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I guess? Just feels like that would make it easier to understand than harder... the older stuff was pretty close to just all stop motion, all the time, y'know?

Either the prosecution has such a zealous hard-on for prosecuting Rittenhouse they're willing to ignore instructions and jeopardize a verdict because they think they can sway the jury.....or they're banking on the judge being removed from the trial due to bias.....or they've secretly been paid off to throw the trial.

I've seen commentary that it's also possible they're just flat out fucking incompetent, largely due to how softball our system makes it for prosecutors most of the time. If the killer had shot a cop instead, the prosecutor probably would have skated through to a conviction doing exactly what they're doing, basically, and may be used to doing just that.

Like, I developed a ridiculous bias against vegetables as a child, and even as an adult whose tastes have changed, and I can put the corn and peas into my mouth and taste them and objectively think "This isn't that bad, it's pretty decent actually", I can't help but just look at them and my brain is screaming at me to just immediately put it into the garbage. I'm mildly upset at myself for retaining my immature taste in food all the way up into almost middle age.

I mean, I'm pretty middle age at this point and can't even put the corn and peas in my mouth and think "this isn't that bad", because they both taste objectively horrible to me, like most vegetables, and have since I was a kid. Your taste in food is your taste in food, there's no mature or immature to it. It can change, but its change is its change and your change, not some kind of adjustment on a maturity scale of taste.

Exposure may or may not work, I've been trying for over a decade to develop tolerance to the stuff and almost all of it tastes as shit on day 4200 as they did on day 1. There's been points when trying has outright caused me to vomit due to the stuff just tasting that goddamn bad to me. Most gains I've managed for all the trouble is not having as much problem with onion powder, if it's used lightly (and anything it's in tastes better if it's just... not).

That's a position to hold if you want to criminalize all protests and most large gatherings forever, I guess. There's always some armed folks in those, plus it drops the amount of evidence cops need to plant to arrest a group of people down to basically nothing, which would no doubt have them cheerfully salivating.

I'd probably be more comfortable just criminalizing murder and whatnot, ha.

Yeah, really need the state clarification, heh... there's apparently twenty something portlands in the US.

The bill is finalized and through Congress. Don't know if Biden's formally signed it yet, but it's done.

Breakdown (according to CNN)

$110 billion for roads, bridges and major infrastructure projects.
 $39 billion to modernize public transit
$65 billion investment in improving the nation's broadband infrastructure,
$17 billion in port infrastructure and $25 billion in airports
$7.5 billion for zero- and low-emission buses and ferries
$7.5 billion to building a nationwide network of plug-in electric vehicle chargers
$65 billion to rebuild the electric grid
$55 billion to upgrade water infrastructure
$50 billion would go toward making the system more resilient
$21 billion to clean up Superfund and brownfield sites, reclaim abandoned mine land and cap orphaned gas wells

Ah, cheers for that. Probably woefully insufficient, but it's a damn sight more than the fuckall that was happening last administration, ha.

Which infrastructure is going to be improved first? From what one can see on movies, social media and "news" sources your roads, water, gas and electricity are very good. Or is to further improve them over all?

Our roads, water, gas and electricity are all pretty shit in a lot of places, actually. Rolling brown outs in major cities, shit like what happened in texas last year, regular issues with contamination in water (places in this country you can light the fucking tap water on fire, on bad days) as well as looming issues with water supply, pervasive under maintenance of road and bridge ways, major lack of hardening against climate/weather issues in many places, spotty internet infrastructure in many parts of the country... the list just kinda' goes on, we've been kicking infrastructure cans down the road in chunks of the US all my goddamn life.

Don't recall the specifics of the one that's going/gone through, though. Lot of stuff's shifted around, and until it's actually signed and done (which I think it isn't quite there, yet, on the smaller one?) it's hard to say exactly what's in it.

So if we said the Smashing Pumpkins are a smashing success we would mean they are destroying success?

A destroying success, maybe? If they were breaking any records or something of similar intent, or aspirationally intending to. It'd be a bit odd, but I'm pretty sure it's legit english, or at least legit enough english stops giving a damn and starts rifling through someone's pockets for loose change.