blackbelt352

Give digital art programs a try. There's plenty of free alternatives to the big subscription model vultures out there, there's GIMP for image editing, Krita for drawing, Blender for 3D, DaVinci Resolve for video editing, Audacity and Pro Tools Free for sound recording and editing, you can even make modular synths using VCV Rack. And if you like rum and eye patches theres versions of the big players out there too.

I am absolutely shit at drawing, but professionally I make 3d animations, having drawing skills helps, but it's not necessary to learn any one of these.

Bleach is Sodium Hypochloride. NaClO not HO

Valid point, personally we keep a mesh catch over ours to keep anything really big from getting down there and so we can control what goes down into it.

Garbage disposals do exist. Even so, they're not really meant to be grinding up a whole bunch of food, and neither are the pipes really meant to handle that quantity of solids, even in ground up

Technically the only 100% necessary qualifications to be pope are:

1. Be a man
2. Be (specifically) Catholic

And a third extremely common but not strictly necessary qualification of: Be a Cardinal.

I'm pretty sure Trump is some flavor of Baptist, which does in theory prevent his rise to the papacy, unless he specifically converts from whatever flavor of Baptist to Catholicism. But that risks alienating the evangelical protestants that fucking hate Catholics and think the papacy is the satanic antichist.

2 parties is the inevitable outcome of FPTP, there's no legalistic enforcement of 2 parties, it's simply the most viable strategy in this voting system. They very quickly became the biggest and out-competed all the others except when*... (see how the Whigs fell, the conservative Democrats split in north and south and the progressive Republicans rose to prominence) Washington was right to deride the 2 party system but the framers were building an electoral system long before we had some extremely serious mathematics done about making voting systems more fair, and also proving that no voting system can be perfectly fair and satisfy all fairness criteria.

And they also weren't one homogeneous group either, they all wanted different things and came to compromise about how to go about doing it, some wanted a centralized army to stand up to outside forces, others saw that as a risk, capable of waging war internally. They were working off of the collective knowledge of the Greeks, Romans, and more contemporary writers like Voltaire, Hobbes, and Rousseau. They didn't have the next 250 years of political philosophy that would develop that we know today.

The time is gone, the song is over. Though I'd something more to say.

The 5 stars of ratatouille might have been an anachronistic shorthand of good quality based more on how so much of what the average person is familiar with is a 5 star rating system (think product reviews on Amazon, app reviews on Google play/app store, driver ratings on Uber etc)

Like, I imagine people have an understanding that Michelin stars are a thing but don't know what those stars mean other than more stars is more gooder. And to muddle it up even more in the present day a single chef can have more than 3 stars because that chef owns multiple restaurants. (See British shouty chef's 17 Michelin stars)

Michelin wanted people to drive more, because people driving wore out their tires meaning more tire sales for Michelin. They created a travel guide that included a star system for restaurants that were worth travelling to, eventually settling on the 3 star system where 1 star was worth a stop along your route, 2 stars was worth a detour along your route and 3 stars is worth a dedicated trip to eat at.

2 expansions, 6 Frontier Pass Packs, 6 leader packs, scenario DLCs, leader DLCs. There's a lot more than just Gathering Storm and Rise & Fall.

Yeah, in this context it means awakened to and aware of bigotry and systemic bigotry, and its effect on people,

Domination victory is literally one of the victoru conditions of Civ 6. You're allowed to go full steamroll and go to war with everyone. Some of the civs are focused on going to war and expanding quickly through warfare like the Aztecs. Just don't be surprised when you keep attacking other civs and the other players use the other diplomatic strategies to their advantage.

I'm Civ it's also important to know how the other players perceive you and how to manipulate that perception to your advantage. Manufacture Casus Belli, poke and prod until others make the first attack and you "defend" yourself by taking their cities. You'll be less of a warmonger.