Did only a few of us miss this? Seems like it could have been explained better up front.

It was good. I enjoyed it. Not everything needs to trigger some morally righteous response in our world.

That's the fear of soy paste.

Lois Lane would be resurrected and unburied by rocks if there had been an earthquake caused by a nuclear strike shortly before this happened.

As others have said, it depends where you live. For US states that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, it protects heterosexual and cis people the same as gay or trans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_employment_discrimination_in_the_United_States

I know a heterosexual Chinese couple who had the same family and given names even before they were married. They met because they kept getting each other's mail.

Two reasons. One, you may be using a wide angle lens, which makes things look farther away, but as a tradeoff gives you a wider field of view.

Two, you may be viewing the image on the tiny camera screen instead of on a large TV. The image has been shrunk to fit the screen.

Try using a zoom lens or zooming into the digital image on a larger screen.

But then there would be my tomatoes and the ones at each of my local grocery stores. Am I supposed to go get some from everywhere to enjoy tomatoes?

No safe level of sunlight by the same logic.

Something bent space-time and made tomorrow July 29th.

We'd need an objective way to measure lameness and then review a large set of posts (on a particular sub?) from a couple of months ago vs now. Criteria have to be pre-determined to avoid the post hoc fallacy.

Average words or characters per comment? Number of insults directed at other commenters (measured by someone blinded to which group they came from)? Number of "controversial" comments judged by large numbers of up and downvoted?

I dunno. I'm not doing it. Not a social scientist. Just suggesting an interesting experiment.

Yes, some people obviously give a shit or it wouldn't have been posted here.