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Thanks, you guys are awesome! The DR is starting her on a new drug, Vetrotyl (something like that). It’s a cotisol blocker. It’s supposed to be taken with denemarin so now there will be two pills hidden in the peanut butter. I’m sure she won’t mind. She said we should notice a difference pretty quickly.

No, leftist

Either way, the cars are now outfitted with seat belts, airbags, collision detection, signalling devices, and a crumple frame to minimize deaths. It's the same logic as eliminating automatic weapons.

What we need is bullet control.

i was thinking one thing about USA. people there are ok with laws that say "wear a seatbelt" which is an actual restrictive law since the seatbelt protects only you (it does nothing for the safety of others) and it should be your choice if you want to protect your life or not, but are not ok with gun laws that are meant to protect others from you mishandling a weapon. but the whole system there is backwards. lets take obesity for example. in USA it is caused by the extreme consumption of sugar and what does the government there do? instead of going to the source and impose limits on how much sugar they are allowed to put in, lets say, coca cola, it goes to the people and has them pay a sugar tax for drinking coca cola... because coca cola is a campaign sponsor and thus should remain in the gray area where the law does not apply something like this

If you look at the trailer, it looks like any bog standard alien invasion film: It had terrible reviews (40% on the tomatometer). And I have no idea where these reviews or scores are coming from. I watched this solely because of it's wacky premise based on one of the more inane conspiracy theories out there. It was the most fun I had watching a movie in a long time and Udo Kier is great, as usual. Some of the reviews claimed the jokes in the film were already dated when it came out. The joke's on them now, I guess, turns out that a couple of years later, the movie isn't even satire any more. The poster is silly, the trailer looks like action trash, but in reality it's a 2012 political satire that got way too real in 2016. The action is mostly at the end, which is dunno, 15 or so minutes, out of it's 90 minutes runtime (and even then it's funny). At the end of the day it's a Finnish movie, and that means a certain brand of humor that you may or may not end up liking. It might also require a passing liking of nutty conspiracy theories and an appreciation for whacky Nazi naming schemes, because I was almost falling off the chair when the invasion from the moon began and the Siegfried-class Zeppelin UFO carries showed up. Oh, and it has a killer soundtrack made by Laibach: Hey, you made me write this post instead of watching more Steven Universe. Whelp. Sneaksy hobbitses, yes.

Episode 2 of Sailor Stars

:fingers crossed:

Oh, right, sorry, been inebriated most of the day

He's training to watch the Snyder cut back to back with the original.

At least it'll be less runtime than Super S.

We need to start a #FreeChibiUsa campaign targeted at Naoko Takeuchi.

A long time ago I heard a saying (paraphrased): "The Marines take the beaches, the Army holds them". It articles seems to me to be a structural and technological pivot. Smaller forces but more highly armed with missiles and (as yet non-existent) unmanned vehicles. Since China will be our next war it makes sense to plan accordingly. Or we could wait for global warming to sink all their manmade islands. According to the experts, that amount of sea level rise will happen in our lifetimes.

Funny, China would say the exact same things about the US. As would DPRK, indeed the US and ROK hold annual, and literal, simulated invasions of the North, and somehow that isn't aggressive but purely defensive and DPRK getting upset and thinking they're cover for an actual invasion is propaganda beyond belief. Not to mention the old joke about how Iran/ Syria/ Russia/ whoever aggressively and without provocation site their countries near US bases. Russia has held war games in the same area every year, for decades, and every year they get reported as a military build up and precursor to the imminent invasion of Ukraine. 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 It's not more or less aggressive than anyone else holding war games close to a border, or NATO holding them in Poland or the Baltics or whatever.

She compared the structure of the latest Disney movie, whose name escapes me at the moment, to Avatar: The Last Airbender's (the show, not the movie - by the way, great show if you haven't seen it...Legend of Korra, unfortunately not so much) in a sort of off-the-cuff tweet, and apparently Twitter immediately mobbed her for being racist and anti-Asian, especially when she initially refused to apologize...and then only begrudgingly did so before shutting the whole thing down because people were trying to dox her. Nothing good ever seems to come of being heavily active on social media. Yeah, I know, but you're making it so I have no time to watch it - all of my free-time is going directly towards keeping up with you! SU:

You're supposed to watch Sailor Stars, not that much Steven Universe. You were half a season behind me a few hours ago, now we're both done with season three! Thought will follow soon, but one thing right now: If you don't like satire then it's definitely the wrong movie for you, but the trailer isn't really representative of what is in the film other than a good deal of pew pew at the end. I tried looking up what happened with Lindsay Ellis, but all I found out was that I really don't like Twitter.

The poster for this movie, which I've not heard of until just now, looks like this: Judging solely by this poster, this looks like a...not very good comedy-action-war movie that was generated by an AI. No, I have not seen it, .

Man, what're you doing, just watching SU all day? Good lord, every time I think I'm getting close to caught up, you're another half season ahead, . I'm just gonna have to start skipping some of the less important ones...

SU, very short update.

What if somebody won the war of 1812 Cody at alternate history hub has released a new video. Like most of his work it’s pretty good. This one would be a particular interest to Canadians

Just in time to boost interest for the Crystal movies.

Right or wrong, the trend here has long been to push the problem from the manufacturer on to the consumer.

Stay strong, Sunny

Best of luck!

Guns keep people further from each other than masks?

The way I see it the Marine Corps is returning to its roots. Beginning in the cold war and even in the war on terror it has morphed into something it was never intended to be. Basically a second army. Only smaller and not as well equipped. It was always intended to be a light highly mobile rapid reaction force. A weapon launched by the Navy.

Strange, why do they suddenly want to turn the Marines into a naval based, amphibious branch The article brings its own conclusion on the why though, to take on Chinese bases in the South China Sea

SU:

(warning, video in article shows violent octopus) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56612257 Australia: Geologist beaten up by 'angriest octopus' on beach In a video that has gone viral, the octopus can be seen in shallow waters lashing out at geologist Lance Karlson. The creature came after him again later and struck him on the arm, before whipping his neck and upper back.

Yeah, I'll probably do a larger post about it tomorrow (maybe, it's Easter after all, edit. Obviously this came out longer than intended, as usual, so there it is already!).

Russia has habit to test their neighbors state of readiness periodically. By organizing their war games close to borders, intentionally intentionally violating air and sea areas. Publishing some politicians hubris how Russia should take back its old territories. And they also like to build up military bases close to borders and claim that they aren't there even though you can see it from the border. Above things are what Russia constantly does to Finland, so now that Ukraine isn't anymore Russia's close ally they also get to enjoy such hilarities addition to all the unrest caused by Russia's intelligence operations.

Record of Lodoss War is something I have in my anime VHS tapes stash, along with the Director's Cut of M.D. Geist, which is an 80ies B-movie shlock "so bad it's good" anime film, but I've been told that there are people who find this one great in an "unironic" way and my recordings of the Sailor Moon R, S and SuperS films when they aired on TV here, and a bunch of other things... and one thing I'm really not going to talk about (and just in case KP starts to speculate, no, it's not Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend, and if you don't know what that is, don't google it... really, just... don't). *cough*

The United States Marine Corps is about to reinvent itself

Covid cases dropping after vaccination begins? Who could've thunk

Cop resigns after video shows him slamming his K-9 into a patrol car, NC police say ‘It was crying.’ Officer seen punching K-9 in face under investigation, CA cops say First off.... the only good reason to strike a dog is if you are being attacked. Or someone/thing else is. Never, EVER strike a dog as some kind of discipline. First off it's ineffective and counter productive. They will shut down on you and whatever point you were trying to make will not be received. Second of all is destroys the trust you've built up. It damages your relationship with the dog. Third, it is just cruel. A dog that loves a person will lie there and be beaten to death before raising even a tooth to defend itself. It takes an utter monster to beat a dog like that. It's no different from beating a helpless child. These two cops are the exact kind that give the profession a bad name. These are the kinds that would beat a suspect to death, shoot a man in the back and be genuinely surprised anyone took issue with it. Far too many cops are incapable of empathy. If you cannot muster up any for your canine partner you certainly won't have any for the public.

One of the best weapons for a soul blade is Sun and Moon. With it you can spam Soul Annihilation without interruption (the second hit of the flail will recharge your focus lost) which will increase your dps greatly since the PL bonus will be applied to all your hits. If you add Tuotilo's Palm you can have the dps of a dual wielder and the defense of a shield user at the same time. On top you also get double healing from White Flames and free ripostes for more focus.

Started a world just like any other and everything was normal, but 20 days in the ladybugs just vanished from the garden, can't find them anywhere and they're not spawning, now i'm stuck at quests because i need to analize ladybug parts, is there any workaround for this bug?

Well, now you do. Heh. When I was a good deal younger, Legend of the Overfiend was what you at least had to pretend to have seen to earn some street cred with the otaku crowd. Unless you were like me and went with the other, more sophisticated option, and I use that term lightly... Although it was more about actually getting a copy from somewhere than having seen it. Getting one in the mid 90ies outside of Japan wasn't easy, especially not when you're 15. It's not like you can ask your parents to buy it from some importer... and it ended up costing three months worth of allowance. Really not worth it just to impress a bunch of dipsh*ts. But hey, young and didn't know any better, and wanted to belong somewhere. Sigh. Waaaaaaaaaaaait.

On a game related tangent... BBC - Loot boxes linked to problem gambling