Christians are the only ones that believe in Satan.

No, satanists do not believe in Satan.

This will also be used to restrict their voting rights.

Pretty sure there’s nothing stopping anyone that wants to do this. Aside from the accountants and VCs who think (probably quite accurately) that there’s no way to do it profitably anymore.

There is value in a rallying cry. Your favorite sports teams often have one. If you watch college sports, they usually have a fight song, and people even know/enjoy them. Something gutteral to energize the base, and gather them together.

This isn’t one of those.

Of course they didn’t. It was only a submarine sandwich.

If it had been a ham sandwich, OTOH, things would be different.

The biggest problem I had with the Jodie era was the companions.

Doctor Who has a rich history of the Doctor/Companion interactions following traditional gender roles. The Doctor is a powerful man who can bend time and space to his will, and his companion is an empathetic woman who can keep him grounded and retain his humanity. While there have been exceptions, this is the default formula.

When Jodie started, this all got turned upside-down. How should a woman Doctor act? Do they maintain the same character archetype (as they did with the Master/Missy), or do they make the character more feminine? What effect should that have on her relationship with her companions? Should the companion continue to be the traditional feminine role? Headstrong and masculine, but powerless? Wise and sage, like an advisor? This is a difficult plan for even the most accomplished writer.

Chris Chibnall was apparently not up to the task. Instead, he threw all of the options in at once. At best, it felt crowded and disjointed. But more often, it felt like they were focus-group testing. And by the end, it seemed clear that Kaz was the most popular with test audiences.

Yes, because of Disney’s refusal to commit to the series. The production schedule is entirely too unpredictable right now, and Ncuti has (a lot of) other offers.

I can’t elaborate without major spoilers.

The cliche is “Nero fiddled while Rome burned”. I guess the term “fiddle” has changed over the years, and depends on context. In the US today, fiddle almost exclusively means a violin used for certain play styles.

The original stories did claim (now debated) that he spent it playing a stringed instrument of whatever variety.

Even with all of the bad press recently, they still outsell AMD CPUs by around 2:1. (source)

It’s bizarre to call them irrelevant when they still completely dominate the sector in sales.

Because of impact to the victims. The Grand Jury records could be used to identify, harass, and worse to the victims.

There was a report that gas stoves were linked to health issues. Then the culture war bullshit crowds pretended that meant “the nanny state is taking our gas stoves!!!”

It was a handy distraction from everything else that everyone should’ve been focused on.

This may be harder than it sounds. Often, the vent hood (such as in the microwave) doesn’t vent outside and just recirculates it in the kitchen.

These “climate denying scientists” are so rare as to not even be included directly. They are usually mentioned as a vague “they” by far-right people pushing an agenda.

Even when they are included, and speaking on the subject, most don’t say conclusively that climate change isn’t happening. Instead, they say that the evidence presented thus far isn’t compelling enough to reach that conclusion.

Try to find one by name. It’s remarkably hard.

This suggests that someone ran a study, and had to run a bunch of tests to independently and objectively determine whether he is, in fact, an idiot.

I look forward to the headline, “New study shows that Charlie Kirk is an idiot”

Always remember- If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.

Legally, it won’t matter. He doesn’t hold office until the next guy, his term ends in 2029. If there is no replacement, the office is simply vacant, and we already have processes for that.

Legally, it won’t matter. If (when) he’s ignoring the laws to that level, it doesn’t matter what anyone pretends happened with an election. The laws will have no bearing anyway.

More specifically, it means the prosecution doesn’t have a case. The question before a grand jury is whether there’s enough evidence to take it to trial. They take the prosecution’s claims at face value, and ask if that would be enough for a conviction, assuming there was no dispute over the facts.

There’s no defense present, because that’s not the question. The grand jury does not weigh evidence or anything; that’s for the petit jury. Decisions about admissibility of evidence is for the trial judge.

Grand juries typically indict 95%+ of the cases presented. You need to have a really, really bad case to lose at the grand jury stage.

We need to hurry up and pass the 61st amendment! (/s)

For anyone wondering the obvious:

Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.

He died because of an incidental fall, not anything meaningful to do with the chat bot.

Solomon Peña was sentenced to 960 months in prison for orchestrating a politically motivated shooting spree and plotting to murder witnesses to obstruct justice.

[…]

Peña recruited Jose Trujillo and Demetrio Trujillo to carry out a series of shootings at the homes of several public officials. Peña provided cash, instructions, and addresses, and personally participated in one of the attacks. One of the shootings involved a fully automatic machine gun. Multiple rounds struck areas of the homes where children had recently been or were sleeping.

Following his arrest, Peña attempted to have Jose and Demetrio Trujillo murdered to prevent them from testifying, offering fellow inmates money and a vehicle in exchange for their deaths.

On March 23, 2025, a federal jury found Peña guilty of all counts of the indictment, including conspiracy, being a felon in possession of a firearm, four counts of intimidation and interference with federally protected activities, four counts of using or carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and three counts of solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

Source

80 years seems pretty reasonable for everything. I would argue there should’ve been charges for terrorism, but I know that’s more complicated than it should be.