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is no question threats to trump's financial manhood is likely to garner a response, a response involving his worst fabulist instincts. tim o'brien knows more 'bout trump taxes and trump's reflexive efforts to go comic bigly with narratives o' his personal monetary power than just 'bout anybody. even so, this kinda self-sabotage by trump is... irrational. shouldn't surprise us trump is incapable o' showing restraint even when is a matter o' self preservation, but the trump fortunes is not gonna improve 'cause he is providing his many outstanding creditors with literal cause to call in his outstanding loans. HA! Good Fun!

trump removes some o' the guesswork linked to unreliable reporting by self publishing evidence which undermines his defense. weren't investigative reporting which uncovered this letter, but trump sharing after the mazars withdrawal were announced. ... insanity defense is not an option, and the courts ain't subject to ordinary gaslighting, so am not sure what were the rationale behind offering up the letter. HA! Good Fun!

aside: we got no idea who is reporting accurate regarding russia-ukraine. am sure not trusting US reporters citing unnamed pentagon sources, 'cause am understanding more than a few reporters is trying to be the individual who breaks something new and important, and for all we know their pentagon source is some glorified office functionary with no real knowledge o' anything beyond what they see on cnn or fox. am sure not believing the russians and their state media. when a situation is so clear subject to uncertainty, is conflicting reports and the possibility o' simple mistake is high, we always advise caution, which is why you ain't gonna see us comment on the accuracy o' any reporting 'til the situation is less chaotic. even so, we got multiple nato nations (pretty much all but germany) clear concerned by the current situation as they is changing behaviours and not just dialogue. got past lessons o' crimea. got lots o' russian troops. gotta be at least a little concerned unless you is trying real hard not to be. am gonna take a wait-and-see approach. if russia invades and there is reputable reporting o' such, then... reminder: am not particular concerned 'bout the so-called beating o' the drums o' war. HA! Good Fun! ps can't believe this is a necessary clarification, but am seeing numerous persons conflate reporting o' war being imminent with pro-war/advocacy o' war. not the same thing. there may be reporting o' imminent invasion from a source most assured opposed to any sorta military action. converse, is possible to indeed be advocating war and suggest war is imminent. regardless, those who keep using terms interchangeable is either intentional or accidental misleading.

is amusing how the conspiracy theorists who so often see the evil imperial predations o' western powers as the cause o' every conflict, nevertheless look at putin and shrug off 2014 and the current mass build up o' russian troops along the ukranian border as nothing but some kinda convenient conjured nightmare feeding unreasonable western biases. is hardly just the US and US journalists who seemed to believe the russians were making aggressive moves, but the fog o' war makes many look foolish and is impossible to tell if s'posed pentagon sources were wrong or that putin has simply blinked... or if the s'posed russian draw down is even real. is precise why Gromnir hasn't commented 'cause the only thing which is certain is the uncertainty, and given uncertainty o' the situation and 100k russian troops as well as any number o' russian comments which cause greater concern as 'posed to dispelling fears, the reasonable response o' the genuine skeptic is to prepare for a worst case scenario. but skepticism is in curious short supply in the thread. 'course MAD makes acting on such reasonable fears a dangerous proposition considering that there were not enough time to discern reality before needing commit to terrible responses. HA! Good Fun! ps and again, us journalists citing, "pentagon sources say," is hardly pundits beating drums o' war. we can't recall any reputable US pundit suggesting that staring a war with russia would be good. report troop buildup and an imminent threat doesn't result in war being more likely. actual reports o' russian invasion woulda' been required to get folks on the side o' a military response, regardless o' notions o' reporter accuracy. tell us reporters knowing false reported an actual russian invasion or attack? then yeah, am seeing the point, but again, 2014, crimea and hundreds o' thousands o' russian troops on the border o' ukraine would make any reasonable person cautious and skeptical. power politics model makes doing nothing in such a situation naïve in the extreme. but am hardly blaming pundits for being nervous.

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for @Gorth in case he didn't read the link, and 'cause he expressed some confusion. More than two years later, in December 2018, Carlson began presenting Trump as the victim of extortion. Seeking to discredit former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's tale of hush payments — and alleged campaign finance law violations — Carlson first told viewers, "Remember the facts of the story. These are undisputed." But they aren't undisputed. They're not even facts. He then proceeded to say, "Two women approach Donald Trump and threaten to ruin his career and humiliate his family if he doesn't give them money. Now that sounds like a classic case of extortion." Pictures of former adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, and McDougal flashed on screen. Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 on behalf of Trump, who denies that either affair occurred. In reality, McDougal never approached Trump. She and her representative had spoken to ABC News and to the National Enquirer because, she said, she feared word of the affair would leak out during the campaign anyway and she preferred to be the one to tell the story. It wasn't publicly known that David Pecker, then the CEO of the tabloid's parent company, had promised Trump he would help keep stories about extramarital affairs from seeing the light of day. Carlson and Fox never corrected that significant error, as The Washington Post's Erik Wemple underscored. ... is why am suggesting actual malice need be reexamined. please note the linked article observes how rachel maddow and msnbc used a similar defense, so is not just a tucker problem. in the polarized landscape o' US 2021, finding a reasonable person is increasing difficult as tribal dogma has replaced critical thinking and skepticism. courts is needing ignore reality-- they pretend as if a significant number o' seeming normal people is not willing to choke down infotainer bile, believing they is instead drinking the nectar o' Truth simply cause such outlandish bs aligns with their own biases. is a problem. in the US, everybody has a right to say crazy things 'bout public figures and matters o' public interest. lies s'posed cross the line, but is becoming increasing difficult to identify the line. whatever folks think o' Gromnir, we have been kinda consistent in our defense o' First Amendment protections over the decades. however, the recent Courts has moved to weaponize the First Amendment in ways we woulda thought unthinkable a few years past. use free exercise o' religion clause as the basis for declaring unconstitutional size limits on indoor gatherings related to covid-19 mitigation efforts? what? really? in the past such woulda' been ok unless you plaintiffs could show there were a specific effort to limit religious practice. what changed? such change occurring by means o' a shadow docket decision means we don't know the why. is leaving this tired old First Amendment warrior a bit disappointed. HA! Good Fun!

is not unusual, but is again noteworthy such info is unavailable at owlcat's twitter or their official boards. 1.2.0 patch release - Pathfinder: WotR / Discussions - Owlcat Games can't recall the last time we saw meaningful developer contribution on the message boards. regardless, our personal most current wotr run were paused 'cause were going aeon and having hit mythic seven (mythic eight arrives kinda soon after mythic seven) we decided to wait for the patch to become not beta. am hopeful the reddit info holds and there is no new technical obstacles which would prevent a release sooner as 'posed to later. HA! Good Fun!

not sure what you have been watching. please give examples o' specific pundits (and not fringey examples) advocating war 'cause what we have been seeing is a whole lotta people worried that there could be a war in europe with no way to prevent it save prayer. btw, tell folks a real response to a russian invasion would be appropriate is not same as advocating war. tucker, meanwhile, were telling us that zelensky is a dictator and that there is no good reason to side with the ukranians. sure, there were pundits suggesting that the situation on the ground looked like a prelude to a russian invasion, and gosh, if the US had annexed baja california in 2014 (just look at the name o' baja, clear there is historical and cultural justification for such an annex) and then in 2021 sudden decided to hold 100k troop exercises along the rio grande, the absence o' concern from mexico woulda' been jaw dropping. two years has not changed tucker. if tucker is no longer transparent unreasonable, then that means his lies is actionable. tell us the clinton campaign were spying on the trump wh is not true, and but for fact tucker is nothing save an outlandish purveyor o' infotainment, his untruths would leave fox culpable. am thinking as such tucker and fox will argue his opinions is just as outrageous today as two years ago. HA! Good Fun!

same planet. You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers as a matter o' law, no reasonable person takes tucker serious. therefore, if you take tucker serious, you are by definition an unreasonable person 'ccording to judge vyskocil. same planet. not a trek mirror universe. if you mistake coke for pepsi, it ain't cause the world changed. HA! Good Fun!

appeal just became less likely to succeed, although there will be a push to get this to SCOTUS especial given the telegraphing by Alito and thomas. am kinda ambivalent. actual malice ("knowledge that statements are false or in reckless disregard of the truth-- is alleged and proved,") standard deserves a closer look, but am concerned how palin's lawyers were arguing. the most significant misconception am believing most people have regarding palin's case is they believe it is a freedom o' the press issue, and that ain't true. the defamation standard when is a matter o' public interest or involves public figures is not press specific. if you make social media posts regarding palin which is untrue, then actual malice is just as relevant to you as the ny times. the thing is, palin's lawyers is suggesting that if a plaintiff is able to convince a finder o' fact that the publisher o' an untruth exhibited a kinda skew or bias against a public figure, then actual malice shouldn't be the standard. consider what that means for some o' you posting nonsense on the arse end o' the internet. the recent bs reporting by fox and gop members regarding the recent durham filing is one reason am thinking the actual malice standard need be reexamined, 'cause unlike the ny times which immediate posted a correction in the palin situation, is no way folks like marco rubio and tucker carlson is unaware o' the web o' lies they is spinning. the wh s'posed being spied on in the relevant durham filing were the OBAMA wh, which is just the most obvious misrepresentation being made by many. read newsweek articles or listen to hannity and you are justifiable gonna come away thinking the clinton campaign did something illegal and spied on President trump. newsweek and hannity gotta know that they is misrepresenting by purposeful leaving out key facts. and is not as if msnbc and their pundits haven't done similar... though probable not to the extreme we has seen with the recent rash o' durham coverage which is kinda similar to the domnion nonsense which got fox and others in trouble not so long in the past. palin lost and her efforts to appeal took a double-hit 'cause judge were gonna dismiss regardless o' jury finding, but the jury also returned with a decision o' no defamation by the nyt... and fox breathes a sigh o' relief. HA! Good Fun!

The Conservative Case for Avoiding a Repeat of Jan. 6 worth a read. j. michael luttig was, for a couple decades, one o' the more influential "conservative" legal voices in the US. virtual all o' his clerks ended up also clerking for Scalia or Thomas. am not indulging hyperbole neither. judge luttig were also on the short list o SCOTUS nominees during the bush (younger) admin in spite o' fact he had written an opinion chastising the administration and luttig were pulling no punches in the effort. he also wrote a couple particular influential dissenting opinions which would form basis o' SCOTUS opinions overturning appeals decisions. in the past, if luttig spoke, folks such as ted cruz would listen... intently. all the more impressive were luttig cache as he were not having ivy league pedigree. am not expecting republicans to agree with luttig today, 'cause is only room for one voice in the gop: trump. even so, is gonna be a few influential conservatives who read the linked opinion piece and find it a compelling argument even if they may not public make such an admission. HA! Good Fun!

for an azata main character, hideous laughter + best joke is potential devastating 'cause you get bonuses through mythic spells to dc for mind affecting spells AND you got zippy magic which allows you to create two separate chains o' best joke. am not sure 'bout the feat cost for a single spell for nenio, but isn't heightened which is the issue. keep in mind that one o' the reasons glitterdust and grease is so good early and late is they ignores sr. is not the case for hideous laughter. there is gonna be a portion o' the game where with hideous laughter you is gonna have difficulty making it stick, 'cause nenio is gonna need go with enchantment in addition to illusion and until you get the sr boosting feats you are also gonna need cross your fingers. that said, enchantment is one o' the spell schools for which there is numerous items which allow you to boost dcs through the roof, and going the court poet route with seelah is also a way to boost dc further. might go with a level o' crossblood sorc to get the dc boost from that as well. however, personal, chances are we stick with illusion for nenio, but is no reason a best joke/enchanter build can't work, just don't expect it to be good 'til mid, mid-late. HA! Good Fun! ps is an act 4 individual who has bracers which boost the dc o' enchantment spells, but you need kill 'em to get the gear. am pretty sure the slaying counts as an evil act.

gotta keep track o' the number o' times the symbols appear in the enigma dungeon. 3 times means the symbol = 3. etc edit: first time we didn't immediate solve one o' the symbols=number puzzles, which were a pain in the arse 'cause the number values is based on how much o' the dungeon is accessible up to the point you could possible solve. grrrr. HA! Good Fun!

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!