Look up "Topsy the elephant" (among other things).
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The folks responsible for the sexy costumes, Roddenberry and Theiss, died in 1991 and 1992, respectively.
See also: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheissTitillationTheory
The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the perceived possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off.
This basic theory underwrites Stripperiffic clothing, Impossibly Cool Clothes, and pretty much anything else you stick characters into: what makes clothing sexy is the potential for a catastrophic Wardrobe Malfunction. The Trope Namer is William Ware Theiss, costume designer on Star Trek: The Original Series, who first codified the concept.
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Though Theiss was a costume designer, according to Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herb Solow and Robert Justman, most of the costumes — following this theory — were actually somewhat more modest before being "improved" by Gene Roddenberry.
That's the thing that annoys me most about Duolingo: if they're going to show you ads, the least they could do is show you ones in the language you're trying to learn instead of your native one.
I don't care what the excuses are; they aren't valid.
Considering that this is new capacity, not total capacity, it's a fucking absurd outrage that it's anything less than 100.0%.
Every percentage point less than that represents us continuing to make the problem even worse even though we goddamn well know better!
“what is the difference between these two pieces of material” (one was aluminum, the other stainless)
Did they expect you to identify which metals they were, or just that they were different metals?
The "Christmas Season" is Fall, not Winter*. The only reason the holiday isn't literally over when the Winter season starts is that the Christians got their calendar screwed up and hold the holiday on a fixed date instead of on the solstice where it belongs.
(*Or "Spring, not Summer" for upside-down people, I suppose.)
I wish there were a selfhosted alternative that would sync with banks like mint.com does, but I haven't found one yet.
I've also dabbled a little trying to make one, but it seems like banks don't really want you to use their API unless you're Intuit.
The error with Hitler wasn't sending him to prison, it was letting him out again after only a few months.
Because the Republicans currently have the support of something like 20% more of the population than the NAZIs did when they seized power.
Remember, unlike folks who believe in democracy, tyrants don't need a majority to win.
This is an extremely dangerous time for liberty in the US, and complacent attitudes like yours are only increasing the danger.
Not with that attitude!
More specifically, not with that disingenuous attitude that implies giving folks bicycles and changing nothing else, trying to shame them into using a mode that's worse for them in order to altruistically help everybody else. Of-fucking-course that's never gonna work!
Instead, what actually has to change is the zoning laws that shape the built environment the bicycles are operate in. We have to stop limiting density and mandating parking requirements, which not only physically force destinations farther apart (putting fewer within walking or biking distance) and cause the space between to be filled with car-infested asphalt (making walking and biking unpleasant), but also subsidize driving by forcing an oversupply of parking, driving down the price.
Removing the regulations and allowing developers to build as compactly as the market would dictate would cause people to freely choose bicycling because it would become more convenient than driving, and that is what would help solve the climate crisis!