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  • Sexuality is 100% a societally constructed label. It's flexible, individual, and often changing. If you decide that 'bisexual' means anyone who's ever had a passing thought about both genders, well suddenly that label applies to 99% of the population, whether they would agree to it or not. That's not a particularly useful label at that point, it doesn't mean anything. And since most people don't use the label that way, they're going to be upset if you tell them you're stuffing them into that box.

  • Since nobody else is bothering to explain it, there's a very good reason the avian flu vaccine is not used regularly in almost any country. The vaccine makes the chicken likely to survive the flu, but it does nothing to prevent infection. So instead of AF outbreaks being detected and the unfortunate birds culled, you would have entire farms incubating thousands of chickens full of AF virus, creating perfect conditions to mutate and potentially spawn a new strain which may wind up being resistant to the existing vaccine. Meanwhile, those infected chickens will be spreading AF to every wild bird for miles around. It's not a useful tool for prevention, it's our last ditch protection if AF gets completely out of control on a global scale.

  • I've made and shared plenty of 3d models for the 3D printing community. People can certainly make it a job, and that's perfectly reasonable. But, I will never be interested in a community of for-profit model makers. If their goal is to make money off me, it's not a community, I'm just a customer. The point of the community is to learn and share information, to help people and be helped in return. If that time is 'work' for you, don't do it. Or make content and sell it on YouTube, do what you want, I'm just not interested in it.

  • I'm in a red state tourist town and our overall visitation is down over 30%. That said, international visitors only account for about 3% of tourism in this state, so there's much more involved with that loss than just the international travel.

  • None of that gives an explanation of the Force in any way that removes the magical nature of it. Obi-wan just says it's magic, and the midiclorians are magic microbes that let special people use magic. There's still no pretense that this is a scientific advancement, just flavors of magic.

  • Quote the script where someone explains the science of how the Force works. A lightsaber is a special magic sword that can only be made by a space wizard using their magic on a special crystal. It's magic with a futuristic flavor, that doesn't make it science fiction.

  • Because it's cheap and looks scary. The Empire controls through fear and perceived power, not actual technological superiority. Stormtroopers primary job is to suppress dissent in civilian populations, they generally aren't fighting an opposing army.