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rats is a menace for homeowners. any opening they may get their pointy little heads through is a point o' access and from there they may cause many thousands o' dollars o' damage. why do rats like to chew copper wire? dunno. don't care 'bout "why" unless knowing helps us prevent it from happening. squirrels, in our opinion, is no better than rats. we had a neighbor who filled a decent sized bird bath in her backyard with what amounted to squirrel chow. our neighbor liked to watch the squirrels. the f'ing squirrels swarmed the endless buffet neighbor lady provided and then they retreated to our roof to stash their booty. when we pointed out that in our attic we had squirrels, squirrel poop and a substantial quantity o' the same medley o' seeds and nuts she filled her bird bath, our neighbor found the situation amusing but made no effort to change behaviors. were a constant battle squirrel proofing our home. tenacious buggers and unlike rats you need dispose o' squirrels humanely in CA 'cause is the law. stoopid hippies. HA! Good Fun!

we know the emphasis on safety first for firemen 'cause we has specific addressed the firemen hero myth with a couple captains and a chief in local fire departments. also you may read stats from link we provided and may check elsewhere. relative few on-the-job firemen deaths (during non-covid years) is not a coincidence and has been trending towards fewer in recent years. point o' military equipment is relevant how? ask our boardie marines if the gear makes one invulnerable or safe from oncoming weapon fire. and you did indeed imply those cops pictured were lacking bravery, no? we read your post as a response to veruca, a fact you might already have forgotten. "police are totally supposed to charge into oncoming fire and just let the bodies hit the floor." is not as if your post 'bout cowards happened in a vacuum. images o' cops standing around not saving children is hardly evidence o' cowardice particular as you lack other information or at least has failed to provide any. you may make proclamations 'bout shortcomings in bravery from thousands o' miles away sitting safely ensconced behind a computer screen while armed with a keyboard and an opinion. rings a tad hollow. HA! Good Fun! ps "on-the-job" somehow became one-the job. fail.

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well yes, in point o' fact such is the training firemen receive and movies and tv gives you the same misguided notions regarding firemen as you appear to have regarding policemen. y'know, ordinary lunch pail police and not give-up-your-life-for _________ secret service detail. the number o' firefighters who died line of duty deaths in 2020 were killed by covid more than anything else. exposure to covid which later resulted in death while responding to medical calls were accounting for 78 o' the total 140 fireman fatalities. only 10 2020 deaths o' firemen occurred "on the ground in incidents" not including wildfires. why is numbers so low? 'cause is a safety first occupation. btw, fifteen firefighters died in vehicle accidents on the way or returning from an emergency call. fireman safety has been made paramount for many decades here in the US. we don't ordinarily send firemen to die in the vainglorious hope they maybe could save persons in danger. we train firemen so they avoid death o' self and fellow firefighters in spite o' being engaged in an inherent dangerous occupation where any mistake could lead to fatalities. where do you people get the notion there is an expectation o' a 1:1 trade where firemen has an unwritten duty to sacrifice selves to save people. statistically, @Keyrock has a much more dangerous job than does the ordinary US firemen precise 'cause we collective are far more concerned with the safety o' firemen than truck drivers. can't speak to sweden safety numbers so perhaps is different for @Azdeus. however, am gonna make clear, regardless o' safety precautions, going into a burning building requires bravery. the human animal ordinarily has an instinctual fear o' fire. add noise, smoke, water and general chaos o' any emergency fire scenario and am thinking it should be obvious that doing the job o' a firemen, regardless o' pay, involves courage, which is precise why so many fire fighters gave up their lives on 9/11 in spite o' impossible odds. ~60 cops died on 9/11 btw. in any event, as we has said many times, the delay in doing anything for so long were the inexplicable part o' uvalde, but individual cops not rushing into oncoming weapon fire hardly is an example o' cowardice. how many o' our message board heroes would for ~$45k a year have been willing to rush through a closed door to confront a guy armed with an ar-15? the folks in charge during the uvalde situation were indeed negligent in not coming up with a workable plan for the better part o' an hour, but somehow see cops not making a suicide charge as evidence o' cowardice is ridiculous and we suspect is highly dishonest. keep bringing up firemen as a comparison. keep being a mistake. HA! Good Fun!

could say the same 'bout the sincerity o' moderate democrats asking for unity seeing as their own party is fractured and they cannot get anything done w/o at least some republican support. to suggest politicians is transactional actors first and foremost should come as little surprise, yes? am also gonna suggest you is attempting to rewrite history a bit. trump were not popular in 2016, not even with republicans. clinton and trump were two o' the least popular candidates in recent history. exit polls made it clear that the majority o' republicans who voted for trump did so grudging and as a lesser of evils choice. is just one reason why trump, in spite o' having majorities in both houses were unable to achieve anything in two years save for his tax cut, a tax cut which helped mostly the rich but did indeed benefit small business owners in a big way. few Presidents has achieved so little with so much during the course o' their first two years, and first half o' first term is when most presidents get their signature programs passed. "and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards bethlehem to be born?" it did indeed take decades for folks such as rush limbaugh and steve bannon to create what would become the trump base, but what our liberal friends like to forget is just how many o' those future trumpers voted for obama. the dougs is in the same economic foxhole as inner city and rural minorities. is no shock so many voted obama particularly in 2008. sure, the trump base is easily exploited in large part 'cause o' their unjustified prejudices. is hardly as if bigotry disappeared for generations o' americans and then sudden reappeared with the coming o' the trump Presidency. us v. them were so easily magnified by fox news and trump precise 'cause o' long standing grudges and willful ignorance. even so, the republican party had for decades been dedicated to the "big tent" metaphor. tell us the support for big tent weren't sincere? your revisionism ignores the fact big tent were the republican goal for decades. serious, do self a favour and add big tent + republican into your favorite search engine. not new and even if you convince self the goal were mere transactional, it were a guiding principle o' the party since before reagan. that said, the popularity o' trump in spite o' all the controversies and his largely ineffectual Presidency is a baffling outlier in recent (post ww2) American politics. explain how an unpopular President not much liked by the majority o' his party and who set fire to near everything he touched became more popular with republicans since 2016 is improbable. europeans is not the least bit surprised by trump, but nothing like him existed in post ww2 american politics save at the local level, and for good reason. republicans and democrats has for a long time been functional two shades o' the same neoliberal ideology. bill clinton's championing o' bank deregulation and his friendliness with wall street is convenient ignored by today's democrats. turn back the clock to as recent as the eighties and it were republicans who were supporting the relaxation o' immigration policies while democrats lamented the jobs threatened by undocumented aliens. conservative and liberal means something much different to euros. a demagogue who would rise to power selling nothing but grievance and fear and who routine failed but stayed popular 'cause he could sell us v. them to a fearful electorate? european and not american neoliberal republicans. that said, am not gonna argue against the proposition that the current republican leadership has gone all-in on trumpism. am suspecting republicans believe they need the trump base. how many times has we shown the video o' lindsey graham being chased outta an airport by trump supporters calling him a "traitor" 'cause after january 6 the south carolina senator said, "count me out" and that he were done with trump? the increasing radicalized trump base represents at least 1/3 o' the republican party and is likely closer to 1/2. moderate republicans know they cannot win elections w/o the support o' the trump base, so they is functional making themselves willing hostages to those formerly fringe elements they spent decades attempting to marginalize. ARIZONA REP. WHO DETAILED TRUMP‘S ILLEGAL PLOT TO STEAL THE ELECTION SAYS HE’D VOTE FOR TRUMP IN 2024 bowers had tears in his eyes as he recounted trump's efforts to undermine American representative democracy. even so, as 'tween democrats and trump, bowers would still vote for and support trump? us v. them. and this kinda thing is only shocking to republicans post 2018. HA! Good Fun!

have mentioned more than once, previous to 2019/2020, we thought clarence thomas were an admirable judge if not a noteworthy Justice. bit more explanation via the way-back machine. the vox article repeats more than a few o' our recent criticisms o' the current majority: their willingness to ignore the rule o' law to arrive at transparent partisan conclusions; the terrible history and tradition analysis o' thomas and Alito; the shadow docket being used to alter fundamental rights, etc. am finding our self making the same or similar arguments as vox authors and Sotomayor, which even five years ago woulda' been blue moon exceptions. ... unrelated, but am gonna repeat our disappointment in Ginsburg. the Court is in this mess in no small part due to J. Ginsburg arrogance. a septuagenarian three-time cancer survivor is cheating death every additional day they keep breathing, and ordinarily there would be people 'round her whom she trusted and respected capable o' telling her such truth. unfortunate, a Justice always believes they know best-- is practical a prerequisite for the job. obama asked J. Ginsburg to consider retirement and she refused with a snarky comment requesting the President name any candidate superior to herself. am not a fan o' what ifs, but this current partisan Court, while admitted a virtual worst case scenario if you had asked us pre death o' Scalia, were not complete unforeseeable... and it coulda' been avoided. one person had the power to stop all o' this. chose not to. HA! Good Fun!

executive orders do not give a President the power to create or redistribute monies already allocated by Congress. obama and trump pulled some shiesty bs with executive orders, but even trump when trying to get his wall boondoggle funded needed to pilfer discretionary funds. fema, dod and other fed bodies has considerable money not specific allocated 'cause o' the need to be flexible in case o' emergencies and unexpected situations, but is not trillions o' dollars in discretionary money even if a President declared a state of emergency and scrapped together ever spare penny daring Congress to impeach him/her. ubi amounting to $12k per year would require more than three trillion dollars o' additional money, which is near doubling what the US collected in tax and other sources in 2020. manchin and sinema alone should make clear makes the nuclear option is pointless for something such as ubi as there would be additional moderate democrats opposing a paradigm altering scheme with a dubious chance o' success given all the previous fails.. as the US and the world grudging moves incremental and sloth-like towards full automation while ai replaces the need for many highly educated professionals, ubi will become a need as 'posed to a pipe dream. not today. not tomorrow. regardless, you don't experiment on a national scale and even if you chose to do so, you can't abracadabra/hocus pocus ubi into existence. rinse and repeat... again. nevertheless, veruca wants what she wants, eh? HA! Good Fun! ps @alanschu am gonna suggest you are indulging in a bit o' hyperbole. one need not look far to find libs who see republicans as an existential crisis much the same way trumpers does when describing democrats. converse, during the 2016 Presidential run, every major gop candidate pushed back on the bannon and trump narrative. paul ryan, while clear an enabler not deserving o' any medals for courage, were most certain not describing democrats in language otherwise reserved for fantasy novel villains. john mccain died in 2018 and at the time he were not alone in his calls for sanity and a return to pre-obama civility ff to ~7:00 and listen 'til at least 10:00... and keep in mind, since the nuclear option were mentioned already in this thread/post, harry reid and obama were the folks who flipped that switch. their validation were the obstinacy o' the opposition party and the impossibility o' working cooperative. you ain't gonna bring back better days just as long as you see conservatives as irredeemable enemies while simultaneous refusing to acknowledge lib complicity in the mess we got in 2022.

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am working on a 1031 exchange for our soon-to-be-vacated rental property... properties? is getting confusing and truth is the point o' selling is to make our retirement as ez as possible, so the exchange option is having drawbacks. regardless, is a headache but simultaneous what we plan represents what is wrong with capital gains in the US. as mentioned many times already, capital gains tax rate is already lower than the income tax rate for just about anybody save those genuine impoverished. is why it makes sense for rich people to take so little income and instead have a bulk o' their wealth in income-generating property. 'course eventual the tax man gets his due, yes? buy an asset which is worth 100k and sell it for 1 million and you need pay gains on 900k. makes sense. 1031 exchange allows us to trade our real estate property but also starts the gains tabulation anew. if we exchange the aforementioned 1 million in property and then hold onto the exchanged property for a year, am gonna be paying extreme low capital gains rate and the tax is gonna be on only those gains which happened over the course o' a year. if property takes a bit o' a hit as it looks like it will the next couple years, then chances are we turn the gain into a loss which we then may hold onto for multiple tax years until it is exhausted by any subsequent irs or franchise tax board bills. the system in its current form is decided not fair, but that won't keep us from taking advantage o' the current scheme. HA! Good Fun!

best thing for liberals would be a trump 2024. democrats is terrible at voting, but they voted for not-trump in 2020. would millennials, who bare managed 50% voting in 2020 in spite o' their universal outrage the previous four years, vote not-desantis not-nikki haley? wouldn't count on it. insofar as a future President is concerned, the best thing for dems is a trump 2024 run... second best is gop choosing not-trump and then trump destroying the base in retaliation for the disloyalty done unto him. trump is arguable the only good thing going for the dems in 2024. HA! Good Fun! ps trumpism is already part o' the the new gop faith and fury based politics. imagine trump gets abducted by aliens tomorrow or pulls an ambrose bierce and disappears in mexico, never to be seen again. such won't change the problems for fractured democrats needing deal with an opposition party unified by outrage and grievance... unless trump manages to set the gop on fire before he disappears.

J. Rhenquist, back in the 1992, penned a dissent to a case which upheld the right o' the hare krishnas to handout flyers at airports. one aspect o' the former chief Justice's argument were relating to the public forum doctrine-- Rhenquist curious suggested that analogizing airports to 18th century shipping ports were a mistake. airports did not exist in 1789, so the founders could not possible have recognized 'em as public fora. serious. now obvious most o' the originalist Justices, 'cept maybe clarence thomas, ain't so obtuse as Rhenquist were pretending to be. after all, take such ridiculous logic to its obvious conclusion and semi-automatic rifles and handguns would be excluded from Second Amendment protections, and those originalists didn't wanna extend the syllogism that far, yes? minieball weapons woulda' been beyond the scope o' founder's imagination. regardless, the not-activist members o' the Court have situational been doing the silliness represented in your cartoon since at least the 1980s... which would actual be ok if they were 100% consistent. sure, the comical if it didn't exist in 1789 bit is extreme, but we got no problem with limiting fundamental rights to what is described in the Constitution and its Amendments, 'cause otherwise you got the most undemocratic collection in the federal government deciding which rights is gonna be bootstrapped to Constitutionality based on little more than a public policy analysis... which is exact what Congress exists to do. the Court is not fit for such value judgements. the problem we got is the current history and tradition analysis advanced by Alito and thomas is selective insofar as questioning whether a right were recognized in 1789... or 1868. is complicated 'cause 1868 is when you got fourteenth amendment adoption. (an admitted not helpful link to incorporation provided.) regardless, Alito and thomas is playing fast and loose with law and history to the advantage o' those who were the majority o' the electorate in 1789 and 1868-- white, male, christian, etc. worse, the new Court majority is being transparent with its intellectual dishonesty, applying originalism in absolutist terms when doing so favours current gop values, but ignoring when such an analysis would achieve less than favourable conclusions. 'tween the shadow docket excesses we has lamented previous and the new brand o' weaponized originalism adopted by the majority, am hardly recognizing the s'posed not- activist members o' the Court. HA! Good Fun!

there is a curious alchemy necessary to pull off such lies so routine. first you need create an us v. them culture, which is easier to achieve when people is suffering or afraid, but you would think it would be more difficult to create such divisions during peacetime and w/o major economic/social upheaval. additional and almost paradoxically you need convince people that everything they hear from previous trusted media sources is suspect, while at the same time you need foster an almost slavish devotion to a few select media outlets and voices which will deliver your alternative facts messaging. boris needed more polarization and he didn't have the necessary propaganda apparatus to reinvent his falsehoods as misunderstood integrity. "it's not lying if you don't admit that you lied!" with an us v. them electorate plus fox news and radio voices such as rush limbaugh and steve bannon telling the faithful (us) that the real liars is the libs and their media lackeys, never admitting you lied is a viable tactic and a powerful one. almost any lie will be embraced just so long as is contextualized as us v. them. that said, am admitted petty enough to admit a kinda schadenfreude for brit political woes. sure, US politics o' the last few years has been the equivalent o' the hell toilet from trainspotting, but brexit and boris proves there ain't anything unique stoopid or improbable 'bout our current troubles. HA! Good Fun!

our daily battle with the deer continues. the deer are winning. is a picture after we managed to chase the deer from our yard this am. the redwoods and fir is Gromnir property. is our neighbor's propane tank-- neighbor is on what is referred to as a circle lot and we had already landscaped the majority o' common area before he built, so our large lot is effective even larger than it appears to be on paper. these deer get into the fenced portion o' our yard and destroy, destroy, destroy. worst o' all, am much concerned 'bout our dogs who have free access to our backyard via a doggie door. the delicate looking deer hooves are capable o' caving in the skull o' even a large and ferocious canine in the blink o' an eye and our little yappers instinctive will bark and run at the deer. the possibility for a tragic ending is high. more first world problems, but am genuine concerned for our ankle biters as the deer literal come up onto our patio to eat potted plants. HA! Good Fun!

for hot sauce am gonna admit we near always start with frank's, and then add flavours, fat and heat. frank's is aged cayenne peppers, distilled vinegar, water, salt and garlic powder. that is the complete ingredient list for frank's. is nothing we do not recognize or cannot pronounce in frank's and is how we would start any cayenne based hot sauce anyways. am finding frank's is a great foundation and we need only add lime or lemon, paprika or rosemary or whatever to get where we want it. got a couple o' tri-tip we effective brined and already roasted and need only finish off on the grill as am using reverse sear. reverse sear approach means we were able to cook yesterday and need only grill for a brief time for the guests. will also grill corn 'cause these folks have literal the best corn we has ever purchased... anywhere. also am making one pan fried chicken... chicken has been sitting in our seasoned buttermilk since first thing this am as we like a six-hour plus brine. got potato salad (meh), baked beans, mac n' cheese, and cole slaw all prepared in advance save the mac n' cheese. mac n' cheese will come outta the oven right before guests arrive. also have watermelon, lotta local fresh strawberries and watermelon gazpacho, although the local watermelon ain't being harvested yet so is probable from a far distant land. we bought an apple pie. *shrug* is a culinary character flaw, but we don't like making pie. HA! Good Fun! ps we do have enough ground beef (is short rib we put in the food processor) for those who wish burgers, but we prefer to cook the perfect burger in a cast iron pan in the oven so we get that ideal crusty coating only possible with a pan. nevertheless, if somebody really wants grilled, we will oblige. pps a couple days past we made a big pot o' our good red beans, so while is not as if we prepared for the 4th, we will offer to guests.

the new ohio abortion ban which went into effect on wednesday does not have a rape exception. when the ohio bill were being debated, the hypothetical thirteen-year-old (admitted not ten, but would that make a difference?) victim o' rape were specific addressed and supporters o' the bill observed how the unborn child in such a case were innocent and deserved protection. the people o' ohio and mississippi and indiana and more states every day all has decided your ten-year-old's suffering is tragic, but that the murder o' an unborn child is a sin too great and as such the life o' the unborn outweighs the pain o' the ten year-old rape victim. people reached that conclusion. people passed jim crow laws in the south. people passed the espionage act in the early 1900s and the patriot act in the early 2000s. one o' these days gd is gonna have an epiphany... or not. is weird 'cause am certain gd has seen first hand just how terrible people will be to each other if they believe they have a reason for their actions or if they is frightened or if... whatever. heck, in spite o' statistics which show unequivocable that carry a firearm endangers others around him as well as himself, gd nevertheless carries a concealed gun with him everywhere, and it ain't 'cause he needs protection from politicians he may meet at the local feed store. he recent spoke to a divorce lawyer who shared horror stories of people doing evil to each other for the most petty o' reasons. people. were no mystery the kinda pre roe nightmares pregnant women faced and we all knew what were coming if the Court overturned, 'cause the Court didn't make abortions illegal, but it did leave the problems up to the states and their individual representative democracies to come up with solutions. we all knew what were coming but somehow now gd is enraged? freaking muslim ban all over again. people are petty and selfish and violent. not all people is monstrous, at least not all of the time, but if they were even bad only 1% o' the time you would need recognize and take efforts to minimize the evil men do, yes? the founders recognized such and took efforts to put limits on the predictable excesses and transgressions o' the people. we got the Constitution to preserve representative democracy and simultaneous to place systemic and explicit checks on a majority which inevitable abandons wisdom in favour o' greed, fear, and intolerance. the tyranny o' the majority is what leads to ohio's new abortion law. unfortunate, not enough people cared 'bout your pre-teen rape victim in spite o' fact we knew her and others like her were gonna suffer. ohio didn't do anything sneaky. the people o' ohio broadcast what they were doing and americans sat torpid and waited for the Court to fix or break. stoopid people. ordinary and predictably stoopid people.

had a discussion earlier 'bout cookware. the following link represents a fantastic deal: https://www.costco.com/tramontina-4-quart-covered-enameled-cast-iron-braiser.product.100805469.html is a functional porcelain coated cast iron skillet with a tight fit lid. near vertical sides provide more cooking area relative to volume and this particular cookware is gonna compare extreme favorable to le creuset. HA! Good Fun!

this is one o' those situation where the law is a gibbering moron and everybody pretends otherwise. authors don't need sell on amazon, so if they don't like the return policy they may remove their works from being sold by amazon. if you got a publisher, then as an author is possible to negotiate a deal which avoids the stoopid returns policy hack, 'cause it makes more sense for big publishers to pressure amazon for change than for nobody authors, yes? oh, and is not as if the authors being cheated o' royalties can't sue fraudulent returners. 'course am suggesting perfect world solutions for an imperfect world. in 2022, many authors is functional stuck with the amazon model and is no way they may bring 'bout change. the fraud described is accepted as a cost o' doing business 'cause such don't impact amazon's bottom line as yet and clear the big publishing companies have not risen from their torpor to take up the fight 'gainst the dastardly nogoodniks exploiting the amazon return policy. and serious, what author has the resources to bring a civil case 'gainst every possible fraudulent returner? and so the law sits in the corner, drooling like an idiot, 'cause the system is working as designed. far too many o' us expect the law to fix wrongs. that ain't what the law does. HA! Good Fun!

they don't really matter though, do they? the fact christian kids from another school chose to join a post game prayer don't remove the possibility many o' his own players, high school kids facing an unavoidable power disparity with their coach, felt compelled to do so if they were to get playing time. now admitted, 'cause am suspecting many folks is unaware, a large % o' high school teams is gonna have a prayer before the game. coach, player and maybe even a local religious figure is invited to lead a prayer in the locker room while all the players hold hands... as a team. if we were told such happened at a majority o' schools in texas, utah and south carolina, to name a few states, we would hardly be surprised. happens all across america every friday eve in the fall. am suspecting almost nobody complains 'cause has been the way things has happened since before any o' the players involved were born. coach kennedy likely got himself in trouble for the simple fact he were doing so open and notorious and not 'cause what he were doing were different. that said, particular 'cause is high school kids and recognizing the disparate influence a coach has over impressionable minors, a coach using his influence to spread his particular brand o' faith through religious charged motivational speeches and to have team prayers which even a few students feel is coercive woulda' up 'til last week been enough to make Courts choose in favour o' protecting kids. "The people know that their value judgments are quite as good as those taught in any law school--maybe better. If, indeed, the "liberties" protected by the Constitution are, as the Court says, undefined and unbounded, then the people should demonstrate, to protest that we do not implement their values instead of ours. Not only that, but confirmation hearings for new Justices should deteriorate into question and answer sessions in which Senators go through a list of their constituents' most favored and most disfavored alleged constitutional rights, and seek the nominee's commitment to support or oppose them. Value judgments, after all, should be voted on, not dictated; and if our Constitution has somehow accidently committed them to the Supreme Court, at least we can have a sort of plebiscite each time a new nominee to that body is put forward." --J. Scalia, planned parenthood v. casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) if comes down to nothing more than a balancing 'tween coach kennedy's religious freedoms and the potential for his actions to be intentional or unwitting coercive, then why have a Court decide at all? is no longer a legal argument but one o' social and community values. but again, the Court were extreme selective with the facts, which should makes gd suspicious. HA! Good Fun! ps keep in mind we observed already how as the Court presented the facts, it were utter not shocking the Gorsuch and the majority sided with the coach. if you describe relevant facts as a handful o' post game prayers which is complete voluntarily for players to join, then a coach win were no surprise. the problem is even gd seems to admit there were more going on than just the post game prayers and for lower Courts to ignore those other circumstances and for SCOTUS to pretend such didn't exist is curious. Court coulda' remanded and ordered lower courts to decide using their new rules but with a full accounting o' relevant facts. chose not to do so. why?

am admitted less interested in the list than the welcome news you didn't die o' covid, gang violence, a lightning strike, etc. HA! Good Fun!

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if you can't explain why the mere knowledge that source material is wake or trailbreaker is significant, then perhaps it isn't. go ahead and tell us you like pie or perhaps prefer cake. relevance to paper girls show? no less than the predate observation. however, if there is something you know 'bout paper girls which you believe removes it from clone, then such has meaning. but mere fact of predate o' the source material? immaterial. converse, if you has recent enjoyed very much similar fare provided in much similar format is less likely you will have synapses fire in those novel ways which result in a sensation o' pleasure and appreciation. HA! Good Fun!

well that has value. double-edged sword though, eh? the more it is faithful to comic, the less it is original and so you get nothing new. hews too much from source and then what value were there is using the comic save to convince a handful o' folks it ain't a knockoff 'causes it predates what it is attempting to replicate? imagine somebody does a beowulf tv show which is extreme popular. next thing you know, there is a bunch o' knockoffs... is a siegfried, arthur, hercules and a gilgamesh tv show and a half dozen other similar offerings. source material predating or post dating beowulf would not convince you the other shows is any less knockoffs. no doubt you will convince self there is a difference. isn't. what makes the difference is you like the source material in the case o' paper girls (time travel? *groan*) and is looking forward to what is a clear attempt to glomp onto and generate similar appeal as stranger things. is a knockoff... which don't preclude your anticipation. doesn't even prevent paper girls from being better than stranger things. HA! Good Fun!

*eye roll* so? does it get made now w/o the success o' stranger things? is it meant to appeal to a different audience or the same? compare the audience anticipated audience o' comic paper girls v. tv stranger things. coincidence? think not. if Gromnir wants to make a knockoff o' _________, is not gonna be hard to find some ip with similar characteristics which nevertheless avoids copyright problems. predates, particular from a different media, is not exorcising the knockoff label in any meaningful way. sure, the paper girls comic weren't a knockoff, but the show most certain is. HA! Good Fun!

has been a couple months since we mentioned how much we loathe time travel as a plot device. do for laughs? ok. otherwise? is a few instances in which we overcame our dislike o' time travel, but am dubious a stranger things knockoff is gonna make us reassess. HA! Good Fun!

trigger warning: more than a few o' the folks who were wrong 'bout the possibility o' russia invading ain't giving themselves enough credit. not only were some o' overt and explicit wrong 'bout the invasion, but it seems a few is selective forgetting the criticism they directed at the sources which observed the threat o' a russian invasion were not only real but increasing likely. and yeah, there was many unknowns in early 2022, so predict wrong is hardly an unforgivable sin, but more than a few folks weren't just wrong 'bout the actual invasion. were wrong 'bout the threat and were wrong 'bout the history and they is same folks who habitual indulging deflection, whataboutism and gaslighting. so yeah, is hardly surprising to now see reflexive efforts to gaslight. trying to convince folks that being wrong 'bout the russina threat in early 2022 is actual a kinda misunderstood perspicacity and insightfulness? is it any wonder we continue to largely avoid this thread? so it goes. HA! Good Fun!