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From the BBC: There has been no official comment from the Russian government, but the pro-Kremlin politician Vyacheslav Nikonov was unafraid to revel in the uncertainty surrounding the result. "Whoever wins the legal battles half of Americans will not consider them the lawful president," he wrote on Facebook. "Let's stock up on large quantities of popcorn." Not going to bother putting a picture of a smirking Putin here, but I'm almost certain he's busy congratulating himself on a job well done in 2016 😂

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Give them a break. They have to print them, fill them up and then count. It takes time.

Just found out that my older brother survived the terrorist attack in Vienna. Apparently they all hid inside the restaurant for 5 hours until the police had everything under control. What the hell is this world coming to...

The 3080 Ti SUPER exists in a superposition of both arriving and cancelled. This is due to the Jensen Uncertainty Principle.

Odds are improved if you don't wear a mask...

Since you will have very limited casts of Great Maelstrom you might want to squeeze every bit out of it. From stealth the recovery is -85%, so...

They do stack. +5 PL for Great Maelstrom. As a Nature Godlike with Prestige and Stone of Power you'll have +8 PL which not only does awesome dmg (40% multplicative) but also prologs the duration (40%) and raises PEN by another clean 2 points on top of the Fury passive and Scion of Flame etc. Overpenetration works really nicely in combination with the boosted base dmg. +8 PL is something. You'll only get +5 when you empower an ability, so... You can even stack those 8 with empower and cast with +13 PL.

Be patient. The military doesn't allow the aliens to leave area 51 so they have to vote by mail. If only they had successfully stormed the place last year...

I don’t know. I just thought this was funny

If you abstain, is it a protest against the system, or laziness? At least if you write in some rando you've recorded your disatisfaction.

Well or for Kanye.

Did Biden get an edge from Libertarian vote in critical swing states? Hey as---le voting for a candidate you believe in, especially when it's the ONLY candidate you believe in is not "throwing your vote away". I'm sorry... who are you talking about here? Who agrees with us 80%. You don't mean Republicans do you? Not even close to 80%. Look, if you want to get Libertarian votes then BE more libertarian. We are not disaffected Republicans and Democrats. We are a separate and distinct ideology.

Look on the bright side, at least the election day was peaceful, just like the Simpsons predicted.

French Bulldog elected Mayor of Kentucky community

No kidding! Elections don't steal themselves! People should appreciate the effort going into this!

Mississippi chose a new flag. It’s not the one I liked the best but it’s pretty good. I believe that’s it. I believe the “Confederate Flag” (don’t get me started) is gone from all state flags now. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/mississippi-voters-replace-confederate-themed-flag-with-new-design-featuring-magnolia-flower

The only way you are going to avoid the current situation with the voting in the US is to standardize the system across the states and districts. This is a terrible idea though, because it opens up the election to WIDESPREAD fraud. Nothing that is happening right now is evidence of WIDESPREAD fraud. It is evidence of certain districts not running as smoothly as others. After a legitimate investigation is done (and not the twitter detective agency) it may even be evidence of localized fraud. That would be shocking, as the amount of moving parts needed to pull that off is staggering, but I suppose it is possible.

Here comes the lawsuits and the lawyers. I won! No I won! They are stealing the election! No they’re stealing the election! There’s no dignity in this. In 1960 they were voting irregularities in Chicago. Richard Nixon chose not to make a big deal about it. Didn’t want to put the country through the stress that would follow. It took 60 years but suddenly Nixon looks like a good guy again. This whole notion of everyone fighting like freaking savages to have control over their fellow humans reminds me of why I live alone in the woods with a dog

I've never used it as a consideration in the past, but at the moment I feel as tho the Pres-race county maps are a good way to decide where I do NOT want to retire to.

That you cannot distinguish between them just shows your lack of taste, can you flaunt your pedestrian views some place else? Just kidding. But yeah, cost was the major factor. Dark Matter creator Joseph Mallozzi talked about that after the cancellation a bit while he was desperately trying to find someone else to pick up the show before they had to scrap all the sets. He didn't, so that's that. What's worse is not only that they cancelled Dark Matter, but that it was the best rated (with DVR factored in) SyFy "original" at that point and by every performance metric it should have been Killjoys that got canned.

Yeah, uhm. I hear a sound too, but it's certainly not victory.

In a practical way, nothing. But there are reasons other than practical results for doing things. In a practical way, voting for a 3rd party candidate also achieves nothing in the US system (and despite having proportional representation even more votes, approaching 10%, were 'wasted' that way here too), in a practical way voting Trump in California achieves nothing since he won't win there or voting Biden in Wyoming achieves nothing since he won't win there; in a practical way this post and the one I'm replying to achieves nothing either. Doesn't mean that any of them wasn't worth doing though, even if they don't change anything, practically. A formalised 'no confidence' option allows a gauge of those who are disengaged from the political process due to thinking the candidates- or electoral system- are awful but who would like to be engaged, and allows them to express their opinion without going into a generic 'spoiled' category that most will presume to be from people who cannot tie their shoelaces/ shirts button up down their back/ cannot successfully tick whatever box they really wanted to, rather than being a protest. That may not be much use practically, but in the more... figurative sense the purpose of elections is to allow people to express their feelings about who should lead them; and that certainly includes being able to express that none of the candidates are suitable, or that the process itself is broken. Which, for some reason, isn't a very appealing prospect for politicians.

Maybe the thought is regarding oil and other natural resources needed/wanted for our current modern way of life. A great bargaining/economic chip so to speak, to have. Which is also a prime talking point if one thinks about another civil war or splitting the US into multiple.

What map are you looking at? Some of the states that rely heaviest on federal government monies are very red.

It will be a great boon to our election process if/when the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact goes into effect over the next decade or two.

It shows how much of a clustercuss the election system is when a turnout for a county can decide an election in favor of someone who is on track to lose the popular vote by 4 million. I do believe there is voter fraud in this election, simply by size it would be surprising if there wasn't. However if it tracks with recent cases of fraud it won't even amount to a rounding error, let alone decide the election. More relevant than maybe a few hundred cases of voter fraud (to be extremely generous) is how many mail in ballots were discarded and how it just so happened to occur to Black and Latino voters at a significantly higher frequency. Of course there is a reason folks like "The Reactionary Imperative" and other Trump stans are more concerned about the non-issue.

it needs to have an attack roll. i think the initial application of come/come or dragon thrashed will trigger it, but not subsequent ticks. i could be wrong about the initial part, but ticks should not.

All Democrats really needed to do was target Miami-Dade in Florida and shift the margins back to how much Clinton won them by and Biden would likely have Florida...and probably nobody would've even noticed. Amateur hour here, 🤡.

@Elric GaladJust wanted to confirm that you were absolutely right: it doesn't matter whether CP is installed or not - Great Maelstrom profits from Secrets of Rime in any case (both effects, the pure freeze dmg proc + the burn/shock proc as well).

"Borrowed" from a blog... It may help with stress relief 😇 Ingredients: 1 Hamster, quartered 1 cup diced onion 2 large tomatoes (from your garden) or 1 can of tomatoes Assorted fresh, or canned veggies Preparation: Sprinkle seasoned salt, pepper, and cayenne pepper (optional) liberally on the meat. Pour some cooking oil into a large pot (dutch oven). Saute the meat with the onions until well browned. Drain the excess oil, add about 2 cups water, and bring to a boil. Cut up the tomatoes and add. If you use canned tomatoes add them now. Turn down the heat, and let slow cook for at least an hour. Important: older hamsters may require cooking longer than an hour. Check periodically for tenderness. If you don’t you will have a hard time chewing the meat. After the meat is tender, add the veggies, carrots, potatoes, banana pepper, what ever you like. Cook until the veggies are done. An option you can use is, cook up your favorite pasta and serve over the pasta. (eliminate the potatoes).

That's a slippery slope, because once a damage dealer goes down his dps goes down rather steeply as well. There's a reason why solo playthroughs with hugh defenses but only mediocre damage output are so much easier than the ones with a high dps setup and lowish defenses. This is also true for parties, but here the risk of failing due to squishyness is a lot lower of course. Still the general rule persists. Try 5 tanky Heralds with Ancient Memory/Their Courage/Exhalted Endurance and Brand Enemy. Maybe make it one Trickster/Troubadour with Gouging Strike for fire immune enemies. Dps of this party is really low, but it's nearly impossible to fail with them. High defenses + passive healing + anti-affliction + summons. All that contributes to your survival while the whimpy dps is enough to win. Sure, it's boring as hell - but it's only an example how low dps/high defenses is superior to high dps/low defenses. So in my opinion these forums should rather theorycraft around raising defenses and not dps. I think only Kaylon does this. The rest is discussing dps here and dps there all the time (including me). I mean it's more fun to talk about offense than about defense. Like football: once Italy is involved the game becomes a tedium to watch...

^ I am less fixated on dps-per-se, and more inclined towards finding a party that would handle all combat encounters combined, in the least amount of real time. Having higher dps is usually directly correlated with that. Plus, the faster you kill, the less time enemies had to damage your party. But if party setup requires heavy micro of more than 3 characters, lots of pausing / slow-mode, or even worse: get knockdown or have to reload, then it goes against that metric. Usually there is a golden mean between the [high-dps] and [high-sturdiness] extremes. And what I liked about PoE1, that there were even 2 such means: [high-dps + lots-of-hard-cc] and [over-time-damage + sturdiness] were both great.