Never knew THOT is an acronym. I always just read it as a new slang word.

Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor

I feel like watching film theory with Neville could have been the chosen one again. Wasn’t it revealed in one of the later books that that was the question all along?

I recently learned that the word clock originally ment bell or bell chime. It’s related to the German word Glocke. So 7 o’clock = 7 bongs…

Might mean the US government warming up to the new leadership in Syria. The new president was seen as a terrorist until last year.

In my experience, a lot of these politics are purely performative. Politicians get elected on the promise of ‘reducing regulations’ to ‘release the economy’, without any connection to reality. In office they than have to do something that looks like the thing they fought for. We’ve seen the same after Brexit. The ‘bad and idiotic’ EU regulations were dropped and untreated sewage was let into the sea.