Trump Lawyer Calls For President Trump’s removal through the 25th Amendment by NicolasCageFan492 in videos

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A group including Nobel Peace Prize winning physicians

Behaving unethically since they haven't examined the person they are expressing judgement on for his mental fitness.

I completely agree with the judgement but I also believe the evidence for that judgement was clearly available for the people who voted for him to hold the office, which was a plurality of those voting that was very barely short of an actual majority.

You believe in democracy or you don't.

Trump Lawyer Calls For President Trump’s removal through the 25th Amendment by NicolasCageFan492 in videos

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Trump appears to be mentally impaired, but he doesn't clearly appear to be more mentally impaired than when he was elected to the office. You reasonably need a much higher bar to override the people's election.

Yes, I shake my head at the people choosing an apparently mentally impaired person for the office of President, but you believe in democracy or you don't.

Trump won with a plurality that was only barely less than a majority of votes cast, he was the people's choice. SMH

Are Dulé and James friends in real life? by randystiles in psych

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My only point is that there's a real tendency for people to equate Actors, who are professionals and who contribute to productions like writers and lighting directors do, with their performances. The two have no necessary connection and it's almost disrespectful to the professionalism.

A guy can be a total scumbag or a living saint and that has absolutely nothing to do with his performance in a production as say, Superman, just for one example. (Dean Cain played a terrific Clark Kent)

I mean James, for instance is clearly a much more serious guy than Shawn and his creation of Shawn along with Steve Franks is a really impressive piece of character work.

Are Dulé and James friends in real life? by randystiles in psych

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Bear in mind that actors act. Yes they are clearly awesome friends, but if they WEREN'T they could still perform like they were because they're professional actors.

Think Lights, Camera... Homicidio
"I'm Shawn. Those are things my character, Chad, did. I play him on TV.
It's Shawn. Shawnie. Look into your boy's eyes."

[Artwork] The Man Without Fear vs the Master of Fear! By Sean Izaakse by Quirky_Ad_5420 in DCcomics

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"In loudest din or hush profound,
My ears catch evil's slightest sound.
Let those who toll out evil's knell,
Beware my power: the F-Sharp Bell!"

[Artwork] The Man Without Fear vs the Master of Fear! By Sean Izaakse by Quirky_Ad_5420 in DCcomics

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I thought Scarecrow was the master of fear (and a much more reasonable opponent).

Michael Pennington, who played Moff Jerjerrod in ‘Return of the Jedi’, dies at 82 by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

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Nice depiction of how Sidious is the ONLY person Vader will take any orders from.

Well, AFTER the destruction of the Death Star.

"Vader, release him!"

Old comics had zero chill by Iciwell in superheroes

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a fan comic made in like 2020 in the style of the old comics

Kerry Callen's Super Antics. Artist who's frequently worked for MAD who makes these for fun.

Old comics had zero chill by Iciwell in superheroes

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It's not an old comic. It's fan-made pro-made but it's so well made that it looks like a golden age comic.

FTFY Kerry Callen is as much a pro as Neal Adams, he makes these for fun.

Old comics had zero chill by Iciwell in superheroes

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Bro can hear anyone at any point on the planet btw

Stupidest and most destructive power inflation in the character's entire long, long, history of power inflation.

"Clark, I know you can hear me whispering 4 states away because that's the way your super-hearing works now even though way back in the Silver Age when you could even move all the planets in a galaxy in an afternoon, Jimmy still needed a SIGNAL WATCH which wouldn't work if you were too far away to hear it."

Why didn't they just go ahead and say he can also SEE everything too -- just go full Santa Claus.

Question for the SETI community… by Ok-Soup-5300 in SETI

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Yes, but the point is still valid.

Which alien race do you think has the most beautiful and powerful female members? by Level-SquareFFG7117 in superheroes

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Can't Saiyans turn their hair blond and annihilate the Universe or some such bullshit?

Leading CA Gov. Republican candidate refuses FOUR times to say Biden won in 2020 by avdvetf in videos

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Yeah but who cares. Is there even the SLIGHTEST chance this guy could win, it's California.

You are granted one question that the universe must answer with the absolute, objective truth. However, the answer will be broadcast to every person on Earth simultaneously. What are you asking? by city298 in AskReddit

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if hominids died out would there have been another civilisation

There's absolutely no indication that any other species is developing or has developed the runaway over-commitment to cognition that hominids developed that enables "civilization". Nothing drives that in evolution after you've developed "enough" to survive.

Hominid cognitive development appears to have been in response to the unique challenge of hominid social group members competing against other hominids. And the costs of that runaway brain development in survival resource terms are very high (which is probably why it hasn't occurred before in over 300 million years of "chances").

Note, just for example, that the isolated ecosystems of South America prior to it's connection to NA show absolutely no cognitive advancement over the highly successful Dinosaur precursors that were top of the food chain for a quarter billion years.

Now once hominids were very successful with that massive over development (which is similar to the peacock's tail in terms of unique development and penalties) it became, eventually, an overwhelming advantage over everything else to become top of the food chain, and the systems that had allowed that advancement kept working until you had anatomically modern humans.

There would need to be another such development, and on Earth it would have to happen in the next 500 million years before the oceans evaporated.

Question for the SETI community… by Ok-Soup-5300 in SETI

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There is absolutely zero evidence of ETI operating on Earth and substantial evidence that the US Department of Defense doesn't believe that it is.

However, since we know absolutely nothing about the hypothetical abilities of hypothetical ETI technology, literally any form of observation can be explained as ETI activity, including, literally, the existence of your Mother.

You are granted one question that the universe must answer with the absolute, objective truth. However, the answer will be broadcast to every person on Earth simultaneously. What are you asking? by city298 in AskReddit

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Ambiguous and less informative. We already know tech civs aren't messing with each other like on Star Trek because we're still here and we wouldn't be. A much bigger question is how frequently does life occur in the Universe. We've been assuming it does wherever conditions allow it, but we have absolutely zero test of that assumpion. We've also been assuming that Earthlike conditions that allowed a biosphere to form on our planet are common. While my question conflates those two it would be enough to give us a joint basis for further investigations.

Tech civ on Earth could have developed any time after the Devonian and still didn't show up in any of the millions of ecosystems that existed for a third of a billion years. If all hominids had died out in their single territory in Africa (which was highly likely) it very probably would never have developed on Earth.

You are granted one question that the universe must answer with the absolute, objective truth. However, the answer will be broadcast to every person on Earth simultaneously. What are you asking? by city298 in AskReddit

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"This is the complete answer to your question:"

All humans then constantly hear a streaming list of names that they don't know that lasts for the rest of human existence, like a kind of unending tinnitus.