I mean, that’s kinda what they said about Lost, but then they had to fill 3 seasons because the network wasn’t ready to end it, and by the time they got to the end, everyone had guessed the twist and it went out with a whimper.

Of course we’ve had other terrible endings to massive shows since then, so

Ask yourself a question, have you ever heard of a toddler accidentally shooting someone with a bow? Firing a gun is so easy that you have to keep them away from babies or the babies are likely to kill themselves.

I believe it is entirely true.

But can you really call this a bombshell? Didn’t everyone already know this? A bombshell should be shocking, shattering, or impactful. This is like dropping a match into a forest fire.

“Deserved” is a bit loaded. Americans are exceptionally stupid and ill-informed, but that applies to our elected leaders, as well.

Does someone who is easily manipulated deserve to be manipulated? If so, isn’t that precisely the form of myopic conservativism that has overrun the right wing? Government for the people, by the people, is intended to protect all the people and enshrine our rights. Protecting victims from predators ought to be a primary function of law, and if you don’t believe that, then yeah you deserve the leadership we got.

Just to glom onto this correct answer, the system OP describes is the ideal for prosecutors. It’s not supposed to be adversarial. The prosecutors are supposed to exercise their judgement and seek justice, not victory. Unfortunately, prosecutors are evaluated on conviction rates.

I recently had some pez for the first time in like 20 years. The candy was better when I was a kid. I can still remember the grape and strawberry flavors, and the modern ones are shit.

There’s nothing wrong with civic pride and feeling a bond with your community. But a country is not a leader, or a party, or a religion or ethnicity. America is united diversity. E pluribus unum. Love and celebrate that, or just admit that it’s not about loving people like you but instead hating the people who are not.

The objection has been heard and overruled.

On the one hand, the exec was super sexist to say that Demi’s value as an actress is just as a love interest. The movie was being filmed, and there was nothing about the role that was supposed to be sexy or romantic.

On the other hand, she was the worst actor in that movie. The best thing about her performance was that it was forgettable, because it allowed the better actors to take more of the stagelight. Even Brian Bodison, Lance Corporal Dawson, gave a better performance, and he had literally never acted before. There were many actresses who could have taken the role and done more with it.

But I don’t think that’s why they objected.

Printing machines use all sorts of organic chemicals for inks and lubricants. Does it smell like fresh asphalt and citrus? Like tar and rubber mixed with fragrance.

To answer your question, I describe the way smells taste. Sweet, sour, bitter, salty, spicy. If you want to be vague, say it smells like wine. Wine smells like anything.

Definitely. I kept up with the abuses in Philly, but the results were super depressing.

Lol, I think I lasted less than a month, and accomplished nothing. I’ve had more productive bowel movements, but I appreciate the sentiment.

Many years ago, I created a reddit sub for tracking instances of police brutality, naming the officers and following up on the lack of punishment. Within the first day, I was completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of offenses. I had a minor mental breakdown and had to abandon the effort.

My understanding is that is came from soldiers returning from WWI who did not speak enough German to communicate, but were seeking the trains home.

I don’t speak German, but I picked up a few phrases for work. They have a few idioms that I think of sometimes:

“Ich glaub, ich spinne” which means I think I’m crazy, but literally translates to “I think, I spider.” It’s a great visual metaphor, being overwhelmed by the threads going everywhere that you imagine you’re a spider spinning a web, and also you’ve entirely forgotten grammar.

“Bahnhof verstehen” or “Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof” means “I understand only the train station.” It’s something you say when you don’t understand anything, you’re completely lost, and you don’t give a shit becaue you just want to get the fuck home.

I might be off on those translations or the subtext, but that’s how I understood it.

That horn…

But I heard that in some procedures in America you have to say what your ethnicity is?

Not sure what you mean by “procedures,” but no. It’s explicitly forbidden for anyone to discriminate against you based on your race or ethnicity. You won’t be asked if you are black or white or anything else. People might be curious where you are from, especially if you have a strong accent, but you’re free to tell them to fuck off (especially if they are being racist.)

We even heard things like that in some places they divide people by “skin color” and base different cultures on that (we noticed that people from America even speak and behave differently based on whether they identify as “black” or “white”) and even have schools for primarily people with dark skin or so.

We have laws preventing creating neighborhoods or schools that exclude specific races, but there are regional schools in communities that are primarily one race or another. Generations of racial segregation, redlining, blockbusting, and gerrymandering have created persisitent segregation that survives decades after those practices were outlawed.

So no, you’re not misinformed. Historical segregation was real and still affects communities today, but there are no laws enforcing racial segregation. We do have a lot of bigots, as evidenced by the literal Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration today, so you should be careful in places like rural Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Utah, and South Carolina. But if you’re visiting a major city, or any famous tourist attractions, you’ll probably not experience any overt racism beyond a Trump bumper sticker.

I thought it was some sort of sky full of stars background.

Nano users unite and edit a few lines of code, but that’s it.

Yes, but without describing her looks or her romantic relationships, describe her character in the movie.