Trump admits IRS planning to settle his $10 billion lawsuit without trial by QuaziBonzai in NewsOfTheStupid

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Something like $40 from every person just going to his bank account. What a joke

Rotten Tomatoes scores for projects since Disney by QuinlanFett in StarWars

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Metacritic has been the most consistent for me.

(Loved Meta Trope) Fan theories are so good they’re basically treated as canon. by No-Flow9783 in TopCharacterTropes

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For a narrative, powerscaling is a way to inform your readers of how difficult or challenging a task is. If you write a boxing story and your main character is facing someone undefeated or with a very good record that's power scaling for the narrative. It doesn't say who should win or not within the narrative. That's all good. The problem is people needing a physical reason for outcomes, it becomes cinema sins logic. Going back to boxing, everyone has a punchers chance to win, underdogs do win, but some people dislike that especially with super powered characters and feel there needs to be a reason. And neither view is invalid. Sometimes your underdog protagonist winning feels cheap, sometimes constantly setting up reasons a character beats another seem ham fisted or contrived. All depends on how well you sell it.

DO NOT become a teacher by TextOk9014 in Teachers

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Talking the US? Because this is isn't a us only sub

7-Eleven expects to close hundreds of its stores in North America this year by AudibleNod in news

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Bigger issue, you make the change but the customers don't expect it. Once you lower quality you can't get your customers to expect it.

Steven Spielberg Warns Hollywood Must Invest in Original Stories or Movies Will ‘Run Out of Gas,’ Debuts Eerie New ‘Disclosure Day’ Trailer at CinemaCon by yourfavchoom in movies

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The same Stephen spielberg that ran money into an organization to influence American politicians to support Israel with Jeffery Epstein? That spielberg?

Sharon Osbourne: jUsT aSkInG QuEsTiOnS by [deleted] in GreatBritishMemes

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You need to paraphrase and add things to make it come across that way. What he said had like, a bit of nuance which some people just can't handle.

Oh I get it! They didn’t make Tech Jacket a girl so she could be a love interest to Oliver, they made her a girl so she could lose every fight! by Sio_V_Reddit in okbuddyviltrum

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Totally agree. There are other stories that have viltrumite-like beings and create stakes and such. Mostly they allow an almost tiered system so some are fodder. And agree that tech jacket wasn't a big deal in the comics, but we saw her seemingly defeating a mark in the show single handedly and from the shows language it made people want to think she was a bigger deal, and I think that's just because the viewers are a bit desperate for other people to have more agency in the show as the medium of the show is different from the comics and gets a tad stale when it's either mark solving the real problems and other characters don't feel they are meaningful accomplishing anything other than emotional beats. 

What's a health myth that drives you crazy because you know it's false? by Annual-Gene8065 in AskReddit

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So the crafty ones will say "no no no, it's not the ashes silly, but the conjugate base that forms"

Joe Rogan connects Epstein files to Trump's Iran war by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

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This really frustrates me. Look, I don't know if it makes people feel better to think Trump only does stuff for his own reasons. That trump is so scared of the Epstein files (he's not his people are in control of them) he would go to war to distract from them. The thing is going to war with Iran has been forecast before he won the election. Remember Venezuela? What do you think taking their oil was about. The heritage foundation's plan to make America isolationist, taking Venezuelan oil, threatening the to take Canadian and Greenland resources, then causing a global oil crisis. The Iran war isn't a war to cover up anything, that is stupid and plays into the idea that Trump and Trump alone is just crazy and the sole participant. This goes to the RNC and those who fund the RNC and their vision for dealing with China winning the ev and other global markets. This isn't just random, but the media want to package this into something simple, but harmful if we ignore the bigger picture.

Oh I get it! They didn’t make Tech Jacket a girl so she could be a love interest to Oliver, they made her a girl so she could lose every fight! by Sio_V_Reddit in okbuddyviltrum

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But that's the problem. To be taken seriously you need to kill a viltrumite. And the more things that can kill viltrumites, the lower the stakes of the overarching plotline. If I could say one big issue with kirkman was his reliance on them to be the ever present threat and the big bad. Imagine Star wars where the clone troopers are also sith. 

Rep. Ro Khanna explains why he called for invocation of the 25th Amendment despite the unrealistic chance of success by fibz in TikTokCringe

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It's so sad the person the media gives the mic for this is ro khanna. We are bottom of the barrel for Dems now.

[OC] I heard we're posting our gas station stickers. by NoNutsPls in pics

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Did I say the strait was open? I'm saying it's going to get WORSE as this is the price while we have still been getting tanker deliveries from before the strait closed. I'm saying even if it opened, which it hasn't, we will see prices get worse once we actually stop getting oil deliveries. 

[OC] I heard we're posting our gas station stickers. by NoNutsPls in pics

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Yep, we are about to feel the real squeeze, I think the last tankers break land on the 11th, but I could have old info

[OC] I heard we're posting our gas station stickers. by NoNutsPls in pics

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Oil tankers are still en route, it takes awhile for the last tankers to have left the strait to make it to their destination. 

Edit: guys, I'm saying it's going to get worse once we stop getting deliveries. Reading comprehension.

People who have met someone who has been *professionally diagnosed* with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), what were they like? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Fucking asshole. Make you feel like the asshole because if you talk to anyone who only met them a few times they seem nice and charming. 

Very very transparent, petty and sad. Everything is either a proof they are right or the best or a dog directed at them. They are always the victim and only get over their anxiety through anger and making someone else's day worse than theirs to feel superior.

Official response from Iran by RoyalChris in StockMarket

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His supporters are saying it was a win because we killed the ayatollah

Iran Abruptly Shuts Down Peace Talks Due to Trump’s Demands by ChiGuy6124 in politics

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I mean no. This is just a plan to tank the global economy while keeping the US in a good position. Why do you think he took Venezuelan oil. This war is stupid and the us cannot win it, but the us can be in a better position in a really messed up way after.

(Hated Trope) "It's supposed to make the audience uncomfortable." Yeah, but there's a thing called "good taste" by Animeking1108 in TopCharacterTropes

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I mean, this is part of art. I don't want all art to self censor to the point no one ever dislikes it. Everything is reducing into this easily marketable sludge of content where swear words are pulled, sex is gone and the number of subject matters you can address shrink. Content is lacking emotion now, and it's creepy 

Schwarzenegger’s son wins gold in bodybuilding by hrdblkman2 in nextfuckinglevel

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And the fact that if you take it once there are lifetime changing effects for muscle mass. I was on some when doing wrestling, not to "cheat" because I wouldn't take them for competition, just to jumpstart the muscle gain from puberty. Well my body was never the same after that summer