Headline: Pope is Catholic

Slow day for news, huh?

*McChoke

Critical Thinking, huh? Let’s apply some critical thinking to the comment you responded to:

I sincerely doubt that tortoises were killed for their shells. Their skeleton was a waste product in a sense.

In the first sentence, the author expresses doubt that, contemporaneous with manufacture of this piano, Testudines would have been hunted for their shells. In the second sentence, the author provides additional context, asserting that the skeleton could be considered a waste product by those hunting turtles and tortoises.

1. Is the author implying that Testudines were hunted for sport, or for the purpose of gathering another resource?

2. The shells of turtles and tortoises are components of their skeletons. When the author claims skeletons were waste products, do they imply that shells were commonly discarded?

3. If the author is correct, and Testudines were hunted as a resource but the skeleton was not the target, what resource was most likely to have been sought after?

4. Do the author’s claims contraindicate poaching, i.e. that hunting Testudines was a legally sanctioned activity during and/or before 1853?

Homework:

1. Verifying the author’s claims: were turtles and tortoises legally hunted in the mid-19th Century, and what were the most common commercial and/or industrial applications of each part of their carcasses? Was it common to discard the skeletons?

2. Was turtle and tortoise meat eaten more commonly in the past?

3. Do you think attitudes toward wastefulness and conservation in the gathering of marine resources have changed since the 1850s? Why or why not?

4. What topic or topics would offer the best starting point when asking your librarian for reference materials?
   (A) Musical instruments
   (B) Marine biology
   © Commercial fishing
   (D) Ornamental furniture

Please have this on my desk by tomorrow morning for full credit.

Don’t feed the trolls homie

Wouldn’t the tie keep you a little bit warmer while you’re on the cross?

That could not be less of an issue. Filtering out the dummies is a feature.

Nah *un-tips your fedora*

Take your meds and some reading comprehension refresher courses

Action games almost never have long, detailed dialog interactions that affect relationships and simulate the interpersonal detail of characters in a book. Then when I play visual novels, they do have all that stuff, but I can’t rocket jump or quickscope. What kind of bullshit is that? I’m so glad this author twisted their trilby on tighter and cranked out some hard-hitting journalism about how different genres of media have different content in them.

Plus, most TVs now by default enable horrific postprocessing like sharpening and motion interpolation, which makes everything look like total shit even in still frames.

Very well, but you don’t need to run it by me first

“Umm ackshyually you’re technically inaccurate”

How pathetic that is aside, I’m really not.

Yes, such as spyware

Getting through your day without a single buzzword must be a pretty harrowing thought

That’s IRC dawg

I am affronted. I’m taking my goalposts and going home

OK bro

Invalid opinion, 100% of IoT devices are trash. If smart devices aren’t as easy to use as analog devices then they were designed poorly by people who are more concerned with Gee Whiz gimmickry than sitting down to grind through the hard work of real UX design, and who should be working in tollbooths instead. That’s the only skill issue present.

me when I overthink

no, i dont consider academics as a good example of intellectuals

What did she mean by this