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Clonus

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  1. Her name is actually "Lunch". https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-fc1bf56d9783ef1de0d84d77d29954dc
  2. Thats because "Antartica" is actually a word that means "There are no bears here"
  3. Desperate X-Wives versus the Toxic Avengers.
  4. The Ultimate Universe Hulk was in fact anthropophagous, created as he was in the Dork Age of comic books.
  5. To explore strange new worldsTo seek out new life and new civilizationsource: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/startreklyrics.html
  6. This is not an artefact of bad translation. Magical Penis Wine is exactly what it sounds like. A rice wine that contains penis, specifically seal, dog and deer penis for the alleged medical benefits thereof. One guess what medical condition it is primarily intended to treat.
  7. There's the other consideration of course. They were asking black people whether it was OK to be white. At least some of them would take it in the really weird way. Which is to say "It's OK for them, the black people to be "white"."
  8. It would be kind of difficult for black people to say they "agree" with a white supremacist slogan even if the sentiment is unobjectionable when taken strictly at face value.
  9. A marvel movie really ought to go to Italy and film a scene near it.
  10. Well they weren't just both dark and edgy, they also had teenage sidekicks dressed in costumes with a lot of yellow and red. Personally I thought it was cheating to fuse three characters into Strangefate.
  11. Did you ever watch the pilot episode for the new Hawaii Five-Oh? In it the governor of Hawaii decides to a create a police unit unhampered by things that get in the way of results. No red tape, no rules, no respect for civil rights. Just kicking ass and naming names. Getting the bad guys no matter what it takes. In short an adolescent power fantasy that only a moron who confuses real life with Mel Gibson movies would think would produce good results if they tried it in real life. Newsflash. People try it in real life. They take the most aggressive cops, give them a badass backronym like SCORPION or STRESS, tell them they’re “elite” even though they actually have no special training just special latitude. They encourage the unit to prioritise maximizing the number of suspects they take down over worrying about proper procedure, put them on constant patrol in the most crime ridden areas, encourage them to think of everyone around them not as people to be protected but enemies to be suppressed and make maximizing their number of busts per week the priority while ignoring the misconduct complaints. And then wait for the inevitable results. Units like these don't just suffer from a lack of transparency and use tactics likely to spawn violence. Their rhetoric attracts "police officers who enjoy being feared," Balko notes, and it positions these officers as both elite and beyond the normal rules. There are all sorts of horror stories about similar units, such as Detroit's STRESS unit ("Over a two-year period, the units killed at least 22 people, almost all of them Black") or Los Angeles' CRASH unit ("More than 70 officers were implicated in planting guns and drug evidence, selling narcotics themselves and shooting and beating people without provocation"). https://reason.com/2023/01/30/the-most-popular-police-reforms-cant-stop-the-next-tyre-nichols-from-being-killed-heres-what-might/
  12. A weapon is no less a weapon because it is being used to kill animals rather than people. But it is true that guns have a secondary use as a toy.
  13. Well Alberta is the Canadian province most influenced by the United States. Still, there's an election coming up in March, and that will be its test. So far Smith hasn't been elected by the public. She's just hijacked a party that was falling apart.
  14. The unelected new premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith's most recent turn of the wheel consisted of promising to pardon everyone who had been convicted of violating Covid restrictions, followed by announcing that she was calling up the prosecutors "regularly" about the cases, but "preserving their independence", explaining that she actually called the Minister and Deputy Minister of Justice rather than the prosecutors themselves, and finally claiming that "many people don't know" that the premier isn't an American governor and has no authority whatsoever to pardon anyone, something that the Minister of Justice apparently explained to her.
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