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Why aren’t there many famous female mime artists?
 
The glass ceiling.
 

Yeah, you creatively come up with 200 new villains per year for 60 years and creatively try to keep your comic book world from seeming like a huge joke of idiots donning a costume for the express purpose of shortly thereafter dying at the hands of "heroes".
 
 
 

Every year, hundreds of children are shipped off to mime school...
never to be heard from again.

Look at it as a feature, not a bug.
 
The big two comic companies print between 20-25 titles per year at 12 issues each per year. Plus there's assorted annuals and one-shots. That creates a huge need for villains to grace those pages. 
 
If the villains die, full stop, rather than being left for dead and miraculously reappearing later, the writers have to come up with a constant stream of new villains.
 
And the audience would become conditioned to not get attached to the villains because the villain would get killed off after a few of appearances. And there could be no "redemption" arcs for those characters nor any chance for them to sink further into whatever madness drove them to become a villain in the first place.
 
Movie supervillains can be killed off because even at a frenetic pace of churning out new movies, there's at most three movies per big comic book company per year (as opposed to 260 comic books minimum per year).

Seen in passing today:
 
a mask will take away your freedom but so will a casket.

Yeah, you creatively come up with 200 new villains per year for 60 years and creatively try to keep your comic book world from seeming like a huge joke of idiots donning a costume for the express purpose of shortly thereafter dying at the hands of "heroes".
 
 
 

Seen in passing today:
 
a mask will take away your freedom but so will a casket.

Yeah, you creatively come up with 200 new villains per year for 60 years and creatively try to keep your comic book world from seeming like a huge joke of idiots donning a costume for the express purpose of shortly thereafter dying at the hands of "heroes".
 
 
 

Do the Bronco's have a competent enough offensive line to ensure the starter is likely to make it all the way through the first regular season game?
 
Asking for a bookie...I mean, a friend.

What are you spending the year doing?
 
If you were to spend the next year doing what we've been doing the past year, which was pretty much nothing, then waiting another year wouldn't have accomplished a thing other than letting a large number of people continue living for another year.
 
On the other hand, if we spent the next year arranging permanent places of refuge internationally for women and girls who wanted to get out...
 
Arranging for teachers and journalists to get out...
 
And above all, arranging for the translators (and their families) who've been helping our military, journalists, and charities to be able to function in the country to get out (as our government had promised to do for them), in that case, another year could have made a tremendous difference over the long run.
 
Right now, the 500 members of the Afghan military who are still working with us inside the Kabul airport haven't even been guaranteed a seat on one of the evacuation flights, much less all of the people who are stranded at various places outside the airport gates, inside Kabul, and across the country.
 
Heck, forget about another year. What if that effort had been made just from inauguration day through today, how many thousands or hundreds of thousands would we not be worrying about right now?

A man accused of helping to coordinate a self-styled militia’s incursion into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was released Monday to home confinement after arguing his wife would keep him from falling back into extremist views.
 
“She has no tolerance for that kind of talk,” federal public defender Angie Halim said.
 
Only after a federal judge agreed to release Joseph Hackett did a prosecutor mention that his wife, Deena, hosted a political podcast. While the prosecutor did not describe the show’s content, a Deena Hackett co-hosted two episodes of a podcast called “A&D’s Patriot Battle Cry (Rub THAT In!!)” in which she described her husband as a “political prisoner” who was “trying to preserve … this country.” The podcast also includes references to far-right conspiracy theories.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oath-keeper-wins-release-from-jail-after-lawyer-says-he-is-no-longer-radicalized/ar-AANEl7k
 
 
That's a novel legal defense for the Trumpsters to try....

There's a marked difference between "some innocents dying" and someone made choices so that the result would be that "some innocents died" plus "your friends died" plus "the guy who saved your life, repeatedly, died".
 
The first is a tragedy. The second is a very, very personalized tragedy.
 
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Also note there's a difference between "personal" and "personalized". "Personal" is that it means something to you.
 
"Personalized" is that someone intentionally did this so that it means something to you.
 
Innocents die in the Kobiyashi Maru, it's a test of character.
 
Failing the Kobiyashi Maru so spectacularly that you personalize the tragedy for the cadets under your command and vigorously defending your very flawed decisions without apparently learning anything from them would be an unforgivable flaw in a command candidate.
 
Finding that unforgivable flaw before you make the mistake of giving that person command is the apparent reason, in-universe, that test is given toward the end of the cadet's command training rather than at the beginning
 
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Unfortunately we don't live in Star Trek. And Trump's host of flaws outweighs Biden's, even at this point, by several orders of magnitude.

Thanks. I sometimes come up with awesome ideas.
 
Figuring out how to lead the PC's into being able to solve the mystery, unfortunately, is the tough part.
 
They all tend to turn out like:
 
Investigator #1: "So Mr. Green did it in the Conservatory with Ms. Scarlet."
 
Investigator #2: "Okay but the subject is trying to figure out who committed the murder, not figuring out who did it with who." 

IBC Root Beer was wildly popular at my dad's college (he went back to do college after I was an adult).
 
Of course, that might have been because the college's initials were IBC....
 
 
 

What are you spending the year doing?
 
If you were to spend the next year doing what we've been doing the past year, which was pretty much nothing, then waiting another year wouldn't have accomplished a thing other than letting a large number of people continue living for another year.
 
On the other hand, if we spent the next year arranging permanent places of refuge internationally for women and girls who wanted to get out...
 
Arranging for teachers and journalists to get out...
 
And above all, arranging for the translators (and their families) who've been helping our military, journalists, and charities to be able to function in the country to get out (as our government had promised to do for them), in that case, another year could have made a tremendous difference over the long run.
 
Right now, the 500 members of the Afghan military who are still working with us inside the Kabul airport haven't even been guaranteed a seat on one of the evacuation flights, much less all of the people who are stranded at various places outside the airport gates, inside Kabul, and across the country.
 
Heck, forget about another year. What if that effort had been made just from inauguration day through today, how many thousands or hundreds of thousands would we not be worrying about right now?

If anyone can buy a spell that can do most anything, that's going to make a hash out of figuring out murder mysteries and other whodunnits.
 
For all the adventurer's know, the murderer's great-great-grandfather could have bought the spell which did the deed over a century ago and it's been sitting forgotten in a trunk in an upstairs attic.

What are you spending the year doing?
 
If you were to spend the next year doing what we've been doing the past year, which was pretty much nothing, then waiting another year wouldn't have accomplished a thing other than letting a large number of people continue living for another year.
 
On the other hand, if we spent the next year arranging permanent places of refuge internationally for women and girls who wanted to get out...
 
Arranging for teachers and journalists to get out...
 
And above all, arranging for the translators (and their families) who've been helping our military, journalists, and charities to be able to function in the country to get out (as our government had promised to do for them), in that case, another year could have made a tremendous difference over the long run.
 
Right now, the 500 members of the Afghan military who are still working with us inside the Kabul airport haven't even been guaranteed a seat on one of the evacuation flights, much less all of the people who are stranded at various places outside the airport gates, inside Kabul, and across the country.
 
Heck, forget about another year. What if that effort had been made just from inauguration day through today, how many thousands or hundreds of thousands would we not be worrying about right now?

I found long ago that the temperature at which it was served mattered more to me than the brand for nearly all colas, until you get to some really odd (and mostly non-US) brands.  I more or less always preferred what was coldest.  If they're all at the same temperature (i.e. from the same cooler) then I have preferences, but temperature and price are more important to me than brand, for the most part.  That's for bottled stuff.  Stuff out of a fountain, sometimes there's misadjustments in a fountain that will color my preferences, but that's almost impossible to know ahead of time unless it's a place you go to frequently.

Sometimes less is more. For example:
 
"My wife works at one of the top companies in the world."
 
vs
 
"My wife works at one of the topless companies in the world."
 

Hospitals in North Texas have "quietly developed" a plan to allow doctors to take vaccination status into account when deciding how to triage intensive-care beds if the coronavirus pandemic overwhelms ICUs.
 
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-hospitals/
 
So basically the plan is that in North Texas if two patients need an ICU bed and only one bed is available (like is happening in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and perhaps elsewhere), the person who got vaccinated will get the bed.
 
I have to say that sounds 100% fair to me: the more responsible person gets the bed and the irresponsible person doesn't.

I thought that was sad and lazy storytelling.
 
The pirates could almost have been doable since if he convinced Yondu, the rest would follow the captain as long as they got paid on a regular basis.
 
But Thanos?
 
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I thought that was sad and lazy storytelling.
 
The pirates could almost have been doable since if he convinced Yondu, the rest would follow the captain as long as they got paid on a regular basis.
 
But Thanos?
 
> gag <

Hospitals in North Texas have "quietly developed" a plan to allow doctors to take vaccination status into account when deciding how to triage intensive-care beds if the coronavirus pandemic overwhelms ICUs.
 
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-hospitals/
 
So basically the plan is that in North Texas if two patients need an ICU bed and only one bed is available (like is happening in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and perhaps elsewhere), the person who got vaccinated will get the bed.
 
I have to say that sounds 100% fair to me: the more responsible person gets the bed and the irresponsible person doesn't.

She is saying that she can't discuss it in the insane amount of detail you're demanding without taking the discussion to the political forum.
 
(My choice of the word "insane" was not a choice which was made lightly.)