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if you do the final enigma puzzle in reverse, so-to-speak, you will be rewarded with dc boosting goggles which make your mind-affecting spells more powerful. we knew this 'cause somebody didn't add a spoiler tag to an enigma post. am not certain how we were s'posed to know to do bass ackwards to score the goggles. is a few situations like that. many o' the puzzles is logic stuff but with multiple right answers so you nevertheless need trial and error through permutations to get correct, or memory puzzles, which after the second or third one get kinda stale. too much repetition and too much reliance on trial and error. and for enigma they added a whole bunch o' rinse-and-repeat combat, plus those exhaustion columns as well. but am serious not sure why the storyteller and nenio puzzle quests were so similar. @Agiel mentioned enigma were backer content, so perhaps that explains to some degree, but am nevertheless wondering why the developers didn't make more effort to differentiate the content. HA! Good Fun! ps we didn't add a spoiler tag regarding the goggles, 'cause as far as am aware, am not actual spoiling as there is no way to know via gameplay.

got examples o' "most mooks" which has higher than the bosses in same areas? regardless, that means that more than half o' the unfair mooks in the mines have superior stats to those two? is not the way we recall, but if you can support we would be curious to see. am assuming you aren't comparing endgame "most mooks" to mid or early, 'cause that would be silly. HA! Good Fun!

am personal avoiding any mods until the game is a bit more stable, 'cause am routine sending bug reports in spite o' fact am unsure those reports is at all meaningful. is not as if we got some kinda weird moral objection to mods. quite the contrary as mods is able to make the game playable for many players who has run into game breaking bugs. also, as the cackle bit is already a clear exploit, to quibble over the use o' a mod would be hypocritical in the extreme. nevertheless, we started playing wotr in beta and am kinda feeling as if the game is still in late stage beta, albeit in a far better state than we woulda' predicted for five months post release. HA! Good Fun! ps we were always perplexed by the people who would literal reroll ie game stats for hours to get their perfect character. same players would nevertheless suggest the reason they wouldn't use a mod to give themselves the scores they wanted, saving themselves considerable time, were 'cause such felt like that woulda' been cheating. such observations left us dumbfounded, but am recognizing the pathology is real 'mongst gamers.

haven't gone past mythic 8 with lich so don't know. sorry. is hard to imagine your question hasn't been discussed somewhere... reddit perhaps. yeah, we mentioned we has done the boss battles on unfair w/o much trouble, but that we got no urge to do a full unfair run as it would be for us a soul-numbing slog. sounds like your experience meshes with what we anticipated; too much pre-buffing and cheese... as well as a couple ambush encounters such as the cemetery you identify which removes the possible o' prebuff. no thanks. HA! Good Fun!

good to hear things went reasonably well. your vaccine reluctance were well earned. personal, we had a terrible time with our initial shingles vaccine side effects, but we didn't end up in the icu. our adverse reaction to the shingles vaccine did not keep us from getting the follow-up shot, but we were dreading having to roll up our sleeve for number two. can't imagine what our reluctance would been like if were the result o' a hospitalization instead o' just the worst night we can't recall. heck, we ate bad artichoke heart dip +30 years ago and we literal become nauseated by the smell o' artichokes even now. serious, it's been decades. the discovery roasted artichokes prevents cancer would have us holding out on partaking longer than otherwise reasonable. HA! Good Fun!

Trump Organization's accounting firm says 10 years of financial statements are unreliable "Monday, Mazars said it would no longer act as Trump's accountant, citing a "non-waivable conflict of interest."" *chuckle* translation: we got caught in lies regarding those ten years of financial statements, so we are now cooperating fully with the da, because they do send accountants to prison over this kind of... misunderstanding. so sorry, but we can't simultaneously represent trump and be a cooperating witness for the da. HA! Good Fun! ps this exact why these investigations take so long as law enforcement ponderously works its way through the corporate food chain in an effort to see who will break faith with their fellow nogoodniks (alleged). trump tried to insulate himself by keeping as much of trump org activities in the family, but he nevertheless needed complicit lawyers, accountants and a handful of other individuals.

could understand if there were bugs and stability issues holding up the dlc release, but balance? owlcat being concerned 'bout balance? now? ... am s'posing is possible. after all the developers did recognize after the fact how blackwater were representing a disproportionate challenge, but as much o' the balance issues is the result o' owlcat's bloat, the fix is not particular complex. converse, if there is a few new mythic feats and abilities added to the game which is clear broken, am personal understanding why a developer other than owlcat would wanna balance, but is hard to consider a few o' the trickster and demon abilities, or angel spells, and imagine what exact would make owlcat pause. HA! Good Fun!

have followed this project little, but we were curious once raimi were announced as the director. our understanding is that raimi was most unhappy with sony during spider-man 3. am indulging in understatement. is hard to imagine sam raimi would take on a dr. strange film w/o a few ironclad promises o' studio non-interference from marvel, but am similar finding it difficult to imagine marvel accepting such concessions. nevertheless, am having greater anticipation for this film than any recent mcu title. HA! Good Fun!

ordinary modern allegory for the jonah thing is gonna be escape from a job, marriage, whatever. understandable, for the typical author there are few ways to work in literal being swallowed by a leviathan. keep in mind, joseph campbell, whose works were a big inspiration for lucas in creating star wars, included "the belly of the whale" as an early chapter in his book, the hero with the thousand faces. for campbell, the belly o' the whale is a near death crucible for change, but not necessarily the kinda foreshadowing o' newfound faith or goodness which is a trapping o' the jonah judeo-christian influence. HA! Good Fun!

we didn't get deep into boba fett before we called it quits, but am gonna nevertheless make a couple observations, so if situation changed later in series, am admitting am speaking with limited knowledge o' the progress o' the show. rotj boba fett had a kinda specific skill set and reputation which limited his potential post sarlacc career options. am s'posing he he coulda' opened a dairy queen franchise on a rim world, which mighta' made for a better story if you were willing to go kinda campy and have the world weary fett just trying to get through a week w/o having to disintegrate somebody in spite o' his best efforts to get outta the game. alternatively, they coulda' gone the john wick route? which is kinda what they did do, but they never got to the point where boba finally let go as did wick. the thing is, if you start off episode one with a not-so-subtle jonah allegory, then is hardly gonna be shocking when the main character, after emerging from the whale, recognizes the opportunity God/The Universe/The Force has presented him to change the course o' his life. 'course the writers went with a pollock mural approach, taking bits o' robin hood and moses and a man called horse and kinda splattering 'em onto their weekly canvas w/o any seeming rhyme or reason. please note the aforementioned characters, while protagonists and typically heroic, engaged in criminal behaviour, but y'know, for goodness. honest, we wouldn't have minded seeing fett try and become a more benevolent crime lord, if it weren't for the fact he clear weren't particular good at the job. boba fett is being out maneuvered at every turn. am not sure how things progressed, but boba fett were being portrayed as a competent if aging warrior who nevertheless couldn't strategize or plan beyond what one would expect o' a low-level muscle or button man. if in one o' the earlier episodes, the writers had gone with a john wick "i'm back" moment, we likely woulda' rolled our eyes, but truth is we also woulda' strapped in and nevertheless enthusiastic anticipated the ultraviolence forthcoming. never happened. so you got a half-arsed resurrection/redemption thing which went nowhere, and a potential revenge plot which kinda petered out, and the crime boss protagonist who is 'posed one o' the galaxies most feared bad arses stumbles through each episode with no apparent story purpose save as acting like the guy in a horror movie who, knowing a deranged serial killer is on the lose, checks out the mysterious sound in the basement armed with a broom. coulda' been ok with not wanting to do crime in spite o' choosing to be a crime lord, 'cause as already mentioned there is numerous examples o' such having worked. unfortunate, the writers/director also made bobba fett dull and naïve. coulda' done any number o' different things with bobba fett, but instead o' choosing one such, they went with trying to multiple directions at once and they installed a not particular interesting character as the protagonist o' such a mess. HA! Good Fun!

the thing is, from day 1 we had the actual science folks explaining the relative benefits o' the vaccines. doesn't take much effort to go back and look at these boards to see people who were overconcerned with announced % efficacy while ignoring other factors. shameless self-promotion from big pharma is not shocking, but we knew the storage requirements and shelf lives for the vaccines from the beginning. as new data has become available regarding the drop off in efficacy over time and the need for boosters, we has had such information made available to us w/o the need for whistleblowers or deep cover investigations. am suspicious o' pharmaceutical companies trying to make a buck, which is why we don't pay much attention to the pharmaceutical company claims. wait for the necessary skepticism o' science to run its course. 'course Gromnir has made a habit o' warning people 'gainst making hasty judgements before data is available and am surprised by how much pushback we receive. is not as if the technologies and schemes for covid-19 were developed in 2020 as a response to covid-19. the actual science were already known and had been vetted, but as @ShadySands mentioned some time past, a polio vaccine ended up killing or paralyzing many kids. weren't the vaccine itself which failed, but were production failures which shoulda' been caught sooner if there had been proper oversight. were an example o' big pharma o' the day taking shortcuts which government didn't catch in time. is good to be skeptical and vigilant. heck, the cdc itself, early in the pandemic, sent out tests which didn't work. we expected problems with the vaccines and have actual been a bit surprised how few major blunders has occurred given the scale o' what has taken place and fact we are indeed doing different than in the past. there has been all too familiar mundane stoopid and mistake, not conspiracy. however, for perspective, before the covid-19 vaccines the mumps vaccine were the fastest developed. HA! Good Fun!

weekends is an ideal time to make large quantities o' soup, vegetable protein and chicken. soup, in particular, freezes extreme well and while it may be time consuming to produce quarts/gallons o' soup, it is not particular labor intensive... although am admitting the best way to keep your soup as low sodium as possible is to make your stock, which most people do not do even if is actual kinda ez, but again, most people don't have the time or inclination to do so. however, there is low sodium stock options available for purchase, but they is rare flavorful. there is ways to kinda improve those stocks by adding additional aromatics or a small amount o' something such as better than bullion's low sodium options to whatever pretty-much-no-different-than-water low sodium stock you may be using. so on the weekend make quarts o' soup and quarts o' beans, lentils, whatever, and a whole bunch o' boneless skinless chicken thighs, 'cause thighs is far more flavorful than breasts and you will need less salt to make 'em tasty. during the week all you need do is prepare a bit o' rice and vegetables and you got healthy meals covered with a relative low labor investment. takes little more effort to make a gallon o' soup than it does to make a quart. takes little more effort to prepare a dozen boneless skinless thighs as it does to make two. go big on a weekend. freeze the excess soup, lentils and beans which will last for potential months. ... if you don't have freezer space then you probable wanna ignore our suggestions. make a gallon o' soup or red beans is reasonable if you are able to freeze 3/4 o' what you prepared. we literal got 2-3 varieties o' soup in our freezer at all times as well as a considerable quantity o' frozen stock, and am admitting maintaining such reserves takes up a considerable amount o' volume in our chill box. once a month we make soup. once every month or two we make stock. go big on the quantities and such doesn't represent much time spent on meal prep compared to trying to make healthy meals daily during the week. 'course now that am retired, we don't need worry 'bout saving time, but old habits... HA! Good Fun!

which is why so many people were concerned when the previous administration were trying to rush the approval process for the vaccines, 'stead of letting the scientists fully analyze the data. 'course after the fact is not as if big pharma is able to adjust the case, hospitalization and death rates; there has been considerable opportunity to check the actual performance o' vaccines... or is the theory that big pharma is also messing with those numbers as well, 'cause then you is getting into moon hoax level o' conspiracy, no? a conspiracy theory which involves the complicity o' a whole lotta folks in dozens o' countries makes it increasing less likely, or at least it should. we wouldn't doubt that the vaccine manufacturers did what they could with their internal testing results to make their vaccines appear as efficacious as possible, but am doubting what you are referencing is some kinda quibble over % points. instead you offer vague notions o' corporate greed, something nobody would deny is an issue, as an explanation for... what exactly? HA! Good Fun!

a scientist is gonna change advice when data changes. is zealots who is gonna keep repeating the same stoopid claims in spite of changing data is the problem. there has been good advice from the scientists which hasn't changed from day 1. mask advice, one o' the conspiracy theorist bugaboos, changed with the data and circumstances. there were almost no n95 masks available to americans 'cause we had sent what supply o' them we did have to china and 'cause the trump administration had ignored pleas from the lone US producer that a serious increase in supply was warranted. the trump administration also halted development on specialized rapid production prototypes back in 2018. US spent millions (cheap in retrospect) developing technologies to confront pandemics with increased n95 production as one means o' improving american safety, but w/o an immediate threat of a pandemic, the trump administration killed funding... which is the kinda myopia which plagued previous administrations as well. not the scientists who screwed the pooch, but politicians. and yeah, before asymptomatic spread was understood, and in the absence o' n95s which were needed for healthcare workers, scientists said there weren't much value in mask wearing back when the pandemic started. 'course once asymptomatic spread were understood, the scientists changed advice regarding even cloth masks. what is the other concerns? that new variants has resulted in new mitigation advice? such isn't 'cause scientists lied but rather 'cause most americans didn't understand realities. the neil de grasse tyson video we linked, the first one from october 2020, is particular useful in reviewing how some o' the current misconceptions 'bout scientist flip-flops is more a matter o' skeevy politicians exploiting the science ignorance o' the public as 'posed to actual changing advice from the science guys, who always qualified their advice and recognized that new variants would result in new challenges, which is why they keep telling us there is never gonna be natural herd immunity and why vaccines is so important. etc. *shrug* science don't change 'cause science is nothing but a method. scientific advice should change because if you change the data, real scientists, using the method, is gonna often end up with new advice. is the zealots of whom you need be watchful. HA! Good Fun!

having recent seen more than a few op eds and pundit handwringing regarding merrick garland's silence insofar as trump investigations, am thinking is worth taking a moment to consider that there is no fast approaching statute o' limitations on the obstruction o' justice offenses, or near any other crime people has suggested trump and his cronies could be charged. is plenty o' time and the biggest mistake would be moving too soon and before doj were certain they could make charges stick. Don’t believe the hype about the statute of limitations is no reason to afeared o' the statute o' limitations and merrick garland most definite does not need speak to the public regarding the current status o' any possible fed investigations related to the trump campaign and trump personal. have seen it mentioned previous on this board how the failure to charge given how much time has passed can be taken as evidence there will not be charges forthcoming. hogwash. merrick garland should wait until he gots multiple credible witnesses willing to testify and that is more likely to happen as the other state, fed and Congressional investigations run their course. now as to why the january 6 Congressional committee isn't motivated to move a bit quicker, am admitted baffled. regardless, if anybody reads an article which suggests the statute o' limitations on trump charges is gonna run in the immediate future, just ignore. HA! Good Fun!

best way to get low-sodium is to avoid canned altogether if possible. make-it-yourself is almost always gonna result in less sodium. 'course am recognizing is much less time consuming to get soup from a can than to prepare yourself, and most people do not have the time or inclination to make their own stock or whatever. had a close fried for whom we cooked for frequent during the last few years o' his life. his wife had passed some years previous (cancer) and the guy were not an accomplished home chef by any stretch o' the imagination. he lived alone and his heart problems necessitated a low-sodium diet. https://www.mowp.org/our-story/ these folks is fantastic, but it might surprise you to learn that in spite o' the number o' seniors who need help with low-sodium meal prep, particular men as they is more likely to suffer from chf and the like, the meals on wheels fare, and similar services, rare offer a low-sodium menu. we did teach our self how to cook low(er) sodium and learned that swiss cheese has less salt compared to other cheeses, but am not certain how long we would want to survive if we had to strict follow a serious low sodium diet. regardless, as you no doubt is already aware, canned and shelf stable is near always gonna be higher in sodium than homemade, unless you is serious heavy handed with the salt. use kosher as 'posed to traditional table salt also tends to result in the use o' less salt in a recipe. much smaller individual grains means you get more salt for volume with table salt. HA! Good Fun!

Booster effectiveness wanes after 4 months, but showed sturdy protection against hospitalization, CDC study shows “I honestly think we were unrealistic early on in conveying the idea that vaccine efficacy should be primarily characterized by protecting from infection,” Marrazzo wrote in an email. “As variants evolve and get better at infecting us, what we’ll need to focus on is mitigating the consequences.” In a second study released Friday, CDC reviewed data from two of its vaccine safety monitoring systems. It found that those 18 and older who received the same mRNA vaccine for all their shots had fewer side effects after the booster than after their second dose. ... am gonna observe we did not enjoy a couple o' days following our booster, which were near four months removed at this point, and we were moderna with all three doses. our post booster side effects were not particular terrible, and thanks to our shingles vaccination last year we got a new baseline for acceptable side effects. am literal unable to recall ~six-to-eight hours o' our life following the shingles vaccination other than a recognition o' much shivering and disorientation. so relative speaking, the covid-19 booster side effects were hardly noteworthy save to recognize they were flu-like and brief. curiously, we have had negligible injection site discomfort for any o' the covid-19 shots and that is the most common side effect. in the linked neil de grasse videos, the astrophysicist laments why computer modeling cannot be used to predict vaccine effectiveness and side effects the way computers has become so effective at predicting the interactions o' extra-solar phenomena, but am thinking the physicist fails to recognize just how many variables there is to anticipate with medicine interactions, and there is no baseline human which provides a useful model for any kinda computer modeling. gonna be stuck with human testing for a long time and will be unsurprising when two seeming similar people have very different experiences with protean diseases such as covid-19 and the medications and vaccines meant to treat such ailments. regardless, am not particular concerned with waning booster efficacy at the moment, but it is indeed an issue worth following, particular if/when a new variant emerges. HA! Good Fun!

Texas counties reject unprecedented numbers of mail ballots ahead of March 1 primary under restrictive new law In Harris County, the state’s most populous county and home to Houston, election officials said Friday that 40 percent of roughly 3,600 returned ballots so far have lacked the identification number required under Senate Bill 1, as the new law is known. In Williamson County, a populous northern suburb of Austin, the rejection rate has been about 25 percent in the first few days that ballots have come in, the top election official there said. ... y'know, this kinda thing don't make us any more pro democrat, but it does make us more firm in our rejecting the current gop. given current trends. texas going purple and then blue is not so much a question o' if but when, and on the day texas does go blue there is gonna be howling and wailing o' biblical proportions. for all the democrats who current rage over the manifest unfairness o' the electoral college and the fact a gop President may gain the Presidency with potential as little as 23% o' the popular vote, we advise patience, just a little bit o' patience. once texas does flip blue, the hated and despised electoral college, for all practical purposes, makes it impossible for a gop candidate to win the Presidency in any o' our lifetimes. recommendation: if you are democrat, do self a favour and make sure to get ahead o' the change. be strategic and offer a few public displays o' electoral college approval. when the blue shift inevitable takes place, you will be able to undermine any suggestion o' hypocrisy. smile smug and offer feigned sympathy to your gop acquaintances who will no doubt be complaining 'bout how complete unfair is the electoral college. HA! Good Fun!

aside: is not an excuse, but am gonna once again observe how we rare had admirable clients. first amendment cases happen at the margins. people rare comment 'bout just how openminded and reasonable is religious zealots and even cultists. everybody knows white supremacists is models o' intelligence, justice and decency. we dealt with the most loathsome and obtuse: strip club owners, gang leaders, teacher's unions. kidding 'bout the last one... mostly. every day needing champion the first amendment rights o' those who, if roles were reversed, woulda' happily trampled on the speech religion, press and association rights o' others, were exhausting. get a chance to respond to the smallminded and willful ignorant w/o needing be nice is refreshing. moving on... https://gregolear.substack.com/p/shame-cometh-the-jared-kushner-story During the early days of the pandemic, he set up a shadow task force to devise an appropriate response. When that task force gave him its recommendations—masks, contact tracing, federal coordination of supplies, etc.—he ignored them. The virus, he saw, was hitting the Blue States the hardest. It would help his father-in-law politically, he came to believe, if the pandemic continued to rage in those states. This way, his father-in-law could blame the governors of those states, who were all Democrats, for the escalating public health crisis, avoiding responsibility. So he decided to scuttle the plans given him by his own task force, and let the virus run amok. At the time, the states hit the hardest by covid-19 were New York, New Jersey, and California. New York: where he lived for years, where most of his friends lived. New Jersey: where he grew up, where his parents lived. California: where his brother lived. He was willing to let the populations of those states—home to his family and friends—get sick and die to help his father-in-law’s re-election prospects. Again: He was willing to let the populations of those states get sick and die to help his father-in-law’s re-election prospects. As of this writing, 904,000 Americans have died of covid-19. The unofficial number is well over a million. Most of those deaths could have been prevented, had he and his father-in-law not sabotaged the pandemic response. The grandson of Holocaust survivors allowed that mass death to happen. ... if true... HA! Good Fun!

oh, we never had any notion o' changing the minds o' those obvious obtuse and intransigent. as @Gorth notes, the paragraphs is useful to speak to those who is less immovable but nevertheless possessing similar views. is impossible to use reason to change the mind o' somebody such as sharp_one who did not come to their conclusions through reason, but that don't mean there ain't others out there who nevertheless believe unreasonable and simple are unaware o' what is the actual law regarding 4th amendment issues or why increasing vaccination rates leads to a higher % of vaccinated people dying from covid-19. etc. also, and have mentioned this previous, we would block some o' the worst offenders o' obtuse, but the board software makes such impossible. in rl we had to always polite steer people to doing what was in their own best interest, even if they were self destructively ignorant; were kinda the worst part o' the job. those who abuse authority or those previous identified shmucks immune to reason who nevertheless feel the need to announce to the world how intransigent and ignorant they wish to be in spite o' any proffer o' facts is kinda representing an attractive nuisance to us. the whole Gromnir persona, +20 years past, were invented 'cause from our pov, too many o' the regulars on the bg2 boards were toolbags who seemed to find it amusing to mock "no00bs" and spout off 'bout things they clear weren't particular knowledgeable 'bout themselves. were cathartic for us to use the Gromnir bit to chastise folks we would need other wise placate in rl. like we said, if ignore were possible, we would use, 'cause as am getting older is less amusing to, "expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of (brutal) education," but am admitted quite happy to indulge when the worst offenders offer us the chance. "gonna make more use o' ignore 'cause chances are the next time we see somebody post something monumental asinine, am gonna comment. yeah, chances are we face some kinda sisyphean trial as we attempt to explain something which should be self evident, and no doubt we will need endure the comically retributive squeaks o' rage from those who feel wronged, but am petty enough to not be overconcerned, even if am agreeing with the general sentiment that is we should be more wary o' stoopid and angry. as such, where is possible, ignore is probable our best option." -- Gromnir, 28 dec 2021 am aware is petty, but we can live with such a burden. but again, trying to contribute at least something o' value... HA! Good Fun!

am thinking you give some o' the trolls far too much credit, or too little? dunno. sure, a "made you post," kinda thing is frequent the puerile excuse, but is rare convincing. am recalling when a former mod played that card with us, then went apoplectic. i was only posting to get a rise out of you. neener-neener. is hardly convincing when the troll gets worked up and increasing bufoonish. example: there is of course more recent examples, but perhaps the wounds is too fresh, eh? @HoonDing on the other hand, is exact the kinda thing you describe, and is ez to distinguish his drive-by efforts from the gibbering types who is apparent sensitive to baiting. the one's who keep coming back for more is not just purposeful turning themselves into a punching bag 'cause they think doing so is a win. HA! Good Fun! ps we will note that removing the topic complete from covid-19 does make moderation more likely. wanna discuss posting dods and don't sans any thread relevant contribution is likely to get things shut down. to try and add something o' value... is way back from 2020. is impressive just how useful dr. paul offit insights were and that in spite o' changing data, his observations 'bout mistaken notions o' herd immunity, usefulness o' masks and the practical value o' vaccines short and long-term, and dispelling a few conspiracy theories.

hate to go all food snob again, but the ideal philly cheesesteak is gonna look like https://alikhaneats.com/johns-roast-pork-philadelphia/ you want the onions, meat and cheese to become a single uniform, gooey and inextricable mass o' ingredients. need thin cut veggies and meat to make it all come together. sadly, our most frequent complaint o' a cheesesteak is the steak; quantity is somehow meant to cover for lack o' flavour. find genuine good meat and am gonna be willing to endure other shortcomings. we got family in eastern pennsylvania and they is 'mongst the heretics who swear by two non traditional venues championed as bestest cheesesteak options. will offer for any persons planning on visiting philly anytime in the near future: 1) john's roast pork is what we got linked 'bove. holds a slight edge 'mongst our family which means #2 is likely superior. 2) donkey's place is actual in camden, nj. is why we suggest it may deserve the #1 spot, 'cause if Gromnir family is recommending a nj place as best, then it must be special. anthony bourdain did a segment on the donkey's place cheesesteak if you are curious and genuine interested enough to do a search. have enjoyed the john's sandwich and it were indeed sublime. have never been to donkey's, so am sharing based on the strength o' the recommendations. am gonna observe how both #1 and #2 use white american cheese, although when Gromnir makes we most often use provolone. s'posed white american melts superior resulting in a virtual emulsion. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-deaths-in-u-s-exceed-deltas-peak-as-covid-19-optimism-rises-in-europe-11643201653 is people who inexplicable think omicron were a nothingburger or somesuch silliness. the current surge represents the second most deadly we has experienced during the pandemic, 'cause in spite of the diminished lethality o' an individual case o' covid due to omicron compared to delta, the transmissibility o' omicron has more than made up for the difference. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ am gonna keep linking. americans, who 'cause o' aforementioned anxiety issues had worked extreme hard to convince self that +600k deaths from covid were some kinda exaggeration or the result o' government or big pharma conspiracies were looking for any excuse to marginalize covid-19, so when omicron becomes dominant and the case counts began to surge, there were a segment o' the population who once again mocked scientific guidance and they felt justified in their stoopid selfishness 'cause they read somewheres that omicron were far less lethal than delta. 'course hospitalization rates began to climb in the US, so surely at that point, which admitted woulda' been too late to ensure some kinda useful mitigation efforts, woulda' seen reasonable people adjust their thinking on the relative dangers o' omicron, yes? nope. an all too predictable, "nope." that said, is worth recognizing that 'cause o' the extreme transmissibility o' omicron, the effectiveness o' previous mitigation approaches were gonna be reduced. woulda' needed practice arguable impractical social distancing, although such were still advisable when dealing with highly vulnerable segments o' the population. 'course freaking vaccinations and boosters woulda' once again helped prevent serious outcomes from covid-19 infections and n-95 masks, seeing as how they is +95% effective at preventing spread in indoor environments, woulda' gone a long way in reducing the impact o' omicron if there were something approaching universal adoption, though such were never gonna happen in the US. is arguable that 'cause o' the intransigence o' the ill-informed and recognizing the measles equivalent transmissibility o' omicron, working to protect any save the most vulnerable were wasted effort, but such is the kinda calculus we expect from politicians instead o' scientists and doctors. regardless, am just not certain how people can look at hospitalizations and deaths attributed so far to omicron (those numbers is gonna continue to be noteworthy for at least the next week and a half as omicron has followed the same case and hospitalization trends as past surges) and convince self that somehow the dangers o' omicron were exaggerated. HA! Good Fun!

ignoring the appeal to absurdism, five quality meals a week for kids who might not be certain o' receiving one such meal a week, would seem to be a significant improvement. this ain't even a new math conundrum. five is better than zero in the present context. is also not just an obesity issue 'cause as already observed, brain development is also inextricable linked to proper nutrition. furthermore, the biden efforts, if one actual reads the linked articles, allocate funds to increase snap coverage in the hope families will be better able to feed children when those kids is not receiving meals at school. unfortunate, there is hardly a guarantee that more food money means better nutrition for many children. school lunch is the one meal per day fed, state and local governments, which have a rather vested interest in the long term physical and intellectual growth o' school age children, is able to be certain those kids have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits o' a nutritionally balanced meal, so why would one possible argue such is a bad idea? schools current get the kids exercise, which is a good thing. observe that exercise alone ain't enough? well, is not as if such is a reason for getting rid o' school exercise programs, 'cause that would be dumb, right? nobody would suggest something so utter stoopid. well, ok, how 'bout find ways to improve nutrition? one obvious solution is to make certain that meals at schools is free to all and that such meals is nutritionally beneficial. but five meals a week ain't a guarantee kids will be getting enough nutrition and school lunches is not gonna end obesity, so scrap that idea? wait? what? doing so is just as dumb as is getting rid o' school exercise. ... some things is complicated. making sure kids get decent school lunches is not particular complicated and is a whole lot cheaper than other welfare programs. is tough to frame intelligent arguments opposed to the lunch programs. instead we get fox link and absurdism? well, ok then. HA! Good Fun!

well, biden has been trying to address the problem, but there appears to be some resistance to making sure american kids get at least one decent meal every day while their bodies and brains are still developing. HA! Good Fun!