The parties and media companies have extended the campaign window for presidency to absurd lengths. It’s essentially a two year campaign window with 6-12 months of preparation and testing the waters. Now is when candidates are conducting research to see what their odds would be.

It’s going to be a common trend the closer we get to election day, the more Republicans will want trump to shut up for 5 minutes.

You can hate him as a person, but his ability to maintain a cult of personality is impressive.

I doubt that’s the reason. Vance doesn’t have the skills or the personality to be president. I’d expect to see him impeached more than win an election.

Iirc it’s the main ingredients in a draino bomb.

If you have a mild clog it’s probably worth trying it according to the directions. If it’s severe, just call a plumber. If you don’t have a clog, then just keep it under a sink or something.

If you are feeling adventurous, get some aluminum foil.

Jury nullification is a byproduct of a couple other rules.

• jury verdicts can’t be appealed based on outcomes
• double jeopardy isn’t allowed
• jurors can’t be held responsible for verdicts

This means that if a jury returns not guilty, it’s over, which is what allows jury nullification. It’s not brought up because it’s technically a subversion of the process. It also has historically been problematic, and got people guilty of lynching off. The preferred alternative is an affirmative defense.

Juries are given very detailed instructions that are agreed upon by both sides and the judge. How these are worded is generally as critical as any testimony during the trial. These instructions generally a sort of flowchart of questions that determines the verdict. Jury nullification requires explicitly ignoring those instructions.

It wasn’t nullification. It was good to lawyering to have the instructions be specific about requiring the act to be forceable which requires a risk of harm. The argument was entirely a wrapped sandwich isn’t a threat to an armored officer.

Solo is solidly the worst thing Disney has done to star wars. Rogue one is middle of the pack.

Most writers being male doesn’t mean that women have to be terrible characters. Shit writers are just shit, and Disney hasn’t bothered with finding quality writers in a very long time.

Rogue one is one of the most boring movies ever made that ends with one of the greatest action sequences ever made.

The resistance was not on their back foot, they were fucking dead. It was 30 some people and the Falcon by the end of TLJ.

Kylo makes a terrible villain for the big bad. He already lost to Rey in the first movie even if weakened. He failed to turn Rey with his big join me speech in TLJ, and he gets embarrassed by ghost Luke. There’s nothing scary about someone who’s been throwing temper tantrums for basically two entire movies. Secondly, there was now way he wasn’t going to end up being good, Disney wasn’t going to greenlight a conclusion with him being evil.

Rey made peace with her past and admitted it didn’t matter, there’s nothing to explore there without the retcon Rise did. She also had multiple defining moments of choosing the light, basing a movie on yet another time is stupid.

Other force sensitive people is a meaningless thing to base the conclusion of a trilogy on. Elmer Sleazebaggano son of Elan appearing and being the big good or bad out of nowhere is just as bad as Palpatine. You could do something with an established character becoming force sensitive, but they butchered that anyway.

Leia even if Fisher hadn’t passed couldn’t be the main plot. Sure she could be a source of help or counsel for Rey, but that’s about it. If Leia became the hero of the resistance like she was for the rebellion by using the force and welding a lightsaber it just begs the question why she didn’t bother at any point in the last 20 years before everyone was dead. It also doesn’t work with Disney’s need to sunset the established character is and bring out the new heroes of the galaxy.

It’s not about comparing the feelings of empire or the beat for beat replay. It’s about comparing the narrative and where it was at that point in the story. Empire left room for growth, there were new questions to answer, TLJ didn’t.

• The rebels were scattered after Hoth, but most the ships were able to escape. This lets the following movie have the option of gathering on or off screen. TLJ left almost none alive, the next movie needs to invent new people.
• The main characters were thoroughly beaten by the bad guy. This provides something for them to overcome in the next movie. TLJ ended with Rey succeeding, the first order is now 0-2 at being the big bad guy.
• Luke had to process his father being Vader, Han needed rescue, and Leia wanted to rescue him. Rey, Poe, and Finn were all happily on the Falcon.
• you had the seeds of romance in both. The problem with Reylo was Ren couldn’t be the big bad and the love interest or the movie just ends with him telling the first order to stop once he acknowledged his love. You also had Rose and Finn, but that was one sided as he was obsessed with Rey the whole movie.

The dialog has ranged from acceptable to dog shit. The plot and story beats are pretty solid. The new movies contradict themselves within the same scene sometimes.

I think the initial goal of top level domains having any real meaning is dead.

You will notice your body slowing down soon. It might not be the second you turn 30, but almost definitely by 32.

Playing a giant melee on super Smash Brothers Melee with super mushrooms on high spawn while using the biggest characters on the game and watch level is fun. I think it breaks the core game enough to qualify as unintended.

If you want kids there’s a few things to consider.

1. Graduate highschool then get married before kids.
2. Kids are physically easier when you’re younger.
3. No one is ever really ready for kids, but you should have some level of financial stability and be prepared to have significantly less freedom.

Be purposeful in what you spend money on. You don’t need the best of everything, especially when starting a new hobby. You can find someone spending absurd amounts on anything, but no one can do that on everything.

I don’t have the time anymore, the price isn’t really the factor. Anything new has to compete with my existing library and backlog, and other things on my wishlist. It’s a problem that’s only going to get worse, games aren’t really aging out of relevance at the rate they used to.

That’s equally hypothetical, winning the ~36 smallest states by a single vote and getting no other votes.

The system is fine, the cap is too small, but that could be fixed, and much more easily than making a new system.