Aesculapius

Watch him be the one that starts the electoral schism of the Republican party

Especially if it’s a cock ring

Why stop at 7? There are so many more good ones:

• Mad Max
• The Running Man
• Dark Tower (Steven King books)
• 1984 (book)
• Soylent Green
• Elysium
• District 9
• Robocop
• Altered Carbon

Be sure to drink your ovaltine

Here is the correct quote from Winston Churchill: “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”
Also, conservatism in Churchill’s era is absolutely NOT what conservatism is now.

Most tests had their expiration dates extended.

Deep cut! I first heard of and saw that show in college. It’s great!

You are correct. But what Austin Powers was referencing was this scene from The Prisoner. Top notch 60’s TV!

History major here. Man, this one hurts.

Alcohol

• physically addictive
• one of the only substances to have fatal withdrawal
• implicated in numerous deaths (due to intoxication)
• harms pregnancy
• can cause heart issues, neurological issues, liver damage, etc.
• not a scheduled DEA substance

Marijuana

• none of the above (effects on pregnancy can include low birth weight and preterm labor - evidence is mixed. Certainly nothing close to the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome).
• currently a schedule 1 substance

It should be descheduled completely.

Edit: updated pregnancy info

There were many senior leaders on the flight: Prigozhin, Utkin (early founder, commander), Chekalov (economic & security leader), Makaryan, Propustin, Totmin, Matuseev (all various commanders). While this seems super dumb to have all these folks on the same flight at the same time, apparently they were. With this much senior leadership now suddenly gone, the Wagner group may be struggling to get their own house in order before they can take organizational action.

Do the police compare DNA to genealogy databases? The odds the person used one is low, but maybe a family member?

I am also waiting to see what comes of the difference in memory sizes between Cleon I and the clones. What is being edited out of their memories? Is Demerzel the caretaker of this (assuming this was Cleon I’s design). Or, is Demerzel playing the long game. I suspect she may be behind the genetic tainting of the line and perhaps even the assassination attempt.

Tellem and the Emporer are not dissimilar when it comes to the ruthless way they are enacting their vision. This is reflected in the hand gesture that Tellem Bond uses to incapacitate Salvor (not sure it actually killed her). Almost identical to how Empire gives the command to execute someone.

Grifters gunna grift

I agree. Fundamentally, these folks that support him now are not doing well. It’s not the same for everyone. Some are feeling disenfranchised from parts of daily life, some are experiencing undesired change, some are terribly unhappy and don’t know where to point their frustration, etc. Trump isn’t a likely cult leader. He isn’t very charismatic like we normally associate cult leaders. But he came with the right message at the right time and for a very large segment of our population, that message made sense to them. It gave them a REASON for how they were feeling, even if they didn’t understand their own feelings in the first place.

When the day comes that the spell is broken, society must be ready to re-engage with these people in a meaningful way. Otherwise we are doomed to repeat it with the next person to show up and given them another reason.

For those wondering about nuclear options, Wired did a nice write up recently.

So, my understanding is that we were able to determine the magnetic strength of the star due to the level of polarization (i.e. faraday effect) of the light. The article goes onto say that it is difficult to detect these types of stars because most of them are not in a binary system. The article isn’t clear, but does this mean that they could only make this measurement with the light from the binary? Otherwise, why wouldn’t we measure the circular polarization of all stars?

Good! Providing a cheap service at the cost of the staff doing the work is not acceptable.

This is all just grandstanding anyway. They may leave, but likely they will just increase their rates.