Anyone else tripped up by the grammatical awkwardness of "house"?
Silco from Arcane.
I often struggle with media villains, finding them unrealistic or unconvincing, but Silco is just so well-rounded and well-written, he elevates the quality of every other character he interacts with. In a series full of near- and actually-superpowered people, this weak, middle-aged man is the most terrifying and influential of them all.
spoiler
His absence from season two is one of the reasons why it flops compared to season one; Ambessa and Viktor are good characters, but weak villains.
American here. I've always heard that you should see a doctor (or at least try upping your fiber intake) if you don't poop at least once a day on average.
As mentioned in other comments, the United States' climate ranges from tropical to arctic depending on location, so your teacher's explanation is nonsensical. Either your teacher was an idiot, a jokester, or you misinterpreted/misremembered what she said.
How many more versions of Tron do we need?
For reference, the highest state* minimum wage in the US is Washington State at $17.13 (in Seattle it's $21.30).
*not counting Washington DC
Wage laws across the US are all over the place. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.
I feel like I had what wasn't quite a stroke, but perhaps a minor brain bleed while reading that.
Stolen from Reddit. Original description:
There's a construction site opposite my apartment and the workers kept walking up the grass patch instead of using the stairs.
I'd like someone to call out for once how most media "for adults" nowadays is, by default, extremely violent and sexually explicit... call it the GoT phenomenon.
To be clear, I'm glad that media is no longer bound by the puritanical and often hypocritical FCC standards, and that subscription cable like HBO and streaming networks like Netflix have freedom of expression. But now everything aimed at adults, it seems, is also rated for adults. Where are the emotionally/intellectually mature stories that are also fun and joyous? That there are adults singing along to KPop DH in theaters as the article mentions shows that there's clearly an untapped market here (imagine a similarly bright and flashy movie with catchy music but also a decent plot? How popular could that become!). The article also calls out cozy games and other "childish" things... How much of this is because of arrested development vs a desire to engage with entertainment that isn't a deluge of blood, sex, and misery?
I'm sure some of these people genuinely enjoy their childish media because it's childish, but many are just trying to engage with something bright, cheery, fun, and not reminiscent of the nightmare that is reality.
From The Greatest Estate Developer
In 2003, the mighty Florida orange industry produced 242 million boxes of fruit, with 90 pounds of oranges per box, most of which went on to become orange juice. Now, not even 25 years later, the United States Department of Agriculture was forecasting a pitiful 12 million boxes of oranges, the least in more than 100 years, the worst year since last. A decline of more than 95 percent.
I'd heard things were bad but yikes
inb4 this user reads up on indoor air pollutants
Whenever I see this I think "wow, cool idea, wish we had something like this in the US." And then I think "it's just asking for a discrimination lawsuit so unlikely." And then I think "well we should be making public transit free for everyone anyway." And then I think "until we get our housing affordability and mental health crises resolved, free transit proposals just becomes a fear magnet ("roving homeless shelters!!!" "crime train!!!"). And then I get sad.
Disability protections are generally a great thing, and the US is significantly more accessible than many countries for them, but I've watched a lot of cool, creative ideas get torpedoed because of them. Instead we're stuck with car dominance because "everyone can drive, not everyone can walk/bike/take the bus" (inb4 "wtf that's not remotely true" ... I know, but car brain doesn't).
For sure, I didn't mean to negate your comment (more of a "yes and"). However I do think it is important in these conversations to acknowledge that clover isn't a great option for yards when it comes to supporting pollinators (native or otherwise), just a better one. That said, for folks who have to have a grass yard (for rental agreement, HOA, etc reasons), clover is a great add-in. I prefer the native self-heal myself, but it has similar purple flowers and growth pattern to the invasive creeping charlie, so clover is probably the appealing, stealthier choice of the two in many places.
どく・どく・もり・もり
Doku Doku Mori Mori
Poison Poison Forest Forest
by Segawa Noboru
An English scanlation is available on Mangadex.
Warning: despite the cute character designs, this is a gruesome, violent series. Read at your own discretion.
どく・どく・もり・もり
Doku Doku Mori Mori
Poison Poison Forest Forest
by Segawa Noboru
An English scanlation is available on Mangadex.
Warning: despite the cute character designs, this is a gruesome, violent series. Read at your own discretion.
どく・どく・もり・もり
Doku Doku Mori Mori
Poison Poison Forest Forest
by Segawa Noboru
An English scanlation is available on Mangadex.
Warning: despite the cute character designs, this is a gruesome, violent series. Read at your own discretion.
Dedicated to everyone who woke up today hoping that the fight would continue to escalate, leading to some major tea spillage seriously incriminating one or both parties.
Screenshots of reddit.com/r/all on mobile as it appeared immediately after loading (did not scroll), taken at 12:34 and 12:40 PST; look what suddenly disappeared from the #1 post spot! That's a rather specific "server error"...
I happened to take the first screenshot (12:34) because I thought it was suspicious enough that they were suddenly dealing with an unspecified "error" right as bad news about the site hit the top of r/all. Then a few minutes later (~12:38) the site didn't load at all. A few minutes after that, the bad press post is gone from r/all. If you go to the post now (https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1jl6smd/elon_musk_pressured_reddits_ceo_on_content/), it says "Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/politics" (marked as "off-topic").
I love seeing random instances of vaporwave influence. I stumbled across this example in the sci-fi/fantasy webcomic series Ava's Demon. It's only for two panels and has nothing to do with the plot at all, but I thought it was a neat cameo.
Strangely, in the next season (s4e3) when Data finally meets his dying creator, he never thinks to mention Lal, despite the many dialogue lead-ins about procreation and disappointment over Data's joining Starfleet instead of following in Noonien Soong's cyberneticist footsteps.