As an animated work, Steven Universe is kind of garbage. There are YouTube essays out there detailing its problems, but it’s most glaring when a guest animator takes over a small portion of the series and blows the entire thing out of the water.

The OP is disingenuous, but animation is having a problem these days with restricted budgets, homogenized designs, and poor use of digital tools. Quality animation was always expensive and therefore in the minority, but the everyday budget stuff is worse than in the past. There are recent series that I can’t even watch due to awful framerates and bad CGI.

Spraying someone with pepper spray is a violent assault. It’s banned in a number of counties due to the possibility of permanent injury or even death, and the risk to bystanders.

I don’t think whether an attack is physically violent should play a role in whether someone is allowed to use violence to defend themselves. Plenty of forms of sexual assault are non-violent in the sense that they don’t cause bodily harm to the victim, but I still think you should be allowed to resort to violent methods of stopping/preventing them. Things like gropings, upskirt photography, etc are a form of psychological violence in my opinion.

This is different from break-ins which are a more serious crime as they violate the private living spaces of people on top of violating their property rights.

What is the reasoning behind this distinction? Are you suggesting it’s okay to defend your home with violence?

To come at this from another angle, do you think theft should be legal? If not, why is it okay for the state to enact violence on perpetrators, but not victims?

I don’t agree with characterizing being robbed from as not a big deal, especially when it’s as physically intimate as pickpocketing.

Maybe it’s no big deal to lose a bit of money if you’re rich, but I would be truly fucked to lose my phone or wallet, and more than inconvenienced to lose money or objects which would need to be replaced with money.

But more than that is the sense of violation. What gives someone the right to come into my home or put hands on my body and take my personal things? It’s dehumanizing. It feels disgusting to be treated that way. Of course I’m going to defend myself.

That’s why you set up code ahead of time. Gestures are especially useful for nonverbal communication.

I need this on my fridge.

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the third straight day

Are you counting how long it takes until you’re bi, or…?

I wonder how her studies are going.

I took that other post as a riff on the kinds of people who put unrealistic and shallow demands on an idealized partner while offering little to nothing in the way of good partnership material themselves.

I have a kettle with a temperature setting that solved this problem for me. It can also maintain the temperature electronically, but I’ve usually give through a liter before it has a chance to cool much.

Tea will taste different depending on what temperature water it’s brewed in, but I can’t think of any reason the water itself would be different.

e: The material of the vessel would matter. Perhaps you like the taste imbued by your kettle, which would be lacking if you heated the water directly in a mug.

Use one of those mixing bowls that has a spout.

I believe they were engaging in irony, accusing Dr. King of having been a violent thug when he should have protested peacefully like Dr. King, to highlight the necessity of directed violence and the flawed thinking of complete pacifism. I believe they simply worded themselves in a way that was lost on many readers.

Regardless of what we might prefer, we’re all forced to deal with capitalism until we build something better.

Maybe people who chose to not vote are a bigger problem than I realize, but I think the real issue is the masses who are prevented from voting in the first place, and the gerrymandering and electoral college designed to suppress the votes that do get cast.

Oh yeah, there’s plenty. The stops are very frequent to accommodate the elderly and disabled.

Maybe my perception of time is exaggerated, but I think a bus stop near me has been shut down for weeks for no apparent reason. As of a few days ago there’s a fence around it and a large vehicle, but there’s still no work being done??

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I’m about to flip a grunt.