These details, taken together with the cultural inspirations of her homeland (Dahomey-era Benin with some Yoruba cultural cross-bleed), strongly hint at her true nature.

Zaphura's first line of dialogue is "Shit", and nearly the first thing she does is make an offering to ancestral spirits who are not related to her. The offering bowl was fashioned from the skull of a young cape buffalo (referred to as a 'widow-maker').

This sort of thing could be tested out at the local or state level for proof-of-concept and to iron out the technical details of implementation - ie securing the voting forum against interference/rigging.

On the other hand, if it doesn't gain the necessary direct votes to pass during the public vote phase, it gets kicked back to Congress for standard legislative procedures/votes. Legislation proposed on the public forum by voters could also be passed into law, albeit with a higher threshold.

Here's how I think it'd work: a senator or congressperson introduces a bill -> it becomes available for public comment and vote -> if something like 60% of all possible eligible voters vote in favor of a bill, it is passed over and above any objections brought by the legislature or president.

Re: food tasting better over time, there is apparently a saying/held belief in my partner's part of Ghana, which is that soups and stews taste better the day after being made because the spiders have had a chance to fart in them.

Thank you Anansi, for being a goofy goober.

Fascist Caillou strikes again!

Considering the shit the Lliirans get up to, gay marriage is *definitely* accepted in most places, even if WOTC doesn't have the balls to state it outright for their setting like Paizo.

If I wanna cruise around in a solid gold Rayfield like some auric offshoot of Lizzy Wizzy, with a pair of missile launchers deploying from the trunk region, I oughta be able to!

I'm talking custom-building outfits from the ground up - this jacket template + this logo, sized thusly + these colors for these materials. I want to customize vehicles too - accessory parts, hidden weapons, color schemes, the works.

All 3rd parties should be sharpening their knives and organizing, because I don't think they'll find a more fertile field for alternatives to the status quo - on both sides of the political spectrum - than the next year or so.

To borrow your tired, cribbed-from-Obama turn of phrase: Make no mistake, we will remember (and so will Republicans) that when you needed to hold the line, you folded like a cheap lawn chair.

So, when the party that's wanted to gut ACA since day 1 inevitably ignores/works around their completely non-binding 'promise' and guts ACA...what's your play? Going to say it was all a cunning plan to make Republicans unpopular so you can get re-elected to restore the law you helped to kill?