V for Vendetta. It has boring villains, an unrelatable, shithead hero, and it spawned that dumb as shit meme of wearing a Guy Fawkes mask at protests.

To make this all even shittier, this woman is deaf because she contracted measles in foster care. There is a pretty good chance she’d be able to hear if she hadn’t been taken from her mother.

Regardless of whether or not dragging “the cops” out of their homes and murdering them is morally defensible, the notion that this would actually accomplish “step 3” is laughable. You don’t have the numbers or the popular support. You would be curbstomped mercilessly, and most of the country would cheer.

I read that as he doesn’t think the arresting officers didn’t beat him up and sever his spine when they arrested him, but rather that it happened inadvertantly, through negligence, during the ride.

This would have been a good place for a follow-up question.

Yeah, Savoranola seems like far and away the best real-world analogue.

Can’t star this enough. Martin’s development of Manderly is probably my favorite instance of my favorite GRRM skill: turning a previously peripheral character important very suddenly, in a clever, carefully plotted way.

In none of those scenarios is the US attacked with nuclear weapons though. I have a hard time envisioning a situation where the US is struck hard enough to warrant a bunker like this, but not so hard that it’s rendered pointless.

The idea of limited nuclear war is precisely what Proxmire was critiquing, and the eventual consensus that limited nuclear war was a pipe dream is what made facilities like this obsolete.

Paper currency is just a proxy and symbol for sovereignty. If the US government survived and maintained a monopoly on the use of violence within its territory, that money would probably still be worth something.

...it would be even more worthless, because gold is heavy as hell.

This was just one piece of providing precisely that. US planners of the 70s and 80s were obsessed with continuity of government in the event of nuclear war. They built a variety of doomsday facilities like this.

Methane carboxylic acid should be the new scary-not-scary chemical of choice. It’s got everything: scary-sounding name, wide use as a “chemical,” and it’s actually pretty bad for you if you somehow manage to ingest it in a 50% or higher solution.

Yeah, it was not at all a bad starter job for a teenager. I was maybe ten minutes walk away too, and the footlong that you could make out of whatever you wanted was a much better deal than something comparable from McDonald’s or wherever. I also ate a shit-ton of cookie dough, since I liked it and nobody was keeping…

We didn’t slice the meat when I was there. Not having freshly-sliced meat is the #1 thing that keeps Subway cheaper than its competitors. Meat you slice that morning has to be used that day, or tossed, and meat is easily the most expensive part of the sandwich itself.

No one has.

There is basically no evidence that azodicarbonamide is dangerous to humans, and the fact that it has non-food industrial applications is basically meaningless. Calcium sulfate is used in the manufacture of both drywall and tofu, salt is used in all kinds of industrial processes. Water is critical to the manufacture…

Yeah, and the tuna salad isn’t “mass produced” either, unless you consider mixing it up in a big bowl the same day “mass production.”

Not in favor of Space-X it wont. Space-X without NASA’s contracts is a vanity project with zero business prospects.

Sincere question from an ignorant person: does HGH actually do anything for you? The claims I’ve seen attached to it make it seem more like a valuable therapeutic drug than a PED.

Or both? One doesn’t preclude the other.