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And the few times their team works on two cases at the same time, they turn out to be connected. Seems like until one crime is solved, that area is safe from further crime.

Disney's agenda is the same as that of every company that isn't a non-profit in a capitalistic (read: fair) economy. To make profit. As it should be. If they think that by now, not having most of the main characters be exclusively straight-cis, male and white is the way to make more profit, they should stick to it for more than few movies, because the current numbers can't IMO reasonably confirm if the smaller viewership is due to that or to the changes in the industry (pandemic, strikes, putting movies quickly on Disney+, ...). The last few years have been rough in general. What we now know is that until a few years ago, there was an intentional bias against having women and people of color as main characters. Having them now is putting things to normal, not having an opposite bias. (I'm not saying that that is impossible, but that is IMO not what is happening ... come on, the majority of main characters is still straight-cis male white characters. Even if they only produced movies with only non-white gay women for a few years, it would take a lot of time to get to a balance. And that is not happening either. Last time I checked, the next movie is Deadpool and Wolverine, two white cis dudes - one is not straight so that is something at least.) Regarding catering to only comic book fans, that was never the case. They want to make movies for general audiences. There are always some nods and easter eggs for comic book fans, but that's it. And if they wanted to cater exclusively to comic book fans ... well, good luck with that, we can't agree on anything, lol, so the chances that people would be pissed no matter what would IMO be even higher 😄. Plus, you know, much smaller audience, which would mean much smaller budget (not necessarily a bad thing if they concentrated more on practical effects and less on CGI, but then we wouldn't have all those pretty visuals we got used to, so a double-edged sword.)

Antibacterial soap causes the skin to dry a lot more than regular soap.

Have a nice holiday @Anduin and come back safely! Avoiding the news is a good idea if you want to relax and have a good time.

Has anyone seen it? I just finished it and found out it's just the first half. There's gonna be more episodes later this year. I liked it, but it seemed too stretched out. The book has like 300 pages in larger print. 6 episodes would be more than enough, 12 is too much and I did not care for any of the original characters and their stories. But the casting of the main characters is great and the visuals are stunning. Beautiful shots of nature, the castle looks just like the illustrations from the book and the fantastic creatures were great, wish we could see more of those.

Misinformation, especially political, thrives on social media. I hate that too, but I get a bit of amusement out of homophobes, especially men, overusing the phrase "shoving it down our throats". Hm, maybe they are a bit too fixated on the idea of having things shoved down their throat for some reason?

I don't understand even that. 😄

I used to buy Avon from a friend whose mother was selling it. No problems or pushing of any kind. Now my mom is registered for both Oriflame and Avon, but we only buy thing for ourselves, it's more comfortable this way. She gets some promotional emails but isn't bothered by the company in any other way. I guess they understand they will get no big business from us.

Thank you Stephen and Christiane 💔 I have been saying this for a long time. A lot of people who love performative activism 1) can't seem to comprehend nuance and 2) apparently can't care about more than one thing at a time and unfortunately, genocide happening in Ukraine is not trendy enough right now for many of them. GOP is blocking critical aid to Ukraine (that the US is bound to provide as per the Budapest Memorandum, but who cares) and it doesn't even seem like it's worth reporting. Fucking times we live in. And she is 100% right in explaining how the rest of us are bewildered that a country (well, a political party) that has been such a strong fighter against communism and russian imperialism is so lax right now when it is the same evil we have to fight and why we are all worried about the possibility of a second term of the whiniest wannabe-dictator. Honestly, after time spent on the internet I am very pleasantly surprised that a reporter from American media gets it so much, it shows that she is actually listening to people from other countries and is able to understand points of view from different backgrounds which is not always the case. She's a good person and good journalist. 💗

I never watched that show, so this is not a comment about that, but I am always puzzled when people say that someone cares about their family, or children especially, as if that is some positive trait. Isn't that like a bare minimum that a parent/spouse should do? I don't give people points for that. One doesn't get to choose their parents or siblings, but does (in a normal society) choose their partner and chooses to have children that they are supposed to love and take care of no matter what. The showrunners of GoT were always talking about Cersei like "Well, you know, she is a murdering psychopath who hates and hurts everyone, but at least she deeply loves her children, so that is her redeeming quality ..." No, it isn't. She was partially responsible for one of her children being a complete monster and some of her worst actions were justified by some viewers as "protecting her children". No, thanks. That doesn't redeem her at all in my eyes.

I mean, I don't support the death penalty, but if I was to be executed and had the option to choose a method of execution for myself, I would pick a firing squad.

So I learned that The House in the Cerulean Sea will get a sequel in September. I would be fine with it being a stand-alone book, but I am also now looking forward to this sequel. But considering I have found out by randomly looking into the author's books at Goodreads, it makes me think: do you know any good website for book news and upcoming releases? When it comes to books that I know are part of the series, I can keep track of what I am looking forward to, but if something supposedly stand-alone gets a sequel, I don't really know how to find out about it other than having luck or regularly checking every author's website. (Please don't suggest social media though, especially "Booktok", I would rather not know anything than support fucking Tiktok.)

That's the problem with conversations ... you can't edit what you said afterwards, once you think of a perfect comeback to some stupid comment. Or when you realize that what you said made perfect sense to you, but people may have missed half of what you tried to say because of a lack of context.

They talked to him about it and kept some main points. I think the problem was that they got over it and wanted to wrap it up quickly, instead of delving deeper into character motivations. It's the general problem of media today - people get hyped up for something and then get quickly bored of it. It seems it's not just viewers, but also producers.

I am mentally preparing for the fact that tomorrow episode's intro will have no Gambit and no Magneto. 😭😭😭