Yeah, my grocer has been sold out of Ukrainian Salmon for months, only kind they've had in stock is Hungarian Salmon and that's got way too much paprika on it plus I'm pretty sure it's actually some random lake fish they dyed pink.
Suddenly, there is a deafeningly loud crackle of lighting in front of me, causing me to nearly fall out of my seat as I let out a cry of surprise. Floating some two or three feet above the sidewalk is a black and blue seam of electricity, a hovering slit in the fabric of space and time that pours outward with a sizzling heat.
"Alex!" calls a voice from beyond the strange universal rift. I can barely make out the figures shape, but it appears to be a massive, sentient coin; one pound to be exact.
"Hello?" I question, shielding my eyes from the electrical storm that appears to be occurring right before me. "Who are you?"
"There's no time!" yells the giant coin from the other side of the rift. "Come with me!"
I'm utterly horrified and, if I'm going to be honest, my first instinct is to immediately turn around and run away. It's only then that I notice something brilliant and burning through the hole in space-time. Within the rift I can see The Parliament, or what used to be The Parliament, as the entire building roars with a towering flame.
"Is that what it looks like?" I call out.
"Yes!" screams the giant sentient coin. "We need your help, Alex. I can't hold this open much longer!"
Suddenly, all of the fear leaves and is replaced with a powerful, frantic energy. Britain needs me!
Without another thought, I jump up from the bench and run forward, diving through the trans universal slice and ending up carried to a hellish landscape of fire and smoke on the other side.
"Where am I?" I ask this mysterious pound. "What's happening?"
"You're in the future," explains the giant sentient monetary instrument, "but it's not safe here. Follow me!"
She ran for office on an anti-gerrymandering platform, and the voters elected her (by a huge margin!) in large part because of that; if there's any case she should not recuse herself from, it's this one.
(obviously it'd be better if we didn't have to resolve political questions like this through supreme court elections, but if the legislature creates a situation where it's impossible to vote them out directly, voters are left with little alternative but to fix the system through elected justices)
And her two serious lovers were a Klingon and a human-shaped bear, so it's not like her tastes are particularly vanilla even under normal circumstances
Great, seeing a picture of a trans man has made me aware of the existence of trans people, and therefore, according to GOP logic, it's only a matter of time before I become trans myself and have to fucking go bra shopping.
Unrelated, but they should do a “Scream” sequel called “We All Scream” where for 90% of the movie it’s just normal people running an ice cream shop and then in the last 10 minutes everybody gets murdered.
Oh I'm not, it's just that if they want to stop Willis it's not very well designed for that because they can't even start accepting complaints until July 2024 and the process seems to be somewhat drawn-out (one panel has to investigate and then refer it to another panel). And of course this assumes it survives the inevitable court challenges.
I'm sure it'll be very effective at shutting down whatever prosecutor goes after Kid Rock for trying to steal the 2028 election, but it's not going to do much about this particular prosecution.
Average English word length is 4.7 characters, add spaces/punctuation and figure 6 total, so 1 MB = 174763 words = $1,746,730. Or around $23 million in 2023 dollars.
Yes, and you can't use your contracted word quota for that, and you have to send all of your personal information along with a prescribed seven-paragraph legal statement expressing your wish to cancel
It's less-than-optimal, but internal combustion engines are so horrifically inefficient than even a coal-powered Tesla creates fewer emissions than a gasoline car.
Hah, if this happened nowadays you'd have to sign up for a $1000/month subscription for 100 words a month on a 5-year contract, pay a $35/word overage fee, and if you didn't use all 100 words in a particular month, you could pay $5/word to roll over up to 10 of them to the next month. And if you try to cancel your subscription after those 5 years, they put you on hold for 3 hours and then accidentally hang up on you.
"I would like for you to do us a favor, though" - Earl of Warwick, probably