Wouldn’t consensual sex explicitly mean that consent to cum inside is given?

This is Tennessee, and it sounds like the appeal came from the defense, so I expect something lighter, not heavier…

Where do I go to get my own navel weapon? It seems like all I have, right now, is a pointless hole that does nothing useful.

It depends. None of the other parties will challenge them this way unless they have something to gain. Right now, none of the other parties is strong enough to challenge them, should an election be declared. And I don’t see any of the other parties making significant gains in a year.

To quote Frank Zappa: “Tax the churches. Tax the businesses owned by the churches.”

And then, for the ones that do actual charity work, have them run the charity separately from the church, under the same rules as secular charities, with regards to taxes and reporting.

There’s 2 typos. But it’s pretty close to correct.

But it underestimates people’s laziness that leads to shortening words, which happens in all languages.

Not so sure… AFAIK, the government’s email works, right now… Wouldn’t want another Phoenix-style fiasco right now.

I get why it should be done, I just don’t trust the way government IT projects are run these days.

Apparently, lead in paint made it taste sweet, which is where all the allusions to kids eating paint chips, or “wall candy” may have come from.

If this is enough to become a power grid problem, Texas needs to ask itself, “Why do we have so many people in prison?”

Aren’t Parliament grounds public land? How can one trespass on public land?

I’ll just leave this here

I have a modest proposal for you…

I need to rewatch Bubba Ho Tep.

Have you looked at the celebrity obituaries lately?

Except that was going to be about the bug things in the previous episode. The Borg weren’t really conceived until season 2.

Was it in the springtime?

Problem is, the movie presents it as humans being a source of power, not simply storage. The humans blocked the Sun, the machines’ main source of power, so they turned to humans.

Which, as others have pointed out, doesn’t work: organic life can only continue with an influx of power, which means keeping humans as “batteries” would be a net spending of power, not a net accumulation.

Now, Morpheus says something like “… combined with a form of fusion…” so maybe the machines had found a way to produce power by fusing atoms found on Earth, and were using humans to store excess power, but that seems like a pretty inefficient approach, unless keeping humans imprisoned and docile was also a big part of it.

Apart from fusion, there were really only two sources of viable power for the machines: geothermal, or sending something up above the cloud cover created by the humans to capture sunlight.

Canadian here. Everyone I know is trying to avoid American products when we can. My parents switched from orange juice to apple juice for breakfast. People buy produce from Mexico to avoid American, enough that supermarkets try harder at sourcing outside the US wherever possible.

The reason that that big carrier that was in the news recently was starving its personnel and all that was because most of the US’s bases in the area were destroyed/damaged, so there was no way to resupply. That part was kinda kept quiet in the media, because it makes the US Military look so pathetically bad (worse than their current perception.)