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I'd say he's more likely to hear objections from Congress than from Europe. The US troop force in Europe has already shrunk from a peak of 300,000. It's going to be costly to redeploy the remaining forces, and even more so if we ever need to return. But, whatever, we're in stupid mode so par for the course.

Personally I'd like to see a PoE: Tactics game. I.e. something akin to Fallout Tactics, but with the Eora lore and character builds. Maybe include prior companions with a new protagonist, dealing with the conflicts that followed the outcome of PoE 2. If they made it moldable and extensible, that'd be even better.

One bird flu over the cuckoo's nest... yeah, sloppy work indeed. I was expecting gross mistakes to be made, and I wasn't disappointed.

Here's an upcoming movie I'm looking forward to watching: The concept is a bit reminiscent of Moon (2009), except on an interstellar scale. So maybe Moon: TNG.

I'm suggest the Gulf of Amexica... just sayin'.

Pretty cool shamanism f/x

We had another light dusting of snow here, but it cleared up after a day. Looks like we're in for a warming trend, so hopefully it's back to normal now.

Hulu -- Lazarus Project. It's been pretty good so far, being about a time loop setting in a sci-fi, mission-oriented context. The team is working to prevent mass extinction events by setting up a loop baseline then jumping back to repeat events when things don't go right.

Trump officials signal potential changes at NOAA, the weather and climate agency Speculating on what happens next: anybody and anything reporting climate change information will be scrubbed. Poof, just like that, climate change goes away. What a time to be alive... 🤪

It is still mandated by a few private colleges, which shouldn't be impacted by the order. But I'd be more worried about orders impacting hospitals.

Blowing what's left of my right mind

KM3NeT Telescope Detects Most Energetic Cosmic Neutrino Yet A particle that rarely interacts with normal matter yet its "energy was roughly a 100 million billion times the energy of visible light photons..." Whoa. It's something called a cosmogenic neutrino.

More news from the Mos Eisley administration: Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas Hahahahaha... 😅

I'm off to donate blood again tomorrow. It usually just takes an hour of my time, and at least I feel like I'm contributing something. I have that universal donor O-negative blood that is much sought by emergency rooms. At my age it usually takes a few days to recover my energy, but at least I'm getting rid of more senescent cells. (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.) It's just in time too; there's more snow on the way in the forecast. We may get up to three inches by Friday. I think I'll plan on staying home and reading a good book (The Bookseller of Florence by Ross King).

The judicial department sets the final word on what is legal, so yes they can rule on whether the executive branch actions are legitimate. Beyond that, the next step would be to see whether they are willing to ignore the judges, or take it to court.

Okay, I recently found out about Starfinder Roleplaying Game, the sci-fi version of the Pathfinder RPG, and it has me interested. It reminds me of the old Star Frontiers game, which I had an opportunity to try back in the day. Apparently now Pazo is converting it to compatibility with 2nd edition Pathfinder rules so you can swap between the two. Currently they have published playtest versions of the rules, which sounds like a novel approach. They are planning to release the 2nd edition version of Starfinder early this year (2025), so I'm planning to pick up a copy for evaluation. Has anybody played Starfinder PnP? I'm curious to know your experiences. My sci-fi RPG PnP experiences are with Star Frontiers, GURPS, and HERO. For sci-fi, I've enjoyed the Fallout/Wasteland/SW:TOR/Rogue Trader video games. Some day I'd like to enjoy a sci-fi tactical RPG video game akin to Star Frontiers, and Starfinder sounds promising for that purpose.

Wonder how long until we'll have to wait before the first terrorist bombing of DJT's Gaza Resort? Not sure I'd want to vacation there...

It's becoming a government at war with itself, 7x24. I have no idea what we'll do in a crisis -- perhaps foreign powers will gamble that the USA is to distracted to respond? Certainly DJT isn't the President you want to have if the bird flu develops into a pandemic.

The latter at least makes some sense (for once). Copper is an important commodity these days, and the value of a penny has dropped to nearworthless. Our state has a sales tax, and I would like to see them modify it to round to the nearest nickel (5 cents).

I wondered if this is a Musk-motivated effort, since his wealthy family is from Pretoria? Anyway, the whites were European immigrants so presumably they can relocate back to their originating nations.

I could swear that sometimes the game rigs the dice rolls. I've been through battles making dozens of attacks and never getting higher than an 11. It's weird and very improbable.

Today in dumb: Trump says he’s given advisers instructions for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him Code name: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Just to put that in perspective, Iran has a population of 91 million. The total deaths in World War II were estimated at 70-85 million. So what happens if, say, Israel takes him out in the guise of an Iranian plot? I think there's a more tempered response available in the form of smart bombs. In the meantime, Iran has more motivation to build nuclear weapons.

Yep, today in dumb. I'm sure the Palestinians will have "reservations" about relocated

Yep, so after threatening a trade war, DJT negotiated what Biden already got in 2021. 🤪