I’m meh on Affleck as an actor. I think he’s a legitimately solid writer and director. His marriage stuff is between him, his wife and their lawyers.

The behavior detailed in this article goes beyond that as far as I’m concerned.

“I choose to stand with the ridiculed, the insulted, the belittled.”

Exeter, those types of tests and screening are most of what Planned Parenthood does. Not abortions.

*shrug* I really like mechs. :)

That clip above was pretty happy and effusive for Belichick. When he’s genuinely bored or angry...

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The former is almost completely out of any President’s control. The latter is certainly nothing the Republicans are going to fix.

Skirt? Wha? The mech is the business.

Someone will die because their phone was locked up during some unforeseen in-car emergency.

Learning a character in one match, no. Adjusting to tweaks to a character you already know well in a match or two is pretty reasonable.

The only character I’d say was “overhauled” is Symmetra. All the other stuff you mentioned seems pretty minor and easily learned in a match or two. You’d haaaate most MOBAs, characters and items get tweaked like this all the time.

How much money do the studios lose when they spend 100 million+ on movies with absolutely horrifically bad scripts? And screenplay structures that make no sense? With plot holes 7 year olds can immediately see?

None of what happened there had to do with the properties of a warming drawer.

He was blocked by Congress (for deeply stupid and partisan reasons).

I get what you’re saying, I just disagree. Language does evolve, but there’s also just a lot of flat misuse of language. The misuse being common doesn’t make it correct, at least not, IMO, until it becomes nearly universal. For example “Begging the question” is misused constantly. And I’ll probably die before I…

I’m not worried about video games directly. The Red Cross can’t afford to leave video games alone, because if they do, other entities can use that as evidence for continuing their usage of the symbol.

The use of the Caduceus symbol is not universal even in the United States, and as you note, absolutely not internationally. Many medical outfits use the proper symbol (The American Medical Association, for example). It’s mistake, it’s just a moderately old mistake.

The problem is when some entity or commercial enterprise with a political bent or which employs problematic practices starts using the symbol, and endangers actual Red Cross workers in some sensitive situation like a war zone. This isn’t some silliness like protecting “Happy Birthday”.

By the way, you’re making a very common mistake, one even actual medical outfits sometimes make. The symbol you’re thinking of is the Rod of Asclepius.