Rule #4

An indictment is formally when charges 'stick' after being heard and voted on by a grand jury (which itself is mostly a rubber stamp - I've been a prosecutor for over a year and haven't had a single charge dismissed. Essentially the prosecution gets to 'cheat' at this step and all sorts of things unacceptable in a trial are fair game here and the defense doesn't get to put on a case - the standard of proof is also low)

From here things change depending on jurisdiction a little bit procedurally but ultimately the next step is more investigating where both sides start interviewing witnesses and broadly 'digging around' as the sides posture for either going to trial or negotiating a different resolution (ie a plea but in some instances things like civil compromise is seen as 'good enough' for the prosecution to justify dropping the case)

If it sounds like an indictment is nothing but a rubber stamp procedural thing thats because it is. It exists solely because the monarchy in England used to quite literally abduct people on charges with no basis in fact and hold them pretty much until they decided to let the person out (if they ever felt like it) so the indictment was created to force the crown to show that there was SOME evidence of the charges being alleged

There really isn't going to be one answer because there is a massive difference between forcing someone to switch branches of the same religion (catholic to protestant for example) and time in history.

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For the most part an uneducated peasant really isn't going to be hard to 'convince' to convert because most religious rules are pretty similar. Oh God is called Allah now, but realistically not a whole lot is changing there. Or now the big holy day/time is Saturday evening instead of Sunday morning. Really minus religion specific things (like genital mutilation) that guy whose farming really isn't going to care all that much

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Really the 'hard sell' is the nobility and other influential figures. Don't think of Christianity vs Islam (or whatever) as two competing religions - they are two different 'lords' that don't like each other. Generations of fealty to the first lord is important because that lord likely knows your family and may even have family members working for them and the lord won't want those family members associating with you anymore because of the concern that they will also defect. Maybe some/all of your family's property is contractually bound to the first lord and if you defect you lose everything.

This is one side of the scale, the other is the guy who currently has a knife to your throat is telling you to join his lord and if you don't he is going to kill you. It probably isn't all that shocking to realize that many people are more interested in not having their neck sliced open than they are keeping the first lord from becoming upset.

upgrade me to former customer

I...am actually shocked. Well maybe the party will force him out.

Somehow I'm sure without looking we know (R) is next to his name. The party of drunken rapists, pedophiles, barely literate cultists....just a normal day where they are caught and their base will vote for them next time anyway

because 'the economy' is based on endless expansion forever. Fixing the ecosystem is just kicking the can down the road a few years.

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But terraforming planets allows for this always hungry monster to be fed either indefinitely or far enough that it may as well be forever.

exactly this 'the thin blue line' "works" because they pretend it does. Then the sole example of a bad union in the US whines and cries to make sure they are never held accountable for anything up to and including murder. Keep in mind when George Floyd was murdered he wasn't even the only police murder caught on camera in the press. He was just the only victim to receive some justice

If you remove the entire (episode/arc) and the story isn't affected in any meaningful way it is filler.

For an easy situation: Imagine you are making a series about Robinhood. It starts as him as a child training to be an archer until he eventually fights the sheriff of Nottingham. Throughout the series his bounty goes up as he becomes more renowned. If you add 5 episodes that focus on him teaching a child to fish and at the end of the arc he realizes the kid sucks at it so he steals the prize money to give the kid anyway then it is filler. It doesn't add to the plot when it gets back to the main story

the problem is that dare has and always will be a failure it is the ultimate 'feel good' thing that has the reverse effect. Seriously the whole have an officer show up and tell kids that if they have one sip of beer then BOOM! frank Gallagher or if you simply see marijuana then boom living under the bridge addicted to "ice" tends to downplay the serious drugs when half of the class spends lunch break smoking the 'weed-stuff'

and surely that has nothing to do with the 'story' and how charismatic someone is rather than their ability to do a move

>competes against another or others

I'm going to say right here. They aren't there competing to be the best. You'd end up having to treat it like any other 'entertainment' sport. You'd have to strip out most of the moves (because they are too dangerous) and really think of objective criteria to decide what the 'best' suplex is

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Beyond that there is another glaring problem: The Olympics generally focus on sports that people around the world tend to play. Outside of rednecks and teenagers in the US the only other place it is 'big' uses a VERY different set of rules

almost like you can tell what people at buzzfeed prefer. Remember those who can't do anything productive write about what productive people do (on their apple products)