Good point but for presidential elections, electrical districts don’t make any sense.
In 48 out of fifty states, they don't matter for presidential elections. I think only Maine and Nebraska split their electoral college votes at all.
Also, if the districts are being manipulated to provide a skewed election result then are the districts really groups of people with similar needs?
The original purpose has indeed been corrupted in many places, and those where it hasn't are tempted into a "race to the bottom" as states with modest but persistent majorities are gerrymandering their states to the hilt. Still, the original idea of electoral districts makes a lot of sense, and even moreso when communications and travel were much slower.
They're just movies. Pirate 'em if you're feeling cheap but there's no reason you have to choose beyond order. No reason to stress.
People have their favorites; don't assume that being "into comics" means their opinion is significantly more valuable than someone else's. In fact, that can lead to prioritizing things in a way that's not universal and might even be offputting to people who are into movies as the main thing, for instance the people who like the LOTR books thinking that absolutely ruining the pacing of the Jackson movies to cram in more pages worth of book was a good idea.
I haven't seen the other two, but while Thunderbolts is a solid return to form for Marvel, that is still sort of "nice but empty calories." Don't get me wrong; I liked it, and they took pains to drop in a few lines of dialogue so you don't have to spend a month taking notes on old movies and Disney Plus shows to get the gist of who the characters are. Still, it's not an essential cinematic experience.
And maybe even a reasonably sized staff of skilled and dedicated public servants who can help this and other burdensome tasks without being corrupted by the stream of grifters!
Choirs accompanying soul artists is not unheard of, but yeah, it does seem to be more of a tool that's leveraged when the sound feels right for a track, rather than being a core part of the act. The linked song is verging pretty close to "regular" gospel, but the lyrics are a bit too modern and on the nose for church, I'd think.
Anti-Stratfordians are classist kooks who completely ignore historical research, historical context, and evolving literary criticism, and thereby miss what actually makes Shakespeare uniquely enduring among his peers. I know I'm actually in the mainstream here. I just hate them sooooo much, it... it was like flames... FLAMES on the side of my face...
One of the recurring themes I keep coming back to in all this is that the US has a uniquely bad situation with regard to its Constitution. We worship it as an infallible and complete guide to running a democratic republic, but really it's extremely old, extremely vague, and depends on goodwill and sensible interpretation to function. We have neither the explicit understanding that everything is old AF and cobbled together and dependent upon custom and moderating tyrannical sensibilities like the British, nor the unwieldy but straightforward comprehensiveness of EU treaties and certain other lengthy modern written constitutions.
To me, him just telling Pamela Bondi what to do in such a delicate matter feels just wrong, as in lacking the due seriousness on the matter, utterly sloppy and populist in a bad manner.
This feeling you have is exactly how presidents of either party would have felt for the last 80-100 years. The idea of a largely independent Department of Justice was considered eminently sensible and moral and even to the realpolitik set it provided outer bounds of what was politically possible and so they would nudge and tug at the edges, but never blow right past it, lest they suffer Nixon's fate. I think we make a mistake to say that Trump is stupid in a binary yes/no sense, but he is deeply uncurious about things that don't interest him, like democratic norms, so when people tell him "The Constitution doesn't actually say that," his eyes gleam and he just does whatever he might get away with. And because we have a Supreme Court dominated by the idea that the US Constitution is more akin to a piece of computer code than a framework for sensible governance, they simply throw up their hands and say, "whelp, it didn't SAY that the administration of justice should be handled with integrity, so guess we makin' a fascism now." Better vote them out, except oh wait the Constitution also doesn't say you can't fuck with the elections either.
One of my anxious worries lately is that at the end of this term, Trump will look at our term limits amendment and parse the verbiage with a simple literalism and Clarence Thomas et al will back him up. It says you can't be elected president more than twice, so why not simply run for VP and then have your patsy resign five minutes after swearing in? After all, we're mindless textualists now. We didn't want an FDR type getting overly entrenched in the machinery of power, but we clearly meant to allow loopholes that are significantly less democratic!
A couple of the KPop Demon Hunter tunes, mostly “Golden.” I liked the movie fine, including the music despite its not really being in my wheelhouse, but I’m hearing the music a lot because my kids adores it.
It’s kind of annoying because I only remember a few lines each of a couple of them so those repeated lines what has become the earworm.
Same here. I stay on Reddit for my local communities, some sports (though [email protected] is still waiting in the wings!), and a couple of hobbies, but I actually just un-subbed from the remaining general interest subreddits I was on. There's less commenting here, but as much or more conversing.
Yup. While the bear with a tail is still kind of weird, Ursa major is one of the least weird constellations. "The Big Dipper" is an "asterism" according to the grad students at the planetarium I took my daughter to.
In the US, the AMA has always artificially limited the supply of MDs. Over the last century osteopathic medical schools basically adopted all the same philosophies of evidence based medicine as “regular” medical schools, maybe with a vestigial course or two on spinal alignment. Both have the same licensing requirements.
At this point, DOs in the US are basically just regular doctors with lower MCAT scores and undergraduate GPAs, and indeed, they basically fill the role of providing doctors to less lucrative specialties and regions.
You're right, though the melodrama and swashbuckling of Space Opera definitely lend themselves more towards the soft sci-fi/sci-fantasy end of the spectrum. Sort of, "if the characters and plots don't need to bear much relation to the real world, why should the setting?"
Fair enough. I think it’s also pretty annoying that Doctor Strange there looks like somebody just gave him a handful of ass pennies.