Rainbow vacuums, my parents had one when I was growing up.
Rainbow vacuums, my parents had one when I was growing up.
First off, in the world of Ghostbusters, ghosts absolutely are real, though their appearances seem to be somewhat sporadic.
Second, Peck was a man who abused his power and nearly caused an apocalypse.
I’m not saying the Ghostbusters were entirely in the right, but Peck absolutely went too far because of his own personal biases. When he first went to the firehouse to investigate, he started out just fine. When he asked to see the containment unit, Venkman asked a perfectly valid question, “why do you want to see it?” From there, Peck immediately went off on a tangent, accusing the Ghostbusters of being frauds, and threatening legal action, to which Venkman responded in kind.
The next time Peck shows up, he has barged in and shuts everything down without thought of the consequences. Even the people he brings along for support think it’s a bad idea.
It’s like somebody built a bomb in their back yard, and instead of properly defusing it, he insists they take a sledgehammer to it.
Imagine how this goes if he kept his cool in the first meeting. Venkman likely shows him the containment unit, and Spengler explains how it works. If it really does run afoul of EPA regulations, the Ghostbusters get a fine, and are asked to bring their equipment into compliance. Maybe they have to retrofit a few things, but in the end, there’s probably no explosion of ghosts, and possibly Vinz Clortho and Zuul never manage to link up (as their meeting was facilitated by the chaos of the aftermath), preventing Gozer from entering our dimension.
It’s relevant in the context that helping China is explicitly something Trump says he’s against. So the fact that his policies would actually help them is yet another example of him being an idiot and a hypocrite.
Yeah, tell that to Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Because the judge isn’t bending over backwards to accommodate Trump’s every whim. That’s literally it. If he was, he’d be the best, most honest and fair judge our country has ever seen.
It was also a civil suit, not criminal.
That was a civil suit, not criminal.
It means if there was an actual politically motivated prosecution, that wouldn’t stop someone from winning. ie. If Trump had managed to make some fake charge against Biden stick in 2020, if the people still wanted Biden to be president, he could be.
Starfleet Academy series is also in production.
The unanimous requirement is for convictions. A separate jury is usually convened for sentencing, and is not necessarily required to be unanimous.
Why?
I was born and raised in Texas, and as much as I’ve grown tired of their shit, this is a vastly different situation to the last couple of power incidents they’ve had.
This was essentially a freak storm that came out of nowhere with something like a couple of hours of notice, spawned multiple tornadoes that took out a bunch of infrastructure, including at least one high-voltage transmission tower, and cut a path over a thousand miles, from Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
There are no regulations they’re circumventing by being in their own power grid that could have avoided this, and even being interconnected wouldn’t help much when the transmission lines have been ripped apart.
I mean, if it convinces people to actually do something about the climate? Yeah, let’s crow about it.
A lot of the remaining resistance to fighting against climate change is made based on a “it’s too expensive” or “companies would lose too much profit” argument. If we can tell them they’d lose more if they don’t help? They might do something.
It does fly in the face of the constitution, and multiple SCOTUS’ have affirmed exactly that several times.
Referring to people as unhoused is actually a way to help people see them as people and not an “other”. Some see “homeless” as a bit dehumanizing.
Giving politicians money and then asking them to pass a bill favorable to you is not “petitioning the government,” it’s bribery. If corps and billionaires want to try to convince the politicians that they should pass the bills they want, they can still do that. There just shouldn’t be money changing hands.
I got glasses for the first time about 5 years ago. Since I work on a computer all day, I asked them to add the blue light blocking coating to help reduce eye strain (if you’re not familiar, it looks mostly clear but it has a very mild yellow tint). My frequency of getting migraines while working has dropped significantly.
A lot of people, especially those on the far right, have painted anyone critical of the Israeli government 's actions in Gaza as anti-semites. This is clearly absurd if you take a second to think about it. Making note that Jewish people and Israelis are also critical of these actions is pointing out the absurdity of the statements of the far right.
And that price goes right into their pockets.
You’re right, it’s totally nonsensical. Clearly that was put in to screw with this specific situation.