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previous to strange new worlds, which we saw less than a month ago, the most recent trek property am having watched were a bit o' discovery. based on most feedback we received from trek fans we know in rl, we saw no need to end our sabbatical. will give prodigy a chance. HA! Good Fun!

Summon twins + run and hide + Mortification of the Soul? Just force the wounds, rinse, and repeat?

While I don't enjoy the more modern language in Strange New Worlds, I still enjoy it, new Gorn aside. To me it's easily the second best NuTrek after Prodigy, which was better than it had any right to be. It was aspirational and they were fighting against their immaturity instead of leaning into it, which they could have since the crew was actual kids/young adults.

ok, am knowing this is trivial, but am nevertheless gonna point out that even as a guy who grew up as a white sox fan, the first thing we think o' when we recall wgn in the 80s and 90s is that they carried cubs games... am s'posing MASH reruns is what we recall second from that time period... and then yeah, bozo. ds:9 is our favorite trek series for the same reasons which annoy @Amentep, although we did recent watch strange new worlds season 1 for the first time and we enjoyed it. HA! Good Fun!

Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings since July justified before probes completed None of the officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Border Patrol or Homeland Security Investigations has faced criminal charges in any of the shootings, nor has the administration announced any internal disciplinary measures against them. “Historically, federal cases are investigated thoroughly up front,” said Christopher Parente, who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago and Miami and is representing a woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago. “Here, they are charging people first and asking questions later. There’s such pressure from the administration to charge right away and make headlines so they can put out false press releases.” ... am suspecting that part o' the goal is to undermine american faith in law enforcement and the legal process. more than a few people in the trump administration has been investigated and trump were convicted. when the trump people are gone from the executive branch, how many americans is gonna trust the fbi to be fair and impartial? you can't trust them. party affiliation, education level, skin color, tax bracket and a host o' other thems exist who americans current don't trust the legal system to investigate, much less prosecute fair. the current administration looks hellbent on complete destroying any faith in our legal and investigative institutions. has been a noticeable recent trend that juries asked to weigh preponderance of the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt standards are increasing likely to embrace conspiracy theory. gen z jurors in particular is less likely to see anything wrong with indulging fringe beliefs 'pon which to base their ultimate decision on the most hairbrained possibilities. 'course lack o' faith in law enforcement undermining the justice system is not a new problem (anybody recall oj? not trusting la cops in the early to mid 90s was hardly unreasonable) but rare have we seen a coordinated effort from the government to create the suspicion, and the issue is becoming more widespread than at any time since Gromnir were born... which is a long time remote. HA! Good Fun!

again, am not sure if you are as obtuse as you pretend, and lord knows it ain't Gromnir who tried to reinvent definitions of ledes, and summaries as some kinda bizarre defense o' the notion that western media is conspiring to embiggen pahlavi.... which is "eerily similar" to your ukraine blunder, blaming journalists for their accurate reporting o' pentagon info... pentagon info which a few more folks shoulda taken serious in hindsight, eh? your pahlavi relevance list o' quotes were from stories which were equivocal and ambivalent about pahlavi's impact. you were misrepresenting... lying or too lazy to have read the articles. pointing out your error in misrepresenting articles with a no-context list o' quotes is hardly picking nits. converse, responding with inaccurate ledes and summary definitions were laughable and looks positive hypocritical given your current criticisms. you talking out your kiester ain't our concern... it's the willful deceit. you invent expert opinions and sources outta the ether, and when caught in the act, you claim nit picks. when you is caught misrepresenting the quotes, as you did with your recent mindless search engine efforts, and with the timeframe for iran to achieve breakout, and dementia diagnosis (although that were a strawman bit o' nonsense, so it highlights two o' your auto-fails,) and on and on and on, you deflect with nonsense about ledes definitions and then claim is Gromnir who is indulging sophistry? *chuckle* zor has managed to turn Blix into a verb. regardless, this has been a hoot. am waiting for your next attempt to lie your way outta lazy. HA! Good Fun!

Yeah, someone's pathological here, less than convinced it's me. (Personally, I had you pegged as a belligerent troll who couldn't stand losing and would throw words at the screen to 'win' by boring the other person to death way back those 16 (actually 15, since I spent 30s looking it up) years ago when you were an expert in earthquakes. Seems I at least was a good judge of character from the outset, eh. Eerily similar pattern too, with you trying to nitpick quotes) feel free, we'll see how long it sticks. and really, don't threaten me with a good time.

I have started the series he wrote before Black Company, should get back to it, Dread Empire. The first book was a slog though.

I have the same issue, cannot enter the vent. When I reported the bug to support, they were unable to recreate. So sad, I cannot continue. I am using Windows 11

Finished book 1 of the black company. On to book 2. Considering when these were written I can see the influence they had on more than one author.

Nice to see the administration's one liner syndrome spreads down to the bottom.

Game ver: 0.3.0.1 Rel 2442201 After the patch that released this version, the Keybinds for the Hotpouch are not working. Only the default (1-8) keys are useable. All other Keybinds (movement, jump, etc) appear to be working correctly. This is critical for me because I'm a left handed player and I re-map all of my keys to the Num-Pad area.

RLM DS9 videos. I didn't realize how much I needed this right now.

I did talk to the vicar to agree to help negotiate peace, but this is another one of the conversations where I had the dialogue reset issue the 2nd time we speak with him, I wonder if that might be one of the issues..

a knigth of the seven kingdoms. It's..... alrigh I guess. It's deliberately slow paced, and world build focused, which is great. I'm just not sure whether I care about the protagonist.

I am watching The Pitt right now. Can't remember the last time a tv show was stressing me out so much. I've just finished ep8 and it feels like I need to take vacation from being overworked.

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Hello, I'm having a similar issue. The button to activate has disappeared. I have activated (and failed) once already.

keep in mind that the feds is playing fast and loose with the numbers just by using %. if we were informed that ice activity in residential neighborhoods had increased 13x since trump 2.0 began, you likely wouldn't be shocked. am not sure what the actual increase is, but is gonna be significant, yes? if ice activity has multiplied by a factor o' 13, then one would expect assaults to increase by at least the same amount... ignoring the fact the ice guys is now receiving half the training they did previous and am expecting the % o' rookie ice officers is now much higher than years past. https://x.com/KaivanShroff/status/2016024233160147376 also, Jury acquits LA County ICE protester of assaulting a federal officer Brayan Ramos-Brito was accused of assaulting a federal agent during a protest outside the Homeland Security Investigations building in Paramount. Initially, federal authorities charged him with a felony but reduced it to misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. During the two-day trial, U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino testified that he witnessed Ramos-Brito strike the agent with an open palm. Multiple videos showing Ramos-Brito were displayed during the trial, one of which showed a Border Patrol officer shoving Ramos-Brito during the June 7 protest. The other videos did not clearly show Ramos-Brito striking the agent. ... as a few people is aware, Gromnir ain't an all cops are bad honk. how many times have we identified that the cop job is not what many people believe it to be? cops ain't required to selfless sacrifice life and limb in protection o' ordinary citizens, and their pay and education means it is unfair to expect 'em to be superheroes in navy blue uniforms. that said, am also aware that most law enforcement am having been around is extreme loose with their definitions o' assault. any person who bumps or touches law enforcement is gonna be written up in the report as having possible committed assault, and then it is up to the prosecutor to charge or not. and DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump’s immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled The federal agent described her wounds as “boo-boos.” Nevertheless, the Department of Justice aggressively pursued the alleged perpetrator. They jailed Sidney Lori Reid on a charge of felony assault, accusing her of injuring the agent during a July protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Washington, D.C. When grand jurors thrice declined to indict the 44-year-old on the felony, prosecutors tried her on a misdemeanor. Body camera footage played at trial revealed that Reid had not intentionally struck the agent. Instead, the agent had scratched her hand on a wall while assisting another agent who had shoved Reid and told her to “shut the f—- up” and “mind her own business.” It took jurors less than two hours to acquit the animal hospital worker. ... — Of the 100 people initially charged with felony assaults on federal agents, 55 saw their charges reduced to misdemeanors or dismissed outright. At least 23 pleaded guilty, most of them to reduced charges in deals with prosecutors that resulted in little or no jail time. More than 40% of the cases involved relatively minor misdemeanor charges, a figure that appears to undermine Trump’s claims that many of those accused are domestic terrorists. — All five defendants, including Reid, who went to trial so far were acquitted. — Prosecutors have successfully secured felony indictments against at least 58 people, some initially charged with misdemeanors. Those people have been accused of an assortment of assaults that include throwing rocks at federal vehicles, and punching or kicking officers. Those cases are awaiting trial. from a june 2025 post "btw, the government lies and misleads. a 413% increase in assault o' ice agents? why not say what were the assaults and how many were assaulted? notice the government didn't claim any ice agents were seriously injured yes? if a child grabs the sleeve o' an ice agent while the agent is arresting the child's parent, that counts as an assault. if a citizen husband attempts to embrace his undocumented wife while she is being arrested and he happens to touch an ice agent in the process, that is an assault. and btw, if there were a 500% increase in la ice arrests over the course o' the past week, then how much would you expect assaults on ice agents to increase over the same period if all other factors remained constant? of the 118 undocumented rounded up by ice at the time o' their press release, only five were gang members, and am gonna remind people that being a gang member is not in and of itself illegal. please note that a handful o' crimes committed by those apprehended by ice is listed, but nowhere does it mention how many people had criminal records. one? why not say the number of criminals unless it is a comical small number?" end tell us how many assaults has been successful prosecuted, 'cause at this point, nobody should believe dhs numbers. as to death threats... with what is going on, we wouldn't be surprised if there is a huge increase in threats to ice, but much like what ice calls an assault v. what a reasonable person identifies as an assault, am assuming ice is taking liberties with their tally o' death threats. seven-year-old watches as their mother is dragged away by ice and she grabs the sleeve o' an ice officer and screams, "go to hell." assault and a death threat, right? 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bsg fans are gonna need get their glass fix someplace other than the kennedy center... not that am so out o' touch we believe most bsg music aficionados is kennedy center season ticket holders. 'course the met is where you all hang, right? HA! Good Fun!

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/26/ice-officers-face-8000-increase-death-threats-against-them-and-their-families After this weekend, wonder if anyone believes anything the DHS puts out

No, you'd have to kill him unfortunately.

Carney rolls his eyes at US Treasury secretary, telling Trump he meant what he said at Davos Carney rolled his eyes and rejected U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s contention to Fox News that he aggressively walked back his comments at the World Economic Forum during a phone call with Trump on Monday. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney said to reporters as he arrived for a Cabinet meeting in the capital, Ottawa. “Canada was the first country to understand the change in U.S. trade policy that he initiated, and we’re responding to that. ” HA! Good Fun!