Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But doesthis tropedeepen characters, orflattentheminto a set of symptoms?

The studios behind World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Overwatch are being sued over sexual harassment

Lin Wood, one of the attorneys who has made an effort to discredit the 2020 election, is sure there’s a “deep state,” and he’s blamed it for things like “rigging” the election to “steal” it from Donald Trump. Now he’s even blaming the imagined entity for estranging him from his children. Over the course of the past few years, Wood has emerged as a controversial public figure, embracing q-anon conspiracy theories, involving himself in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, and pushing his way into election issues. His relationships with his family have come up more than once. FOr instance, the Daily Dot reported back in February on Wood’s ‘doxxing’ of his own son, putting out contact information and encouraging strangers to send their “stories of faith” to the son who apparently is no longer interested in hearing them from Lin. Is it possible that scum bag operatives in the Deep State might be threatening, even blackmailing, the father’s children? Now, however, he’s decided exactly who is to blame for his kids cutting him off, and it isn’t Lin himself, or the conspiracies he has embraced or the public spectacle he’s made. Nope, it’s the [spooky conspiracy sounds] Deep State.

“Nobody expected the Soviet Union to collapse soon. We grew up behind the Iron Curtain, being prepared to become ordinary and submissive Soviet citizens,” she adds.

As the visual manifestation of cryptocurrency, NFT art combines the nuanced social awareness of computer programmers with the soulful whimsy of hedge fund managers. It is art for people whose imaginations have been absolutely captured by a new kind of money you can do on the computer.

The City of Atlanta's official seal shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War. What it doesn’t show is that Atlanta was rebuilt with slavery’s successor: convict labor, working in horrific conditions to break granite at the Bellwood Quarry and burn clay at the Chattahoochee Brick Company.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman has been charged with killing her boyfriend with a sword on Christmas Eve. Cape Girardeau Police said 32-year-old Brittany Wilson was found outside the home she shared with her boyfriend Friday night with blood on her clothing, and a sword was lying in the front yard.

Most importantly, the media spin has left out the elephant in the room. It is business owners who are the ones raising prices. They are currently setting record profits, so do they have to raise prices? The answer to this question ultimately reveals that inflation is a question of class politics — which class gains at whose expense — rather than technical monetary policies.

Plant grafting, where the root of one plant is attached to the shoot of another, has been used in agriculture for thousands of years to improve crop growth and eradicate diseases, in plants such as apples and citrus fruits. But this technique wasn’t thought to work for a major group of plants: the monocotyledons (or monocots). This group includes all grasses like wheat and oats, as well as other high-value crops like bananas and date palms. These plants lack a tissue called vascular cambium, which helps grafts heal and fuse in many other plants.

"We need to really worry about our democracy and find a way that you can disagree with people and do it in a civil and agreeable way, and it really does have me very worried.” Fuck you. Decorum to disagree with someone that wants you dead and now has all the power institutions behind them to do it without consequence?

Cruises, which for some can be idyllic sojourns, have borne a nightmarish side of the pandemic, beginning when people on ships at the start of the pandemic spend days at sea when port after port deny permission to dock.

“I understand there is a vulgar meaning to ‘Let’s go Brandon,’ but I’m not that simple-minded, no matter how I feel about him,” Schmeck said. “He seems likes he’s a cordial guy. There’s no animosity or anything like that. It was merely just an innocent jest to also express my God-given right to express my frustrations in a joking manner … I love him, just like I love any other brother or sister.” Still, Schmeck said he “stood 100% behind what I did and what I said.”

Ikko Ohno and his film The Flying Luna Clipper occupy an unusual spot in the history of video games, animation, the cross-pollination of games and cinema, gaming technology, and digital art. Made in its entirety with a MSX microcomputer in 1987, it probably remains the sole entry of what we have called elsewhere “chipcinema," that is, films made with early gaming technology.

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The City of Jackson has opened a request for proposal for third-party platforms to allow city employees to convert pay to cryptocurrency, a first in the nation. As reported back in May by the Jackson Sun, Jackson City Mayor Scott Conger has been working to incorporate bitcoin into the city government, marking a first for any city government in the country. “It’ll bring more opportunity,” Conger previously said. “It’s so refreshing to hear governments discussing different ways to finance things, besides ‘we’re going to raise your property taxes,’ or ‘we’re going to implement this fee.’ If we can find another way to do it, then that’s what we’re going to do.

The US is “closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe”, a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said.

We all make mistakes. But some people got things really, really wrong this year.

Why is it so hard to figure out if America’s enormous surge in theft is real?

“Their CEO does exist,” a Sixers spokesperson insisted.

Gov. Mike Parson signed the act blocking federal gun laws in June.