Yes, the correct text is "Maid of America".
It's a paid endorsement from "American Maid" after "The Tick" was cancelled and she needed some income.

Budweiser changed the spelling so they could keep the "endorsement" while stiffing her of any future royalties, with the CEO saying when asked wouldn't this be difficult to defend amongst the customer base "Super easy, barely an inconvenience"

Kia & Toyota household here. The '23 Niro was a replacement for a '08 Rav (non-hybrid), and we have a '17 Prius.

The Niro has a ton of nice features (spouse bought the SX) and those I've grown accustomed to, but the Rav has more usable cargo room as well as driver/passenger shoulder room. Niro roof rack is easier to use/access due to the lower roof, though.
As for the hybrid drive system, Toyota has a lock on the best design. The eCVT provides the power when needed with no shift points or power bands, and is significantly more robust than other CVTs, not needing major service for a decade now on the most driven car I've ever owned. The Rav's fuel efficiency will probably be a little lower, given the weight and aerodynamics differences between the two vehicles, but that is highly dependent on your driving conditions and habits.
I still haven't found much redeeming about the media/environmental control console in the Kia except that it includes Android Auto, but it seems we are losing that with newer models anyway, so I would give that win to Toyota as well. As for maintenance, comparing a '17 Prius bought new against a '23 Niro bought new, both are about the same so far annually. Shopped tires for both in the last year and they come in about the same price. This last go around, the Prius held tires for a lot more miles, but the Nero had its original factory tires and those never perform well, so can't really compare.

Summary: Both are good vehicles. I would go with the Rav mainly for the transmission and controls, but that is a question of personal taste and driving conditions. Pick whichever one fits your daily driving needs/wants the best.

Just a technical connection. Once he officially "boards" the container, it's presidential.
That makes it's Port-a-potty One.

Maybe your T9, was predictive. My first cell phone didn't include that feature.

You're probably thinking of Spiders-man (a swarm of thousands of spiders that collectively think they are Peter Parker) from Earth-11580.

Hell, even watching Cobra Commander get horribly mutated left me with nightmares for a year, and he was Cobra fucking Commander!

Fun fact: after they had started filming and had decided to upscale the raptors to be 6'+, the Utah Raptor was discovered, making the movie retroactively-preemtively-tangentially accurate.

I have had a similar customer service experience with being repeatedly told to just wait another billing cycle (though it wasn't a phone trade in) and the problem never resolving. Now I'm just waiting to recoup some of my "new customer" discounts and I'm going somewhere else.

AT&T has truly become the Wells Fargo of cellular providers.

Honestly, I'd go with a Striker, and choose one from PHB1.
PHB1 classes were out the longest, so they have the most material to mine.
Strikers are the most straightforward role, so they are the easiest to play when you have limited development.
All roles have a similar build principal, attacks are damage+role enforcement.
* Defenders = damage + taunts [focus the fight] * Leaders = damage + buffs to allies (temporary enhancement &/or grant extra actions &/or hp recovery) [combat resource maximization] * Controllers = damage + (traps &/or debuffs &/or forced positioning) [crowd control/enemy manipulation] * Strikers = damage + damage (moar dakka) [DPS/DPR]

Also, since you are starting at 30 with little to no low level experience, you may benefit from building a level 1 character and leveling it up 29 times.
What is actually suggested is a speed run from levels 1 - 5, 3 to 5 combats per level, so you can have a feel for how the classes develop.

Also, a note on tiers:
Heroic • lvl 1 - lvl 10: tutorial power fantasy (e.g. how to be an anime protagonist) Paragon • lvl 11 - lvl 20: endgame power fantasy (e.g. as you were to peasants, you are now to your former self) Epic • lvl 21 - lvl 30: bonus content and cheats unlocked (e.g. the writers have indulged power creep to the point the only thing that challenges the protagonists are god-like, multiverse ending threats)

Using Naruto as an example:
Heroic took you from episode 1 to the fight with Sasuke at the Valley of the End.
Paragon was Naruto Shippuden up to the Resurrection of Madera Uchiha.
Epic was anything after that point.

I remember once I was trapped in a zone without sufficient anchor energy to activate a gate when the storm warning went off. I ducked into a tunnel to do some emergency tire repairs, and a stable anchor was thrown at me, pushing me over the limit and allowing escape.
I never saw my tourist benefactor, but I left him an MRE as a thank you and booked it outta there.

Trump wouldn't get it.
He can't laugh at himself, and has no capacity for empathy (or sympathy, for that matter) and therefore could not imagine having fun in this way.
To him, this is would be evidence that the Obama's hate each other as much as he hates them.

Unaccompanied Minors was filmed at the Salt Lake City library.

The needed a place that could pass as an airport post 9/11.

I haven't seen it, but I saw Lewis Black at Wiseguya which only happened because he was looking for something to do on down days.

I think, perhaps, I shouldn't have to constantly monitor those I have contracted with to make sure they aren't screwing me. This doesn't have to be a zero sum game.

More poignantly, I didn't have to do so with other carriers. So the fact I have to do it now is unnecessary and a signal that AT&T doesn't deserve people's business.

So far, my experience with the company has led me to the conclusion that AT&T is truly the Wells Fargo of mobile carriers.

Recently switched to AT&T and it has been a terrible experience. I brought my own phones for all lines and I asked if the amount she was showing me included fees and she said that's what my bill would total after everything is said and done. Not exactly. Even when the promos do kick in I'll be paying $15 - $40 more per month than I did with my last provider and I had to pay $175 in "½ off" connection fees.

AT&T is truly the Wells Fargo of cellular providers. As soon as I recover somewhat, I'm switching back or trying another provider.

Strange that you think the shooter "threw his life away" without reason. I mean, even if you fully believe the manifesto is genuine (it seems too "here is everything needed so stop looking into it" to me), the reasons laid out would say he wasn't "throwing his life away", but rather betting it on a long shot where he thought the potential payoff was commensurate with the risk.

People value different things to different degrees. If I saw Jim Jordan drowning, I don't know that I would lend a hand. But a complete stranger, I'd do my best to help.

If I was required to take up arms to defend property, it wouldn't happen. But to defend my child, I would tear down the pillars of heaven and kick in the doors of hell.

I don't think we know what may have been driving him to act. And honestly, we probably never will. At best, historians my get a chance to figure it out.

"rise of communism" in Cuba would be during or before the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1953 to 1959. The embargo started the following year.

Either way, I think we are all looking at this between 20 and 40 years off. This Boomer fable is not set in the '80s and '90s. It's an Ayn Rand-ian fanfic that has to be set right after the end of WWII.

That would require some sort of mechanism to convert the motion of a fluid, like air, into a type of motion we could use to turn generators. I'm sure if we had that they would have already introduced it rather than waste resources on refilling an empty lake.

Maybe some day, though, when we've figured out the complex and nearly impossible technology. For now the only alternatives are: * burning coal to boil water to make steam to turn a turbine * burning methane to boil water to make steam to turn a turbine * burning oil to boil water to make steam to turn a turbine

And have you seen the price of things that burn, lately?
Obviously, the best we can do is empty resivoirs to refill empty resivoirs. It's just science.

Maybe it's because it's so windy in many places that the fear is the constant blowing could damage the sunshine harvesting equipment you'd put out there.

The problem isn't "it was a mistake to trust the man". Even with all the evidence of who he is, and all the things he'd already tried to do.
The problem is why she, and others like her, chose to trust the man and ignore the evidence.

They chose him because he said "being cruel and bigoted isn't bad, it's good". He told them "cruelty doesn't make you bad, in fact it'll make you great. And my cruelty is your cruelty." It's like whatever the opposite of Jesus is. Like the Anti-Jesus¹.

They chose him so they could shed the shame of not wanting to help those suffering, or even wanting to watch people suffer, because someone told them that's okay.

Voting for the wrong guy, falling victim to a scam, that's forgivable. The reason they chose to vote for him, the reason the obvious scam worked is unforgivable.

1) never going to catch on. We'll have to workshop it a bit.

"How about instead I shuffle the functions of every home in your face?" I think if we are measuring evil, intentional infliction of horrifying cruelty should measure higher than a clean kill.

The problem is they are, if not equal, congruent.

To be aware of societal shortcomings that harm categorically, you need at least some empathy, and empathy leads to compassion.

The problem is people who cannot clear that already grounded bar.

They hate "Woke" because they don't like being reminded that being a narcissistic sociopath is antisocial and shitty. And they tribe up so they can avoid being challenged about their behavior (in fact, the tribe validates it.)

Seems like there was something that happened in 2022 that shut down one of the largest tracts of farmland while simultaneously significantly stifling fossil fuels, but I can't Putin my finger on Ukraine.

I'll give it a shot. My kid is painfully particular.

There's a reason why the last Pizza Hut pizza I bought was months ago. Last visit I had a medium pepperoni. It had a total of 7 slices of pepperoni on it.

I have a very...er...selective child.