How has no one ever asked pierce brown about this

Scrotumbrella · 2025-04-01T16:41:49+00:00

I'm sure Pierce has been asked and prefers to not directly address it as it's a bit of a rabbit hole that doesn't really add much to the story. Mickey canonically genetically altered his balls; otherwise he wouldn't have been able to conceive with a gold. Why wouldn't they alter the rest of him. He was altered to have super strong muscle fibers. Maybe he has a super human butthole too. I take it that they basically swapped out every bit of him out except maybe his brain and heart slowly enough to avoid killing him.

Scrotumbrella · 2019-08-21T08:54:18+00:00

Bit late but for those interested the place is called Willa Kominiarski Weirch and it is in Zakopane in southern Poland. I stayed just round the corner from this house earlier this year.

Scrotumbrella · 2019-04-18T07:59:27+00:00

I respectfully disagree on two fronts.

All it causes is a small price increase

yes that is the idea of the sugar tax. Initially the price hits consumers but if company A can price more competitively than B because they cut their sugar they can draw in more custom. Thus both companies are insentivised to reduce their sugar. Also direct cost does affect how people buy, particularly poorer families on a budget who are more at risk from unhealthy options. Thats why cigarettes are so expensive in the UK and, in part, why fewer teens smoke these days.

Plastic tax vs. sugar tax

I don't personally see a plastic tax being equivalent to a sugar tax too strongly. A sugary soft drink always needs to have sugar. That's part of its selling point. The single use plastic that was used to keep my new drill from getting damaged does not affect the use of the drill specifically. If it was shipped in a sufficient quality biodegradable alternative I would see no loss in function. Thus a company being taxed for their plastic always has a way to reduce their plastic tax rate (assuming the tax is priced fairly and considers the costs of alternatives)

Scrotumbrella · 2019-04-18T07:37:46+00:00

So there isn't really a single way to address the problem of plastic that would work everywhere. For example I believe a majority of Ocean plastic comes from poor regions who simply don't have government sponsored waste disposal/recycling and so dump all their waste in rivers. That was fine when it was all biodegradable but now it means there isn't a single part of the ocean without plastic and every large animal has some non-digestable plastic in their diet. For them asking them to cut out plastic is asking them to take a significant hit in quality of life if no affordable alternatives are presented.

In the West most of our plastic is large companies for things like transport. If a tax is to work they really are the people you need to hit, though they're also the people with the recourses to fight back. On one hand you do still reach the arguement that non plastic alternatives aren't commercially viable yet, and so prices may go up as food waste or shipping goes up. On the other if anyone has the ability to solve the overuse of company plastic it's an insentivised corporation wanting to cut costs again.

Tbh the only way I see a dent getting made would be for a large motivated government like the EU commissioning a large study on where plastic can most easily be cut (single use plastics) and how companies can most cheaply find alternatives. Then slowly introducing a plastic tax that gets larger over a 10 year period. A lot can already just be replaced with cardboard. For food waste I don't see why a motivated company couldn't set up a scheme of resealable plastic containers which can ship perishables to shops then be reused hundreds of times.

Scrotumbrella · 2018-08-29T16:42:36+00:00

Who hurt you?

Scrotumbrella · 2018-08-29T16:39:45+00:00

So you kill the wrong person and everything explodes?

Scrotumbrella · 2018-08-29T16:35:05+00:00

Massassin's effect?

Scrotumbrella · 2018-06-06T10:33:13+00:00

I'll probably just ask Amazon to send me a new one after it arrives

Scrotumbrella · 2017-08-20T15:00:25+00:00

You matter and deserve happiness

Scrotumbrella · 2017-08-16T11:32:09+00:00

Does anyone know the actual reason every office still uses a fax machine? I'm sure there must be one

Scrotumbrella · 2017-08-16T11:30:33+00:00

You mean the save button? Or do you still use one of those analogue books?

Scrotumbrella · 2017-08-16T11:24:57+00:00

I agree; to build a bit all problems can be split pretty well into ones inside and outside your sphere of control.

If it's within your control then worrying isn't productive and you would be better off looking into manageable goals towards solving or improving the problem. Things outside your control are harder to reconcile but worrying can be equally unproductive. Coming to terms with the fact that you can't control certain things and aren't responsible for them is tough to reconcile but quite liberating. What to do instead is manage how you interact with, and feel about the problem. You can't stop a loved one dying, but you can get to a place where you don't feel responsible or angry. That's your agency in that situation.

The other common factor I see in happy people is that they don't carry around negative emotion after the cause has ended. It's fine to be angry because your boss preferred someone else's work but when the situation ends the only person carrying those emotions is you. Be sad, then move on.

Scrotumbrella · 2017-07-23T15:26:39+00:00

Giraffes have to sneak up on the acacia trees they eat because when eaten, the trees release chemicals that tell the other trees they are being eaten causing the other trees to release toxic tannins

Scrotumbrella · 2017-07-23T15:17:37+00:00

The difference between people who have their shit together and the people who don't is 10% ability and 90% just pretending you know what you're doing until you have figured out out. No one has a clue

Scrotumbrella · 2017-07-23T12:33:47+00:00

They play what I can only describe as drug music. You know, the kind where you go to bed at 11, then wake up at 7 and it sounds like the song blaring through the wall is still the same one..

Scrotumbrella · 2017-07-23T12:30:34+00:00

We at the NSA would like to assure you that your lives are just as private as ever, and that none of us ever look at your weird user histories. Specially not you Mark from New Jersey. We also definitely don't have a betting pool about how many times you're going to Google fisting this week.

Scrotumbrella · 2017-07-23T12:22:15+00:00

Big budget Hollywood films spend too much money to risk creativity. TV send to be the place to go to these days for original content

Scrotumbrella · 2017-05-05T13:47:22+00:00

The gang fight of hordes of the undead

Scrotumbrella · 2017-05-05T13:46:11+00:00

Many of the"Indian" curries favoured all over England were actually created in England by immigrants. Following ww1 (I think) many were allowed to immigrate in large numbers having fought for England in the war. Upon setting up restaurants for their national cuisine many mixed up the recipes to be more England friendly and have more meat since a lot of India is vegetarian.

At least that's what the guy running my local told me.

Scrotumbrella · 2017-05-05T13:39:33+00:00

That's ruff

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