What the hell is even going on this week…?
Star Wars fans are up in arms about the… well, questionable decisions made in Rise Of Skywalker. It did, however, have the strange and almost unprecidented effect of uniting shippers and antis against a common enemy (JJ).
The film adaptation of Cats was not so divisive… but holy cow… what the… I mean… what.
Misha Collins had hip replacement surgery for dysplasia.
J.K. Rowling messed up big time, causing thousands of people to claim that Hatsune Miku is the actual author of the Harry Potter series.
The conservative-heavy U.K. Parliament backed a deal for Brexit to go through at the end of January.
An asteroid three times as tall as the Great Pyramid of Giza just scraped by our planet.
Donald Trump was impeached. Only he wasn't? Or he was, but might not be? Or he is and probably won't be removed from office? Or he will be removed from office and we'll end up with Pence as president instead? Or Pence won't become president, because Trump's entire cabinet goes with him? What is going on?
In other "presidential" news, after Greta Thunberg was named Time Magazine's Person Of The Year, Trump's 2020 campaign Twitter account posted a picture of the magazine cover with Trump's face pasted over Greta's.
There was a reported Wawa data breach that exposed customer credit / debit card numbers, expiration dates, and cardholder names at potentially all their store gas pumps and registers.
The private information of over 267 million Facebook users was reportedly exposed online.
India is in turmoil over a controversial citizenship law.
But also…
The Democratic debate was a mostly-civil affair.
Germany banned "conversion therapy" for minors.
The FDA has issued approval for an ebola vaccine.
Scientists in Brazil have successfully 3-D bio-printed a functioning human mini-liver.
Sebastian Stan modeled for Men's Health Magazine (and the internet melted).
It was discovered that the US government has listed the fictional nation of Wakanda as a trade partner.
NASA has confirmed the existence of a new class of planets called "super-puffs," which have the density of cotton candy.
Virginia biochemist, Camille Schrier, was crowned Miss America after putting on a lab coat and giving "a colorful chemistry demonstration of the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide" onstage.
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I mean, what is going on here? It's like 2019 forgot to do a bunch of stuff, so now it's piling it all up at the end and shoving it at 2020 like
