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From what I've read, local law enforcement officers are often reluctant to try to enforce a federal law.

I'll admit I haven't read anything about that case. But I did have a friend from elementary school who, years later, robbed a bank in a rural community. You'd be very fortunate to be able to make the trip from the police station to the bank in as little as 25 minutes. And the single paved road connecting the two locations had a large number of, unbanked, 90 degree turns so it was impossible to just "go faster" to get there more quickly. And 25 minutes response time was for a danged bank robbery. So I could swallow the sheriff's excuse of "big area and no one close" in some places, unless someone showed otherwise. On the other hand, I'm sure the police could have found a valid excuse to arrest or detain the guy before that incident if they'd really wanted to.

In paintings and drawings of peasants carrying scythes to war, they're depicted carrying them vertically rather than horizontally. So I've always assumed that, at the beginning of the battle at least, that they brought the blade down toward the opponent's head rather than trying to sweep the legs.

I was thinking a crane for recovery as well. But the ornithopter would be a mostly ship=to=land vehicle since you'd need very calm seas to both land the ornithopter and to recover it. That's somewhat similar to the role of the first aircraft launched from ships. For launching, I was thinking from a raiseable platform on the aft mast. Ropes and pulley to get the aircraft to the top of the mast. Furl the ship's sails so you don't have the slow aircraft working against the momentum of the ship.

Playing D&D 5e My halfling character had been lost for decades in the astral planes with a handful of cantrips and no companionship. So he kept his clothing together with Mending spells and kept himself clean, and otherwise amused himself, with Prestidigitation. And he built up decades' worth of unrealized comedic potential which spews forth in a somewhat uncontrollable fashion. After coming back to the prime material plane, he teamed up with several others for adventures including a female Firblog druid (who is being played a first time rpg player). As something of an OCD habit, he uses Prestidigitation to clean himself and his companions anytime the story indicates they might have gotten dirty. Our travels brought us to an abandoned temple where we encountered some rather large spiders (of course everything is rather large from my perspective but that's neither here nor there). After killing a number of spiders, we located an intact egg sac and determined we'd likely have time to get it back to town and sell it before the spiders hatch. But the egg sac was up high on a wall and the firblog was the only one tall enough to reach it...but she refused because she's scared of spiders and touching the egg sac is icky. But through a lot of cajoling, we convinced her to take down the egg sac and drop it in my backpack. As soon as it was done, the player turned to me with a horrified look on her face and pleaded, "Prestidigitate my hands! Prestidigitate my hands!" Without missing a beat, I cast Prestidigitation and told her that her hands are now purple (the spell is highly versatile and besides cleaning things can make change colors). The player gets this even more horrified look on her face as she realizes that not only are her hands now purple but her hands are still dirty from touching the egg sac. "Clean my hands! Clean my hands!" "Oh, okay, I can do that," in an innocent tone of voice and I clean her hands. "My. Hands. Are. Purple!", very unclear whether this is in character or not. "Well, you know, the color only lasts for an hour. Here, let me," and I cast Prestidigitation again. "Now your hands smell like apples." "I don't want my hands to smell like apples!"

The scythe we had when I was a kid was made probably sometime in the 1920's (like many of the older things we had lying around) and was massively made. Also, I'm about 5'7" now (and maybe a bit shorter back then) and it's very likely the thing was made for a somewhat larger person. So my perception of how well-balanced it was and how much strength it'd take to use it all day might be affected by that.

You've never sat in the Wal-Mart parking lot across the street from the Cowboys' stadium on game day for six hours waiting for your daughter to get off work because they start blocking traffic into the area around the stadium once the game starts. (And that's after close to an hour in traffic getting to the store parking lot.) No, it doesn't go without saying. I don't know how people who live in that residential area (which starts a block away from the stadium) deal with it.

OMG, I hope the Cowboys never win....

No. No, it's not. Jaguars left tackle Cam Robinson is facing a multigame suspension for violating the NFL's performance-enhancing drug policy. sources told ESPN today, and he had the sixth-worst pass block win rate for an offensive tackle last year. Right tackle Jawaan Taylor left in free agency. Harrison is versatile enough to step into the left tackle spot until Robinson returns to the lineup and then push Walker Little for the starting right tackle job. -- Muench

Crossing my fingers for Myles Murphy for you.

OMG, I just realized he's going to drop down to the Cowboys. And start dipping his nachos in his coffee....

I don't care if he eats bananas in his coffee just as long as he doesn't do things to land himself in jail Yet

Washington - facepalm Pats - TANJ Detroit - double facepalm Seattle - already won the first round so they could take anything at this point and still get a good grade. WR or QB?

Maybe Will Levis to Washington? I mean, they need everything but QB's seem to be in short supply....

Ooooo....Packers could get a good CB. But they won't

Historically, peasants were compelled to be in mostly unorganized militias to fight for whichever lord's land the peasant happened to live upon. And the peasants used whichever farm implements they had as weapons: scythe, pitchfork, etc. I don't know who here has actually swung a scythe but it's significantly heavier than a spear. And peasants routinely swung a scythe from sun-up to sundown when harvesting their grain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe So my personal feeling is that STR minimums are fairly wrong in FH, that the STR stat is unrealistically low for normal people, or that peasants weren't normal people.

I can imagine a couple of T-Rex's wearing sunglasses and sitting around smoking pot. One of them looks at the other and says, "Coo, man. Coo."

I know what you mean. I started, as a joke, typing, "At least Tucker Carlson would be a better president than...." I not only couldn't find a way to finish the sentence but I got nauseated and the room started spinning a little. Counterclockwise.

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I thought "Years of Hell" should have been the Voyager story from beginning to end. They're at the other end of the galaxy with no allies, no maintenance facilities, and most of the crew dead. So there should have been a visual progression of the ship breaking down. Maybe at first just random crewmen tripping over frayed carpet and maintenance panels being left off the walls or no longer fitting right. A lot more "does anyone on the ship know how to ______?" Then a progression to cables being strung across the corridor, ceiling panels missing, weird and clearly alien technology being plugged into random places in the ship to replace broken Federation tech, etc. More of having to detour looking for supplies needed to keep going. More moral choices about what they needed to do in order to get whatever they needed. Honestly, that was what I was expecting from the premise of the show as presented in the first episode. I was disappointed and consider the while thing to be a bait-and-switch (especially as we started to get bipolar Janeway behavior as a replacement for well-written stories).

RT had a tweet out offering him a job about an hour after the announcement of his firing. But Carlson has been seriously discussed in the mix of possible 2024 GOP presidential candidates. So I'd expect him to go in that direction and just continue to collect checks from the Russian government under the table.... /s

I've heard that in this version that Han doesn't shoot first.

OMG, Martha Wayne didn't die in Crime Alley all those years ago!

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Infinity stone shorts sound uncomfortable to wear.