MirthfulAlembic

There are some municipalities where landowners are required to remove graffiti in a timely fashion or be fined by the city. In such places, the landlord would definitely pass those costs to tenants. Not that they would lower rents if the problem went away, of course. One year of a graffiti problem would likely permanently raise rents unless you live somewhere with a glut of available affordable rentals.

Never saw any before this year. I don't get how they survive because they are the slowest, dumbest bugs I've ever seen. They just loudly splat onto the ground out of nowhere and flail about while I stomp them into a pulp.

I don't think another Mister Rogers could or would want to compete for views based on thumbnails and video titles. I just can't imagine, "You will NOT BELIEVE how EASY it is to treat your NEIGHBORS with COMPASSION!"

It's even worse than that because I doubt they're going to Puerto Rico to visit friends. It's more like saying, "My maid is black. I can't be racist."

And MA has also had Republican governors in recent history, yet both are always among the highest % voting Democratic in presidential/congressional elections with Democratic supermajorities in their state houses.

Governors in New England are often a weird exception and are sometimes linked to poor turnout. That does not mean either state would have more of an appetite for a centrist party. Such a party would probably take more Republican votes than Democratic.

They're just meeting what the market demands.

I'm not sure about New England. New Hampshire and Maine such a party would probably work in, but I am doubtful of any of the rest. MA and VT are two of the most left-leaning states in the country.

It's not the economy. If it was, they wouldn't be considering the guy who wants to throw tariffs around willy-nilly. It's one of the other things. You know, those things.

I think, at least in the GoT example, sexual situations can be used to communicate a lot about the attitudes and culture around sex and nudity in the universe of the show or movie. It's much more interesting than somebody saying, "Hey, person who already knows this: it's considered normal for men to use brothels, isn't it?"

It's much less interesting and necessary for something set in the "current" world, since the audience doesn't need as much education in the social mores. However, it can make the work have better instructive longevity if it's an accurate depiction of the time, since people fifty years in the future can watch and understand what was different.

But I do agree that overall there has been a lot of gratuitous nudity and sex, just the same with violence, etc.

No, they absolutely do pledge and affirm that. Not sure what that person is talking about. It's definitely, at least on paper, expected for individuals in the military to refuse to follow unlawful orders. What happens in practice is another story. See: entire history of US military action.

This is really key, though the state level is probably most important. If your voting activism doesn't go beyond the presidential election, it's performative at most. A third party candidate without members of their party is state houses and Congress is going to be fairly ineffective even if they somehow did do the impossible and get elected.

I was going to say who cares if they're selling a mount skin, but if on-the-go access to the auction house and mailbox isn't normally accessible, this seems shitty.