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This is about right. I don't think any part of it is great, but it's consistently fun. There's a few points where it's almost too jokey to where it undercuts the stakes too much, but it toes the line pretty well. And they got some fun references in without being completely alienating for people who don't play D&D. They set up the possibility of a direct sequel, and big reason why the runtime is 2:14 is there's multiple flashbacks setting up backstory of the dude who would be the villain in the next one, and they probably could have just saved some of that for the hypothetical next movie.
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So have all of the leaks about the grand jury just been wildly wrong this entire time? Supposedly they weren't going to meet again for another month, and supposedly the possible indictments were going to be narrowly related to the Stormy Daniels hush money stuff, and it sounds like neither of those two things was actually true?
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Abortion bans in Wyoming and Ohio are getting blocked by judges because of language Republicans put in their state constitutions about "individual health care rights" after the ACA got passed. How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access | Bolts BOLTSMAG.ORG Conservatives amended state constitutions to affirm broad rights for people to choose their health care. Now abortion rights proponents are taking them at their word.
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Ivermectin hero taken too soon
Ricofoley replied to SuperSpreader's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
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Regulators close New York's Signature Bank, citing systemic risk WWW.CNBC.COM U.S. regulators on Sunday shut down New York-based Signature Bank in a bid to prevent the spreading banking crisis. Another one. I looked up futures for the markets and it looks like they're all up, so it doesn't seem like there's any real concern that there's going to be a snowball effect
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By all accounts this should be 100% cringe, but it 100% goes imo
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Well, so this bill would have lowered the maximum penalty for carjacking from 40 years to 24, but would've increased the penalty for attempted murder from 5 to 22.5 years (5th paragraph from the bottom in the Slate article). If we're gonna say that long sentences have a meaningful effect on deterring crime, which one of those is going to have more of an impact?
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Some more info here. The reform bill actually would've increased the penalties for some gun crimes, including attempted murder, but apparently that doesn't count as "tough on crime" Why Biden Stabbed D.C. in the Back SLATE.COM D.C.’s 700,000 residents have no senator to lobby against the bill. We can only plead, like subjects of a colony.
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Remember how much flack AOC got for opposing this in NY?
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Biden tells Democratic senators he won't veto effort to rescind DC crime law | CNN Politics WWW.CNN.COM President Joe Biden surprised Democratic senators Thursday when he told them that he won't veto GOP-led legislation to rescind a controversial Washington, DC, crime law, a move that comes Democrats are divided over the contentious issue and Republicans are aggressively accusing them of being soft on crime. I've been reading about this today, and my god is this shit cowardly. It passed the DC City Council with a 12-1 vote, and now congress is going to sweep in and override that. And somehow it's able to pass the Senate with 50 votes instead of 60 in another example of how completely arcane and arbitrary the rules around the filibuster are. Anyway, what seems to be spooking BIden and other Dems into supporting this is that part of the bill lowers the penalties for carjacking, but in actually what it's doing is lowering the maximum possible sentence from 40 years to 24 years, and *under the existing law* judges already weren't actually sentencing people to as long as 24 years.
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Been to Japan. Going to Italy this May. Beyond those, maybe Scotland and Ireland are where I'd like to go to most next, but really there's a lot of places I'd love to go to
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It would definitely be a nightmare if we won. He's a charter school chud as well. Saw some people drilling down into the results by precinct who seem to think that Brandon Johnson can pick up enough of what Lightfoot and Chuy Garcia got to beat him. Hopefully that's true and not just wishful thinking.
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Movies More LOTR in the works for the big screen
Ricofoley replied to GeneticBlueprint's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
Call up Del Toro and see if he still wants to make his version of The Hobbit