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our response is gonna be unsatisfactory. There is a Constitutional crisis if scotus says there is a Constitutional crisis. in the garcia case, the issue o' most immediate concern, the Court did their effectuate v. facilitate silliness and so there is just enough ambiguity that the executive may implausible but perhaps legal realistic claim confusion. https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/143-the-state-of-play-in-the-abrego highly recommended read. not too long. if you still have questions after reading, ask us and we will explain sans most o' the legal stuff. by the way, more than a couple dems makes it tough to take 'em serious if trump does explicit ignore the courts and they then complain. rules for thee but not for me. concerning to us personal, and no doubt confusing given our recent posts, is the fact all o' the legal debate ignores the more important questions o' right v. wrong. yeah, we must not ignore due process to get bad guys such as tren de aragua/ms-13 members... or trump, but debates over legal ignores far more important and fundamental questions o' right v. wrong. so much o' what trump is doing (has already done) should be seen as wrong/immoral/unthinkable by all those salt-of-the-earth christian americans who vote for trump regardless o' whether a court decides he can legal do. by constant debating the legalities, people are able to ignore the more important and fundamental questions o' right and wrong. worse, at some point people replace "right" with "legal" and the two is most assured not synonymous. slavery were legal for a long time. until more recent, it were legal impossible to sexual assault your wife. purchasing and displaying foam fingers at sporting events is legal, but we all know it is wrong. call out the wrong is a moral duty even if not a legal one. yeah, too many ignore due process when it suits 'em but even more sit quiet or only complain via text or post when they nevertheless witness wrongs being done. as we noted already, obama used the espionage act and other means to target fox reporters and tea party members. such were wrong then even when it were legal. you think trump is gonna show same "restraint" as the obama administration? a couple years past we noted how even after the Court ruled that use o' testimony induced by torture o' non citizens not on US soil were legal admissible if obtained pre trial, the biden administration vowed it would not do such a thing, declaring such acts repugnant. 'course is nothing stopping trump from ignoring biden's conscience. right. v legal. read the 2025 project and as each week passes, the trump administration checks off a new item from the authoritarian to-do list... and we ain't even three months in as o' today. we did think that the alien enemies act would be invoked and used sooner by trump, but he will get around to targeting individual american citizens before he finishes up with law firms and universities. so, we are most certainly already in a crisis situation, but until the Court says we got a Constitutional crisis, we don't, 'cause they were purposeful obtuse/vague. HA! Good Fun! ps speaking o' what trump may do to US citizens on US soil, before he ships 'em off to cecot, am suspecting the administration is purposeful trying to provoke summer 2020 kinda protests. have already mentioned the espionage act as a way to target reporters and likely lawyers, but the insurrection act is also a possibility. bush used the insurrection act in 1992 to send troops to la to quell riots. project 2025 anticipates the use o' the insurrection act and such should be chilling given the way they have bent and twisted the alien enemies act. also recall that when teslas were set on fire, trump claimed such were terrorist acts. as we has warned numerous times, identify a person or organization as a terrorist is a way to diminish due process rights, which is why we always balk at legal using domestic terrorist language. if somebody burns a tesla or poops in pelosi's desk, get 'em for vandalism or whatever is appropriate, but tack on terrorist label just to reduce due process strikes us as dangerous. tween insurrection act, patriot act and espionage act, trump is gonna have legal tools to disappear people or use the military to suppress 'em.

Beat avowed. I enjoyed it. The worst part about is it that you are aedyran. Limits role playing. The best thing about the game is how they managed to make it feel like Eora. Don't want to go into particulars. Maybe I will write something in the avowed spoilers page. One thing is for sure. After playing kcd2 and avowed back to back, I am done with first person RPGs for a while.

malc and lexx is, as usual, full o' it... first, the link by malc is a Gromnir defense o' US First Amendment. trump keeps losing first amendment cases and he is needing use backdoor efforts to kill radio america and npr-- staffing and budget cuts. purposeful avoiding the viewpoint or content discrimination which triggers easy first amendment claims. our first amendment observations comparing US and euro free speech differences is hardly representing a claim that trump shenanigans is impossible. receipts (particular relevant as malc were one o' the jokers claiming trump had to know he couldn't contest the election results.) *snort* this next one is from january 5, 2021 and ... time and again we warned trump were doing illegal and that the only way to stop him were Congress, Courts and voters. Congress refused to convict even after january 6 and voters chose to bring the convicted felon back to office after scotus decided to give trump immunity. the Courts? Courts has been hit and miss. we warned time and again. contrary to lexx revisionist history, we fully embraced our cassandra role. however, we will observe that we did says it would be a mistake to break law just to "get" trump. used the 'bove more than once. get trump w/o due process is same excuse trump is using to send venezuelans to a dystopian hellhole in el salvador. immigrant gang members don't deserve due process, right? his supporters don't care if trump is doing illegal 'cause he is going after the bad guys. is also why we found navalny's murder repugnant in spite o' fact we disliked the russian. they are bad guys and don't deserve the protection o' the law. they is commies, ms-13, tren de aragua, japanese during ww2. they is navalny. they is trans athletes. they is ________. oh, and democracy ain't gonna save you from tyranny. democracy got you jim crow laws passed legal. over the years, democracy got you any number o' horrific US eugenics and nativist laws . democracy got you trump reelected. the terrible tragedy is not so much that trump were a threat to democracy but rather he represents one o' the great flaws o' democracy. the First Amendment, and much o' the Constitution, is enumerating the LIMITS on US democracy. due process, right to trial, prohibitions on unreasonable searches and seizures, etc. is all limits on democracy. democracy is better than the alternatives, but the law is one o' our few remaining defenses against a democratic elected President coupled with a democratic elected but complicit Congress. is not a perfect defense 'cause trump keeps doing illegal and Congress won't stop him, but so far it is the only thing that prevents this administration from sending folks such as chris krebs, jeffery goldberg or Gromnir to CECOT w/o due process. getting the bad guys the wrong way is worse than letting 'em go free. for chrissakes, trump 2.0 should make that painful clear. btw, obama used the espionage act to go after numerous whistleblowers and reporters he didn't like. we complained. we thought obama's use o' the espionage act were dystopian. just 'cause it were fox reporters being jailed didn't make obama administration actions ok. to make it clear, am not suggesting an equivalency 'tween trump and obama, but am recognizing that norms were undermined before trump in 2017... much like filibuster confirmation rules. HA! Good Fun! ps first time we visit the board in months and lexx is yet again trying to rewrite history. figures.

I started playing Disco Elysium. I put on most of my clothes. Reached for my tie which was on a ceiling fan, then had a heart attack and died and went to the game over screen. That counts as completing a playthrough right?

full o' it. again, we said opposite o' your claim over and over. and if you were so unsure o' our meaning as you now suggest, then why have you made the same claim numerous times? 'cause you thought we were gone? if you call somebody out, multi times, you should be a bit more certain, yes? *chuckle* regardless, is so many times we chastised gd and others, post january 6 in particular, that your confusion rings hollow... save for fact you wanted it to be true? our frequent defense o' rule o' law coupled with your dislike o' Gromnir in addition to your own horrendous understanding o' due process led you to imagine us saying something straight outta a mirror universe episode? many is the times we condemned boardies as they sought to diminish the events o' january 6, 'cause democracy held and trump were gone, yes? and even if january 6 had been successful, said many, trump woulda' eventual lost in the courts. the system worked, were the claim. foolishness. we lamented, ad nauseum, that it were literal a handful o' people who had managed to save american democracy in late 2020 and early 2021 'cause were hardly a sure thing such heroics happen again. in fact, we lamented that history showed second coup attempts were tending to be more successful. and again is Gromnir who has said, many times to the consternation of folks hereabouts, that democracy is not what saves american liberty. democracy is as often as not the threat to liberty. we sure as hell never suggested it could never happen here. for gawd's sake, we has recommended the following book more than once... though we once again note it ain't a great written novel even if it is worth reading. mr. lewis predicted an american trump kinda figure back in 1935. so, you latch onto a malc excuse for dear life and 'course he thinks that is funny. again, malc were one o' the folks so demonstrably and obvious wrong 'bout trump in the summer o' 2020 and we chastised him specific. figures you two would glomp onto each other for comfort. oh, and before we disappear once again, am gonna note the folks am most disappointed with in 2025 is libs. 'bout same number o' republicans voted for trump in 2024 as 2020. the problem is fewer democrats voted for harris as they did biden. is as much libs fault that trump 2.0 were realized. in late 2024 we no longer expected anything good from the republican party, so is only dems who could surprise and disappoint. harris lost in part 'cause far too many libs were angry about biden/harris failures on palestine, environmental promises, or the price o' eggs to vote for harris? couldn't get off their collective arses to vote against trump? didn't freaking learn anything from 2016, eh? is only in an opposite world or the star trek mirror universe you could possible read Gromnir's annoying repetitive warnings 'bout the current and future threat o' trump authoritarianism and somehow get the opposite. guess is lucky this ain't mirror universe otherwise we know what would be the outcome for lexx and malc. HA! Good Fun! ps aside-- as an alternative to it can't happen here, we do recommend the following book: the playbook : a story of theater, democracy, and the making of a culture war. a play based on sinclair lewis' book figures prominent in the work by james shapiro. the playbook is a well researched history book, is relative new, and is a moderate ez read. shows that much o' what is happening today ain't all that new.

@Gromnir Glad to see you!

so, you aren't gonna admit you were talking out your piehole in regards to claims we dismissed the threat trump posed? typical. again, is Gromnir who pointed out time and time again that trump did illegal and s'posed impossible many times during his first term, but people kept pretending as if the next improbable were too unlikely to consider. we warned 'bout the second term precise 'cause the law failed to stop all but the worst o' trump efforts in term one. am still baffled by the the trump derangement syndrome folks, pretending as if trump is normal. even so we got no excuse for lexx clowning. makes stuff up and when confronted with mistakes via multiple posts where Gromnir said opposite o' what you claimed, you deflect. aside, trump were never gonna be tried for inciting the insurrection for reasons we has stated ad nauseum... first amendment stuff. his january 6 case, which looked extreme strong before the immunity ruling and were not dead after the ruling, were not 'bout incitement. the january 6 case were hinging on the scheme to use fraudulent slates of electors to force the individual state legislatures to decide the Presidential election. legal stuff. btw, we have had folks run for President from prison and such were perfect legal. the fact trump were able to become President in spite o' convictions and incitement is not only legal, but it is freaking democratic. The People voted for trump. maybe you didn't listen when we said the first half dozen times or so, but informed y'all that sentencing for felonies and even prison would would not necessarily prevent trump 2.0. somehow you heard opposite? *chuckle* The People voted against Socrates btw; is an education fail that so many forget such, eh. the athenians had a pure democracy, so were no need for a separate court system or a divided legislature as well as an executive. for the athenians, every trial were a popularity contest. and am fine with throwing guilty republicans and democrats in prison, but if you ignore the law, then next thing you know, it is ok to send people to a dystopian prison in el salvador without due process for no other reason than that the current administration says the folks disappeared deserved it. they deserved it or they are bad, is not enough. eventually, somebody in power might decide lexx or Gromnir is bad. we spent a career representing people we disliked who had views we abhorred-- kkk, cultists, gang members, progressives. *shudder* the only speech, religious beliefs and associations which need protection is those which offend the majority. example: mlk never achieved even 50% popularity with the american public during his lifetime, and he were also disappeared (briefly) by the government. most americans once considered the naacp were to be a threat. lexx and Gromnir shouldn't be the ones deciding who deserves the protection o' the law. definite not lexx. as an aside, there is current too many legal issues o' Constitutional import for us to cliff's notes 'em all... and we have been a bit busy. maybe take a stab at Gromsplaining one or two cases before we personal get gulaged. HA! Good Fun!

Haha, awesome. And thank you for letting us know.

I was able to get Korgrak to die during a stronghold attack and it turns out Chaospread remembered correctly! He is still listed with the permanent hirelings, so you just have to re-hire him.

Went to the theater for A MINECRAFT MOVIE, because my nephew really wanted to go. So far I thought watching him play Minecraft was the worst thing. Then he started to watch Minecraft YouTubers, and I thought, wow, it can't get any worse. Oh how wrong I was. The best moment of the film came from an older woman a few seats away, having been dragged to the theater by what was probably her grandchild. When the credits rolled, she very loudly exclaimed: THANK GOD IT IS OVER.

I think you can die even earlier than that if you pick the right (wrong) options in the first dialogue. (Not the earliest death in a game in any case, if you play Kingdom Come in hardcore mode you have a 90% chance of dying from measles/ childbirth/ smallpox/ typhoid/ cholera/ whooping cough/ plague/ misadventure/ non specific infection immediately after leaving the main menu. You even get an achievement for it)

evidence old dogs may learn new tricks. am having spent many cumulative hours cleaning steel baking sheets after cooking. chicken fat is mild annoying, but sugars is especial tough to remove and am having used bar keeper's friend enough to eliminate our fingerprints when am too lazy to wear gloves in an effort to get rid o' carbon scoring. maintained as shiny as lancelot's armour from excalibur. we do have a few o' grandma's baking sheets, which look like cast iron pans with all the built up residue on 'em, but we rare used 'em 'cause they are complete flat and have no rims... save two smallish round sheets which were almost non functional for everyday uses. ... 'bout a year ago we tested grandma's compared to our shiny sheets. grandma wins for all but cookies or similar. the cast-iron black pans work far better for roasting protein and vegetables and they is virtual non-stick... almost, but not quite. roasted veggies come out particular fantastic on the blackened pans. have spent the past year effective seasoning most o' our baking sheets and metal cooking pans. HA! Good Fun!

I rewatched all 4 recently. Should rewatch Supergirl at some point, but I don't think they did a 4K remastering on it like they did the Salkind's Superman films. Also watching the Salkind's Superboy series atm. Lol.

Hopefully not imminent death, shame that your mom died young. I long for death on this call, though. Seems everyone owns macaws or something based on background noise

Not too interested with Phantom Doctrine, will go down as yet another waste of money. Shazbot.

Java isn't the worst place to call home...

Now we know Gromnir is alive what happened to @Keyrock?

@Gromnir long time no see, welcome back (place was getting a bit boring )… you forgot the obvious example for dumb Europeans, democracy gave us The Third Reich

Hello everyone, If you are, like me, obsessed with ticking boxes when you finish somethign and seeing how much there is still left to do, you might be interested in a little spreadsheet I made for quests for POE. I am playing it for the first time ever now. (i know, but better late then never). If you would like to grab it its attached here. Please bare in mind its pretty much just a copy paste from the wiki. If there is any mistakes let me know. POE QUEST TRACKER.xlsx

Yeah, because I've read only like 5% of your post. I can't be arsed to deal with your weird wordings all the time. It reminds me of Ed from Cowboy Bebop and it really annoys me for some reason. Maybe I misremembered some details from years ago, yet I believe my point stands, since you keep defending this crap with insisting on the law, which is kinda funny to me, because your politicians don't seem to be bothered with it at all.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/the-npr-pbs-grift-has-ripped-us-off-for-too-long/ Hopefully PBS survives. Maybe they'll be forced to air a version of Kash Patel's kid's books

I really wish @Gromnir would come back.

It seems to me that this case happened in one of my run and IIRC Korgrak appeared again in the available hirelings in the keep as well as other hirelings. But it was a long time ago, I can be wrong.

@majestic, please. Compared to your previous unspeakable horror up there, this was downright tame. Still, I see it and raise you this:

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth It's weird. Being as old as I am and getting to the end of a game and hesitating because I didn't want it to end. Seeing something from my childhood in new lights and crying at it all over again. I'm so used to seeing things from my youth being done a disservice. I won't say Rebirth is perfect, I won't even say it's as good as the original. But it's still damned good. The team understood the assignment when they made this. It is worthy of standing alongside the media that I love. That final boss fight was overdone as hell, though. How many phases did it need?

Common symptom of the big C even if you have no others. Hit me as well, the first time I got it (but not the second and third time). Ended up eating ham already gone bad because I couldn't smell it, which was pretty "fun" for two days afterwards.

Fill it in and put up a parking lot. ----- I've mostly lost my sense of smell recently which means I can't taste things very well either and it's really put me off food. On the plus side, I've lost 10 pounds in a week because I get no pleasure out of it. Or I could be dying, I am the same age as my mom was when she got cancer and unpeacefully peaced out.

I tried to start a new playthrough of Outer Worlds - and try the dlc - but am realizing that I care so little for the story, I find it a chore.

Despite a long and storied history of eyeballing everything, today I weighed the gnocchi before cooking.