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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

If pacing is a problem with Breaking Bad's first season, Better Call Saul offers no relief there. I love it, much more than I liked Breaking Bad, but the plot was a very slow crawl.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know if this is a joke or not. Elden Ring has Ghiza's Wheel as a weapon and is low-key considered "Dark Souls 4" by many fans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's dependent on a given state's terminology. New York, for example, has villages. They're municipalities that fall within towns, but collectively offer additional services that the town does not. So I could live in the village of Pomona, in the town of Haverstraw, and I'd need to pay taxes to the village and the town separately.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

smokers got breaks.

When I quit smoking, I pretty much stopped going to parties, conventions, dance clubs, and concerts. Having an excuse to get out of the crowd and noise and decompress for ten minutes every couple of hours made "going out" so much more tolerable for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What expenses? If everyone is on a general strike, there's nowhere to spend money.

And honestly, your suggestion sounds like we're trying to trade one evil billionaire dictator for another evil billionaire dictator on the off chance that the new one won't destroy the global economy as thoroughly. That's not actually an improvement.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The old joke about the French diet: they just drink wine, eat baguettes, and smoke cigarettes, but all Frenchmen seem to live to 100.

Turns out having fairer labor laws and access to healthcare does a great job of prolonging your life!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think of myself as the chaos engine that drives the plot forward. Everyone else in the party would just sit and talk plans forever if I wasn't out here rolling death-saves.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Client-therapist privilege is foundational to how therapy works, but most states have laws saying a therapist must report admissions of abuse. I don't see doctors rallying against those laws.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Comedian was based on Peacemaker. The initial pitch was that all of the Watchmen would be DC's (at the time) recently-acquired Charlton characters. DC nixed the idea, so Moore just tweaked them and renamed them.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In 2018, someone fired six bullets into the Albany Democratic Party headquarters' front window. I don't recall a single Republican denouncing the act.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The issue is that he's only been indicted in New York, and New York abolished the death penalty more than twenty years ago.

The Feds would need to press their own charges if they wanted to pursue the death penalty, which they have not done yet. That's the laughable part: they're trying to dictate sentencing before they pressed charges, gathered evidence, or secured a conviction. And the only way to get a death sentence is by unanimous jury vote during sentencing, which, let's be honest, is going to be very difficult to get rid Luigi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I just watched the new episode this morning. Absolutely incredible.

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