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It always felt like it was trying to be canonical but no one else wanted it to be. It was the little brother desperate to join the older kids only to get ditched at every opportunity.

Which was annoying because most of the show was good, and all it would have taken is a tiny Easter egg to acknowledge it exists. As far as I know, the only thing we ever got was Jarvis in endgame being played by the same actor from Agent Carter.

It's kind of strange that the Netflix shows are the ones that got folded into canon when they basically ignored the rest of the MCU after Avengers. But I suppose that disconnect and the more narrow focus means there's a lot less to clean up to make it fit. That and the fact that they were popular enough for Disney to see them as valuable.

See also Jessica Jones.

I buy groceries at an employee owned chain that pays its people well, keeps unnecessary costs down, has a massive selection, and is consistently cheaper than almost anywhere else. It's been interesting to see how some items have had minimal inflation while others have gone way up. And then to see those same items all massively overpriced everywhere else.

Anything I can buy there, I buy there. I spend a lot of money there. They have my undying loyalty, and all it took was for them to not be evil.

The people behind this shit? I wouldn't piss on em if they were on fire. If they were being fed feet first into a wood chipper one by one, I'd only complain about the noise.

Rewards programs can make sense without this kind of fuckery. My local pizza place isn't adjusting their prices, they still match the paper take out menus and coupons. But they have a rewards program because it incentivizes people to come back, and repeat business is worth the slight discount.

Temba, his sausage wide.

TIL there's more books in the series. I had only seen it referred to as a trilogy and assumed I was done after book 3.

Looks like 4 and 5 are out, 6 has a completed first draft and a 7th is planned after that.

To the TBR list they go.

Randomly picked The Will of the Many from a list of recommendations.

Still too early to judge but it has potential. Magic system seems interesting, and I'm very interested in the world building. The present tense is certainly a choice, but it works where it needs to.

On the other hand, I've never been terribly interested in fantasy Rome, the pyramid scheme magic system risks painfully on the nose allegory if not handled properly, and the prospect of this story moving to "the academy" has me wary due to my irrational hatred of stories set in schools.

On body-worn camera video played in court, Wasser was heard saying she wanted to check the bag for bombs before removing it from the McDonald’s. Despite that concern, she acknowledged in her testimony Monday that police never cleared the restaurant of customers or employees.

Unless they had probable cause to believe there was a bomb, that's absolutely no excuse for a search. Might as well just get rid of the fourth amendment altogether if police can just imagine the possibility of a dangerous object and excuse searching anything at any time.

If she really thought there was a bomb, she is recklessly handling this herself instead of calling in a properly trained and equipped bomb squad. But far worse, she claims she needed to check it so as not bring a bomb to the station, but apparently has no problem potentially handling a bomb around a bunch of innocent bystanders.

That she is lying in order to justify what she knew to be an illegal search is actually the least damning interpretation. Either way though, the evidence should be thrown out along with her career.

He says they need to invest heavily in EVs if they don't want to get dominated by China. And apparently he thinks that setting ambitious regulatory goals for EVs only to back off before they take effect is harming their ability to compete.

And yet, he also lobbied hard for Trump to cut fuel efficiency standards. Funny how that works.

It's an open and shut case. There is no rational legal argument for ending birthright citizenship.

Unfortunately, this court doesn't seem to feel bound by little things like laws, precedents, the constitution or reality. If I had to bet on the outcome, I'd assume they will give Trump what he wants yet again. I want to be wrong about that, but at this point I think it's a safer bet to assume this court will always do the worst thing possible.

Does anyone else find it a bit odd that aliens are all interested in human or nearly human women? One would think that most aliens would be attracted to creatures with similar characteristics to their own species. The ferengi should find us as unappealing as most of us find them.

According to Grok, the threshold is 50% of humanity. Apparently Elon Musk dying is as bad as or worse for humanity than a Thanos snap.

Just finished the expanse. Starting isles of the emberdark.

Judges should be part of the judicial branch, not the executive.

Of course DS9 had to lose the special effects data, they saw B5 do it first.

The reasonable solution would have been to include a mechanism for quickly and efficiently overruling these decisions when needed. They have to report to congress about anything that is withheld, but as far as I know they didn't include a provision that would allow them to reject the given justification and order the release.

Username checks out.

The unfortunate reality is that there is no real advantage for Ukraine in calling Trump out on his bullshit and condemning the idiotic plan, no matter how much they deserve it.

Trump is a narcissistic moron with dementia. He doesn't give a shit about the details and he has no principles, he just wants whatever makes him feel like a tough guy that people fear and respect. Fighting him will just lead to a temper tantrum. Better to give him empty words and hollow victories while avoiding any meaningful capitulation.

The rodents, their size unusual.