Droughts. Floods. Violent, powerful storms. Vanishing coastal regions. And this is just the beginning of the beginning.

If an Iranian-American, or a Chinese-American, with public ties the government of Iran or China, was found to have brought home nuclear secrets, do you know what would happen? Espionage charges in 60 seconds or less, maybe even treason charges. Probably accompanied by a trip to Guantanamo, never to be seen or heard…

Because it *HAS* to be asked at this point anytime Marvel properties comes up: were these iterations before or after the project had been contracted out to VFX studios, with Disney strong-arming studios (and the employees) into increasingly exploitative and abusive working conditions as a result??

“You’ve depleted all of your ‘armed services energy’ for the day. Subscribe to our premium tier for more or purchase more from our in-app store.”

Everything I’ve seen him in, he’s always a delight, whether he’s playing to people’s expectations of him, subverting those expectations, or completely blowing them out of the water (in this case).

So, does that mean Unity rejected the $ 17.5b merger bid from ironSource, a ‘fine’ purveyor of mobile ads and microtransaction apps? Or will the next headline on this read: The US Military — now with microtransactions and in-app ads that *totally* don’t track users and data scrape!

Funny how white people think assuming not-white people might act in a ‘racist, anti-white’ manner is fine, but black people assuming cops can’t be trusted is wrong. To which I ask — of these two ‘assumptions’ which has the most supporting evidence?

So, because the police were just ‘doing their jobs’ here, they’re going to do their due diligence now and track down who filed the original false report and arrest the individual for filing that false police report, but also attempted murder, right?? (because lethal force is always a real possibility in any situation…

Deranged and Delusional: How the Republican Party is Destroying Civilized Society and the World for Fun and Profit.

It’s cute that you think your data isn’t being harvested anyway...

I got a kick out of how the Predator’s methods of hunting changed based on what it was hunting. Hand-to-hand combat against animals gave way to basic projectile weapons against bows and arrows and then advanced explosives and the when firearms entered the mix — “I’ll fight you on your terms. Sort of.”

It would help if the *rest* of Hollywood, enjoying the protections and privileges of their union, would step in and force the issue for the unsung heroes who are literally 1/2 the reason people come to see movies or stream these shows.

Plus they are working on AI to replace the artists so there’s that.

I remember reading the writing on the wall some 20+ years ago in college. If a big studio like Skywalker Ranch was treating its artists like slaves, the rest of the industry was only a half-step behind them (at most), spiraling the whole career into a shithole in capitalism race to the bottom.

It’s how Adobe became the industry giant it is today — start at the educational-level of an industry’s employee pipeline, building out a huge base of users and experts, long before they ever enter the work world, creating a defacto monopoly on skillsets, knowledge bases, and talents. And since everybody already knows…

Dragon species (1/2 of the the franchise’s namesake) in D&D are unique(ish) in color, further broken down into ‘color-variant’ subsets of general alignment, too — flat, gemstone, metallic.

Those who want individual-shop unions are living in a fantasy and are part of the problem. The ‘shops’ don’t have enough power for their union efforts to matter. The whole industry, all at once, needs to unionize for the power balance between IP conglomerates, like Disney, and VFX studios to change. Anything less than…

But it doesn’t mean that removing policy making powers from police departments aren’t a good idea.

While all of this is true, there’s a difference between a close approximation of what colors human eyes would see, and the colorization techniques being used by Webb, Hubble, and other non-visible-spectrum imaging systems.

That whooshing sound you heard is the point going over your head. I mean, your misplaced optimism is almost as bad as that of all the police apologists who let society get to this point.