In the same way a person could claim they were unlucky if their highly insured spouses kept dying.

Nobody wants that suspicion on them.

Anyone, regardless of party or other policy positions, who commits to sending this asshat to The Hague in January 2029 will get my vote.

Bowling for Soup got it right. High School never ends.

Not a doctor, but I can think of two possibilities:

1. Some vitamins and medications are water soluble, so taking them with water helps make sure it all gets into your system instead of being excreted.

2. 2L isn’t very much for a full day. People are different, but even 2.5L/day is a little low for many healthy adults. This may be their way of getting you to make sure you’re staying hydrated but framing it as a health necessity rather than just a recommendation. Even without the medication, 2L is probably a bare minimum for most people.

Sounds like a fine way to abolish the existing Court, since the constitution is where it gets its power.

IMO, professional soccer in the US is way behind because it’s less TV friendly. No commercial breaks (other than halftime) means less money coming into the sport than more commercialized competition.

At youth levels, it’s one of the most played sports in the country. Then as soccer-playing American kids get further in their “career”, they get pushed toward other sports where more money is. Colleges rake in cash on football and basketball, and lots of these kids play multiple sports until a coach makes them choose.

Peanuts are neither peas, nor nuts. Discuss.

I’m pretty sure she likes me already. Enough to stick around for the last 25+ years, anyway.

I once worked for a CFO who used the word “phenomenal” so much that a drinking game around that word would be classified as a mass casualty event.

I don’t think I could even pick the CEO of my own employer out of a lineup.

There are something like 24 million millionaires in the US, and over 50 million worldwide.

“Famous” is relative, but its safe to say most people have never heard more than a tiny fraction of those names.

I said this when he bought Bond and the Washington Post.

Bezos is basically Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies: billionaire media mogul who manipulates the news to his own ends.

Slight tangent, but Elon Musk is even more like Hugo Drax of Moonraker: foreign-born billionaire who owns a rocket company and is obsessed with repopulating the earth with his own offspring.

It’s easy to set up any number of seemingly impossible situations if you start with the premise of a super entity that can accurately predict the future.

What you’re given is [Ridiculous Assumption] + [Normal Situation] = [Paradox]

But the trick is to quickly gloss over the [Ridiculous Assumption] and frame it as [Normal Situation] = [Paradox]

Other comments give a good tl;dw already, but in case anyone wants a video with pictures and examples, Geography By Geoff has done this topic a few times. Here’s one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqyM54CNSsY

I only get to the theater maybe 5-6 times per year, and that’s almost always with my spouse, so the movie is secondary to the experience.

I do watch a lot on streaming, and between the summary, genre, actors, director, and reviews, both professional and word-of-mouth…I can usually pick out what I will enjoy. If it turns out bad, it’s one button to turn it off.

I will watch good movies, and skip terrible movies. Whether they are in a franchise or not has no bearing on it, for me.

So go ahead and make more. I may see it. I may not. But I’m not going to begrudge anyone who wants to see more of that character no matter what.

Your link doesn’t mention Clinton at all, but starts with this:

Federal law does not allow national referendums in the United States where the general population gets to vote on an issue.

It happens at the State level regularly (in states where it’s used), but it’s not something a President can initiate.

Can you be more specific? The US doesn’t have any mechanism for a national referendum on a specific issue. Usually when people use that term, they’re talking about mid-term elections (and reelection bids) being a “referendum” on a President’s total popularity.

This satan guy sounds like a hoot. I want to see more of that.

Neither is Russia, but the ICC still issued warrants for the arrest of several leaders after they invaded Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_arrest_warrants_for_Russian_leaders

I’d love to see the next Democratic administration just let them take him and all his cronies.

If food were just about cold, hard, logical choices based on nutrition alone, we’d all just eat Soylent Red and Yellow.

People trade long-term detriment for short-term enjoyment all the time.