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Well, take that for what you will. There's been constant rumors since before the DC "Future" series were announced.

I've been fighting a non-stop battle since the election to unsubscribe from candidate and political party emails. It used to be a simple matter of hitting a button. Now it most often is hitting a button every day for a month, then reporting the email as a phishing attempt daily for 6-7 months, before they finally stop. Then starts up again some weeks later.

Sometimes less is more. For example: "My wife works at one of the top companies in the world." vs "My wife works at one of the topless companies in the world."

I don't have a problem, at all, with Jon Kent being gay. Completely different situation that Tim Drake. I've got a problem with DC killing off Clark Kent just to make way for Jon, but that's another matter....

As I've mentioned previously, my wife was under doctor's orders to stay at home indoors for months before the pandemic started. She had to check with her primary care physician and two specialists before she got the okay to get vaccinated. But she went through that effort. The doctors at the hospitals will have gotten the patient's medical history and have the information about them that'd give them an indication if there was a medical reason for the patient to not get vaccinated. (And if they don't have a medical history on a particular patient, they won't have the vaccination status information anyway for that to make a difference.)

In general I dislike the "new" because I want to be introduced to the involved backstory of the world the GM has created. If all the history is bland because all the interesting stuff just started happening now...that's really not where my headspace is when I'm sitting down at a table to play fantasy.

I thought that was sad and lazy storytelling. The pirates could almost have been doable since if he convinced Yondu, the rest would follow the captain as long as they got paid on a regular basis. But Thanos? > gag <

What about the girls?

MLB ends its 70 year long arrangement with Topps to make baseball cards. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/mlb-will-end-long-time-deal-with-trading-card-company-topps.html The existing contract runs through 2025.

Hospitals in North Texas have "quietly developed" a plan to allow doctors to take vaccination status into account when deciding how to triage intensive-care beds if the coronavirus pandemic overwhelms ICUs. https://www.rawstory.com/texas-hospitals/ So basically the plan is that in North Texas if two patients need an ICU bed and only one bed is available (like is happening in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and perhaps elsewhere), the person who got vaccinated will get the bed. I have to say that sounds 100% fair to me: the more responsible person gets the bed and the irresponsible person doesn't.

Under TX law it isn't misdemeanor assault. It's automatically a felony assault because it was done to a public employee while that person was working. If the DA wanted to be really nasty about it, he could try for felony assault with a deadly weapon since the object of the assault was to infect the teacher with a deadly disease. That's tactic has been used successfully in rape cases where the attacker has AIDS so an aggressive prosecutor could try for it here.Of course it being TX, I'd assume the DA will throw a ticker tape parade for the person who committed the assault rather than prosecuting but that's another matter.The teacher and the teacher's union could also sue the attacker in a civil case.

Naked and Afraid...of Love

But I have a rules question about Spider-Man teaching the Beyonder how to go to the bathroom....

Geez, I checked six hours ago and the episode wasn't up yet. They're intentionally scheduling things so that I never get any sleep!

Ask him for behind the scenes details about Daredevil. If he comes up with them, surely he's Ben Affleck.

Collin County is just north of Dallas. That was last night with Gov Greg Abbott attending a crowded event for Republican leaders. Today Abbott tested positive for COVID. The governor's office is claiming that they're doing contact tracing.

Do we have to move this discussion to the political forum before I start making commentary about justice?

I thought for a moment the "wonder how long it will take to show up on Ebay" was talking about those EV charging stations which had originally been placed along those lonely stretches of road in Western Australia.

Yeah, I'll admit that pee wee football was a long time ago for and that many kids today are a lot bigger than we were. But I don't recall anyone ever getting hit with huge amounts of force. Sure it was on occasion enough to take you off your feet but it was because the person getting hit didn't weigh very much either. Of course we had a gap years between pee wee which had a 6th grade maximum cut off and junior high football where you basically couldn't be a starter until 9th grade.

Obviously /s

She is saying that she can't discuss it in the insane amount of detail you're demanding without taking the discussion to the political forum. (My choice of the word "insane" was not a choice which was made lightly.)

Eh, if you don't have the right leverage, the strength doesn't mean as much. Most anyone can learn a technique to snap cheap zip ties if they're restrained with their hands in front and people who have a decent amount of strength can do it. Zip tied behind your back is much tougher.

I mentioned the No One Left Behind organization earlier. Among other things, they help interpreters make their way through the special visa application. Their website directed me to an official General Accountability Office graphic showing how the process is intended to work when working at maximum efficiency (not that it operates at maximum efficiency, but what the government thinks of as optimal speed for getting these people out of Afghanistan like we promised).

Can my team(s) trade for a few players from the Falcons?

MSNBC's Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace was absolutely brutal on the analysis of Biden's Afghanistan speech this afternoon. MSNBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel called Biden's assurances that we were going to evacuate Afghans who'd worked for us "a fantasy". Then he went one to tell about one translator he talked to this week who'd been waiting four years for the State Department to verify that he'd actually worked for the US military. Engel then pointed out that the translators were entered into a biometric database used by the military so positively identifying that he'd worked for the military was as simple as putting his thumb on a scanner and looking at his picture. Engel said that it took his staff, which didn't have access to the biometric database, 45 minutes to verify the guy's identity and that he'd worked for the US military as a translator. The Matt Zeller, the leader of a non-profit No One Left Behind https://nooneleft.org/default.aspx?, who came after Engel was even more brutal as he detailed how the government ignored the database his NGO compiled of the identity and current location of 14,000 former military translators as he tried over and over for months to find anyone in government who would take the information from him. 48 hours ago, they contacted him and asked him for the information. The analysis of the president's speech was beyond brutal and I'm not doing a good job of relating how brutal it was. And honestly, if a Democrat president loses the support of MSNBC staff and the liberal-leaning guests they invite to their shows, that's a sign of how badly the president has screwed the pooch on this one.