On one hand, Watson isn’t the brightest bulb in the pack. He has noble goals and is understandably frustrated with Japan being allowed to exploit a loophole to protect its whaling industry. But if you’re going to engage in piracy, making TV shows about it isn’t brilliant.

On the other, there’s no excuse for hunting an intelligent, sentient being. There may be no excuse for hunting any animal. Full stop.

Good on Denmark.

Stalling until Trump can take office and change his mind — again?

It must be really nice to live in a country where the police have nothing better to do than shake down citizens for Sky/Comcast’s benefit.

Maybe hire better protection partners?

Damage control from the PR team shouldn’t be allowed to fix this. Publicly name the “protection partner,” publicly end their contract, apologize, and develop a transparency plan going forward.

Lesson learned: Never sell any of your company if you want to remain in control of it.

And now we know that you can’t (or won’t) read. That’s ok. But I do think that we’ve exhausted the possibilities of this conversation.

Fuck off. Stop assuming that you know anything about me, foolish asshole.

Now that the BLUF is out of the way, and I know that you’ve read and understood my comment, I’ll do you a solid to show that there are no hard feelings. You’re blocked.

My “opinion” is not wrong. It is scientific fact. Adolescent development is an area of my professional study.

Are there abused children in the world? Yes. Are their brains well-enough developed to make any lifelong decisions? No. That doesn’t mean that they don’t deserve help. It does mean that they are not mature enough to understand the ramifications of a no-contact decision.

I don’t wanna sound condescending, but please base your own opinions in fact.

At least I’m in good company :)

It isn’t really. But you are, of course, entitled to your opinion.

With respect, 16 year old brains are not physically developed enough to make that decision. It’s why we don’t let them vote.

Things may look different today. I stand by my suggestion.

Oh my. You’re right. Sorry about that

Curious. You seem to be under the impression that the President makes law in the US. They don’t. We’re not quite a dictatorship yet.

And you’re entitled to your opinion. No one has to share it. <shrug>

Is this the same PrivacyGuides that tried to burn PrivacyTools to the ground a few years ago? I wouldn’t expect much from them if that’s the case. Find another instance and start over.

It’s checkmate in one. I’d probably resign and move on to the next game.

Maybe cut him some slack? A lot can happen in 20 years.

We all know that the Cheeto’s first act will be to pardon himself, his children, and anyone else who might be useful. Honestly, I’d respect Biden less if he hadn’t pardoned Hunter.

Nintendo’s own-goals are getting embarrassing.

Yes, but he’ll gaslight the rest of us into calling it “bee-GOH” Games.

It’s worth keeping in mind that this wasn’t exclusively a Soviet tactic. But yeah, Putin’s a Soviet through and through — and apparently not the good kind. This was likely foreseeable.