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I don't know the rules around that. Got the impression it were a bit of a barrier. In any case, that's not really what I was talking about. I was talking about how consequences might act as an incentive against future shenanigans.

Just gonna come back to this one. Personally I think, long term, the best thing for most people would be Trump in prison. I think it would be best if he saw some serious consequences, because the more time goes by without consequences for his actions, the more it seems like a good idea for someone to try it again.

Just finished Ms Marvel. The show took a couple episodes to really get going for me, but once it did I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some obvious nods to Kamala's original powers from the comic book that might make those who are annoyed about the change of powers slightly less annoyed. The finale in particular was quite strong, IMO. I'm not entirely the target demographic, (except that I'm in the demographic of 'unabashed MCU fan who will watch absolutely anything and everything they release connected to it for the rest of my life') so younger fans, and fans from Asian immigrant backgrounds, might get even more out of it than I did.

If he had a devoted enough cult, maybe he would've tried to hang on a little harder.

Baymax!, while only being about 40 minutes total in length, (like, 7ish minute episodes?) is quite charming and heartwarming. I liked it, and if you've got Disney+, heck, may as well try out the first episode.

Thought the main point was to criticise the graph and its labels.

I just watched episode one of The Lazarus Project. To caveat: I love time loops and I will watch anything and everything if it contains a time loop, including some dumb Hallmark movie called the 12 Dates of Christmas which I maintain was good because it had a time loop even if there are a bunch of things obviously wrong with it, like being a very predictable Hallmark movie. With that caveat out of the way, The Lazarus Project seems very good so far. The time loop mechanism, while not explicitly laid out exactly how it works, is not the mystery it is in some time loop media, but there's still a degree of mystery as to when it will kick in, and what the flow on effects will be. Has shot up to number 2 on my personal list of 2022's best shows, just behind Moon Knight and in front of Obi Wan Kenobi. (It's entirely possible and even likely that Obi Wan will drop further, because Ms Marvel seems to be heating up, and Only Murders in the Building season 2 is about to start. I'm not certain I see either of them overtaking The Lazarus Project, though, unless that takes a steep dive after episode 1.)

So are you just gonna name every single demographic and say 'we better keep an eye on them'?

Kinda seems odd to single out the BLM marches as being a problem if it's just that there's a non zero number of criminals in their number like literally every other demographic on earth.

Interesting you should mention the BLM protests; I am aware that there was a lot of press around them that made them out to be one step away from re-enacting Mad Max. However, the research suggests otherwise. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/black-lives-matter-protesters-were-overwhelmingly-peaceful-our-research-finds "When there was violence, very often police or counterprotesters were reportedly directing it at the protesters." "...most of the violence that did take place was, in fact, directed against the BLM protesters." One can only speculate why news coverage of these events might have led people to believe that BLM protesters were a bunch of lawless ne'er-do-wells. EDIT: While I'm here, some Australia election news! One of the minor downsides of having one of the better voting systems is that the votes can take a long time to count. We finally have the first senate results - in ACT and NT - and ACT officially have created history in two ways: David Po****(oh dang it they're still censoring the one that means rooster, ey? Gotta sort your word filter out Obsidz) (Born in Zimbabwe, ex Australian Rugby Union captain, captaincy cut short after he was arrested for chaining himself to a coal digger in protest) has officially won a seat in the ACT senate, marking: The first ever Independent senator in the ACT The first time since the introduction of preferential voting that one of the two major parties has been completely voted out of a state or territory. Get rekt, LNP.

Can't view that video in my location so I'll go ahead and assume it's a big nothing burger.

I think she's simply using troglodyte as a synonym for 'living under a rock'. Not 'lesser ethnicity' or whatever else you're trying to read into that.

The ones with Milla Jovovich murdering zombies are all they need to be tbh

EDIT: dammit, posting from another page makes it not show up

I dunno maybe a section of a story involving a character can stand on its own regardless of how you feel about a later story about that character. It's all fiction, just pretend the other stuff isn't canon if it really bothers you that much.

Wow there are way too many posts about a brief camera shake in the flashback section of the first of two forty minute episodes. I didn't notice it and I intend to continue not noticing dumb minutiae like that.

Yes. We should all accept minor inconveniences to our own ability to own a largely unnecessary tool of death if it might mean people's children don't die. It is not remotely complicated, anyone who thinks their rights to unrestricted access to unlimited firearms is too important to try to take action against gun violence is a garbage human being.

It's impossible to know for sure that it can't work because they've never tried it. You might not be able to stop 100% of people getting guns, but it's laughable to suggest that every single one of the teenagers who committed a mass shooting with a gun bought by their mother or their father or aunt or uncle or whatever would definitely have the black market contacts to get a gun. Too many of the arguments against gun control boil down to 'it's not possible to 100% guarantee no one gets murdered anymore so we can't try to take any action', and that's absolute garbage. Road safety laws don't completely eliminate road fatalities, but we don't just throw our hands up and say 'rules don't work, drive how you want!'

Guns. They've got guns in common. Yes, shootings are just one symptom of a bunch of problems in USA's society, but it would be much more difficult to express those problems in a violent killing spree if access to guns was more tightly controlled. Just give it a try, at this point the USA has tried nothing and they're out of ideas.

ABC website seems to think Green are likelyish for four house seats? Brisbane, Griffith, Melbourne, Ryan. And 12 senate seats.

Looks like we've got a higher than usual number of Greens and Independents. I'm happy with the result. Could've done with even more Greens and Independents, but overall I'm pretty positive about the weekend.

I voted on the weekend. Really thought early voting would let me skip the people handing out how to vote cards, but nope, still a few of them. Not much of a queue, though.

It's a nonsense dogwhistle on par with 'it's OK to be white' or 'all lives matter'. Israel is not currently the state in danger of being genocided. Palestine is. By Israel.

Interestingly the way you've phrased the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Palestine targets civilian buildings and houses 'as a strategy', whereas Israel merely 'overreacts' and civilians 'get killed'. Good use of the passive voice so it's hardly like Israel did it, the civilians got in the way. It's also weird that you should criticise Hamas 'not recognising Israel has a right to exist' when it is Israel that is occupying Palestine, not the other way around. Should Ukraine officially declare Russia has a right to exist?

I saw Everything Everywhere All at Once semi recently and I'm making the early call that it's the best movie of the year. Oscillates between absurd, disgusting, hilarious and heartfelt, and somehow makes it work. Great work from all the cast.