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My cousin's BF actually likes Discovery a lot because it's more exciting and has less boring talking. Of course this makes it hard for me to see him as a human person but I'm trying.

"Unfortunately, some of the new battle encounters we designed didn’t convey our intentions properly, and we felt like the new enemies and their mechanical features needed more balancing."

Got my booster shot 30 seconds ago…. So far, so good Edit: have to sit still on a chair for 15 minutes before I’m allowed to leave, might as well read some news

If Nu Trek wasn't called Star Trek, well, it still wouldn't be great because the stories are more hole than plot, but it would be a cromulent enough collection of turn your brain off action adventure movies and shows. The production value is really high and there's plenty of pew pew pew, flashing bright lights, and sappy melodrama. There's nothing wrong with sci-fi action adventure shows with melodrama, I've enjoyed some of them. What made Star Trek special is that it was different. It occasionally had action but it wasn't an action show. It occasionally had melodrama, but not often. It was about a glorious future where humans got their $#!+ together and left behind their petty squabbles and explored the universe while getting into wacky situations that they solved with brains and words, rarely fists and phasers. Nu Trek is a generic sci-fi action show just with extra stupid writing.

Eh, IMO, its the Star Wars effect. I think I've mentioned this a few times, but the people currently in control of Star Trek LOVE Star Wars and resultantly seem to want to see feats of sci-fi swashbuckling with a bunch of *pew* *pew* lasers. Go look at interviews with either Abrams or Kurtzman talking about Trek and they'll usually mention being big fans of Star Wars. They don't seem to actually like Star Trek, though. Or at best tolerate it. I think this is why they go through convolutions in story to sideline Starfleet in Discovery and have everyone bristle under the yoke of oppression chain-of-command - because Luke Skywalker and Han Solo didn't need to ask anybody if they could go kick some ass, they just did it. But as I mentioned, the TNG producers didn't like ST either - they hated the idea of Roddenberry's better future because they couldn't see how they could make drama if the characters didn't yell at one another in disagreement or how they could tell stories saddled with some continuity and Starfleet structure and rules (the episode I just watched where the Enterprise command crew want to watch a planet's populace die in service to a gross misunderstanding of the Prime Directive is the most obvious sign they didn't get it). So what we're seeing is the long term effect of having the people who own the show (Paramount/Viacom/CBS) hiring people to make Trek be something it isn't because that something else is 'popular'. There's been some fun along the way, but we're at an echo of an echo of an idea at this point. This is probably why I don't mind 1st season Discovery as some may do - to my mind the toys are already broken, so I can try to enjoy it for what it is good/bad as long as it doesn't bore me. It'll be interesting to see what I think of Season 2, as from all I've read it has less to recommend it than Season 1 for most viewers. Be interested to see Picard as well, since so far IMO the best thing about TNG is its cast.

He's not deploying the military.

In the spirit of Khorne, here's a dumb joke. Q: Skull Throne, Servitor Skulls, terrain made of skulls. Why is everything in Warhammer made of skulls? A: It's the most abundant resource.

For that Wholesome Valentine Vibe...

SC Barbarian is good. One of the classes where it can be both great to multiclass or go single class. The reason why SC Barb is good are the abilities of Power Level 9: Barbaric Retaliation: does a full attack when you receive a critical hit. This is very strong if you build a bit around it. It works with melee or ranged weapon, eve ones that deal AoE damage (like mortars for example). If you have a powerful but slow weapon (for example a two-handed Battle Axe with the Bleeding Cuts modal) this ability - in combination with Blood Thirst - can speed you up considerably. Blood Surge: the only way besides Flesh Communion (Corpse Eater), Brilliant and Empower to regain Rage points. The funny thing is that it also works when you kill allies - for example cheap skeleton summons. Driving or Dazing Shout: both are absolutely awesome: cheap and very powerful. It's worth to play a SC Barb just because of one of those: Heart of Fury is good (and you can to some cheesy stuff with it), but imo it's a bit too expensive. But if you employ the right weapon(s) it can totally be worthwhile. My pick would be Furyshaper when I was playing a SC Barb. The Blood Ward (Power Level is absolute fantastic for you and your party because it drains health from any damage that you or your allies cause (excluded: seals, traps and wall spells). This includes damage over time, spells, weapon attacks and so on. You can combine this with Heart of Fury, Barbaric Retaliation and Dazing Shout for example to heal from the damage you dish out. And also on the way to PL 8/9 a SC Furyshaper is cool because he gets to the Fear Ward a lot earlier than a multiclass Furyshaper. And the Fear Ward is very good, too.

Since today is a work day we celebrated yesterday. We went and gorged ourselves on 3lb of King crab, its her favorite. Of course I also picked up a card and flowers too.

When they stop moving the goal posts every few weeks I'll reevaluate.

Neil Breen movies make extensive use of seemingly needless greenscreened scenes...turns out, it's a lot easier and cheaper to find an image of a background that you can use than to go out and find actual locations...assuming you don't care at all about how it looks, which Neil Breen does not. @Keyrock I get not loving the CDC: there is a history of the institution being politicized, especially recently. I get not trusting the corporations: there are certainly many issues of their impartiality and them lying and being negligent in the past. I'm trying to understand your point of view, but you made vocal posts about how you won't get the vaccine in the future, you don't trust the CDC, and you don't trust the corporations...so where exactly does that leave all of us if we're like you and trying to figure out how to make potentially life-altering choices about our health? Because that's literally what we, as individuals, are all doing - trying to make the decisions best for ourselves. Saying "nope" to sources X, Y, and Z is easy and something we can all do for any reason or another, but at the end of the day, we're still making decisions based off of something. Anecdotally, I know a few people who have died from this thing since it started. Heck, my nieces' grandfather died just last month from omicron. He was a loud and proud anti-vaxxer - so proud, in fact, that he refused to tell anyone that he was sick or go to the hospital even once it got really bad, and he died alone at home without having told a single soul he was ill. Took his daughter not being able to contact him for a week for her to call police to do a wellness check and have them find his body. I also talk pretty regularly to two people who work at hospitals, and they have both been pretty vociferous about anti-vaxxers and how they're 95% the ones taking up all of their hospitals' resources during these surges, which makes it impossible for other vaccinated people to get non-covid-related life-saving treatments and surgeries and causing unnecessary pain and death because of those "personal" decisions - not to mention the amount of abuse all these doctors and nurses get from the anti-vaxxers when they do come in and "inexplicably" need treatment after all. Having said all that, I guess you could say I was pretty likely to always be biased and pro-anything that doesn't make the lives of people that I know utterly miserable or end up with people dead. So...what's your story?

I know technically I should be waiting until after my first paycheck comes in, but I needed some mood shopping, and wanting to get started on some of that crafting related elements before work kills all my time, so I started sorting out fabrics, patterned pleather and such like for ordering. Plus contemplation of that first set of basic leatherworking tools if I'm going to try developing those skills in the future... Also, contemplating future transport and seeing some of the ways folks have come up with transport containers for gear once done: Which means I'll also have that urge to make sure space in future budget for such containers and more paint....

And now something little bit more positive. A one man made space strategy game very keen to realism - Falling Frontier. And it will be available on GOG as well... https://www.gog.com/en/game/falling_frontier

Within the grounded game, I am a person who would consider quite useful the use of pulleys to climb construction materials when you want to build in high places since you can not climb the vertical stairs with grass plank or bad herb and build acorn or grass stairs is very slow with scaffolding so the pulley or some elevator for manual use would be very useful to climb this class of materials or even to another player or oneself

Im slightly miffed that OBJ got a ring. I dislike that dude. EDIT: Also

There's one problem with that- it's fundamentally incompatible with what they've already done. The whole point is that they've already made the existence of the intelligence public, so the hand is shown. It's the card equivalent of going for a lay down misère and then saying that maybe the player is bluffing instead of trying to lose. Once the cards are down it can't be a bluff because... that's the point of putting the cards down; once the intelligence is revealed you've already shown its existence. If the aim is to protect the intelligence then they shouldn't have revealed it in the first place.

I'd have expected a different Udo Kier reaction.

I really think Grounded would be really fun with split screen especially for people who have friends that own a different console or that don't own one at all so they can still play together. A survival game with split screen always sounds like a good time to me!

Speak for yourself, I'm putting up all time numbers. We aren't doing anything because my wife hates today but I'll still get her some chocolate covered strawberries and some flowers.

She always gets me a card and box of chocolates. Im a chocoholic you see.

Yeah, so we do hat we do every Valentine's day: Absolutely nothing else we wouldn't have done otherwise. Bought her a new dress with flowers on it, tho, so yeah. Guess that counts, in a way.

Then you have a bug.

I'm now far enough into playing Solasta that I can provide a first report. Personally, I'm loving playing this game. It's finally a game that sincerely scratches my D&D itch. I've also come to appreciate 5e a whole lot more because of this game. I think I will always like 3.5e the most, just because that was my personal prime D&D-playing years edition. But 5e is definitely second-best. The game is extremely faithful to 5e rules, and even such things as held actions and reactions are done beautifully. For a TB game, combat goes by pretty quickly. You have a good amount of options available to you in each turn of combat. The tutorial explains everything very well. The game includes character backgrounds that actually matter, and passive skills and spellcasting outside of combat are used extensively. Verticality and movement in 3D is awesome, including flying, spider climbing, etc. And yes, TA did this first. Larian copied TA for BG3. All in all, a truely delightful gem of a game. For negatives, a very superficial one would of course be that the graphics and character models are not very fancy and sometimes look a bit odd. For some people this may be a big issue. For me, I couldn't care less. It is good enough. The voice acting is fine, though both written and spoken lines could use some more polish in places. The main criticisms I'd offer are party size of only four, no multi-classing, level cap not all the way up to 20, and the game needing more content to explore. For the first issue, this may be the one game where this is okay, because they often attach critical NPCs to the party for certain quests. Early in the game we even get two such NPCs attached, effectively forming a party of six. As for the other three issues, I feel they all will become moot after we get the next DLC or two. TA's approach for this game appears to be to provide the core game plus a complete campaign first, and then release new DLCs every so often with a completely new, standalone, full-sized campaign. The DLC they're working on for a March release is exactly such a DLC. So TA seems to be doing what NwN was originally supposed to be, with TA's terminology being "campaign" in place of "module." You also have available to play user-created campaigns made with the "Dungeon Maker" toolset they have created and included with the core game. These are available in Steam Workshop and can be very easily added to your game. More to come.

I didn't check Shining Beacon's rolls - but I strongly suspect every hit roll applies Blood Frenzy on crit. I haven't tried Storm of Holy Fire but I also guess this should be great because of the multiple AoE "impacts". The best candidates are pulsing spells and offensive phrases though. Slicken, Binding Web, Tanglefoot, Chillfog, Wicked Briars and all that stuff that pulses every 3 secs. Rays will even pulse every second instead of 3 secs. Unfortunately Walls and also the drop traps from Footsteps of the Beast are hazards and won't apply Blood Frenzy. The seal of the Weyc's Wand however should apply Blood Frenzy since it's a weapon ability - and it pulses every second...

I also thought it should. But I checked right before posting to be 100% sure and was surprised it did not. Scion of Flame was applied but not the +10 ACC from the Ring.

At least until the Ukraine becomes a nuclear power again...

Oh, thank goodness. They're certainly good enough for us getting the idea, but I shuddered at the thought of you watching it like that. Carry on in that case. Not sure if I should bring out the little girl that doesn't have fingernails from Cardcaptor Sakura to confirm your theory, or Sailor Iron Mouse to deny it. Well, I certainly wouldn't ever make screengrabs if I was watching stuff on a TV from a DVD/BD player, that's for sure. On desktop, it takes roughly one second to make and upload a screenshot because I have a program that can take any given area and immediately upload it to my Dropbox for linking. Like so: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ewek0zuw14niit6/firefox_78crvf0n0H.mp4

I'm watching it on bluray, but I'm posting screengrabs from youtube. Cause trying to get screengrabs from my bluray is a pain, which is why none of my earlier posts had screengrabs unless I could find one already online from the episode...

Here's one of the most recent articles. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-14/ben-roberts-smith-ex-wife-gives-evidence-at-defamation-trial/100827084 There's a few. The people testifying that they saw him commit war crimes are other soldiers who were in Iraq or Afghanistan with him. The woman claiming that she spoke to someone who appears to have been abused by him is his ex-wife who discovered that he was cheating on her with the woman he is accused to have abused.

"Valentine's Day is very commercial so we shouldn't lose track of the real meaning of this special day. The day native Hawaiians stabbed Captain James Cook in his colonising neck on Feb 14, 1779" Note: To be fair, Cook wasn't a coloniser per se, just an explorer. But explorers of that day and age tended to get followed by the colonisers. And from what my hazey memory recalls, it was a lot of ups and downs that caused it. Crew of his ship grabbed wood for repairs, apparently not knowing it was from a sacred ritual area of the locals. The locals responded by capturing a ships cutter. Cook tried taking a local chieftain hostage for its recovery, and it all went **** up.

Barbarian multiclasses extremely well in my opinion. It may not be clear based on tooltips, but passives like Blooded actually apply to spells too, as do abilities like Spirit Frenzy, so even doing something like casting a Fireball on a group of enemies can cause Staggered on them. And on-kill ones like Bloodlust and Blood Thirst trigger off of spells and even DoTs. So a casting class gets a lot out of pairing with Barbarian. All the ones you mention are very good, but I am going to throw out a recommendation for in my opinion one of the most fun classes: A Tempest (Barbarian/Shifter Druid). Normally Spiritshift is just OK, something to use in a pinch but not amazing compared to a real martial class. However, combine them with Barbarian active/passive abilities and they become incredibly powerful. Cat form slices up enemies with great dps, boar form applies a stacking raw DoT on melee hits that last a long time and melts tough targets, bear form with Thick Skin passive is an incredible tank that can apply Frightened and Staggered in a big radius for free once a fight. The way I played is to slap the enemy with DoTs and cast storms, then turn into a Spiritshift form and start cleaning up. You said you mostly wanted to stay in melee, so imo Priest might not be great…their spells take a long time to cast and wouldnt add too much to your melee game that another party member couldnt just give you. One exception is Priest of Woedica, whose summoned weapons are really powerful. Since you love PoE2 Chanters I say go with them. Its a solid pick. If you go Skald, you can get free chants from melee crits, which shouldnt be too rare between your AoE paralyze, attack speed boosts and hit to crit passive. Also you get an ability later that lets you target fortitude over deflection if its lower, so debuffing the enemy with A Long Nights Drink and Spirit Frenzy can drop it by 20 points right off the bat. And your powerful damage AoE invocations (and damaging chants even) can help you keep up Bloodlust or Blood Thirst via finishing off enemies. Edit: also a question for anyone else that comes by this thread: does the DoT from Blood Frenzy crits apply to chants that apply status effects, like A Long Nights Drink and Thick Grew Their Tongues? I usually go for Spirit Frenzy since I know you can get free Staggered application from the offense based chants, but could be interesting to get damage from a typically non-damaging ability.

(Giant Sandra picture here) I think that's enough Space Cobra for one lifetime. Although maybe the next lady that comes around won't be nearly so frightening... ...I have to tell you, I did a cursory search, and the BDs look so much nicer than whatever you're watching on: The prons and cons of bluray vs. random streaming service, I suppose...

For an interesting take...

we didn't get deep into boba fett before we called it quits, but am gonna nevertheless make a couple observations, so if situation changed later in series, am admitting am speaking with limited knowledge o' the progress o' the show. rotj boba fett had a kinda specific skill set and reputation which limited his potential post sarlacc career options. am s'posing he he coulda' opened a dairy queen franchise on a rim world, which mighta' made for a better story if you were willing to go kinda campy and have the world weary fett just trying to get through a week w/o having to disintegrate somebody in spite o' his best efforts to get outta the game. alternatively, they coulda' gone the john wick route? which is kinda what they did do, but they never got to the point where boba finally let go as did wick. the thing is, if you start off episode one with a not-so-subtle jonah allegory, then is hardly gonna be shocking when the main character, after emerging from the whale, recognizes the opportunity God/The Universe/The Force has presented him to change the course o' his life. 'course the writers went with a pollock mural approach, taking bits o' robin hood and moses and a man called horse and kinda splattering 'em onto their weekly canvas w/o any seeming rhyme or reason. please note the aforementioned characters, while protagonists and typically heroic, engaged in criminal behaviour, but y'know, for goodness. honest, we wouldn't have minded seeing fett try and become a more benevolent crime lord, if it weren't for the fact he clear weren't particular good at the job. boba fett is being out maneuvered at every turn. am not sure how things progressed, but boba fett were being portrayed as a competent if aging warrior who nevertheless couldn't strategize or plan beyond what one would expect o' a low-level muscle or button man. if in one o' the earlier episodes, the writers had gone with a john wick "i'm back" moment, we likely woulda' rolled our eyes, but truth is we also woulda' strapped in and nevertheless enthusiastic anticipated the ultraviolence forthcoming. never happened. so you got a half-arsed resurrection/redemption thing which went nowhere, and a potential revenge plot which kinda petered out, and the crime boss protagonist who is 'posed one o' the galaxies most feared bad arses stumbles through each episode with no apparent story purpose save as acting like the guy in a horror movie who, knowing a deranged serial killer is on the lose, checks out the mysterious sound in the basement armed with a broom. coulda' been ok with not wanting to do crime in spite o' choosing to be a crime lord, 'cause as already mentioned there is numerous examples o' such having worked. unfortunate, the writers/director also made bobba fett dull and naïve. coulda' done any number o' different things with bobba fett, but instead o' choosing one such, they went with trying to multiple directions at once and they installed a not particular interesting character as the protagonist o' such a mess. HA! Good Fun!

https://fullview.co.za/top-stories/item/16576-huawei-sued-for-allegedly-violating-sa-employment-equity-rules Our Labor department is suing Huawei SA for being in violation of our labor laws and basically having 90% Chinese foreign nationals working for the SA based branch where they suppose to have 60 % South Africans at least The only thing that surprises me about this lawsuit is the fact that anyone is surprised that any Chinese company would have type of hiring practice

aside: is not an excuse, but am gonna once again observe how we rare had admirable clients. first amendment cases happen at the margins. people rare comment 'bout just how openminded and reasonable is religious zealots and even cultists. everybody knows white supremacists is models o' intelligence, justice and decency. we dealt with the most loathsome and obtuse: strip club owners, gang leaders, teacher's unions. kidding 'bout the last one... mostly. every day needing champion the first amendment rights o' those who, if roles were reversed, woulda' happily trampled on the speech religion, press and association rights o' others, were exhausting. get a chance to respond to the smallminded and willful ignorant w/o needing be nice is refreshing. moving on... https://gregolear.substack.com/p/shame-cometh-the-jared-kushner-story During the early days of the pandemic, he set up a shadow task force to devise an appropriate response. When that task force gave him its recommendations—masks, contact tracing, federal coordination of supplies, etc.—he ignored them. The virus, he saw, was hitting the Blue States the hardest. It would help his father-in-law politically, he came to believe, if the pandemic continued to rage in those states. This way, his father-in-law could blame the governors of those states, who were all Democrats, for the escalating public health crisis, avoiding responsibility. So he decided to scuttle the plans given him by his own task force, and let the virus run amok. At the time, the states hit the hardest by covid-19 were New York, New Jersey, and California. New York: where he lived for years, where most of his friends lived. New Jersey: where he grew up, where his parents lived. California: where his brother lived. He was willing to let the populations of those states—home to his family and friends—get sick and die to help his father-in-law’s re-election prospects. Again: He was willing to let the populations of those states get sick and die to help his father-in-law’s re-election prospects. As of this writing, 904,000 Americans have died of covid-19. The unofficial number is well over a million. Most of those deaths could have been prevented, had he and his father-in-law not sabotaged the pandemic response. The grandson of Holocaust survivors allowed that mass death to happen. ... if true... HA! Good Fun!

oh, we never had any notion o' changing the minds o' those obvious obtuse and intransigent. as @Gorth notes, the paragraphs is useful to speak to those who is less immovable but nevertheless possessing similar views. is impossible to use reason to change the mind o' somebody such as sharp_one who did not come to their conclusions through reason, but that don't mean there ain't others out there who nevertheless believe unreasonable and simple are unaware o' what is the actual law regarding 4th amendment issues or why increasing vaccination rates leads to a higher % of vaccinated people dying from covid-19. etc. also, and have mentioned this previous, we would block some o' the worst offenders o' obtuse, but the board software makes such impossible. in rl we had to always polite steer people to doing what was in their own best interest, even if they were self destructively ignorant; were kinda the worst part o' the job. those who abuse authority or those previous identified shmucks immune to reason who nevertheless feel the need to announce to the world how intransigent and ignorant they wish to be in spite o' any proffer o' facts is kinda representing an attractive nuisance to us. the whole Gromnir persona, +20 years past, were invented 'cause from our pov, too many o' the regulars on the bg2 boards were toolbags who seemed to find it amusing to mock "no00bs" and spout off 'bout things they clear weren't particular knowledgeable 'bout themselves. were cathartic for us to use the Gromnir bit to chastise folks we would need other wise placate in rl. like we said, if ignore were possible, we would use, 'cause as am getting older is less amusing to, "expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of (brutal) education," but am admitted quite happy to indulge when the worst offenders offer us the chance. "gonna make more use o' ignore 'cause chances are the next time we see somebody post something monumental asinine, am gonna comment. yeah, chances are we face some kinda sisyphean trial as we attempt to explain something which should be self evident, and no doubt we will need endure the comically retributive squeaks o' rage from those who feel wronged, but am petty enough to not be overconcerned, even if am agreeing with the general sentiment that is we should be more wary o' stoopid and angry. as such, where is possible, ignore is probable our best option." -- Gromnir, 28 dec 2021 am aware is petty, but we can live with such a burden. but again, trying to contribute at least something o' value... HA! Good Fun!

Sometimes a side effect of "paragraphs" can be beneficial for the bystanders, even if wasted on the original poster. So, even if not hitting where it's needed the most, can still be beneficial to others. Edit: Bystanders being a better word than onlookers.

HoonDing deliberately makes himself obvious, which in turn doesn't inspire any paragraphs of writing from anyone else in reply, because we all recognize such silliness for exactly what it is. Is it still trolling if we're all in on the joke and always treat it as such? After all, there's no trick that results in us wasting genuine thought or emotion (and never mind our time) if we're all perfectly cognizant of the situation. Compare that to the countless times you have gone through the trouble of writing paragraphs and repeating yourself ad nauseum to someone who was never in the market of even slightly shifting their view...with no intellectual honesty or integrity on display, you have wasted hours of your time trying to reach someone that was never remotely reachable in the first place, and yet who apparently expected you to remain open to whatever silly agenda they were trying to push. That, to me, is a much more insidious form of trolling than just about anything else I can think of.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-deaths-in-u-s-exceed-deltas-peak-as-covid-19-optimism-rises-in-europe-11643201653 is people who inexplicable think omicron were a nothingburger or somesuch silliness. the current surge represents the second most deadly we has experienced during the pandemic, 'cause in spite of the diminished lethality o' an individual case o' covid due to omicron compared to delta, the transmissibility o' omicron has more than made up for the difference. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ am gonna keep linking. americans, who 'cause o' aforementioned anxiety issues had worked extreme hard to convince self that +600k deaths from covid were some kinda exaggeration or the result o' government or big pharma conspiracies were looking for any excuse to marginalize covid-19, so when omicron becomes dominant and the case counts began to surge, there were a segment o' the population who once again mocked scientific guidance and they felt justified in their stoopid selfishness 'cause they read somewheres that omicron were far less lethal than delta. 'course hospitalization rates began to climb in the US, so surely at that point, which admitted woulda' been too late to ensure some kinda useful mitigation efforts, woulda' seen reasonable people adjust their thinking on the relative dangers o' omicron, yes? nope. an all too predictable, "nope." that said, is worth recognizing that 'cause o' the extreme transmissibility o' omicron, the effectiveness o' previous mitigation approaches were gonna be reduced. woulda' needed practice arguable impractical social distancing, although such were still advisable when dealing with highly vulnerable segments o' the population. 'course freaking vaccinations and boosters woulda' once again helped prevent serious outcomes from covid-19 infections and n-95 masks, seeing as how they is +95% effective at preventing spread in indoor environments, woulda' gone a long way in reducing the impact o' omicron if there were something approaching universal adoption, though such were never gonna happen in the US. is arguable that 'cause o' the intransigence o' the ill-informed and recognizing the measles equivalent transmissibility o' omicron, working to protect any save the most vulnerable were wasted effort, but such is the kinda calculus we expect from politicians instead o' scientists and doctors. regardless, am just not certain how people can look at hospitalizations and deaths attributed so far to omicron (those numbers is gonna continue to be noteworthy for at least the next week and a half as omicron has followed the same case and hospitalization trends as past surges) and convince self that somehow the dangers o' omicron were exaggerated. HA! Good Fun!

Eh, I'm a hardcore leftie and I skim and dismiss your posts at best and skip over entirely at worst. Maybe consider it's not them.