For some reason, American pop culture is full of depictions of the FBI and the CIA. Yet, for some reason, it almost entirely lacks portrayals of other agencies within the Intelligence Community—such as the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency, or the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. When a work doesn't feature the CIA or the FBI, a new agency is typically invented from scratch, while the dozen or so existing agencies are completely ignored. Why is that?

I am 24, Asian, and many American 18-19 years olds look older than me.

Obviously the purpose would be to try to keep them from hurting, but what kind of side effects would you expect? Would you have balance issues? Would it damage your feet in the long run? Would it make things even worse after the numbing wears off? Actually, would it even be effective in the first place?

I can't wrap my head around how people living in countries like Europe and Japan can afford a decent standard of living when their GDP per capita is sometimes half of ours. If so many goods are traded on the global market, shouldn't prices be relatively similar everywhere?

I found these a few weeks ago my husband said they are old but these homiez do not look old

I know that Canadians and Australians are taxed more, but sometimes I see that the median wage for Americans is 2-3x higher than those in Canada or Aus and I’m really curious what caused this both historically and economically!

Edit: so sorry for my wording, I mean moreso for tech workers and engineers. I do not mean the actual median wage for these countries since Aus has the highest actually. I mean moreso for white collar employment.

So, I was watching a movie tonight (Scream 4 specifically) and there was a scene where one characters had mentioned the town, Woodsboro, being a small town. It stuck with me the rest of the movie, and I began picking out things that made me say “okay Woodsboro is definitely a city, not a small town!”. Now obviously, it’s a Hollywood movie and it’s Scream for christ’s sake so realism isn’t a paramount priority, but it just really got me thinking; what’s everyone’s definition of a small town?

I spent most of my childhood in a very small town of around 700 people. I then spent my high school years and most of my adult life in a town of about 3,500 people. We have a few bars and restaurants, a couple fast food restaurants, 3 gas stations, 2 grocery stores, and 2 stop lights. No large stores, not even a Walmart. My town is what I truly consider a “small town”.

My definition of a small town is 5,000 or less. 5,001-50,000 is a large town. 50,000+ is a city, with cities having different scales like small/medium/large/major/mega etc.

Apparently, 76% of all incorporated places in the US have under 5,000 people. 20% have 5,000-50,000. Only 4% have over 50,000 people.

Some things in the movie that told me Woodsboro is a city were things like: the high school having after-school clubs. Not only that, but they had a cinema club that apparently hosted an “underground” movie marathon that ended up having like 40 people present. That’s not “small and underground”. They also mentioned that there are probably many different parties going on in the town on Friday. In an actual small town, there’s 1, maybe 2 at the absolute most, high school parties going on. That all tells me the high school alone probably has many hundreds or 1,000+ students. My entire school district (K-12) growing up had like 350 students total, with each grade having 30-50 students. They also had a hospital that was not only several stories tall, but also had a multistory parking garage. Also, the police force had at least 20 cops on duty at one time in a large station.

I am a new drama club member (freshman :]), and I’ve seen a lot of theatre tiktoks recently about references and traditions that I understand now.
I was wondering; how do these things get passed around? An example I have is Zip Zap Zop. Does… Every theatre kid eventually run into it? I am very curious.
Thank you.

P.s., I am finishing up my first highschool production. I love acting. <3

I mean... I've been homeless before and stayed at a shelter. But even shelters have rules. And if you get kicked out or you can't get employed in time and get kicked out because of it, then you are "truly homeless", for lack of a better word. But I've personally seen one of those truly homeless guys show up to church in clean clothes and having had breakfast.

How on earth is that even remotely possible? Wouldn't you like... Stink because you can't take a shower or something? I'm baffled.

I look very young for my age and they always try to get me to go through the children’s metal detector. I just say I’m an adult and show my id if they’re insistent. But, if I just went along with it and went through the metal detector would something happen?

Come to think of it, I see AI everywhere, incorporated into everything etc. etc. So if in case the "AI bubble" does burst, what happens to all those AI models? From what I understand people can just continue to run them locally if they have the RAM to support it, but what would it look like for buisnesses that have come to rely so heavily on it? Will they just revert back to doing things normally? How would that look?? If the profits never indeed come, and the circular investing economy just goes to shit, will people still be at the frontier trying to get it to a level of expense that is actually sustainable? More importantly, will there be a world where we kinda just abandon this AI shit?

Edit: seems like a lot of people are comparing it to the dot com bubble, and that the rich will continue getting richer. That gives me another question, is there any way this is different from those? maybe with respect to the investing, or how ai can actually somewhat help output some stuff?

It sounds bad that I’m asking this but I’m just curious , I do not have a baby and I don’t have sex

Hey, so I’m a guy who has lost a ton of weight and been trying to work on toning my body. I’m not the most toned guy out there but I’m skinny to average built with a slight baby fat tummy and I’ve been exchanging nudes with girls, consensually of course, and I’ve noticed I get a lot more pics from them in return and lots of compliments even though I try to do silly poses or try my best to pose for the camera, instead of just doing a straight up dick pic.

I was just wondering if girls appreciate guys who go out of their way to make their nudes more fun, artistic or playful? Or is this seen as weird and creepy? I love trying to turn them into older-looking photos (like Polaroids) or black-and-white shots trying to cover up the goodies. But idk if this is something that’s tacky or not?

Like, if a criminal or something wanted to have a conversation with their associate who is being tried, without the police listening in on them.. couldn’t they just pretend to be a lawyer? It’s illegal, for sure. But what’s stopping them?

Of course, I think both countries are really cool.

I was just looking through Sky News and flicking through the stories only to wonder why we have the news at all? For example, one piece stated 'Tiger victim's medical records may have been improperly accessed'. What are the general public meant to do with this information?

The news is filled with mostly negative stories in general, most of it is full of things the public can't do anything about anyway. I get the news that informs us of taxes, price rises and politics as we need to know certain things, but, why seemingly irrelevant information like the tiger victims medical records that seem pertinent to only the victims family?

In my experience, flicking through the news only leaves me feeling a bit down afterwards. I don't think I've ever come away from the news feeling good. What do you think?

And why? Thats a pretty extreme situation but let's imagine you were the one driving and you made an accident that ejected you out of the car through the front window. The 3 of them are still alive inside but all unconscious. The car is literally starting to turn into a mega inferno. U have to drag the 3 of them out of it before it explodes. U,yourself, are mangled and injured but you have to act quick. It's in an isolated place with no one nearby.