Yes they are. And when they don’t want to serve, they use any excuse available to them to opt out. That’s how that works.

That involves a significant amount of assuming facts not in evidence and, believe it or not, a lot of people who opt to serve on juries take things like ‘the letter of the law’ seriously.

I’ve had to go to the courthouse jury duty 3 times, twice in my 20s and once in my 30s. I had the distinct impression that being unemployed at those times made me less than desirable as I was immediately dismissed as a potential juror.

We still have mornings and ABC is still a broadcast network. Why wouldn’t we still have GMA?

I grew up in the 80's and my maternal Grandfather always referred to my youngest aunt’s car as a Datsun for their entire time of ownership though i’m fairly certain it had Nissan branding.

Any elite college athlete in schools that made their bank from sports could treat the school part of college as optional. Charles Barkley has often been quoted as saying “I knew I didn’t have to worry about my GPA as long as I lead the SEC in scoring.”

My Mom is 73 and she’s still dealing w/ her mother passing 7 years ago. Losing a parent is a lot at any age.

So...you’re saying this was some kind of Andor marketing stunt?

Or it could just be a blind spot in the writers’ awareness of their culture.

Wasn’t talking about NY and CA or anywhere outside of China. Just thinking about my own experiences in SC, a state that wasn’t LGBT friendly when I was a kid(not that i’m saying it is now), and how I knew plenty of people in the LGBT community.

I don’t expect dictatorships to be good on human rights but you would think that their leaderships’ obsession with the perception of strength would make them give up on fighting battles that they can’t win. You can edit gay out of movies/TV/books but you can’t remove it from sentient life.

Waiting for a list...

Without a helmet I guess.

House of the Dragon

As the only left who still liked the show I can’t say that I loved the news though the reasoning makes sense. I feel like the final season was barely advertised so i’m unclear as to why they thought it would do better. I mean, I couldn’t flip channels without seeing a Hot D commercial but I can’t say that I caught a…

I just think of TV shows as being set in a world where the average woman looks like model/actresses do here.

A parallel factor is Bi people not being counted by certain types unless they’re seen in a same-sex romantic relationship for an extended period of time.

Smurfs as well I think. At least, i’m pretty sure it involved blue people.

Was Santa asking for it, again?

Not really a retcon as Strange mentioned them in Multiverse of Madness. IIRC he said something along the lines of ‘Fantastic Four? Didn’t you guys chart in the ‘60s?’ after Reed was introduced.