It’s very likely that the Chinese investors will go out of their way to ensure that either the appropriate party members get paid or any potentially offensive material is removed before the movie goes to review. I can’t imagine any Chinese investor would do anything less.

You seriously don’t see the difference between the people in power gaming the system to maintain status quo vs. the people in power trying to level the playing field for others who have historically been mistreated and have the odds against them?

Environmental shit typically becomes a big pool of money for lawyers before anything actually gets done.

One is meant to increase minority participation while the other is meant to decrease it.

If you want your career, you’re not staying away for 5 years.

Thank you, Frances Oldham Kelsey

“Photon rays would flow from ultraviolet searchlights and create a belt of high energy in the sky.”

I mean people may think America is racist and sexist, but the Far East is on a whole different level. I mean they never had civil rights or women’s rights movements. Ever.

Pre-emption. Federal law can explicitly or implicitly pre-empt state law. If it’s explicitly pre-empted, it’s a no brainer. If it’s implicitly pre-empted, there’s a legal “test” that’s been created as a result of caselaw.

Actually, for similar reasons the Trump administration wants to defund PBS:

For similar reasons, the Trump administration will soon be cracking down on commercials depicting Chester Cheeta.

“The researchers compiled microCT scans of 46 aye-aye species” 

46 aye-aye species

I can’t wait for Marvel’s next superhero, the Unbeatable Aye-Aye Girl!

Fuck. Environmental shit typically becomes a big pool of money for lawyers before anything actually gets done. Why do you think legislation called Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) became known as Superfund? The quote from congressmen was something like, “Jesus Christ, CERCLA…

As it always was, so it shall ever be.

How much crap do people have to see before they disavow Trump???? I can’t believe the level of willful ignorance in this country!

... Atlantis. That’s where they drown in their overzealous search for a drought free water based society.

The US Congress continues to be the worst boss in all of human history, owing to the fact their inability to act on climate change threatens to end human history. If this government was run by black Muslims with oil the US would’ve invaded it decades ago, nominally “to save humanity from global warming.” And now these…

We haven’t found aliens because we’re looking for them the wrong way.