My thoughts exactly.

I initially read that as “Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat.”

Which isn’t really wrong either.

Every decade after the 1920s has been special for cinema for the generation that treasured it.

Their claims are based largely on building artificial islands which extends their 200 miles from the coast claims (by aging more coast). This US claim isn’t extending coast (so no control of the water column or surface), only continental shelf and mining rights

“Realistic”

I think that’s the basic premise of the Star Trek hypospray. Pressure pushing in medicine rather than a needle.

Exactly. Early Marvel was deeply about character and their depth and character flaws that made them interesting. Thor, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, and especially Tony Stark were interesting and complex personalities. (Bruce Banner and Clint Barton…eh).

The stories in recent Marvel products are fine. Mildly interesting serials. Ok popcorn fare.

But the character development has been getting more and more lacking. Even Thor has been reduced to ‘dumb blonde’/‘dumb entitled rich kid’ gags.

I think that’s part of what makes Loki one of the only really interesting outings for Marvel recently. He stayed reasonably conflicted and complex.

I assume someone somewhere decided that it was going to net a profit (after already sunk production costs and yet-to-be-spent promoting costs and other obligations) of less than $30 million.

So if given the choice between hoping it maybe makes $20-40 million in net profit vs a guaranteed $30 million as a tax write-off, that’s easy math for the number crunchers.

I have no idea but they could also have decided they didn’t want to spend to promote it. It costs a fortune in money up front to promote movies these days, even after the movie is ‘in the can’. Money is getting more and more expensive with interest rates going up, so financing even promotional costs is more expensive.

That’s the great part about Lemmy - just switch instances or roll your own. No need to complain about heavy handed mods!

From what I can see in your post history, you haven’t commented on a single one. I think I know at least part of why they’re dead. Maybe that’s a Lemmy account thing where I can’t see it though.

But I can’t say that I have gotten a few responses when I’ve been posting. Not always live during a game, but the beginnings are there, considering it’s still preseason.

Depends on how far you want to stretch the “barring the limitations of materials and energy” bit, but there are several working theories of gravity drives and things similar to ‘warp drive’ out there. They just have massive energy consumption requirements it would require materials so dense that they approach carrying around a black hole with you. And they would go very, very fast, but not actually faster than light.

Find people to talk to. If you can multitask taking to them while doing something, do it. But if you can give a good conversation some dedicated time it helps.

There’s ‘serious’ talk like a therapist, but even just basic ‘whatever’ talking with friends and acquaintances helps me get out of my own head.

So… Not a true fact? The prompt was for true facts that are misleading out of context.

What you cited is just a common misconception, right?