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I think it's that category of essential employees who are working without pay that this would be most intended for.

And if Google had any sense, those were all improvements they should have just brought to Hangouts, haha.

But why improve a service when we can just create a competitor that does 2 things better, 5 things worse, and 1 crucial thing not at all?

You're not the only one who's heard that take from someone. Someone else I once (regrettably) talked to insisted that only the first one was fake.

Their logic was that NASA knew how to get to the moon but knew they wouldn't beat the Soviets, so they faked the first mission to demoralize the competition and give them time to do a real moon mission after that.

I have no idea how they could omit Hangouts.

Allo, on the other hand, which was supposed to replace Hangouts, did not live as long as Hangouts and should probably remain forgotten.

You Keep Me Hanging On is way better than it has any right to be.

Mostly I just really hate people who upload videos to YouTube like:

Artist Name - Song You Want To Listen To - Original...

And then you open the video, hear some Alvin and the Chipmunks bullshit, and get to read the rest of the truncated title:

Artist Name - Song You Want To Listen To - Original Nightcore Version

Hey, some of us are 35-year-old edgelords

I don't know the full ins and outs myself, but most of these VTubers are managed by agencies who own the rights to the characters they portray. The people behind the character get paid for their work, and they can choose to take better jobs elsewhere, but they don't get to bring the characters with them. Basically like how Tom Kenny (voice actor for SpongeBob) can't just decide to be SpongeBob somewhere else, he doesn't own the character.

When a VTuber decides to retire or if they take a better job with a different agency, the character "graduates," which I think is just used because it's a softer word than "retire." The fans just get to imagine the character is off doing bigger and better things, not that they're euthanized or locked in a storage unit somewhere gathering dust. In theory I guess the agency could continue using the character for merch and promo material, or even recast, though I have no idea how well that would go in an industry with fans as obsessive as theirs.

I'm not a marine biologist, so I can't speculate on what the best alternative is for these whales, but I would like to imagine there are more options than the binary of "kill them" or "throw them to the ~~wolves~~ sharks".

Marineland is just parroting the euthanize option because they're upset they couldn't make a quick buck by selling them to China. It's a hissy fit tactic to try to un-block the sale.

If the whales are not able to be released in to the wild, I'm sure there are plenty of other facilities out there that would be able to care for them. Marineland might need to pay them to take the animals in, but it should be their obligation to do so if they're unable to support the quality of life they need themselves.

C'mon Ottawa, force them to rehabilitate and release them, even if it kills the park.

A lot of animals cannot be rehabilitated and released. If they were born and raised in captivity, they have effectively no chance of survival on their own. I don't know what the situation is for these animals, but I've been to plenty of zoos and aquariums in the past that have rehabilitation programs and even they have a few "lifers" who will never leave.

Shit. I was about to quip "Your intern is only 8?" before I remembered what year it was.

Do serial killers normally break out the tape measure before cutting into a victim?