My school (Catholic) couldn’t display any crosses in buildings which were partially funded with gov’t grants

I would read “The brown big brick wall” as being a wall made of big bricks that were brown.

I think what happens is that if the adjectives go out of order your brain re-parses the list and assumes that they’re out of order for a reason and that there’s some kind of nesting is going on. some things are modifying other adjectives (sometimes nouning them) rather than the base noun.

Like “the old big cat” makes me assume that we are assessing “big cats” and talking about the old one.

I suppose it's similar to yawning. If someone yawns and you're a bit tired, mirror neurons in our brain make us experience as if it is ourself

The first place I heard of Area 51!

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They can. They do it during the supernovae. However, it consumes energy rather than producing it, so rather than generating more radiation pressure that stop gravitational collapse, it reduces the amount of radiation pressure and accelerate collapse. Therefore, the supernova happens very fast. Still, all elements heavier than iron also comes from nuclear fusion and nuclear breeding (neutrons being absorbed by nucleus) and there are a lot of them.

Believe it or not, some animals and other organisms survived the mass extinction. Crocodiles, small mammals, and even some tenacious plants, for example, managed to live on after the asteroid impact. Due to this, these generalist plants were tough and started recycling organic matter and creating more biomes to support more types of life again.

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Strictly speaking, it wouldn't have killed every dinosaur, but rather all of the biggest ones, with the smaller ones adapting to climate change and becoming modern birds.

The idea is that the impact of the meteor kicked up so much dust, it would have dimmed the sun and made earth much cooler for a period of time. We already observe this happening on a smaller and shorter scale with major volcano eruptions. As the earth cools and dims, large animals have trouble finding enough vegetation or prey to stay fed and warm, and mass extinctions occur. Smaller animals don't need as much bulk food to survive, and there would have been much more plant matter available once the biggest dinosaurs that used to eat by the ton had starved.

There is are exceptions. If you receive Federal funding, you have to follow federal rules. Like I couldn’t have a college that ONLY accepted people of a certain faith and wanted to accept Federal student loans.

Oh my god, that's actually a genius analogy, it's as close to real life as you can get without details

There's two different ways you can use it, internal and external. Internal is you sent an email that was so repulsive to the business that there is nothing that you ever earn another promotion (or more likely keep your job). They're career ending in the sense that you'll never work for that company again and thus your prior career there is over.

Or if that email gets enough public attention that it becomes public knowledge, or at least knowledge of it persists on the internet, and the content is so bad that you'll never work in your given field again. Mark Bankston, Alex Jones's lawyer, mishandled a discovery request. It was supposed to be a limited amount of data from Jones's cell phone and instead sent over an image of the phone entirely and failed to challenge the release properly. That let the prosecution prove that Jones had repeatedly lied during the trial and lead to a billion dollar fine. That lawyer will never spend another day in court, regardless if he keeps his license or not.

It could be ANYTHING. And that covers a lot of stuff :) Plus you can't have it. So a double whammy.

You’re right you don’t. Or maybe you do. Spies are spies because they don’t get noticed.

The meteor threw a shitload of water and earth into the atmosphere causing an ice age.

Not all life was wiped out, just the ones that couldn't cope with the cold like the larger dinosaurs (if they were all wiped out we wouldn't have birds)

Don't forget Independence Day

Huh, interesting yea I’ll look into it

Right, no-one has ever explained to me at what level of purity water would supposedly become dangerous.

I think you're thinking of Tuvalu - they're a Polynesian island nation that are currently trying to recreate all of their cultural heritage digitally and back it up into online spaces to preserve it, as it is one of the first nations to have a significant portion of its land area submerged by rising sea levels.

If you took a look at the numerous government projects in the US that were officially revealed from the freedom of information act where they secretly experimented on civilians in all sorts of inhuman and permanently damaging ways (some ending with many deaths) you'd probably change your stance on that...

>There are some exceptions carved out for religious views, like in the case of sexual orientation,

Which is really fucking stupid.

Religious organizations can discriminate (with limits) for religious practices. At least in the US, there's a carveout - for example, a Catholic church can't refuse to hire a priest because he's black, or because he's handicapped, that would still be discrimination... but they can refuse to hire him if he's a Muslim, or if he's a Baptist, or even if he's married, because that directly conflicts with their religion.

But even with that, there's no legal protection of your right to kiss someone, or your right to sleep with someone, at least as far as membership in a club goes. You can't be thrown in jail for kissing someone on your college campus, but they're within their rights to kick you out, if their own rules say you can't do it.

That doesn't mean the rest of us have to like it, or even approve of it, but it's not actual discrimination.

Also add that, while you know the room is there and you can see the door to the room, the people keeping you out deny for half a century or more that the room even exists.