Also, it seems that Californians send their tax payments to Fresno. So they could just, yah know. "oopsiedoodles we raided your tax office on dubious pretenses. It's cool cuz you do that to state's voting agencies..."

Put it in an escrow account and use it to replace the lost medicaid and other funding.

when the feds hold up their end of the deal, they get to have the remaining funds.

the problem is there's "Poll watchers" or "observers" who get their little area and get to watch everything from there, and that's cool. and then there's the Republikkkan's "poll watchers" who show up armed and start shouting things like "THAT GUY IS ILLEGAL" and shit for every not-white-dude coming through and trying to get people thrown out.

ICE is also a huge problem, yes.

I'm not sure 'hoax' is the word you want to use. I assume you're referring to the Manchester Pusher?

The bodies are real, but it sounds like (after a quick search) the authorities blame accidents and such like.

keep in mind, if you're falling into 3 feet of water, you're more likely to be injured from hitting the bottom rather than jumping into deep water, and if you're drunk or something, even if you're not injured from the fall, you're still likely to drown. you can drown in a puddle if you pass out with your face down in it.

Both, and I'm not sure I have a hard and fast rule saying when one over the other. It's probably some sort of soft rule I'm totally unaware of.

But both are correct. (though Nitch is more american and Neesh is more british.)

Automatic battle rifles are a bit more than “hobby” territory.

(Well. Unless you’re in Murica.)

Not after they shot through it.

I mean, I repressed that. Thank you very much.

“Due to tidal forces”

Because, the moon (and maybe the sun, and other planets like Jupiter) are acting on it, yeah?

The earth won’t stop spinning. What’s happening is that the moon’s gravity is slowing the earth’s spin as it drags our oceans towards it.

Once our day is the same as the moon’s orbital period, then the tide will essentially be fixed, which means it’s no longer slowing us down.

And all that energy, for the record, is going into the moon and expanding its orbit slightly.

Wait was the original movie Rogue One? From when they were making out while Scariff was being blown up?

All I got to say is that if you have time to find a beach and make out, you probably have time to find a shuttle and get off the whole exploding-planet-thing.

(And then you have even more time to make out!)

I wouldn’t say I’m comfortable, exactly. I agree it is the proper reading-between-the-lines, and it’s very awkward. Actually, down right terrifying.

You could always color in some lightsaber scars from Where he threw another tantrum.

Cuz apparently Sith are all a bunch of emotionally challenged edgelords