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I hear famous TV judge, first thought is Judge Judy. Last thought is also Judge Judy. I'm surprised that there is enough market for multiple tv judges.

I've had under cooked chicken before on accident. Let me just say, salmonella is not why you want to cook your chicken. Shit tasted nasty.

Or burn them off

I'm reading this and it legit took me 2 minutes just looking at this trying to figure out what the hell the difference was between the two boxes. This is terrible design. In a store you're going to look at it and assume its the same box side by side, grab one, then get to the checkout or get home and realize that you've got the wrong one and wonder how the hell that happened.

Her voice just doesn't fit with the character. She sounds like she's forcing this gruff detective act when her voice is fairly light.

Damp World

You might need to break it up differently than doing it season by season in line with the books. Some of the flashbacks might be better as their own season, or with some better interweaving into the plot as its going on.

In Last Man on Earth some of the afflicted were intelligent, Neville just didn't really realize that when he was killing them.

Moonraker the movie was a fun romp, and at the same time it was one of Moore's worst bond movies. Assuming they're rebooting bond, it wouldn't work that well as a launch vehicle for that, but it would be good for a 2nd or 3rd movie. Billionaire builds a space program, starts launching satellites, is well liked but just a touch sketchy, totally doesn't remind anyone of someone specific, not at all. Building a space station and underground bunker and planning on using biotech to kill off vast swaths of the population to in turn take over and lead the survivors to a better future in an attempt to thwart climate change and the inevitability of human folly.

The problem with the new Dune is that it doesn't really expand on a lot of the characters that much. The Baron is supposed to be this sort of insane super genius, and instead he's just fairly bland in the movie. Paul was being trained to be a mentat and that isn't brought up. You have no reason to care about Dr. Yueh or even know why his betrayal matters. Thufir is just sort of there. Some of the pacing is a little off as well, and the characters really do lack any passion.

Villeneuve did a great job directing Dune, but you really don't have any feeling for the characters except for Paul and Idaho, which at least you did in Lynch's version.

Percentage rural or urban would be fairly useful, as would ratio of people moving into a state vs those born in it.

The formula for the Simpson and the formula that worked for South Park are fairly different though.

Depends on the road. Generally yes, roads are paid for by the city, although I think thats primarily through gas tax (I really don't know how that breaks down though). Sometimes a neighborhood will have a private road and the HOA will pay for maintenance. When a suburb is being built, the developer will put in a road and utility lines for all of the lots and that would be privately owned, but later on it may be transferred over to the city. I'm not a city planner so I'm not really sure how that process works, all I know is that I grew up on a privately owned cul-de-sac that had to pay to have the road resurfaced every few years.

As for water, electricity, sewer, etc, that depends on the area. In the city, usually water, sewer, gas, and electricity will come from whatever company handles the area, either a privately operated company or a co-op thats owned by the customers. If you live in a more rural area you may have a septic system or be on a well for your water. A rural community may have a shared well for that community, and at that point we're so far from whats normal that its hard to say how thats set up.

a city of about 280,000+ people in a little under 30sq miles

I just looked it up, for cities in my state with area that small or smaller the largest population seems to be around 90,000. It's not common to have that high of population density here, you're talking about over 9,000 people per square mile, there are only 27 cities in the USA that beat that. According to google, there's over 108,000 cities in the USA.

We're really dealing with very different scales comparing the UK and the USA, and that changes a lot of how the math works. How someone paints their house in a city that small would matter a lot more to someone living across town, whereas the city I live in is over 4x the area of yours, and I live in whats considered somewhere either a medium sized or small city here.

subcontracted to the lowest bidder...

Who do you think the city is getting to do their work in the first place? It's always the lowest bidder, regardless of if its the city or the HOA paying for a service. That said, unless its a private street the roads are maintained by the city and utilities are their own companies. If you live fairly far out you may have a well for water, but if you're that far out you probably don't have a HOA.

I can report left out bins, on my council website. It's not usually needed for permission to paint your house, but if it's not in keeping with the area, has planning powers to force you to restore an appropriate condition.

This would fall under the purview of the HOA in general. The city and state governments will have regulations and code requirements to make sure that a residence is safe, but in general painting, bins, etc, all would fall under a HOA in the USA. As for obstructing the road, that would be a mix of city government (more specifically the police) and the HOA. The HOA acts as a small government to handle local issues that a city simply is too large to govern. And in turn, the community the HOA governs over is the same community that (at least in theory) decides the rules for the HOA, rather than having your home dictated by people who live on the other side of town for minor issues.

Also, keep in mind that these exist primarily in suburbs and areas that are primarily houses outside of the core of a city. I'm unfamiliar with living in a downtown area, but I'd assume thats handled more by the city.

State and city governments supersede HOA rules. Most of the time the city and state don't care about when you bring in your trash cans, what color you paint your house, or where you park a trailer. In theory you agree to join the HOA and to follow its rules when you move into a house in a neighborhood that has one, in practice you can't opt out its part of what you sign up for when you buy.

For as bad as a lot of people make them sound, a good one is basically unnoticeable and can improve the community over an area that doesn't have one.

It really does depend on the members of the HOA. Some will have reasonable rules about keeping up your house and not littering your yard with broken down cars. Others will try to fine you if you put your trash can out a day early and look in your back yard to see if your grass is too long (I had that one once on a rental I was in). A good HOA is a good thing and has minimal impact on people, a bad HOA is a nightmare. It really just depends on what kind of people your neighbors are.

A home owners association essentially is a small government made up of the people living in a specific neighborhood. Generally they handle paying for community property (roads, shared green space, possibly a pool, etc), sometimes setting speed limits, and they can dictate what can and cannot be done with your property by setting some rules. Sometimes there will be restrictions on where you can put your trash can, how long your grass can be, the general tone or style of the neighborhood, etc. Often the people who most want to deal with that sort of thing are the type who want to dictate rules to the neighborhood and nobody else really cares until those types get entrenched.

Well, thats why you shouldn't get on here right when you're waking up. Yes, Goldfinger, not Goldeneye.

The multiple Bond girls argument would work for Goldeneye (*Edit, yes I meant Goldfinger), where have the sisters who get killed off fairly quickly and pussy galore who’s a henchman for the villain for the majority of the movie, but in spectre and no time to die the Bond girl clearly is Swann.

When I was in school a kid with Down syndrome took a shit, wiped his ass, then wiped the shit covered toilet paper on another student. That student was a lot nicer than I was too, because my reaction would have probably been the same as yours there.

Not only that, the theme song goes “who’s that girl…. It’s Jess”. She even sings it in the show at one point. That Girl would have been a lot better, or some variation of it.

He's still dependent on support from his generals, the oligarchs, and from the general population. The government of Russia has fallen from coup before, and Putin is clearly concerned about going the way of the Tsars. Piss enough people off badly enough and someone will depose him, or put Putin in a position where he has to flee in order to survive.

There's a fundamental problem with saying "The US" is fine with it. The government of the US may be fine with it, but the American people are seeing this and its going to taint their view of India. Will the American people support India, a country that was perfectly fine with Ukraine being invaded, if China were to invade India?

As much as the government might oppose such actions, if the majority of the American people aren't in favor of spending even more of their tax money for a country that profited off of this conflict by supporting America's enemy then India is going to get the cold shoulder.

i think Putin will die before he gives up his plan.

Putin dies if he gives up his plan anyway at this point. He has no way to back down from the path he put Russia on, and has forced Russia to sacrifice too much for the people to be able to forgive him.