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Professional Pickleball and 5 Other Sports to Follow Instead of Letting the Mariners Disappoint You Again

I don't always roll a joint.

But when I do, it's my ankle.

16 hours ago, Cygnia said:

Trump Indicted For Taking Top-Secret Documents To His Mar-A-Lago Social Club

According to biblical numerology, seven is the perfect number.

Trump was indicted on seven counts in this instance.

Therefore by the transitive property of federal crimes, Trump is perfect.

< share this with all your MAGA friends >

/s

On 6/4/2023 at 1:07 PM, Old Man said:

One in which the Cabbage Patch dolls war with the Garbage Pail Kids for control of the Beanie Babies?

Shhh...writer's strike going on. 

I could see some societies not finding enough people with active telepathic genes to continue their family lines without some form of arranged marriages or artificial insemination.

On 6/2/2023 at 1:16 PM, Lord Liaden said:

Quite so. Although the Popes from that era granting forgiveness for "misdeeds" is pretty ironic.

Remember: it's only midevil.

On 5/25/2023 at 7:24 AM, Cygnia said:

*more headdesking, more sobs*

 

Bill would allow 14-year-olds to serve alcohol in Wisconsin

Bill who?

If it's a beginning character, you likely shouldn't have a 14d6 attack. I usually go for 11d6 or maybe 12.

But to echo an earlier comment, show us what you've got so we can see what you're trying to do. Otherwise, we're just looking at typing out combinations of disadvantages which could be applied to random powers.

< singing >

Come a little bit closer

You're my kind of clone

So big and so strong

Come a little bit closer

I'm all alone and the night is so long

On 5/13/2023 at 10:36 AM, Cancer said:

But if you dropped 35,000 turkeys into Paycor Stadium, how could you tell them from the paying customers?

The paying customers are more thoroughly plucked....

On 4/28/2023 at 9:26 AM, batguy said:

How can I create my own super hero rpg system?

Decide which of the existing superhero roleplaying systems you want to rip off.

Figure out why people liked it.

Figure out why people hated it.

Figure out why it went out of business.

Do the right things while avoiding the wrong things.

On 5/14/2023 at 8:28 AM, Asperion said:

Something that I wonder about dealing with this channel is if Habro will attempt to use their HUGE  financial advantage to undermine the smaller independent channels,  leading to a monopoly.  This is what WalMart did and look at what happened to them.  Only the poor of the community (unless they have control of the community) will shop there. If one has financial ability,  then they will go ANYWHERE except WalMart.  I can see Hasbro doing the same thing with their new channel.  There will be Hasbro's channel or nothing else,  period. 

Well, since the channel has ads, I'd assume that Hasbro is going to be more concerned with marketing its own products at cheap ad rates than with trying to run very marginally-profitable streamers out of business.

Just a guess.

Lt. Barclay was a Hufflepuff.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/dungeons-dragons-free-streaming-fast-channel-eone-launch-1235609856/

I could see myself running this channel 24 hours a day.

Of course, part of that is that my streaming service disconnects from my TV every time I turn it off so that I have to leave the TV running.

But the rest of it is that I totally will be watching this.

12 hours ago, DShomshak said:

"The Daily" explains what the 14th Amendment has to do with the debt limit impasse, the Constitutional crisis and financial upheaval that would happen if Biden invoked it, and how Congressional Republicans could retaliate even if the gambit worked.

 

The second-most-frightening thing said was that some Republicans say they want the government to default on its bills. The host and guest say they think that either these Republicans are just pretending to be crazy as a brinksmanship tactic, or they don't understand the consequences of a default. I am not so confident.

 

(Most frightening: That Republicans could retaliate by blocking appropriations bills, so as the defund the government. But nobody'd be that  crazy, right? I'm not confident about that, either.)

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/podcasts/the-daily/biden-debt-ceiling.html

 

Dean Shomshak

I’ve spoken with a heck of a lot of voters over the last 28 years who sincerely think that defaulting on the debt is responsible governing.

Admittedly most of them haven’t understood what the debt ceiling is and what it does...and don’t accept what I say when I explain it to them in detail. 

But even with ones who understand, they think it’s better to do a complete default then start over with zero debt than to either continue to accumulate debt or to slowly pay down the existing debt.

And they don't change their minds when I explain, in detail, exactly why that's a catastrophically horrible idea.

9 hours ago, Doc Democracy said:

In Combat, we can always sacrifice speed for raw movement. 🙂

 

Lol...I was thinking:

1" Flight then buy Megascale advantages until you spend 30 points.

Seems like the total raw distance moved would be...interesting.

Just now, Old Man said:

 

I dunno, they'll be lucky to score any points at all in week 9.

Hmm...looking at the matchup, I think that's a tough one to lose.

Now if it was the Cowboys rather than the Broncos...I could see the Cowboys blowing it and having a few season-ending injuries to boot.

Baavo Thunderstruck would host a cash-bar seven day long bacchanal and try to sell commemorative medallions of both the bacchanal and "The Day Social Media Died".

ATW would recreate everything from stolen backups. Probably would reveal all the source code from all the social media companies and trash a number of prominent corporations by revealing secret communications, since the opportunity has presented itself.

12 hours ago, death tribble said:

Mother's Day was two months ago

You forgot to take into account the international date line and relativistic effects....

2 hours ago, Pariah said:

The Donkeys' 2023-24 schedule is out.

 

 

A couple of quick thoughts:

• We start and end the season with the archrival Raiders. There is something to be said for symmetry, I suppose.
• We get the J-E-T-S at home in week 5. I can't wait to see how the Denver fans greet Nathaniel Hackett on his return to Mile High.
• We get Kansas City at Arrowhead on a short week, then again in Denver 17 days later. Yikes.
• We get exactly one Monday Night game, which, frankly, is one more than I was expecting. It's at Buffalo, but it's also after a bye week.
• We get three consecutive road games in December, all against warm-weather teams (well, the Lions play in a dome, so close enough).

Should be an interesting year. Can't possibly be as bad as last year ... can it?

I think the Broncos have a real chance in week 2 and week 9....

11 minutes ago, unclevlad said:

If there was to be a civics exam to be eligible to vote...what kind of requirement should be in place to be eligible to run for Congress?

US Civics exam.

Recent history of countries of the world focusing mainly on hot spots, major allies, and major potential enemies.

IQ test.

US geography focusing on how it affects politics (like which states which have large swathes owned by the federal government rather than owned privately, major watersheds and which states they run through, states which have fishing as a major industry and which fish, states with offshore oil drills, states with proposed offshore oil drills, states with offshore wind power, etc.) 

Basic general sciences test.

Personally I'd like those to exist as an absolute requirement for each candidate to take and with the scores made available to the public so candidates could be compared to each other. I wouldn't make getting a low score disqualify the person from holding the office, this is more for exposing the idiots and morons for what they are and letting the public see who is the better (non-idiot) choice.

And let the voters decide which of those tests are more important to them.

Personally I'd rather have a person of average intelligence who has bothered to educate themselves on civics, history, geography, and science than to have someone whose IQ shows them to be a genius but they haven't bothered to learn anything with their supposed genius. Because if they haven't bothered to learn when they're at least a couple of decades on in life, they're probably going to continue to not bother to learn if they get into office.

Lastly, a cognitive test like they do for dementia and mental problems (that might seem redundant but if you have a high IQ and have an interest in the specific areas covered by the other tests, you can pass those tests with flying colors despite having mental problems).

I would make failing the cognitive test disqualifying from continuing to run for office. Many people can function adequately with mild dementia and/or memory problems. But they can't function at a consistent level with those problems. And working well with other people (peers or subordinates) who don't have such problems can be a real chore for those other people.

Can't remember what you're told, when you were told it, who told it to you, and whether or not what you were told was supposed to be confidential or not? Sorry, you have no business being in office. if testing shows there's someone in the race without those problems.

On 5/10/2023 at 5:12 PM, Cygnia said:

Who was stupid enough to actually leave a paper trail and get caught.

And he might have gotten away with it if not for all those years when he was a body double for Che Guevera...at least that's what his Twitter claims.

On 5/9/2023 at 2:54 PM, BoloOfEarth said:

So, does this put Trump on the list of sex offenders for New York?

https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/nsor/faq.htm

2. Who must register as a sex offender?

On 5/10/2023 at 7:06 AM, Cygnia said:

I wanna say that QE2 gave her permission/consent for Camilla to have the title of "Queen Consort"...

I didn't know cruise ships were allowed to do that.