Humans do too all the time because not everyone can hear spoken language.

EDIT: After doing some reading I have now learned about sign language and how I owe the local deaf community a huge apology.

I hope it's true.

I'm an alpha male. If you study me in captivity I will display downright unnatural behavior.

The Western world spent four decades moving all of their production of absolutely everything into China because it was cheap. Two generations later we consider it an unexpected and worrying problem that China is so good at producing things all of a sudden and wonder why we can't just produce them ourselves anymore when we haven't trained anyone in the modern production methods of those things since before personal computers were a thing.

I've always actually liked NASA as a US government agency. Thing is they take the kind of scientist whose skills are intensely useful to the military industrial complex and let them do goofy shit like this that doesn't hurt anyone instead. Sure, sometimes some of their tech ends up useful to the military anyway and that's terrible, but to the people who think this is a waste of resources that could have been better spent fixing infrastructure or helping the poor I want to ask:

If we consider labor as a resource, do you think the actual experts in autonamous robotics, rocketry and atmospheric dispersion involved in landing a little box on Venus would be fixing pot holes or running homeless shelters without NASA? I think they would be much more likely to be working on some project to have an army of drones defoliate all of central Asia or something like that. I think it is cool and heartwarming that they successfully landed a little robot on Mars and care so much about it, but also many of these people have skills that are only useful for exactly this and like 25 different crimes against humanity, and letting them do this is not a waste of resources.

This will remain true no matter how much you narrow your definition of "at the scene". Want to define it as anywhere within a few kilometers on the surface? US Navy was at the scene. Want to define it as below the surface, in physical contact with the pipeline at the exact epicentre of the explosion? US Navy was still at the scene.

Wait, that's just 2.25 kg of dung per hippo. That sounds like way too little. I'm pretty sure a human being could produce 2.25 kg of dung in a day with the right team spirit and some elbow grease, but you're telling me these dainty, bashful cowards can't do better despite weighing so much more? Pathetic.

I'm not even American but I've already voted for Joe Biden several times. Just wrote the name down on pieces of paper and mailed them off. Adressed them to Joe Biden too, so that shit counts double. Put some extra stamps on them, and that's exponential growth in the number of times I voted for him. I'm practically a swing state of my own, the way I'm swinging my massive votes around.

I'm voting Netscape Navigator. Lesser evil.

Strong men create small men. The small men help the strong men. Together they create even smaller men.

And so the cycle continues.

Considering his bullet spread from this distance I do not think the camera man is safe standing at a 90 degree angle to this man.

Look at Estonia and Latvia being on the right side of history! This is not a sentence you get to use very often, so make sure to use it now before they make any other decisions.

Comrade, may I recommend Video Blocker if you are using Firefox. Just install it, right click any video and select "Block videos from this channel" and you will never have this particular problem again.

Is it too much to ask to have at least one great actor give a grand Shakespearian speech and give it his all because his children loved the game?

Yes. Yes, that is entirely too much to ask and Raul Julia didn't have to do that in 1994 either.

Maybe I'm just being contrarian, but I don't think the water or the beach are very good in this painting. The wheat, greenery, cliffs and clouds are great, but the water and beach are kind of monotonous blobs that frankly aren't that great in this painting.

If you take anything away from this post, let it be that Claude Monet had no idea how to paint water and I dare anyone to prove me wrong! That should be a reasonable idea to defend.

Hedgehog. I know about all about youth culture and the "Sonic is a hedgehog" games.

"Losses" does not mean deaths. Losses includes wounded, even those that will fully recover fairly quickly, right? If you blow out someone's eardrums for example, they are "lost" as a soldier on the battlefield, because they are no longer available to the enemy.

And the phrase "up to" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, especially when it comes to troop numbers. That means the absolute maximum possible by their account. Like if they hit a building with artillery and their estimate is that there were 30-50 Ukrainian troops there that will count as up to 50 lost troops, despite the fact that they know very well that they probably did not wound/kill everyone in the building.

The real number of dead will be significantly lower. The number of wounded/sick/deserters will be high, but it is anyone's guess exactly how high.

Won't the boulder roll back to the intersection anyway?

What an awful person. Just like Laddy Mr. Lennon and Moo The Dong. He was from the European Union you know. That's why he acted like that and killed all those people. They cannot help themselves.

At least we can take solace in the fact that the value of about $10 million per tank is solidly grounded in reality.