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Happy birthday, you deserve to celebrate just being here no matter what else is happening
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Why would "giant rock monster beats fleshy human" be the angle the promoters wanted to take, rather than the much more remarkable opposite? What if they tried to bribe a Ben who's already considering going easy on his non-super opponent? Wouldn't that have some actual drama? Why am I asking this?
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Why would you need to pay someone to throw a fight against The Thing? Even if these guys are abnormally strong, he's The Thing. How could he lose?
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I like fried bologna but why is it so thick and pale
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"Live drums" rules out a ton of stuff. Apparently part of the motivation here is that the Americana category has gotten overstuffed in recent years -- Ferrell and Crockett were called out in an article as examples of artists that would probably end up in Traditional Country rather than Americana
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I looked at the rulebook definitions and this definition feels like it's explicitly written to exclude the past few decades of pop country, especially bro country ("live drums" feels like a specific callout aimed at the ubiquitous trap beats) bsky.app/profile/bene...
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"Live drums" seems very intentional, lol
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For reference, here are the new categories. The vast majority of mainstream radio stuff is going to end up in the Contemporary category.
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The Grammys rulebook explicitly lists outlaw country as a subset of this category. If followed faithfully, these rules really do exclude most mainstream radio country as much as they do Beyonce
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This new award is in the same group as the existing Americana/American Roots awards
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The category's description specifically calls out acoustic instrumentation and traditional song structure. There are a lot of artists fitting that description but it's not Morgan Wallen or any of those other guys
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I think the fact that this is a new category in a group that already had a lot of specific genres broken out makes the reporting on this seem pretty questionable. Beyonce wouldn't have been in the running for any of those awards and she'd still presumably be eligible for the headliner award
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It sounds like artists that would have gone into this category ended up in "Americana" and "American roots" categories, even though what they're doing is more in the Waylon Jennings mold, yeah. These aren't exactly bro country artists
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There are people doing traditional country to this day, but we'll see if any of them actually make it into the category
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I also try to establish specific types of things they have expertise in and to be realistic about them not figuring things out they wouldn't know. e.g. the bard has a lot of shallow knowledge from songs and theater, she knows some religious sects because she's done work for them but not others, etc.
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I have the same issue, but I just balance it out with personality, like my last 4 characters:
paladin - too big+scary to pull off tricks, loves smiting too much
warlock - unable to lie, trusts too easily
rogue - easily bored, loves fomenting chaos
bard - lacks familiarity w/ campaign setting, ego
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He's been doing stuff like this for a couple decades now
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I'm not talking about the physical document
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The number one rule of a dictatorship is that people need to accept it for it to continue existing. Taking "there will be no midterms" as a given is moral surrender
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The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution give us recourse for the situation you are describing
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"No elections" vs. "totally fixed elections" vs. "irregular elections subverted by legal tricks" makes a substantial difference
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It's mostly the mistress obsession tbh
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Johnson had to report an impure thought to his son after doing this, no doubt
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I don't know if this person is actually French but they exude French energy (highly derogatory)
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Schumer has already denounced Padilla's detainment, this seems unlikely
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Johnson doesn't have a say over whether a Senator is censured
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Many years later I found out that guy is Tim Russ, Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager.
That scene also has the gag where Dark Helmet is using the megaphone to talk to the guy next to him but then he puts it down and yells when he's talking to the people further away. Classic
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This has been on my mind as well
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The linked thread has Schumer denouncing it on the Senate floor, etc. bsky.app/profile/purr...
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The yelling gang queen made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe. What a discovery, I love her
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The premise that "cishet puppygirls" is a new thing rather than one of the most common tropes in kink for decades is very very funny to me
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This is also how I feel about the original movie
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I'm seeing some people trying to excuse missing the joke here, and... I mean, there are subtle jokes that are easy to miss, but this is not one of them
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In this case the long, long list of Spanish place names makes any other interpretation than "joke" impossible
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I'm putting "ghoul" on the high shelf until people learn how to use it with some degree of restraint
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This is a savory mug cake
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That tile looks hard on the knees
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Thinking of a minority political party as your only defense against fascism is not the only mistake here, but it's probably the biggest one
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Listen. Sometimes you need to have a little chocolate bar before you do your bike tricks.
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"You followed my instructions perfectly, honey"
"Oh no, Reed, there seems to be a problem with my bubble right in your location, watch out--"
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Even the jewelry. It's hard enough to buy a properly-fitting necklace or bracelet when you're a couple standard deviations larger than the average woman, and Shulkie is way past the end of the bell curve.
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It is. I like it when She-Hulk gets to wear civvies that aren't insane '80s fashion (e.g. that bowtie thing she was wearing last time). Do you think she has a clothesmaker on retainer? She sure can't buy off the rack.
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So badly kerned
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I think the chart may be wrongly labeled. Other sources I'm seeing are counting in billions, e.g. www.politico.com/interactives...
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Honest to God I have landed on the wrong side of this guess twice, and it was on different sides each time
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The range of physical traits for cis women is wide enough that it's not that hard to land on a thicker part of the bell curve. Height being probably the biggest single exception.
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It's really funny coming from the political movement that is led by a halfwit celebrity who is constantly talking about "central casting" and which bases their understanding of the past on ad campaigns, sitcoms, and AI-generated fantasies
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Ah, I didn't know that was a thing.