Everytime I read this aloud, I turn into Yosemite Sam.
THIS VIDEO OS KILLING ME
Chairman Kaga scammed him hard.
BUDDY you're a BOY you're a BIG BIG BOY you're a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BOY you got mud on your face you BIG BIG BOY kicking your can all over the place singing WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee
Finally the Dire Wraiths are banished, thanks to Nightcrawler's honey, Amanda, and Illyana, both magic users. The X-Men, including brother Peter, find out the latter has sorcery and teleporting powers, and Peter says he doesn't care what she is, he still loves her.Speaking of that sentiment, Nightcrawler calls a meeting because he wants out of the hero business. The government just removed Storm's powers, and anti-mutant legislation is coming. Why are they fighting to save the humans who hate them? But Rachel, the mutant from the dark future, says the team has to keep fighting to avoid the timeline she escaped where mutants are rounded up and killed. Nightcrawler agrees.
But he does accidentally suggest a proper focus for the Xavier school, which took them decades to follow up on: Not every mutant who learns to control their power has to become a superhero. Some want to go back to their lives. Some mutations don't lend themselves to heroing, and throwing them at Sabretooth is cruel and making them live with their classmates forever is isolation. What's the point of teaching people, both mutants and humans, that they can coexist if they remain forever separate?
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So after losing her powers and learning the guy she's falling for made the weapon that depowered her, Storm leaves Forge's apartment. But here come the alien, invading, sorcerous Dire Wraiths to kill Forge. Storm and Naze, Forge's mentor, pull a Die Hard (four years before the movie) to get to the penthouse and save him. It's not a great issue; too much is happening here, but Rogue debuts a costume that is so bad it's good, and there are signs Storm's powers might not be gone after all.
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I started daily sketches at the beginning of the year, and a few weeks back I was inspired to move through the 1980s X-Men comics I grew up with, starting with the mid-160s when Binary debuted and the team fought the Brood. This post has the better of those daily efforts, up to issue 186, the double-sized comic drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith. More to come. I post notes about each issue at my site, heygregory.com
My wife likes raspberry sorbet. Every time she says “raspberry sorbet” I respond…
“The kind that you’d find in a grocery store?”
Whenever my wife uses a very specific word in a comment, I immediately reword it dumber because I am a yokel.
Her: He is so obsequious.
Me: Yeah, and he's a kiss ass too.
Her: I feel like it's ubiquitous.
Me: Yeah, and that shit is everywhere.
The most electrifying move in wrestling
Physics can eat a bug, wrestling is the greatest force in the universe.
The black areas represent the remaining natural dark skies in the United States
I’ve been in the middle of the ocean at night and now live in texas and it is so hard to explain to people that no, they have not ever seen the night sky. It is so hard to explain to people that what they think is a proper night sky is fucking pathetic. A disgrace.
People talk about how you can’t see stars in the city and yeah, that’s true, but their concept of “seeing stars” is being able to make out orion’s belt.
So, so few people have see the sky in all its glory and it’s not sad. It’s a fucking crime. Seeing a perfectly dark night, no clouds, not a hint of light pollution? That’s a fucking religious experience.
The sky the vast vast majority of us grew up with is not the sky that inspired us to look up. It is not the sky that inspired constellations. You can’t even see most constellations.
Your ancestors looked at the night sky and said “surely, that is where the gods must live.” And you might be lucky if you can see hardly more than a handful of stars.
The sky is full, fucking FULL, of stars, and you’ve never seen them.
This year, I saw the Milky Way for the third time in my life. I didn't want to blink.
Follow NASA’s Artemis I Moon Mission: Live Tracker, Latest Images, and Videos
On Nov. 16, 2022, the Artemis I mission officially began with the launch of the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System rocket. The rocket and spacecraft lifted off from historic Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Now, the Orion spacecraft is about halfway through its journey around the Moon. Although the spacecraft is uncrewed, the Artemis I mission prepares us for future missions with astronauts, starting with Artemis II.
Stay up-to-date with the mission with the latest full-resolution images, mission updates, on-demand and live video.
Imagery:
- Find full-resolution images from the Orion spacecraft as they are released here.
- Launch imagery can be found here. When Orion splashes down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11, the images will be available here, as well!
Videos:
- This playlist contains informational videos, as well as upcoming and past live events, about Artemis I.
- You can watch a livestream of the Artemis I mission here. (Just a note: the livestream may cut off during moments when the Orion team needs higher bandwidth for activities.)
- Keep yourself updated on the upcoming broadcasts of Artemis milestones with the NASA TV schedule.
Trackers:
- Our Artemis I Tracker shows where the Orion spacecraft is along the trajectory of the mission.
- “Eyes on the Solar System” shows where Orion is in relation to other NASA spacecraft and objects in the solar system:
- “DSN Now” shows which antenna on Earth’s Deep Space Network is communicating with Orion.
Updates:
- Read up on where Orion is and what’s next in the Artemis I mission with the Mission Blog.
Thank you so much for following with us on this historic mission. Go Artemis!
LOVE AT FIRST BITE 1979 | dir. Stan Dragoti
"Children of the night ... SHUT UP!"
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ty for stealing this one much appreciated
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people in the notes suggesting it was "improper" for the juror to do this or that it "introduced bias" to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in
As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.
For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:
First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”
And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.
Like, we can all agree that would be bad.
So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.
So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?
The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.
The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”
The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” --- like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.
For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.
So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”
There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.
Reblogging for that last post, because frankly, “what to do as a juror” is one of those things the schools should really be teaching us. Serving on a jury is one of the most powerful rights of citizenship and everyone should be educated in how to exercise it correctly.
I was on a jury for an assault case, and we needed a legal definition for it. Is it physical contact or the threat of contact? The judge came by to see how we were progressing in our deliberations. We told him we needed to be sure we were all using the same definition of "assault." He said that was something the attorneys should have clarified during the trial, and he couldn't help us. We finally found the accused guilty because he had traveled to the location specifically to threaten the plaintiff and did so repeatedly when he got there. He was, we agreed, looking for a fight. But we might have been completely wrong about the specific charge.
Thor helps She-Hulk feel a little more worthy.
I was commissioned for Our Flag Means Death art! New Photoshop brushes ahoy!