If you use water from your water pouch to bless an ankh then it provides a resurrection in the same place with all of your gear.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it

Planck’s Principal

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_principle

Pet cats that are allowed to roam outdoors are extremely destructive to local wildlife and live shorter lives. Cat should only be kept as indoor pets.

https://www.americanhumane.org/fact-sheet/indoor-cats-vs-outdoor-cats/

I guess I’m your person this week. I thought you had to create a new account to switch instances. The only time I’ve moved so far was from kbin.social to lemm.ee so I definitely had to but it’s nice to know that if I want to move again I can keep the same account.

How do you find sovcits locally? I’ve got some silver quarters and need some work done. They should accept .9 oz of silver as payment of a few thousand in wages owed right?

Yes I was, sorry. This is even more useless than I thought. The Kim Davis case has already established that public officials have an obligation to perform their duties without regard for the sexuality of the people they serve. The law has already been preempted by federal law and precedent in the 6th Circuit which is the appeals court with jurisdiction over Tennessee.

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Groo the Wanderer if he counts as a Marvel character. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groo_the_Wanderer

If not then Peter Parker’s Spiderman. Yes it’s cheating, he is, by a wide margin, the best selling comic book character. There’s a good reason he’s so popular. The books are good. I don’t know why the movies haven’t picked up on this but one of the best things about the character is that you get to see him grow up and develop both as a superhero and through his transition from teenager to college student to working adult. He doesn’t start out as a fully developed hero saving the world at every turn. You see him making mistakes and you see him discovering and figuring out how to overcome his flaws. As he grows up and becomes more competent as a hero he never becomes the perfect fully developed superhero a la Superman or Batman. As he figures out one part of his life he transitions into another and has a whole new set of challenges to overcome. And despite never becoming that mythic figure he’s still an Avenger. Despite just being your friendly neighborhood Spiderman, he’s still fought and defeated the biggest and baddest of the Marvel rogues gallery.

We are rapidly approaching the point where it is an open question as to whether the Supreme Court can make its rulings stick in jurisdictions that don’t fall along the current majority’s ideological bent

Recently the most significant refusals to follow court rulings are in jurisdictions that do agree with the court majority’s ideological bent. Alabama’s voting maps fight and Texas’s current border fight being the two biggest ones. At least for now democrats still generally believe in the American system and respect the rule of law.

The people surveyed were all presidential scholars. I’m willing to bet that they could name all of the presidents. Probably even in order.

The Infinity War was much better in the comics. World War Hulk was one of the best comics storylines in the last 20 years and was horribly underdone and disrespected in the movies. The first Avengers movie was really the only good representation of the Hulk in the MCU so pretty much any major Hulk storyline is better than the movie Hulk storylines.

I enjoyed the Iron Man storylines in the movies and he was certainly a consistent high point in the MCU but the MCU representation of Tony Stark lacks the complexity of the comics. Demon in a Bottle is a top ten Marvel comics storyline and is essential to understanding the Tony Stark character. The MCU Tony Stark is entirely too impressed with himself. Tony Stark considers himself a failure. As Iron Man he gets to fight concrete, definable, defeatable opponents. He gets to win battles, to make a clear difference, to be a hero. As Tony Stark he fights big ambiguous social issues. He fights war, poverty, homelessness, addiction. No matter how smart he is, no matter how hard he works, he can’t solve the problems that he fights as Tony Stark. He sees himself as outrageously smart, outrageously wealthy, the ultimate playboy businessman who should be able to do anything. In his mind, putting everything into solving these social issues and barely making a dent makes him a failure which feeds his own addiction.

I don’t think the MCU writers ever really figured out how to use Captain America. His first movie was the only one that actually should have been titled Captain America. The Winter Soldier was a Shield move with a Captain America subplot. Civil War was a condensed, simplified, disappointing version of a great universe spanning storyline. His ending also completely disrespected the character. He went back in time to be with Peggy and apparently completely abandoned his principles. He just lived a normal life and didn’t lend his name and celebrity to the civil rights movement, did nothing to combat the domestic terrorism of the KKK, did nothing to fight organized crime, did nothing to prevent the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, or any of the other political and social leaders killed since WW2. Did nothing to combat the rise of Hydra.

The 5 day work week is largely dead for the working class. Employers either keep nearly all of their employees part time to avoid having to give them health insurance or have weekly mandatory overtime to keep the headcount down because it’s cheaper to pay the overtime for 60-80 hr weeks than to give another employee benefits. We’re going backwards in most places that we had made gains.

I commented that I wanted to move Discovery out of main cannon a few days ago. It was controversial but the comment is still there and it has positive karma.

I’m good with a digital library as long as I get the installation files and can keep them on an external drive.

I like to imagine that Discovery takes place in the Kelvinverse rather than the main timeline.

Gymnasium and lyceum are both Greek. They did pass through Latin on their way into modern use. Lyceum was the name of Aristotle’s school in Athens.

From the US, there was some experimental stuff going on when I was in school and I was out in the boonies so k-8 schools with self contained classrooms was the norm and they were called elementary schools. I did kindergarten and first grade normally then there was a change and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades were combined into the same classroom and called primary school. I was in primary school for what would have been 2nd and 3rd grade. 4th through 8th were the normal self contained classrooms in elementary school.

I was in the last class for my elementary school then they combined it with another school that was k-6 and opened a jr highschool that was 7th and 8th. So I didn’t go to a jr high or a secondary school but if I were a year younger I would have gone to a jr high. I did go to a primary, an elementary, and a high school.

They used to be and still think of themselves as the world’s dominant religion. Their decline really began a few hundred years ago but, previously being at the head of a thousand year empire, they have some staying power and the Catholic Church is still the world’s largest religious organization. Their decline has accelerated in the past few decades. They are now losing members much more quickly than they can breed new ones.

Their shift to a generally more progressive and accepting stance is an attempt to stem the flow of younger members leaving the church. They see that the world, especially the parts with disposable income that could be donated to the church, rejects much of their conservative belief system and are attempting to soften it to keep younger members without abandoning it which would run off the members that they’ve spent decades scaring into following the “one path to salvation”.

He was killed the same day he was kidnapped and his body was found about 2.5 months later. He was found 4.5 miles from his home partially buried in the woods.

While I agree, it doesn’t really apply to Netflix. It was always a rental/streaming business. Netflix never offered to sell the media, just temporary access to it.