or with parental consent.

Eww, that line tells you all you need to know about this guy. And the fact that this is actually legal in some states is disturbing.

The solution to this is simple. She just needs to ask him to play a porn character of a cop. Then she'd get the performance she was hoping for. Just be careful to be specific so he doesn't end up play a porn actor playing a cop, because then he'd be asking an imaginary director about his blocking, accidentally forgetting his lines, and requesting to cut and start the shot over.

The whole point of making a costly sequel is it can’t be a total disaster. If nothing else, “Joker: Folie à Deux” proved that is not the case.

Well, if studios can accept that sequels and remakes actually aren't immune from being flops, maybe they will be more open to considering new ideas? I won't get my hopes up, but it's a nice thought.

They don't need to take any notes. Child marriage is legal and still happening in many US states. And you guessed it, it's Replicans who defend those laws, by invoking "family values".

It's horrible that they plan to change the law to allow that to happen over there, but we here in the US aren't in any position to feel morally superior about it till we finally ban it ourselves.

No, this is extremely atypical US imperialism. That's why the world finds it so shocking. Typical US imperialism is quietly redirecting food aid to support a more US friendly leader taking power, and slipping some arms shipments in as well. Our typical imperialism included strong-arming other world leaders, but only in closed door meetings, followed by shaking hands and smiling with them for the cameras. It was subtly reminding allies that they rely on our militarily might for safety from their more aggressive neighbors, so they owe us support on a global issue. And yes, the more heinous stuff, like assassinations, bribery, supporting coups, and etc. All stuff that's plausibly deniable, or given a veneer of legitimacy, or just kept unnoticed. By the time any of the awfulness shows through, it's old news, everyone's attention has moved on to elsewhere.

Trump is destroying or fucking up at all of that. He's taken all the winning hands the US has carefully built up and banked over many years, and thrown them in the trash. Following that, his meeting with Zelensky caught global attention by being blatantly naked imperialism running down the street babbling incoherently. If you're an enemy of the US, or just someone who's sick of our shit, you may want to celebrate, because we are currently watching American hegemony disintegrate in real time.

I've occasionally seen it activate itself on computers with only a local account, though I've so far only seen it when upgrading in place to 11 with secure boot enabled in the BIOS, and not every time. Fortunately the one time it locked me out was on a freshly cloned drive, so it only cost me redoing the work.

Also, the number of people who I've seen lose all their data because they don't even know they created an MS account during OOBE, and later had a boot or BIOS hiccup, is too damn high!

I can't help but think of this from the wizard's point of view as a 4chan green text.

be me, an edgy young wizard. Want to pick a really cool wizard name and come up with "Charles LeSorcier."

mfw the older wizards all make fun of my name.

get in an argument with a local noble and lose my temper. claim I put a curse on his whole family line that they will each die when they are 30.

remember I haven't learned how to do it. go home and try to figure out how to cast a blood line curse. it's too complicated, I can't figure it out. Can't ask the other wizards now because they already heard about the curse and they'd just make fun of me more.

make a secret lab in the noble's basement and spend the next 10 years stuck there trying to figure it out. still fail. time's up, he turned 30. if the noble doesn't die they'll all know I lied. finally give up and just sneak into his house and murder him. make it look like an accident.

mfw the other wizards fall for it. they all think I'm alright now. maybe they will forget about the bloodline thing by the time the noble's kid is 30.

the bloodline thing is all they want to talk about. 18 years later I have to murder the next one. the other wizards are super hyped I pulled it off, want to be my friend now. none of them know how to cast a bloodline curse either.

mfw I'm stuck for the next few centuries hiding in a noble's basement and murdering them every couple decades to cover my lie.

Not so much a lie as speaking from a very twisted point of view. From his perspective, making more money is the only kind of positive change. As the CEO who oversaw the highest denial rate in the industry, Thompson's leadership would of course be seen as positive by his fellow executives.

I'm imagining that his wife will never hear the end of it. "See honey, and you said I didn't need to carry two guns around all the time. Well look who was right about that."

U.S.: Please don't attack Taiwan.

China: You're trying to reverse psychology me into attacking, but I won't be fooled.

U.S.: Oh, good. So, you agree not to attack Taiwan?

China: I will if I want to and it's none of your business.

I can't remember who it was, but I saw a comedy routine where the guy described a conversation he had with his financial advisor. The advisor asked him "What does financial stability mean to you?" The comedian, having just recently started earning real money from comedy for the first time, had never even considered such a question before and had to ponder on it for a moment. Finally he thought up an answer. "What financial stability means to me is when I'm ordering food and they ask if I want to add guacamole, I don't have to think about it, I can just say yes."

That line really stuck with me, and I have found it to be an accurate indicator of my own financial stability. Only works if you actually like guac though.

I'll just repeat someone else's idea I saw elsewhere on Lemmy. She and Walz should challenge Trump and Vance to a marksmanship contest down at the gun range. He'd never go for it, but the image is hilarious. Admittedly, it would lose Harris some support from her base, but it would lose Trump a lot more from his to see him being shown up in such a visible way on one of his base's favorite topics. Harris has stated that she is a gun owner, and you know she's the type to take safety and skill training before she ever bought one, while on the other hand, if pansy-ass Trump has ever handled a live firearm in his life I will eat my hat. Both VP candidates have military training, but I'd still expect a pretty big skill gap between a decorated career infantry NCO and a newspaper staffer in a uniform.

"Hey George, like and comment on my videos again."

"Sure, Lenny, I'm gonna write a real nice comment on your latest video right now." *sniffle*

They won't be expecting it, so that's exactly what I plan to do. And don't call me Shirley.

Unironically, yes, that is a decent summary of the situation. I mean your last bullet wasn't in the article and is somewhat subjective, but...

Well, the provided image of the suspect is going to be unhelpful to their investigation. I've seen less blurry shots of sasquatch. Why did they even bother releasing it?

Actually, now that I think on it maybe the shooter was some sort of cryptid...

If the government can disappear one person without due process, then they can disappear any person without due process.

Took me a minute, but it's comparing the story to observed hermit crab behavior.

TeChNiCaLlY, unless I missed something big, he wasn't convicted of the rape. That requires a criminal trial. A jury did find that he raped her as a material fact in a civil trial, so we can say with legal certainty that it happened, but until an actual conviction, it will be used as a excuse to avoid holding him to account for it. Of course a bunch of the right are the type to blame the victim or wave it off entirely for that particular crime anyway so I don't know how much difference even a conviction would make to them.

My sister works in real estate, and she was asked by a Realtor she works with what the law was on disclosure for a house the seller said was haunted. In most US states, it's legally required to disclose any material fact about known issues with the property, though how it's worded and what that includes varies from state to state. She had to look it up, and in North Carolina, haunted is not a required disclosure, though it is in some states. I joked that haunting should count as an "immaterial" fact.

She was laughing about the whole thing until she went by the house herself to make sure everything was ready for the photographer. She heard a noise in the basement and checked. There was an old black man dusting the shelves. She mentioned she wasn't expecting anyone to be there. He was very polite and explained that he took care of the house, and not to worry, he'd stay out of the way. She went upstairs to let in the photographer. When she went back in the basement there was no sign of the man, even though the only way out was past her. She looked around the whole house for him before she locked up but he was gone. She asked the seller about it, who casually explained that that was just old Terrence, who had taken care of the property for her grandmother, and had died many years ago. Since then, he just sort of appeared around the house occasionally, "tidying up." (I'm writing this from memory, so some details are probably wrong, especially the name, but it's the gist of story as she told it.)

They did not mention any of this to the buyer, and don't know if they ever experienced anything as they never contacted them about it.