Just Google “Neil Gaiman” and “scandal” for more context, but basically he used his position as a popular artist to do some gross, sex pest stuff.

Dairy Queen has been selling food since 1958. They are not “an ice cream store” any more than McDonalds is

middle managers suck.

FTFY

SOME of our hearts are in the right place

Okay, you seem to believe that every American is somehow perfectly reflected by its government, which is reductive but I get it, you’re upset.

But if you live on planet Earth, whether or not it suits you, it absolutely IS your problem. My government is an extractive, imperialist bully. My government’s military is single largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and biggest single institutional emitter of greenhouse gases. My government has no qualms about making it your problem.

Pretending it’s not your problem is like pretending the neighbor’s house on fire isn’t your problem. You can get away with that for a while, but eventually you’ll burn too.

Nobody is being quiet about it, though. People are on the ground doing real things to try to change this. Like, ALL kinds of people. It takes time, and saying things like “your country is whack” isn’t helpful in and of itself. Saying “looking at this thing happening in your whack country right now” (like this post) is helpful. I didn’t ask anybody to solve our problems.

Me too!

We are. It’s going to take some time, and it will probably get a lot worse before it gets better, but we are.

Yeah, we’re working on it. Things are just getting heated up now. It takes a lot of critical mass to do what needs to be done. That takes time, unfortunately.

Yeah, again we know our country sucks. What else do you have? Because if you seriously think that “It’s not anyone else’s problem” then, have I got news for you

Thanks, we know that. Got anything helpful to share with the class?

State law enforcement here in Minnesota has told protesters not to come. All politicians who were scheduled to speak will not be showing up.

Wanna bet that a curfew is next?

Reporting in from Minnesota: State law enforcement is now telling everybody “Do not show up to No Kings Day Events”

Would “the average person” agree with you?

There was this Supreme Court case in 1973 "Miller v. California, during which the Supreme Court basically decided that it has to be obscene in order to be considered pornography, and then the question became, “What is legally considered to be obscene?” From that case we derive something called the “Miller Test”, which has three criteria:

1. Whether “the average person, applying contemporary community standards”, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.

2. Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law.

3. Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

For a something to be considered pornographic, it must be ALL THREE criteria, with the first two criteria being left in the hands of local ordinances and governments, and the last being left sort of up to interpretation depending on a locality’s culture and values.

The definition of pornography has changed over time. Caligula might have been considered pornography AT THE TIME, but by modern legal definitions, I don’t think it passes. Even the extended version with penetration, because the film isn’t “intended to arouse” and also does not “lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”.

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That WOULD be ideal, yes

Good. Now have HBO Max put a LOOOONG disclaimer before each movie plays

I usually try to figure out what the weather and temperature are going to be for the duration of time I’m going to be out, plus a little more just in case, and then dress accordingly. So it’s not always about the weather RIGHT NOW, per se