There’s no indication that either of these characters is a parent or a child.

“Hi, Lesbian, I’m anon.”

This is a case where you want to stake out an extreme position and then get negotiated down.

Fuck tax records. All Supreme Court justices (all 53 of them) will have to divest all assets (their spouses’ as well) into a blind trust, and be followed 24/7 by camera crews, with every second live-streamed.

Let the conservatives negotiate down from that and we’ll get some basic accountability.

In New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson describes the government telling banks that if they want to be bailed out the money spent will be a buyout of the bank, and the government will run it as a credit union.

Seems like the best solution.

That’s the one. It goes into great detail about how blackface was used during vaudeville, and is quite gut wrenching.

If you did blackface after the release of Bamboozled, no pass.

I’d rather do it to share with others…

Full disclosure: I have not watched the original Time Bandits movie from the 80s. However, I watched the first episode of this series and it felt like the showrunners were trying to duplicate the “zany” feeling of 80s comedies and missing the mark terribly.

I get the sense that a lot of this is due to nostalgia for films based on childhood memories rather than any clear sense of cinema quality.

I also don’t know the laws in India, but in the US nearly every major “hacking” case for decades has been a miscarriage of justice to some degree or another.

Like Kevin Mitnick who simply figured out that a major early ISP was keeping customer payment information in plaintext on an internet-connected server.

That’s because they explicitly state in the core rules that all special abilities are “powers”.

HERO has a similar setup where you have “powers” and then you create flavor around them. HERO actually breaks out creation point discounts for some of the flavor. Like if you are a wizard who can only cast spells a certain number of times per day, your “energy projection” power (fireball) is cheaper than if you are a superhero who can shoot fire all day long.

They don’t want to carry inventory because Amazon doesn’t. The prices are higher because vendors are contractually obligated to sell on Amazon at their lowest price. So retailers, with a need to have a physical presence and having to buy at more or less the same price a product is available for on Amazon, get fucked. Their only hope is vendors who make a “different” product to sell at other outlets. An example of what I mean is, Poppi soda sells for $20/12 pack on Amazon. They sell a 15 pack at Costco for the same price. Because it’s a “different” product they are not in breach of contract.

“Hey, let’s talk to two people whose only qualifications are a shameless willingness to post whatever crazy shit enters their skulls about their conspiracy theories.”

“Should we also talk to ballistics experts and mental health professionals to get a sense of how reasonable it is to think that these plans were staged?”

“Too expensive, I’m already flying first class and staying in five star accommodations in Denver.”

The game with the best name for a perk/trait ever: Grim Servant of Death.

Not the entire magic system. There’s hexslingers, blessed, shamans, and witches too.

Unless you’re in Texas. Then you need a vpn.

The contract bars them from a class action suit specifically (if I’m reading this correctly) which means that a big law firm or group of firms are not likely to take the case.

This is a big issue with wage theft because the people affected have so little on the line as individuals. If a Waffle House server works half their 8 hour shift doing non-tipped work at the tipped wage ($2.13/hr) rather than the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hr) 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year, for 10 years, they’re out $51200. Given the cost of litigation, they would owe a lawyer even if they won.

So, Waffle House can’t completely ban lawsuits but they can make them untenable, and the cost to them is not important. Let’s say our hypothetical employee does find a lawyer who takes the case and does file suit. WH will settle, probably offer half (if that) with a non-disclosure agreement attached to it. They may even have in-house counsel who can handle that as part of their day to day work so it’s no extra expense. The employee feels good because they got something reasonably quick, and they can’t tell anyone else so it stops there. WH gets away for ~$25k.

Compare that to a class action. A law firm has reasonable evidence of the behavior being company wide, so they start sending out mailers and posting ads on social media. “Were you employed as a server by Waffle House between 2000 and 2024? You may be entitled to back pay.” Now anyone who ever filed a tax return with a W-2 from WH might be signing up. Now WH does have to bring in their outside counsel who charges by the hour. Simply to respond to the case at all, they are spending tens of thousands of dollars. There are probably tens of thousands of people who worked at WH in the given time period, so now they’re looking at millions of dollars in a payout plus their legal expenses plus (maybe) the legal expenses of the plaintiffs.

I feel you. Even with diagnosed ADHD my parents treated me like I was “lazy”. Feels bad. I’m glad you were able to have that talk with your dad.

That’s Medhi Hassan. He’s a serious interviewer, and he’s tough with every politician he interviews if they aren’t answering questions.

I wish every interviewer were even half as good at this as Mehdi Hassan is. He is a delight to watch or read when he’s talking to anyone who is dodging questions.

What kind of parent drops their kid off at an adult’s party the parent is not also attending?