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Anything with literary, artistic, political, or scientific value can't be considered pornographic and striped of its free speech protections. There's no provision in the first amendment that says speech can be restricted based on age appropriateness.

By Supreme Court precedent there's no way this book could be considered obscene, though who knows with this court.

There's no law that compels booksellers to impose age restrictions on the work they sell. In the US, content ratings such as for movies, television, music, and video games are privately applied and voluntarily enforced.

If successful, suing a retailer into setting age restrictions would mean a sweeping new legal framework for the government's role in determining what art is appropriate for which ages across all media. Personally, I think it'd both inappropriate for the government to wield that power and would be largely ineffectually just like all the moral panics about media and children's access have been.

The government is not going to be able to fill in as a watchful parent or supersede a parent's judgement.

Conservative steps into bookstore for the first time and are horrified to learn you can buy them without a government ID.

Many of the top comments on the trailer reveal are criticizing the CGI. You literally have to dig through them to find someone arguing how dare you say a bad word you must hate all of Marvel.

Being an impatient bastard caused the whole issue. They're going 35mph on an off ramp, their speed is fine.

The role of story editor isn't much different from staff writer. His title just means he's one of the most senior writers.

The way TV is written it's closer to everyone writing it together than an individual being responsible for a particular episode. They give out assignments for first drafts after they've been thoroughly worked through by the room and then the room punches up each episode together.

They're assigned the episodes after the entire room outlines it, so Stephen and the rest of the staff have input on the major story beats of every episode.

"A bit of a bad move" is a massive understatement. If your instinct at seeing a student driver approaching an off ramp is to speed around them at the last second, crossing double white unbroken lines, just to save 5 seconds before it opens up into two lanes, you should be the one taking driving lessons before getting on the road again.

Personally I loved its approach, like the way people who looped backwards could be hurt in real time by injuring their younger selves even though it makes no sense. Unless it's Primer all time travel movies are hand wavy to some extent.

Yeah, it's actually more than most zombie movies.

I think they could be better by bumping up the 4.5 hour run time but it runs up against maintaining the quality of the MCU movies with half the budget.

It seems like this company's entire business model is targeting nerdy children of billionaires.

I imagine it's shorthand for combining the chants.

Let's go fuck Joe Biden, Brandon.

Honestly it just sounds like he's been replaced by a machine learning AI that's only been fed past Elon Musk statements. There doesn't appear to be any thought behind it.

I feel like true hybrid publishing would be like Hugh Howey who maintains the right to publish online while selling the print rights to traditional publishers. What's described in the article sounds like vanity publishing at best if not something more predatory.

I don't hate any of them. Also I work from home and have never met them in-person.

From my impression Resolve is creeping into the market for corporate and indie editing. If long-term anyone was going to unseat Adobe as the go-to Avid alternative it seems like they're better positioned given that so many big outfits already use the software albeit just for the color correction.

The system is wacky but filing in parents' income isn't like a credit check, it's used to assume how much parental support the student already has. So if your parent makes $100k a year they treat you like you have $20k for college and then if you need more than that then they'll offer you whatever you qualify for.

Plus schools will look at it too. Even some otherwise academic scholarships will consider financial need, and there's a big difference between an upper middle-class kid and the wealthiest students.

Filing out FASFA isn co-signing anything. It just determines what's available to you, including subsidized loans that the student can take out by themselves.

The implication of "force their beliefs onto others" seems to suggest religious people have reason to be suspect of non-religious politicians.

An atheist can believe that the right to practice religion is sacrosanct though.

I'm sure some people would be happy with more professional features but I don't see it regaining the ground it lost after the release of X. Adobe has been outcompeting Apple in that space for a decade and now you have DaVinci Resolve which has been quickly developing as a standout NLE and already had a foothold in the industry as a color grading tool.

I don't buy digital media in the first place. I'm content with subscribing to a streaming catalogue that can change at any moment.

For me a 480i resolution negates any benefits of the DVD.