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Vermont bans billboards already

Why bother to pay if you're just going to get ads anyway

It'd be hilarious if a bunch of people got food poisoning

I was working for a company that was renovating and upgrading the water filtration system in the ass end of nowhere and we had some official show up to ask us what we were doing b/c someone called us in thinking we were terrorists sabotaging the water system.

Wheel of Time

Is it her choice or is she forced to wear that? Middle eastern religions force women to wear that, which is why people are against it

Has there ever been self-enforcement of standards that lead to less profit exploitation, or is it just the ones that let the industry virtue signal?

Tad Williams did a decent job in "War of the flowers" There was tech comparable to early 2000's (smartphones, electricity, cars, etc) but was powered by magic, and magic itself was still capable of being used.

Businesses will round up in both cases

I love that mechanic. It forces the players movement to be more strategic while ramping up the tension. "I have to look away to get around this obstacle, can I do it quick? How close will it be when I look back?" Then you get stuck on something and it's like "shitshitshit"

Invented makes it sound like they came up with it from scratch. It's more likely they bred one or bioengineered one.

It probably only eats a specific type of plastic. There are tons of different plastics all formulated differently, some could be toxic to the bacteria.