my mom mostly stays downstairs and her friend mostly stays upstairs

So you're saying your mom is a bottom? /s

I'd look to a show like The Good Place for a perfect balance.

It absolutely matters if you haven't seen previous episodes, but each episode is still, on it's own, great.

Preachin to the choir, friend. I'd get worked up about it but I'm paid the same regardless of how upset I get.

That sub was mostly cops just repeating their own bad interpretation of the law. Terrible.

Appreciate progress when it happens, even if it's late.

I would immediately patch in a "no witches" mode.

Every instance of "witch" is replaced with "warlock".

And if there were graphics, every witch would have a photorealistic penis hanging out the front of ~~her~~ his robes.

Willis: "We will absolutely comply. All evidence will be presented at trial, and become part of the public record. Representative Jordan is free to review the documents at that time."

BoTh SiDES!1!1!1!

Serious answer?

Certainly not the frozen head of Walt Disney.

They're leaving out an important part of the claim.

I can set up some piezoelectric things in my office chair such that when I sit my fat ass down it generates a small electrical charge. I can say that my ass can generate enough electricity to power a million homes for 10 years, assuming I don't tell you how long it takes to generate that power, which would be on the order of decades, if not centuries, if not longer.

I'd wager someone saw the average energy output for the expected service lifetime of the turbine, then was like, "How much energy does one 3-person household use?" and started playing with Excel until they got a good mix of time and # of households for the press release.

I realized the moment I fell into the fissure that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expanse of which I had only a fleeting glimpse. I have tried to speculate where it might have landed but I must admit however such conjecture is futile. Still, the question of whose hands might someday hold my Myst book are unsettling to me. I know that my apprehensions might never be allayed, and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written.

And yes, that was from memory.

The US was originally envisioned as a federation of independent states, and the Constitution reflects that. Our elections are all run by the states. The states select their senators and representatives to send to the federal legislature. The states select the President.

In fact, originally, our senators were selected by the state legislatures, not a statewide election.

Even today, the popular vote doesn't really matter in the Presidential election. Those elections simply inform the state how to appoint electors to the Electoral College. Some states are "all or nothing", some states appoint them proportional to the popular vote.

As such, how those representatives and senators are chosen is left to the individual states, and how the elections are run is the domain of the state.

The Constitution specifically delegates that authority to the States, though, it includes a provision that the federal legislature can claw back that authority in whole or in part by simply writing new laws. The Voting Rights Act, for a great many years, demanded that the various racist states in the South had to have changes to their election process vetted by the Courts before being implemented. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Roberts, declared racism was over and gutted that requirement. That's when you started to see a bunch of this tomfuckery.