One of our cats screams the whole time, the other pees himself and huddles in a corner of the carrier.

If you have the accessibility to leave a functioning pressure washer in the stall… you could just get a bidet installed.

You know that cucumber in the salad that you just ate…

So you’re saying you have soap with your bidet? I don’t typically see soap as part of usual attachments.

Provided he would even be willing to trade that. His entire business seemed to depend entirely on Anakin (who was taken from him), so holding on to the one slave he had left, even if just out of spite, was probably more important to him than a little bit of bling that would be fleeting.

And I’m sure he wasn’t a bitter resentful fuck who’d keep the slave just to spite the person who took his livelihood from him…

She wasn’t a queen in the traditional sense, it’s an elected position on Naboo. Hell, even on Earth it’s not necessarily an omnipotent position. Just because they hold a high position doesn’t mean they can wield that power for whatever whims they want. They have a whole planet to take care of, first.

Revolutions tend to overthrow monarchies that ignore the needs of their populace.

That was literally the main point in 1984. The mass-surveillance wasn’t literal, but meant to be implied by the despotic authority of “Big Brother”. In reality people were encouraged to tell on each other. A neighbor of the main character meets him while he’s incarcerated at the end of the book, sent to prison because his own children told on him about how he talked in his sleep… and he was proud of them for it.

He affixed an adapter with super glue and it failed.