L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer. He made a bet with another science fiction writer that he could get rich quicker by starting a fake religion, and collecting tithes, than he could selling science fiction stories. Scientology is the resulting pyramid scheme/ cult.

Ahh, kk. Never seen it, but I guess the two characters seem similar in that respect at least.

Isn’t Homelander a villain though? I thought he was supposed to be a villain.

Edit: NM I didn’t realize Homelander was from The Boys. I honestly thought he was the guy in Guardians of The Galaxy 3

Edit 2: Apparently that character’s name is Adam Warlock.

Or ⅓ + (⅓*½) = ½

Once you wrap your head around the new orientation of things, it’s actually really well designed to work on. I figured the mechanics just didn’t want to learn anything “new”

I’ve traveled the world and the seven seas,

Nah, Americans just don’t like to read the manuals, and they got a bad reputation in the late '70s and early '80s when they first put turbos into the cars, because you had to pull into the driveway, and let the turbo spin down for at least 30 seconds to a minute. If you didn’t, the turbo would seize and then shred itself when you turn the car back on.

Also American mechanics don’t like the fact that the engine is not in the configuration they are used to. It’s rotated 90° on the z axis and 45 on the x axis. Absolutely solid tanks if you actually read the manual, and followed the routine maintenance recommendations.

It’s not the actual turbo that gets gummed, the fuel system is what gums up, but for some reason it’s far worse on the turbo versions of the cars. I could put low octane into the non turbo SAABs I had, and it didn’t gum up the intake the way the turbo versions did. I don’t know why.

Pre GM SAABs. I’ve personally gotten 2 of my 5 to over 1,000,000 miles on the original engine and transmission. Both manual transmission. A couple hundred of them have made it to 2,000,000 world wide. The lowest milage I killed a SAAB at was 789,000 miles. I hydroplaned into a semi on I-75, and the car still technically ran, but I gave it to my parents as a parts car. Just read the owners manual, and be absolutely religious about basic maintenance.

Oh, and the turbos don’t like low octane fuel. It gums them up.

Crossbows come equipped with Hollywood style “silencers.”

Bailout was under Bush. Obama could have reversed course a few months later when he was sworn in, but I’m pretty sure that would have caused an even worse economic disaster.

Once you are moved out, and across the country, the song Cat’s in the Cradle, by Harry Chapin gives you the perfect believable excuse. I’d love to come visit, and I will once work isn’t riding me so much. We’ll get together then.

The ability to perfectly deliver the line, “clever girl.”

The viable metric is literally the volume of gold depicted multiplied by the weight of such a large pile of gold that seems to be damn near limitless in value. That’s what we used to calculate that Smaug only has 5 billion to 15 billion USD of gold, minus the Arkenstone.

The rest of the metric comes from the treasure tables of various dragons in various RPG systems that say that the absolute most value of any dragon’s hoard is only 500,000 oz worth of gold. That’s split between everything. Not just their gold. 500,000 oz of gold is 5,000,000 gold pieces of gold. That’s merely 1.2 billion USD, and that’s just the richest of the greediest and oldest evil dragons that are required by their goddess to hoard before they are dead of old age.

Front for money laundering?

Even Conan gave up that bit after only a decade.

https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8

You watched The Terminal, didn’t you?

/s

https://youtu.be/PfsTk5i7mPw

There’s a mod for Factorio that adds these in for use in our circuit spaghetti

In most places in the US it’s totally not a thing, except at Aldi’s.