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Hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

That said, we're talking cops here, who are notorious both for being malicious (ACAB) and stereotypically incompetent, often at the same time, so the usual odds (which massively favour incompetence, hence the adage) might not apply.

Also, a lot of people feel sympathy for this particular murderer (and / or enough well justified, earned, and deserved antipathy towards the victim that it overcomes what antipathy towards murderers they might normally have), so they might be aggressive towards anyone who appears to favour him getting caught.

American religion¹ is an apocalyptic death cult.

1 — Not to be confused with christianity (or its offshoots), which is also a death cult, but generally less focused on the apocalypse, sports, money, greed as a virtue, malls, advertisements, and so on.

GNU Sir pTerry.

Jodorowsky's Dune.

The actual film, not the documentary.

How dare you.

It was my first Tolkien book as a kid.

The Hobbit was a bit of a disappointment after that.

I think I might be a vertical slice...

I'd get some good hammers and make a (possibly literal) killing as a retrophrenologist...

is backed by the energy used to generate it

No it's not. That energy is lost as heat. There's no way to get it back. That's basic thermodynamics.

It's just a pyramid scheme, like all cryptocurrencies.

Life, uh, finds a way.

Popcorn.

Morrowind.

... and it was just the beginning.

It's a real shame later Elder Scrolls games mostly lost that otherworldly feel.

Fucking relax. And de-stress.

Do something about my depression, and my health. And my loved ones'.

And then, if I achieved that, I'd start thinking about what to do with the rest of my time.

Some denominations are even a cannibalistic death cult (with a special focus on blood and raw meat).

known species with a human level of higher intelligence

• Humans (allegedly; evidence points to most being dumb as a rock).
• Some species of extinct hominids (sure, but they're extinct).
• Dolphins (and orcas, which are big fancy dolphins); absolute creeps, though.
• Whales, possibly, though they tend to keep to themselves, so who knows.
• Some species of octopods.
• Some species of parrots.
• Some species of corvids.
• I swear some of those black and white sheepdogs seem more intelligent than many of the people I know.

Back when disk compressors (Stacker, DoubleSpace, and such) were a thing I was cleaning my 85MB hard drive to make space for some games, found some massive file I wasn't using, and promptly deleted it, which did indeed free a lot of space.

Way too much, in fact.

Turns out DriveSpace or whatever Stacker clone Microsoft had built into DOS somehow exposed the file in which it stored the compressed file system within the compressed system itself, allowing the user to delete it if they were stupid enough. So, when I deleted it, hilarity ensued.

In the end I think I was somehow able to recover the drive by booting from a floppy and using undelete or something like that, but it was a learning experience to say the least.

Damn, I miss those good old times.

He did indeed spread himself out; Arda was Melkor's "ring" as much as the one ring was Sauron's.

That said, even at his weakest, it took all the forces of Valinor, plus the men and remaining elves of Middle Earth to finally defeat and banish him. He's by far the most powerful of the Valar (and probably the Ainur).

Even if diminished, Fingolfin standing his ground against him for as long as he did and permanently crippling him was still a pretty big deal.

(You also have elves standing their ground in single combat against balrogs, and even defeating them; some elves were pretty damn powerful.)

Less sales but more expensive, so same income, less costs.
Also less regulations, so they can sell crappier and cheaper alternatives for the same price.
Also, lower taxes on big corporations.
And they'll probably be able to use the private prison system to turn shoplifters into very cheap slave labour, saving on wages.

Seems like a win-win situation for Walmart, though not so much for its customers.

YouTube would have to shut down

You say that like it'd be a bad thing... YouTube died (or rather was murdered by Google) a long time ago; what Google turned its bloated corpse into needs to be destroyed so that proper alternatives have space to grow.

I don't avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.