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So close to 9/11 on a single day...and some of these states are starting to reopen.

Samurai Jack. I'm halfway through season 1. Though slightly inconsistent, it's been pretty good. Enjoying it so far, don't know if I'll be able to watch 5 seasons of it, though.

Well, let's see, teams ahead of the Cowboys possibly looking for QBs... 1. Bengals for sure (almost certainly Burrow). 2. Maybe Redskins, but they might want to give Haskins another year...or they might Cardinals it in favor of getting a new guy. 3. Probably not the Lions, but there was some talk of them moving Stafford this past off-season, you never know. 4. Dolphins are certainly a strong possibility, especially since Josh Rosen seemingly appeared DoA every since he was drafted, and apparently the current plan is for Fitzmagic to keep starting. 5. Chargers absolutely need a QB, strong possibility of them taking one. 6. Panthers just signed Teddy Bridgewater for a year (or was it two?), probably won't draft one high but you never know. 7. Browns, whatshisface had a pretty big sophmore slump, but I'd expect them to give him at least one more year. 8. Sam Darnold on the Jets also probably gets one more year. Bengals (#1), Dolphins (#5), and Chargers (#6) seem like the most likely QB-takers in front of you, with small chances from a number of other teams. Hard to leapfrog them without selling the farm, too. Yeah, doesn't look great. There's also a a possibility of another team like the Patriots leapfrogging you, especially with their three third round picks. No, I think you're stuck with Dak, especially knowing Jerry Jones who loves "his guys" and has no interest in drafting his replacement already. As for the Packers, it's back to drafting projects we hope turn out in the 30s/upper 20s for us...

I have grown more and more anti-corporate and pro-union over the years, and it seems like there's a solid section of the population that feels the same way that doesn't feel like the Democrats represent them to any meaningful degree (and, of course, considering the Republicans would be a joke)...among for other reasons. So no disagreement from me there.

Yeah, it's kind of dumb, the Democrats are basically demonized for two big wedge issues: abortions and guns...and maybe immigrants as a third and lesser one? They're not going to drop the abortions thing anytime soon, but I wonder how much more or less support the party would get if they dropped the guns issue and took some left turns in a number of other areas.

Yeah, platformers like Celeste are way more my style, so that probably explains why I can't get into it.

I've actually been pretty terrified for Taiwan virtually all of Trump's administration, as he has signaled various times that he has little to no interest in helping defend allies. Don't know if he's said anything about specifically Taiwan, but this would seem to be the prime time for China to get away with something like taking Taiwan while the U.S.'s interest in protecting allies is seemingly at its weakest.

Everyone and their mom seem to love that game, but I forced myself to play it for like two hours and the controls were just so clunky and floaty that I could never get into or enjoy it.

I think I watched the first couple seasons some years ago and thought, "hey, this is actually...alright", but by the time I got to the third one, I'd really had my fill, since the format pretty fundamentally stays the same and there weren't any particular characters that I loved that were driving me to keep watching. I wanted to watch something silly, so I've been watching My Life as a Teenage Robot from the early 2000s, which I only ever saw a tiny bit of when it first aired way back when. Apparently, there were three seasons, but they only ever aired two...and I'm not really sure why, since it's actually quite good, especially for an early 2000s cartoon. I've been very much enjoying it and it's difficult to see myself not finishing the three seasons pretty quickly here. Now wondering if there are any other good ones from this era...

A new peak of 2,500 deaths was reached yesterday.

Sacred laws, institutions, and traditions that "guarantee" that we'll always be some semblance of a "stable democracy" only function so long as people are willing to uphold them, and Congress as a whole has been utterly abdicating its responsibilities and duties to the executive for many, many years now.

Oh, all of us Americans have a cancer all right...

Coincidentally, I've been watching some old NFL games, and saw him in Favre vs. The Packers I back in 2009 just yesterday. Rick May, most famous for Soldier in TF2 and Peppy Hare in Star Fox (...and also I remember his line as Genghis Khan in Age of Empires II), passed of coronavirus yesterday.

Wow, that really is the perfect contradiction.

Mathematican John Conway of coronavirus.

Need to lock down your browser, my good man. There are Google trackers even on the Obsidian forums...

uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Smart HTTPS, Canvas Defender, Disable WebRTC, NoScript, User Agent Switcher, Tampermonkey, Dark Reader, Behind the Overlay. I recommend any and all for Firefox. NoScript is the one that takes the most work to upkeep, since you basically have to build a library of trusted sites as you go along, and casual browsing of foreign websites (i.e. ones you haven't visited before) will frequently lead to them breaking.

I enjoyed the first four seasons, thought the fifth one was alright but getting weaker, and bowed out early into the sixth. How many more could they have made? ...Oh my gosh, they made ELEVEN seasons? ...I guess it's not The Simpsons or Spongebob levels of beating a dead horse, but still, that must have been a number of seasons too many.

Charlotee Figi, the girl who pioneered using marijuana for seizure treatment, has passed from coronavirus.

Posted two pages ago, . Although this one doesn't require a sign-in to view which the last inexplicably did...

The AM5, either the first or second generation I think, will probably be when I upgrade from my 4770k, which is getting a little long in the tooth these days (although my 32GB of RAM still makes it more than good enough for most everything). Looking forward to a ridiculous amount of cores and threads with great power-to-performance efficiency. Intel's current ridiculous lineup of hot and power-hungry 14nm+++s are sadly not terribly to my liking.