Silco from Arcane.

I often struggle with media villains, finding them unrealistic or unconvincing, but Silco is just so well-rounded and well-written, he elevates the quality of every other character he interacts with. In a series full of near- and actually-superpowered people, this weak, middle-aged man is the most terrifying and influential of them all.

American here. I’ve always heard that you should see a doctor (or at least try upping your fiber intake) if you don’t poop at least once a day on average.

As mentioned in other comments, the United States’ climate ranges from tropical to arctic depending on location, so your teacher’s explanation is nonsensical. Either your teacher was an idiot, a jokester, or you misinterpreted/misremembered what she said.

For reference, the highest state* minimum wage in the US is Washington State at $17.13 (in Seattle it’s $21.30).

*not counting Washington DC

Wage laws across the US are all over the place. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

Addendum for Japan: Yankee ヤンキー more commonly refers to a (juvenile) delinquent

Do you happen to live in North America? If so I’d highly recommend checking out the Xerces society plant lists for recommended species that support local pollinators. The plant lists include timing info for suggestions on what would bloom the rest of the year, because as you mention lilacs are fairly short bloomers (might I recommend my namesake, the humble fireweed, which is a late summer bloomer?)

Star Trek? (Specifically the original series movies)

Guardians, absolutely. First was brilliant, second starts to fall to Marvel tropes, and by the third I just couldn’t wait for it to be over.

Glass Onion was disappointing?

I thought 3 was a deal better than 2. 2 was generic Hollywood schlock that dragged in the middle; 3 at least attempted some interesting things, and even bordered on artsy at times.

1 was, of course, the best. Haven’t seen 4 and 5.

Two examples where erroneous usage has resulted in this paradox:

• Regardless and irregardless

• “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less”

I didn’t mean all supermarket apples, just certain varieties (such as the so-called “red delicious”), but I’ll edit my comment to clarify.

“Looks great tastes awful” – fruits that have been bred/engineered for shelf appearance over taste (e.g. certain varieties of supermarket tomatoes and apples), and desserts like cakes that have all manner of pretty and intricate decorations on them, but then taste bland or off.

This is the second unhelpfully vague question you’ve posed today about writing.

So it would seem the first thing you need to do is to look up resources on effective communication and on accurately identifying problems/goals. Because I’m unclear as to whether the problem is that you don’t know what you’re looking for when asking these questions, or that you do know and for some reason assume that we can read your mind and know it too even without your properly describing it.

Are we talking fiction or non-fiction? Obligated writing (school, work) or voluntary writing (journaling, fun)? Getting over a hump (dealing with writer’s block) or getting started in the first place?

It’s really hard to give advice without knowing the context of the problem.

Good point, title altered accordingly

Has the XKCD guy been nostalgia-watching *Bring It On"?

Yes, that’s the point (it’s an edit of an image Trump posted to truth social, then deleted after backlash).

Normally I call out AI slop too, but this one has “official” precedence.

For the love of fuck, we’re using apostrophes to conjugate verbs now too?

The issue I’m raising here is that (again using an example from the newspaper days) you can have a singular strip that’s “complete,” with its own setup and punchline, that’s still part of an overarching story.

Imagine, say, Garfield, where on Monday Jon takes Garfield to the vet, Tuesday through Friday’s strips take place during said vet visit (each strip featuring its own joke that could be understood on its own, but is enhanced by the context provided by the other strips that week), and then on Saturday Jon takes Garfield home, ending the vet visit saga. Posting the “complete story” would require posting all six comic strips together, even though they were published separately and (more often than not) are still understandable (and hopefully funny) even without having read the other five strips that constitute the “complete story.”

Did you mean “open ocean creatures”? While tuna can dive 500-1000 meters, and while technically “deep sea” refers to >200 meters, I generally consider “deep sea creatures” to be those that live primarily/exclusively in environments with no light and high pressure, like on the sea floor (~3500m) or in trenches (down to ~11,000m).

But I could be wrong! Maybe a marine biologist or oceanographer can clarify? (Lemmy needs a Unidan, minus the ego and voting fraud.)

Either way, zero overlap with any feline habitats.