Interesting. I didn’t know there would be minimums like that.

The only people doing this are loaded with enough cash or assets to not have to take out a mortgage. They’ll be fine.

You can’t get a new mortgage without insurance

Anyone going without home insurance is paying cash for their house. No bank would give someone a mortgage on a property that could turn to ashes with no insurance.

My thoughts exactly.

Horrible way to display this.

In states with no income taxes and mostly regressive taxes like sales taxes and other consumption tax, the rich with large income (who always disproportionately account for all income in any state) pay a very low share of their income in taxes. Some people will be paying 10% of their income in taxes because their entire income is spent every month and taxed as consumption (sales taxes). While others pay only 2% of their income in taxes because a good portion of their income goes into savings and tax-free retirement accounts and not on consumption.

Meanwhile states with a progressive income tax ensure that (closer to) everyone pays a more fair share of their income. So the rich end up paying more of their income. While lower income families pay a lower sales tax rate (and/or are able to see the benefits of better social programs funded by the taxes on the wealthy)

I initially read that as “Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat.”

Which isn’t really wrong either.

Every decade after the 1920s has been special for cinema for the generation that treasured it.

“Delaying”

Their claims are based largely on building artificial islands which extends their 200 miles from the coast claims (by aging more coast). This US claim isn’t extending coast (so no control of the water column or surface), only continental shelf and mining rights

That’s awesome. Bookmarked!

I think that’s the basic premise of the Star Trek hypospray. Pressure pushing in medicine rather than a needle.

Exactly. Early Marvel was deeply about character and their depth and character flaws that made them interesting. Thor, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, and especially Tony Stark were interesting and complex personalities. (Bruce Banner and Clint Barton…eh).

The stories in recent Marvel products are fine. Mildly interesting serials. Ok popcorn fare.

But the character development has been getting more and more lacking. Even Thor has been reduced to ‘dumb blonde’/‘dumb entitled rich kid’ gags.

I think that’s part of what makes Loki one of the only really interesting outings for Marvel recently. He stayed reasonably conflicted and complex.

I assume someone somewhere decided that it was going to net a profit (after already sunk production costs and yet-to-be-spent promoting costs and other obligations) of less than $30 million.

So if given the choice between hoping it maybe makes $20-40 million in net profit vs a guaranteed $30 million as a tax write-off, that’s easy math for the number crunchers.

I have no idea but they could also have decided they didn’t want to spend to promote it. It costs a fortune in money up front to promote movies these days, even after the movie is ‘in the can’. Money is getting more and more expensive with interest rates going up, so financing even promotional costs is more expensive.

“Status Report” is great, and the rest are good enough and the episode was really fun.

Glad they did it, but I’m not looking for an annual occurrence. I can love it and also say 1 is enough. Same with the Lower Decks crossover

Exactly. Collectors and dealers snap them up as investments and/or part them out. The secondary parts market is getting massive (that’s why the Lego group bought Bricklink). Where do you think those dealers get all the parts?

Roadrunner & Coyote. Tom & Jerry (mostly, there was some weird talking occasionally). Shaun the Sheep. Pink Panther.

Lots of examples of famous main characters who lead shows with little to no dialogue.

There are also characters like Snoopy and Gromit who are silent characters in shows where others speak, but there are long stretches where they do their own thing with no dialogue.

In some jurisdictions, false reporting of emergencies is illegal. Not sure about DC or the halls of Congress.

The proverbial false yelling of “fire” in crowded theater is literally one of the test examples for limitations that should be placed on free speech because it is so dangerous.

Profoundly stupid. Your hapless opponents are creating all the bad press they can for you. How did he possibly think this would help?

It would be great to stop requiring petroleum, but I appreciate that they’re putting a priority on reducing greenhouse gas emissions first and foremost and aren’t going to keep this project moving forward just to greenwash. It would be easy to not admit the mistake, but good on them for making a commitment and really meaning it.

Did you read the article or any others about it? Human creativity is the heart of copyright law. If humans didn’t make it, no copyright. At least under the latest ruling.

At least in the USA: You absolutely can control the distribution of your likeness if it wasn’t taken in public.

Photos of you in public can’t be controlled because you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. If someone takes a picture of you privately, even if not for commercial purposes, you can absolutely control the use of that image unless you release it.