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you gonna be the guy to tell clancy brown he can't be in the credits? that said, the wardrobe change for perfect tommy were the thing which triggered our ocd. HA! Good Fun!

not a cgi complaint or defense, so apologies, but in the music thread there were a condemnation o' 80s style which we found odd. in one o' those weird synaptic non-sequiturs, we couldn't help but think o' the end credits for buckaroo banzai, which from our admitted skewed and personal notions o' fun and kewlness, were achieving near pinnacle status w/o the need for any kinda complex practical or cgi effects. HA! Good Fun!

laugh if you will, but the kraken lawyers weren't offering better in arizona, georgia, nevada, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. aside: for those curious, brady holds that the state must provide the defense with exculpatory evidence in their possession. in other words, if the state has evidence which shows you are innocent, they got an affirmative duty to provide such to you and your defense. HA! Good Fun! ps am gonna indulge full @Guard Dog conspiracy silliness and point out that the dress sidney powell is wearing in the linked article is no doubt an oblique nod to the watchmen 7th kavalry. am not serious btw.

might be more efficient to "wall off" florida. am able to see multiple tangible benefits from doing so, and am suspecting it would actual be easier to cordon off florida as 'posed to the entire southern border as were the plan o' the previous admin. HA! Good Fun!

no argument from us on that point. HA! Good Fun! ps so is clear, am not dismissing the opinions o' cuban ex-pats. am thinking those who left cuba likely did so for reasons which were substantial and meaningful and we listen to such. the stories o' cubans fleeing/fled cuba is well documented and is one o' the reasons we tend to roll our eyes whenever northern progressives pretend as if the cuban government and people is victims first and foremost o' US oppression. *groan* nevertheless, if one is gonna complain 'bout objectivity, the anecdotes o' people who fled from a regime can't be your only source, or even your primary source, when trying to discover truth 'bout conditions in cuba, particular conditions in cuba today. those most aggrieved is a legit source, and their stories is demanding an audience, but such folks obvious got a skewed (if well deserved) pov. dismiss any objective measures o' healthcare as fatal and irredeemable unreliable while simultaneous only proffering anecdotal from the aggrieved should raise questions o' legitimacy... but curious does not.

you didn't claim the south florida cubans were objective? *chuckle* you moan 'bout objective and then offer offer anecdotes from south florida cubans and your ex wife? clear we missed the meme, yes? so, conspiracy theories 'bout WHO and personal anecdotes is your response. let us know when you get to the objective, eh? please recall we stated we disagreed 'bout the majority o' the statement released, but you is dog with a bone and fight to the death gonna argue cuban health care based on personal anecdotes from your ex wife and cuban ex pats, while moaning 'bout objectivity? want us to dig up stories from The Media suggesting cuban health care is excellent, particular given fact they got a per capita gdp 1/6th that o' the US? how convincing will those The Media stories be, eh? this must be a gd joke post we just ain't getting, yes? you is doing a subversion thing, yes? is performance art or a meme w/o sharing the funny? wouldn't be first time you claimed such, so am never certain. who numbers. unicef numbers (which admitted mostly come from who sources) is all wrong but you offer unverifiable anecdotal as a response while complaining 'bout objective? so where is your objective proof that the who numbers is wrong? where is your objective? *sigh* as to blm, what should be obvious is that a bunch o' folks running a website making a statement is far easier than an international movement with no leadership hierarchy attempting such a feat. such should be obvious even to gd's conspiracy fogged brain. is ez to get a handful o' people who run a website/pac to cobble together a statement in a day or two. get a worldwide movement to agree to a statement on cuba or climate change or which fast food restaurant offers the best chicken sandwich is gonna be difficult. btw, we offered links from The Media which shows how blm is purposeful decentralized and is not having any genuine capacity to speak for the entirety o' the movement. ignored. oh, and speaking o' the media, even the national review cautions against what gd reflexive indulged. nevertheless, 'cause The Media agreed with his embraced narrative for blm, gd glomped onto such with his usual vigor. how many times have we been down this road, eh? we will note silence from other blm organizations pushing back on the already released blm statement regarding cuba is the smart move. it does not in any way help blm as a whole if each chapter is public arguing every time a statement gets released. from a national outreach pov, this cuba thing is not a big deal and is doubtful anybody wants to die fighting on this hill. undermine your own legitimacy over what is a tangential issue for the movement would be stoopid. 'course stoopid is often the more predictable outcome, so silence is surprising but welcome even so. for chrissakes, a few posts removed you even brought hitler into the mix. welcome back vol. HA! Good Fun! ps speaking o' chicken sandwiches, we were surprised to discover burger king offered an excellent chicken sandwich. genuine shocked. a friend told us the spicy version o' the bk new chicken sandwich were at least as good as the offering from popeye's so many raved 'bout a couple years past. honest, we never had the popeye's sandwich, so we got nothing to compare, but we did try the bk version some time in late may and it was tasty. the sauce were kinda a tangy mayo with a bit o' sweet which added little to the experience 'cause it were so uneven distributed, but the pickle slices were crisp, robust and flavorful and the chicken were tender and juicy with excellent breading which were not excessive. am not gonna wax rhapsodic 'bout the bun, but we had no complaints. rare do we indulge in fast food, but the bk chicken offering were enjoyable.

oh, well, the cuban expats is your objective source? serious? ignore the statistics and rankings by WHO. brush off the obvious gdp imbalance. but yeah, is a whole bunch o' angry ex-cubans who quite understandable will never say anything positive 'bout cuba is the totality o' your response. a bang up job o' showing us how you is the one being objective. oh, and now gd sudden defers to some kinda gestalt The Media response as the measure for truth? want us to find all the times you has criticized media for their knee-jerk responses even when they did get it right? but again, this time, 'cause The Media as you see it agrees with your narrative, you is embracing. your obstinacy rendered transparent. HA! Good Fun!

who the hell is "they" and what makes the account "theirs"? you spoke of obstinacy previous, but you are offering a master class in it at the moment. just because there is a blm logo attached to a post from an account which has words corresponding with blm in the address don't make it any more "they" or "theirs" than any o' those innumerable "official" kardashian accounts. the folks who posted the statement can't get a freaking trademark for their logo precise 'cause they don't represent blm in any meaningful way, but because their statements fit your narrative o' what you expect them and they to say, you embrace obstinacy. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2315760/ The new Cuban government in 1959 began overhauling the for-profit health system which, 30 years later, resulted in free health services for all its citizens which is integrated with national social and economic development. Life expectancy in Cuba is higher than that of the US (72.5 vs. 71.9). Health workers have eliminated polio, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and diphtheria. Malnutrition incidence amount 1-15 years olds is 0.7% compared with 5% in the US. The Cuban health system began in the 1960s as a curative system based in hospitals but shifted during the 1970s and 1980s to a primary health care system based in communities. It consists of 6 hierarchical, interlocking levels: national health institutes and hospital centers (quaternary care-super specialty), provincial hospitals (tertiary care-high specialty), municipal hospitals (secondary care-specialty), area health centers (primary or community care) serving 25,000-30,000 people, sector polyclinics serving 4000-5000 people, and minipolyclinics served by a family physician team (family physician, nurse, and social worker) covering 600-700 people. The family physician team strategy has strengthened disease surveillance and completed information about health status and characteristics of neighborhoods. Neighborhood residents determine their own health care and protection. In fact, volunteer brigades build minipolyclinics and housing for family physicians and nurses. Critics of the Cuban health care system claim that the physician-to-population ratio is too high and that it makes up too much of the gross national product (almost 15%). etc. now keep in mind is an apples v. oranges situation. the annual per capita gdp o' cuba is less than $9k compared to US o' more than $65k. nevertheless, thanks to obstinacy, gd ain't even willing to concede that point, eh? if were no better than stitches kinda first aid, life expectancy wouldn't be better in cuba than the US, though admitted such were pre pandemic. in spite o' devastating sanctions and an embargo by the most powerful economic force on the planet, cuban health care, by numerous objective measures such as life expectancy and childhood malnutrition, is doing better than the US... which is not saying cuban is better than the US, but again, we are comparing vast different economic situations and the fact cuba is beating the US in numerous objective measures should be embarrassing. dog with a bone. HA! Good Fun!

am having troubles with any mystery save ancestor. HA! Good Fun

am not having difficulty creating a new character, save to note owlcat is keeping their curious demon sub-categories for favoured enemies, which broke any number o' class features in the previous beta build. HA! Good Fun!

pps am gonna observe, once again, how blm is a movement and not an organization, but am also thinking such a fact is kinda chicken sh!te. when somebody affiliated with blm does something bad, blm folks is quick to point out that they ain't an organization. is no leader to condemn bad behaviour. is no organization to take responsibility when individual blm protesters go too far and indulge in violence. nevertheless, is clear some blm folks wanna trademark and make press releases. serious? can't legit have both ways. can't avoid responsibility while claiming a right to speak for the movement as a whole. if blm wants to become an organization, then they is gonna need some kinda leadership and at such a point they is gonna be embracing responsibility for those acting on behalf o' the organization. will also be making your leadership targetable by unsympathetic government agencies. particular after trump am not certain most people involved in blm wanna go that route. nevertheless, until the time blm wants to genuine organize, press releases and statements from one o' the dozens o' groups claiming to be a voice for blm is doing little save giving consumers o' alt-right media a target for their misdirected venom. counterproductive. HA! Good Fun!

you do realize there is no official blm... anything. is no blm organization. there has been dozens o' attempts to trademark blm and they has all failed. main reason for such failure is the obvious foundational issue that no single group claiming to speak for blm has any authority at law or based on tradition to do so. again, dozens o' different blm all claiming right to trademark. is no official blm leadership and we would dare you to name (without the benefit o' an internet search engine) the most important leaders in the blm movement. indeed, blm is a movement o' disparate and often conflicting groups from across the nation and now around the globe. tell us a bunch o' minority progressives is blaming the US for cuba's problems? am not shocked. not genuine appalled neither. if you (mistaken) see all your problems as somehow originating from one monolithic source (the US government,) then believe the problems o' cubans derive from the same source is hardly a leap. the guy allergic to bees sees bees everywhere. and objectively, cuba does have excellent healthcare. coulda' mentioned education as well. say good things 'bout cuba which is true don't bother us none. however, granting asylum to revolutionaries is kinda a subjective compliment and we would balk at making this a blanket positive for cuba given fact a few o' those revolutionaries granted asylum were involved in considerable violence against civilian populations. *shrug* am thinking recent gd has been channeling his inner vol with often self contradictory posts, and now you is unabashed going after blm and antifa based on random bits o' nothing pulled from the internet w/o stopping to reflect. am not agreeing with the majority (90%) o' the released statement in your linked story, but am genuine having no idea who released the statement and am certain we can say is not representing blm as a whole 'cause there is no specific person or group o' people who speak for blm. is no blm party or blm President or Congress. blm is a movement and not an organization. duh. HA! Good Fun! ps we got nothing but contempt for antifa, but they too is a movement as 'posed to a singular organization. "If you look at the people that have been arrested for that, by and large, I mean, it's the boogaloo movement or it's an association with QAnon. It's the right side of the spectrum. It is not antifa." She's (edit: "she" is former dhs official and trump appointee, Elizabeth Neumann) unequivocal about this: "The threat of domestic terrorism is not from antifa. It is from these right-wing movements." antifa raison dêtre is bonkers and if they ever do become organized and serious they will be a threat 'cause they embrace violence and is willing to use violence to silence those who disagree with their worldview. again, nothing but contempt for antifa even if they is hardly a problem at the moment.

and the thing is, there weren't no specific day within a window o' opportunity (from gd's pov) o' less than a week which woulda' been essential. POTUS stepping into to announce support for protesters in cuba is understandable having limited practical impact and even when such occurred we know at least one boardie pretends like it never happened. converse, imagine if trump had stood up and declared his support for peaceful protests and committed fed resources to prevent the diminution o' civil liberties o' those arrested or detained during the summer protests... instead o' sending insignia-free troops to places such as portland and disappearing people into unmarked vans. were no specific day trump needed do the right thing during the summer. were a whole lotta days he were doing the wrong thing, and more than 25% o' the nation were cheering as trump violated basic Constitutional and human rights, and almost another 20% o' americans, while perhaps less comfortable with such authoritarian excesses, were nevertheless willing to go along with the leader of their party as he and william barr sent masked troops to imprison and attack protesters whether they were involved in crimes or not. there were days and weeks and even months when trump coulda' changed course and gotten things right, but chose to do exact opposite. but yeah, cuba situation would be complete different if the press release had been delivered days earlier, and mentioned words like "socialism" or phrases like "police crackdown" right? HA! Good Fun! ps state tv and other sources o' news convincing people that major metropolitan areas were burning non-stop for months legitimized trump actions, but even so it were POTUS who coulda' made a difference on any o' a multitude o' different days during the summer.

indeed. we know exactly what were your complaint 'cause you posted for all to see and you posted two days after biden did exact what you said he wouldn't/couldn't do. your after the fact retconning in an effort to somehow legitimize a criticism which ignored reality is indulging a level o' obstinacy we dare not try and match. HA! Good Fun!

loki. ... f'ing time travel. time manipulation carries with it the potential to use the gods-o'-time-travel-be-damned reset button which means anything which happened season one is quite possible invalidated in season two. bring back dead? ez and is already implied. change and even reverse the most important dramatic events o' season one? no problem. loki went there and did that and we won't know the extent o' the reset 'til season 2. ooh, cliffhanger. cliffhanger? screw you disney. so, once again, fu time travel plot device. no real rhyme or reason for why such is possible or which dramatic story elements is inviolable from the vagaries o' time manipulation. time travel just is and it can be whatever the directors and writers says it is. the audience just needs to sit back and take another hammer blow to the cerebrum, 'cause is time travel. HA! Good Fun! ps we do not like time travel.

to be fair, wil were just a kid at the time. dunno 'bout you but the twenty years 'tween when we were ten and when we hit thirty resulted in changes which would render us unrecognizable to those who knew us when we were 9ish or 10ish. converse, have somebody meet us when we were thirty compared to today and the changes is more subtle and less disconcerting. also, and let's be honest, patrick stewart looked like an old guy long before he were actual old. 1985 patrick stewart ... btw, the only reason we responded were the opportunity to use the lifeforce clip. HA! Good Fun!

gd: His natural inclination would be to support the demonstrators in Cuba. But he dares not do it because quite a lot of the Democrats he needs (and who already don’t like him) are quietly sympathetic to the Cuban government. biden (two days earlier): We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime. The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected. The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves. you need specific words "police crackdown"? or somesuch? you are as bad as marco rubio. you got a narrative and and reality be damned. sounds like support for protesters and is clearly not showing some kinda approval o' the cuban government. went through the same exact issue with bernie sanders criticizing antifa violence. no matter how many times we showed how bernie criticized antifa specific and violence in general, gd believed that bernie were supporting such elements. dog with a bone. HA! Good Fun!

and two days previous to your post complaining that biden likely wanted to criticize cuba but wouldn't couldn't because of "a lot of Democrats." dog with a bone. HA! Good Fun!

given the gd position on foreign entanglements, am dubious 'bout such a conclusion. as an aside, marco rubio did find time to complain 'bout President biden's statement. joe's failure to mention the evils of "socialism and communism" were the fatal flaw in the President's condemnation o' cuba and the support for the protesters? go figure. HA! Good Fun!

... link if it doesn't match the gd narrative, then it doesn't exist? HA! Good Fun!

somebody talking ill o' the 80s? HA! Good Fun!

is our recollection from old days o' university that tolkien were using man 'stead o' human 'cause he were english, and not french. human is from french by way o' latin. man sounds like a shortened form o' human, but isn't. man is actual distinct and comes from old english. tolkien were creating an english mythology, so... HA! Good Fun!

am not surprised. has been kinda glut o' cookie cutter ya fare the last few years on netflix and similar services. listening to boardie feedback has informed us that more than a few who in 2018 mighta' given something like ragnarok a chance by watching most or even all o' a season before reaching a conclusion is now hitting their threshold after an episode or two. don't need more than a couple episodes to see ragnarok fall into same old ya patterns. what we saw o' ragnarok was no worse than other ya shows we has tried to watch. not better either. am thinking more than a few boardies is waiting for better, but are no longer optimistic such is probable. HA! Good Fun!

for cardio we don't need "buddies" and is unlikely we would find anybody willing to join us pre 6:00am for our morning rides. current is too hot to go any later, and by mid august the air quality is gonna force us indoors to stationary bike and rowing machine. long 'bout early-mid november, when the air clears a bit, chances are the rains has started and a cycling schedule becomes weather dependent. january and february is coldish and windy. we look ridiculous in our thermal gear, but riding in winter is not unpleasant if you dress appropriate, with special attention to fingers and ears and nose. nevertheless need to go early as inevitably the winds pick up as the sun gets higher in the sky. honest, march thru june is fantastic for cycling, but the rest o' the year requires a bit o' intestinal fortitude, and even during spring, am ordinary riding at times few buddies would voluntarily join. we live in a curious community with retirees and a few serious hardcore athletes. greg lemond once lived 'bout 1000 metres distance from where we live today. +10 years past our community were kinda an ideal location for a cyclist as we are at the base o' the foothills and you can find flat or incline or anything in-between. increased summer heat and +3 months o' predictable dangerous air quality due to now yearly wildfire problem has had a less than positive impact. even so, we got a surprising number o' winter and summer sport olympians living not far from Gromnir... and we would be nothing but dead weight if we tried to join that select group. got no illusions 'bout our abilities compared to international level athletes. the other significant group o' folks in our community is the people who believe playing 18 holes via a golfcart counts as cardio. sure, there is a few people who are not olympians or golfers but most o' them is gainful employed and have lives to live. now the gym and weights is different. have always preferred working out with somebody who could spot us. not need a cheerleader, but work out with somebody makes less likely we will take off a few too many days. heck, work out with somebody makes less likely we take off a set. no doubt is same for cardio. regardless, we much prefer to have somebody reliable at hand when am doing squats, military press and bench. have never once required a spotter when doing cardio. HA! Good Fun!

there is something about the internet which short circuits brains. is multiple examples which would lend credence to such a hypothesis, but in the present context am gonna use the facebook-and-twitter-as-censors complaint. if trump wrote an op-ed and wanted the washington post and nyt to publish it, it would surprise nobody that in the US such publications cannot be compelled to print material they do not wish to be staining their product. am suspecting we not even need explain why this is the case as is just gonna feel offensive and unamerican to force the washington examiner to print a bernie sanders or aoc op ed 'bout the evils of global warming or tucker carlson. am suspecting conservatives and liberals is both gonna be near universal agreeing is wrong to compel publishers to use their resources to promote partisan opinions not shared by the publisher. as such, the newspaper examples we offer is not first amendment relevant 'cause has nothing to do with government efforts to limit speech (duh) and is doubtful anybody would even suggest such a choice by a publisher not to print stories somehow counts as censorship. internet makes different? why? is 'cause facebook typically allows people to say whatever they wish to say? if there is a censorship issue which may be level'd at the tech giants, it is a contracts issue and depends on terms o' service. if facebook said to users that they could say whatever they wished w/o fear o' facebook interference, and then facebook censored anyways, then there would be a contracts issue and perhaps the disgruntled user could get back the money they didn't pay to use facebook? not a particular strong syllogism, eh? *chuckle* internet is indeed a little different from other kinda publishers 'cause unlike newspapers and even tv broadcasters, those who maintain internet fora are not legal liable to the same degree as is ordinary publishers. if a newspaper prints a story which contains facts which is untrue, even if is an op ed, the publisher as well as the author may be held liable if there is a subsequent libel cause o' action. Congress looked at the internet in its infancy and decided that holding internet publishers responsible same as print and tv and radio, or any rando person on the street who might dare to repeat a untrue statement which resulted in economic harm to a plaintiff was gonna undermine the value o' the internet as a means o' communication and education. imagine obsidian entertainment needing potential fact check every post before it is public displayed on these boards. the thing is, the same fox pundits complaining 'bout how facebook failure to be allowing q folks to tell lies using their resources is rising to a level o' untenable censorship is the same folks suggesting that facebook is not deserving their qualified immunity from libel/slander suits 'cause o' republish o' user content. remove the special carveout for internet publishers and do you believe the tech giants will be more or less inclined to prune offensive or questionable user content? ultimate, this is all just part o' the current gop's politics o' grievance. is no genuine policy issues, but we are gonna hear 'bout stolen elections, and critical race theory and big tech censorship while the mitch and others do everything they are able to delay and prevent any biden successes, even if such successes would benefit their own constituents. gonna mostly ignore the groundhog day silliness o' @Guard Dog where he somehow uses this as an example o' they are all bad when this is in fact the unholy necromancy o' a kinda unique pre ww2 phenomenon in US politics. nothing from obama, bush, clinton or reagan were anything close to what we are seeing today, so is hardly useful as an example o' some kinda trend so much as the kinda reactionary bs we never thought were possible w/o a major war or devastating economic upheaval. *shrug* it turns out the great recession and the endemic hopelessness the bootstrap libertarians and the ultra-wealthy deride as a failure o' people to take advantage o' all the opportunities available to make personal success a reality in 21st century america (*eye-roll*), were enough to turn working class southerners, midwest farmers and out-of-work rust belt factory workers into a perpetual mob with no capacity for self reflection and a whole lotta anger just waiting for a demagogue to misdirect it. 'course the political leadership o' the gop has made only token efforts to halt this populist nightmare in large part 'cause citizens united all but guaranteed the career politicians would put pragmatism before morality given how much cash is on the line. HA! Good Fun! ps we will note the hypocrisy o' more than a few obama fanbois when it comes to freedom of press. complain 'bout efforts to collect cellphone data o' nytimes reporters by trump were a horrendous violation too unamerican to endure but obama were doing the exact same with fox reporters. however, in a not so subtle rebuke o' obama, and a clear refutation o' the gd principle, biden made no effort to defend doj spying on press and public committed to make sure such did not continue during his administration.