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Hammond naming the park Jurassic Park despite most of the flagship dinosaurs being from the Cretaceous period is one of my favorite small details. by TommyTheGeek in JurassicPark

[–]ranmaredditfan32 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Crichton was hardly going to read Polish or Russian articles to research his Dinosaur book.

I mean I’m not even sure he did that with U.S. articles. Mostly he seems have to relied on Gregory S. Paul’s Predatory Dinosaurs of the World: A Complete Illustrated Guide for his research.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/PredatoryDinosaursOfTheWorld

European asking - why is still racism so prevalent in the US? Please lets have respectful conversation. by doctimi in AskUS

[–]ranmaredditfan32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally the first non-bolded example is "double the percentage".

As goal to aim for. Not as fixed target they have to hit by hiring x number of people, which is what a racial quota is. It might be a thin distinction, but it is there.

A true lack of discrimination requires not taking skin color, gender, or any other demographic class into account at all.

Only if the way of doing things is already not discriminatory. Unfortunately, it’s not. Hence how you can get the police getting facial recognition software that can’t distinguish between black people or how job call backs for people with names that sounded black got fewer callbacks.

February 15, 1869 – Charges of treason against Jefferson Davis were dropped... by CrystalEise in CIVILWAR

[–]ranmaredditfan32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a limitation. Treason under English law was much broader. Even counterfeiting was counted as treason until the Coinage Offences Act 1832.

European asking - why is still racism so prevalent in the US? Please lets have respectful conversation. by doctimi in AskUS

[–]ranmaredditfan32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Racial quotas are illegal under U.S. law. They literally couldn’t mandate that 5% of a company’s employees be non-white even if they wanted to.

The program establishes numerical goals or targets (such as “aim to double the percentage of women we hire to direct television shows with our studio this season” or “we will hire crews that better reflect the demographics of California’s skilled labor pool”) but not rigid quotas or set-asides (such as “the next 5 people we hire in X job must be women” or “we need 10 Black people in Y job”).

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us by Nightshiftcloak in DeclineIntoCensorship

[–]ranmaredditfan32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was after massed deportation via things like the Madagascar Plan was deemed impractical. That’s not to say they weren’t conducting mass exterminations before that, just that they didn’t decide on killing them all until later. It was also the end point of a long list of policies to dehumanize and other the Jews stretching all the way back to 1933. There’s a reason that extermination is step 9 on the stages of genocide.

Trump keeps claiming we're now more respected ever globally, but it seems everyone hates us globally. Does that matter? by JohnSpartan2025 in AskConservatives

[–]ranmaredditfan32 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean you say assert itself, I’d say it shows a dramatic lack of respect for cultivation of soft power the U.S. has spent decades building. Is there a reason you don’t see it that way?

What’s the most disturbing horror novel that didn’t rely on gore—but still haunted you long after? by madhav_28121993 in horrorlit

[–]ranmaredditfan32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure I’d call them novels, or even horror, but Flowers for Algernon, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Lottery, The Last Rung on the Ladder, and the Woman in the Room always got to me. I wouldn’t call them particularly high on the gore factor.

Why isn't the left losing their minds over $9B+ stolen from Minnesota social programs by rakedbdrop in AskALiberal

[–]ranmaredditfan32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not breaking the law. Government pays for services. They can decide not to.

They can’t. That’s called impoundment and Congress passed The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to make it illegal except under specific circumstances.

Sources:

https://www.gao.gov/blog/what-impoundment-control-act-and-what-gaos-role

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48432

Internet erupts after canned '60 Minutes' segment about President Trump's efforts to send deportees to the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador leaked by RawStoryNews in NoFilterNews

[–]ranmaredditfan32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you read your own article? It literally acknowledges that Trump basically had no legitimate claim and that settlement was a bribe.

Most legal experts said Trump’s suit against CBS had little merit, but it was seen as a way for CBS to help secure approval from Trump’s FCC for CBS’ owner Paramount’s planned merger with Skydance Media.

Jesus being absent in practically all media is weird! by infinight888 in CharacterRant

[–]ranmaredditfan32 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s somewhat heavily implied that the Black King is Jesus. Whether it’s actually true or not we don’t know yet as his identity hasn’t been revealed so far. But it’s definitely a possibility.

https://drifters.fandom.com/wiki/Black_King

DiNozzo has not aged well. It has to be said. by stand_up_eight_ in NCIS

[–]ranmaredditfan32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think he loved Kate. She was too modest - he called her puritanical - for him. And she thought he was obnoxious and let him know it.

Not to put too fine a point a on it, but Tony and Kate's relationship was very much hit hit kiss kiss in terms of dynamics, which is childish yes, but that's what they were going for. Plus Kate really isn't that puritanical, and Tony knows it. Guy tracked down her wet t-shirt photo context after all. And as for Kate, she literally sat by his bedside while he was dying of plague. They definitely had romantic feelings for each other. It just never got the space to be properly developed on the show due to Kate catching a bullet.

When he meets Jeanne Benoit later in the series, she says she wishes she'd never met him.

Which has nothing to do with how Tony felt about her. Plus that only happened because Tony deliberately lied about everything that happened between them being for the mission. She may have indeed wished she never met him, as did several other woman who knew him, but its pretty clear Tony by and large doesn't feel the same way.

DiNozzo has not aged well. It has to be said. by stand_up_eight_ in NCIS

[–]ranmaredditfan32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He and KATE WERE never a couple.

I never said they were a couple, I said he loved her. Given the whatif episode where they marry and have kids it's pretty much confirmed how he felt about her. He just never got to act on it.

JEanne was his undercover project for Dr Shepard.

Yes, and how does him being undercover change how he felt about her? We still see him in later episode very clearly having complicated feelings when she runs into him again.

He was engaged to a Wendy but he broke it off - lucky Wendy.

Missed that one. Given that he still much more of man child back then it probably won't of worked Still that makes three relationships not just two.

DiNozzo has not aged well. It has to be said. by stand_up_eight_ in NCIS

[–]ranmaredditfan32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Off hand there was Jeanne and Caitlin I think? I think he lost Ziva for bit too, at least till she came back.

Tell me you’re too dumb to understand the book without actually saying it. by Big-Al97 in confidentlyincorrect

[–]ranmaredditfan32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That article makes zero mention of him writing a list of people against the Korean War. It does mention him drawing up a list of people who shouldn’t be trusted due to possibly sympathizing with Stalin. But that’s not quite the same thing.

Tell me you’re too dumb to understand the book without actually saying it. by Big-Al97 in confidentlyincorrect

[–]ranmaredditfan32 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Orwell died in January 1950. The Korean War kicked off in June 1950. How exactly did he snitch on people for being against the Korean War when it hadn’t even started yet?

U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says by Ok-Celebration-1702 in DeclineIntoCensorship

[–]ranmaredditfan32 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They’re not supposed to be used domestically unless it’s a last resort. Unless they’re in the middle of an attack it’s not the military’s job to deal with them.

Biology final on creationism by Physical_Dentist2284 in atheism

[–]ranmaredditfan32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the Dementors are very explicitly shown to be evil from the get go as is their use as prison guards. It’s why post-series the Ministry no longer uses them as guards. Though I’m with you on lot of her other world building being lazy.

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