There was also a threat of a writers strike in 2019 around the same time, only they've managed to come to terms before it began

Clowns always are

It's simple, just don't cliffhanger at the end of the season, even if it's not "finale" finale, which is impossible if the show is serialized, just end themes of the season.

But at this rate, cancellation is always with a cliffhanger because it's used to bring people back

So this is what we can blame for Americans seemingly thinking that the only edible grain is rice

Didn't know those existed, a nice compromise between marketability of the series and writing a new book.

I wonder if it's the usual story of juniors doing the job, giving the report to senior people who never bother to check or control anything

I was recommended the series, but then I looked into it and saw the number of books, I'm glad I did. Horrifically overstuffed unending series is the reason I don't any long series anymore, only those that have episodic books, each with an ending.

Likely to stop the from rising. Different rituals to ensure that the deseased won't rise and harm the living were widespread in many different cultures throughout the world, it's the opposite of rituals where you preserve the body, talk to the spirits of ancestors, etc,. And all of those come from the same belief that death isn't really death, and something is left alive.

For Putin, not Russia, Russia is in the worst condition since probably Civil War after World War I

That was Putin's rationale too - he expected that Europe won't deny itself access to Russia's gas, and also renewable energy was growing anyway, so that leverage would disappear eventually

Too bad there was no comission for domestic tomatoes varieties selection

Which is why NATO should have been giving more weapons and ammunition earlier

Yes, but people here in comments seem to be up in arms regarding percentages

A note - people of the same ethnicity are defined by sharing the same common cultural background or descent, so there's a huge variability among self-identifying Russians, they can't be separated from the other ethnicities by certain alleles of genes. Historically Russians were mixing up with other ethnicities that lived in regions, and also people who moved to Russia often started to call themselves "Russians" in the second or third generation, so percentages here are more cultural than anything else.

We already eat them - shrimp, crabs, crawfish

I thought anemia is not necessarily corellated with amount of iron - you can have a normal blood count, but be iron deficient, hense a separate test for iron?

Yeah, Strugatsky are great writers. Several of their their other books happen in the same universe, there's also lighter Monday Begins on Saturday written in the middle of Khruschev Thaw, and it's sequel, Tale of Troika, which was written and banned when it ended.

I'm similar, although to a lesser degree, probably mostly because I'm more bored or annoyed by fiction - it either uses the tropes I already know, or is poorly written, so I see through what writer was trying to do but failed to.

Part of the problem is that better written books are often quite sad with downtrodden or tortured characters, and when I read, I want to escape from my automatic mode of thinking "what if something bad happens" which paints already difficult life in a darker light. I don't need to add to that.

So I read memoirs due to verisimilitude, or pop science/science books because there's lots of wonderment and new information there

Never happens

Which is why when sequels have the same rating as the first books, it means that series is getting worse and worse

Not really, Theranos suggested completely innovative method that didn't require reagents and multiple tests and tested for everything. This one is a traditional testing method

When it will be, then the conversation about gender neutral awards will make more sense. Awards are just a sign of what's going on in the industry, not the main culprit behind everything

Because men play more leading roles, there will be always tug between more men in acting category vs nominating women from much less well known movies and series

This one seems redundant, terrorism is basically a war on much much smaller scale. And Russia has already started a war, killed much more people then terror attacks would, destroyed more buildings, etc.

It's most of Eastern Europe due to secondary adopter advantage. Even small cities have several internet companies, prices are cheap and speeds are high, same goes for tech like apps - banking applications are also more often advanced and are better made