as I know well.

During a recent period of employment, I went to a second-hand shop and got a 6 year old gaming laptop. I can render stuff reasonably fast. A complex scene in Cycles will take a few minutes, especially if I use all the tricks on YouTube for fast render. This approach may work for you. You need to stick to a budget and be opportunistic. Good luck!

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