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I had an accounting teacher lo these many decades ago who told me one thing that's stuck with me. He said that if you were the "numbers guy" that you needed to be able to do addition/subtraction in your head plus at least simple multiplication. It'd bewilder all the people who can't do such things and build your credibility in the workplace while dragging out a calculator makes others think "Why are we asking THIS guy? I could pull out a calculator and do it myself." And if you weren't the "numbers guy" you still needed to be able to do addition/subtraction in your head because building your rep as a smart person is a really good thing and makes others more prone to listening to you.

My father-in-law made his living selling Fuller Brush door to door for over 50 years. It was fairly easy in Kansas because he lived in a rural area and it was a real chore for most people to drive to a store. Door to door is quite a bit different when people are happy to see you show up. He became the model for "Delbert, The Fuller Brush Man" for hobbyists who build model towns with quarter inch tall residents. (Personally, I'd rather do Civil War or Napoleonic battles if I were into models but who am I to criticize other people's hobbies?)

You might also have Pestilence priests who actively spread diseases like a priestly Typhoid Mary. How that would work would really depend on the nature of the deity. If it is empowered by sick people, it could be as simple as low level priests having diseases and actively spreading disease as part of initiation and/or their duties to the organization. But if it's empowered by people praying to get rid of the disease and by giving offerings to the God of Pestilence, it might have a completely different power set.

Needs more cat ears.

I thought the Doc Ock arms looked terrible in SM2 (showing exposed mechanisms just makes me constantly wonder how the mechanisms can keep working just in everyday use and why the hero doesn't just foul them). I realize that they had limitations with CGI and also didn't want to make technology look so advanced that it looked out of place in "modern day NYC". But I'd hoped that if they reintroduced the character at some point that it'd be with a different actor and with different mechanical arms.

Don't hold out on us. Spill.

How about going just to something much more simple: her Team New Batwoman includes a freaking doctor as her roommate but for some unexplained reason she doesn't tell the roommate that she needs to be stitched up or that the unstitched wound later has obviously become infected. I thought Kate Kane was a twit but New Batwoman is sinking to some new lows (even if you set aside the bullet wound issues). And I thought the worst thing about the first season was Alice as a recurring character. But that's the one thing they thought was overwhelmingly important to carry over even though the character now no longer has an inherent interest in Batwoman. My wife is refusing to watch the show anymore because of the off-screen drama about Kate Kane's actress being dropped from the show because she refused to define herself in her personal life as being "a lesbian" and prefers to use another term for her love life, which happens to include being sexually attracted to women (I think it was "pan" but honestly I don't follow actor/actress drama. But apparently fan reaction was overwhelmingly negative to the point that the show apparently didn't want her and she didn't want the show enough to publicly fight to keep it.)

If you give the appearance of having completely given up on the season before the end of April, what negative effect does that have on ticket and merchandise sales beyond the effect of fielding a losing team? A 1% drop? A 50% drop? 75%? And what percentage of those become disgusted enough with the franchise to give up on it completely?

Shots were fired, probably by the older kid who could be tried as an adult but that's a guess. It could well have been the younger kid wo fired the gun. Police respond. Younger kid takes off while holding the gun, doesn't comply with the cops' initial commands to stop. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/us/adam-toledo-chicago-police-shooting.html In the early-morning hours of March 29, two officers had been responding to reports of gunfire when they saw two people in an alley and started to chase them, officials said. Prosecutors have said that Adam was holding a gun when he ran down the alley as an officer called for him to stop and drop the weapon. In the moment before the shooting, Adam can be seen holding what appears to be a gun behind his back, which he drops behind a wooden fence just before he raises his hands, according to an analysis of the police videos by The New York Times.

You're forgiven.

I detested group projects in college because of slackers who deliberately contributed nothing. But in one project, we also had a computer programming major who literally couldn't write a complete sentence in English, his native language, when the project was supposed to be written in separate parts by each person (but of course graded for quality as a group). The computer major ended up quitting even coming to our skull sessions. And I had to do all the research for his part of the project, write it, plus develop a distinctive writing style so the teacher wouldn't recognize that someone else in the group did his work for him. Hell yes, put the slackers in their own groups. And if you need to round up one of their groups, add in the least competent person who can't actually do the classwork so some other group isn't punished by having that person on their team.

Aid would be used by all of them to boost whatever skills are appropriate. Or perhaps Transform to give the person a skill he didn't already possess. For example some skills which would be useful to a devoutee of the God of Commerce: Bribery Bureaucratics Charm Concealment (for smuggling) Conversation KS or PS for various commercial enterprises Languages Trading TF for commercial transport of choice It could take the form of anything from a short-term blessing right before entering a negotiation to bestowing a Language on someone who is going to be taking a trip to distant lands. edit: Smuggling might not even be a sin to a follower of the God of Commerce. It could be that their point of view is that government is being evil/sinful in restricting commerce to the point that smuggling becomes necessary.

I've found the key is to go back to sleep afterward.

Heck, men used to wear a suit and hat to baseball games. When my grandfather passed, I'd wanted his collection of hats. But I didn't speak up loudly enough for it to stick in anyone's minds so they were all trashed along with most of his belongings. My grandmother couldn't deal with his loss so she told my brother and a cousin to get rid of all of it. And I'd talked to neither one of them about it and they either didn't ask anyone or my dad remembered and couldn't be bothered to open his mouth and utter the words (which would be typical of my dad). They also trashed my homemade crossbow because it was still in my grandfather's tool shed from the time I'd briefly lived with them in college and they assumed it was his. I also wanted my grandfather's violin and knew it was going to be given to my dad since he was the oldest and it'd been discussed. And I'd mentioned to my dad several times that I was looking forward to having it someday. Mostly because of the memories but also my youngest kid had learned to play. Then after my grandfather's death, my dad out of the blue decided to give the violin to his brother because he's a musician (who doesn't play the violin). My grandfather had purchased the violin 2nd or 3rd or 4th or more-hand back in the late 1920's or early 30's so it was already very old when he first laid his hands on it. He owned it for more than seventy years. I love my uncle to death but no one from the family even gets invited to step foot in his house, much less gets access to anything to even look at or take a picture of.

Ah, that explains the confusion in our previous conversation last night. MSNBC was saying in their early prime time coverage yesterday that they'd already settled on charging her with second-degree manslaughter. I wasn't aware that wasn't common knowledge and so didn't understand why you kept bringing up "intent" when that'd already been completely eliminated as being a factor in the prosecution's case.

32FC (W32) - I couldn't find a 32FC but a FC-32 is a delay timer which I think you could use to construct a bomb. Don't know whether that's what they're referencing or not but.... Monarchs/Royals - not appropriate for the capital's team. Aviators/Pilots/Armada/Brigade - Identifying too closely with one branch of the military not appropriate for the capital's team. Anchors/Defenders/Rising/Aces/Swifts/Commanders/Rubies- too many obvious bad jokes about the team name when the team is doing poorly. Archers - not sure I'd want the team associated with my name. Hard pass, and not the forward kind. Ambassadors/Beacons/Icons - Football players are known for not being these things. No need to add a burdensome team name to every incident. Presidents are not known for being presidential. No need to add a burdensome team name to every incident. Renegades - After the first player incident, people would realize the name is a disaster. Belters - Synonym for hitting someone or for downing a drink quickly. Given that the team members aren't going to always be model citizens and football players have been known to beat up their spouses and to get into drunken bar brawls, that's a no on the name. Even though otherwise I think it'd be a very cool name (due to denizens of the asteroid belt usually being called Belters). Warriors - My daughters' high school got in trouble because "Warriors" was cultural appropriation of Native Americans. So I don't see this name as a strict upgrade from "Redskins". If they have this name, there'll be fans showing up to games with all of the Redskins/Indian stuff and the whole round of complaints will start up again. Riders- How long before fans start showing up with cavalry stuff and people start complaining that it's just another angle on harassment of Native Americans: would it be the first game or take as long as the second game? Guardians/Majors - That's just incredibly bland. First City Football Club (FCFC)/Washington DC Football Club (DCFC)/Washington Capital City Football Club (CCFC)/Football Team - Speaking of incredibly bland. Redtails/Redwolves/Red Hogs - I think having "red" in the name is problematic if the fans decide to hold a grudge over the forced name change. Demon Cats - Nothing wrong with this other than that I have a personal distaste for it. Griffins are usually shown "rampant" which makes me giggle because I sometimes have a juvenile sense of humor. Razorbacks - The University of Arkansas has done all the cool-looking variants of this logo over the decades. And there's only so much you can do with a pig without making it look stupid and just changing the color to a more natural brown or black isn't going to avoid trademark infringement if the team logo is remotely close to anything UoA has marketed in the past. Wild Hogs - Doesn't speak to me but probably would appeal to disgruntled traditional Redskin fans. I like Wayfarers. The name is fairly unique and the potential logo artists have a lot of directions they could go with the name. And the same for memorabilia sales.

Though the name is no longer in use, I'm sure it's still under trademark by the original owners of the name.

I would have let every person in Hong Kong emigrate directly to my basement if that's what it took to keep them from being unwillingly stuck there. How can you have a freaking British passport, be a British citizen, and be denied the right to move to other parts of Great Britain? And not be allowed to emigrate in huge numbers to other NATO countries, Commonwealth countries, and other allies? These days, starting less than 20 years later, we've had literally millions of people relocate themselves from Syria and central Africa and the EU countries (and others) are like, "Okay, come in I guess." < /rant >

Marty McFly wore an iron breastplate in Back to the Future 3, didn't he?

That's an easy fix because neither the talons nor the bite are anywhere near the 45 active point limit of the multipower. Just up the active points on each. Or better, just define the attack as a hand-to-hand killing attack without bothering to define the source (talons, teeth, and other assorted monster parts) and get rid of the cost of having two HKA slots in the multipower.

I don't use Google search directly because I think it's important to have competition to the monster. I used to use StartPage but my current browser won't let me use that as a default option. So instead I get to see the duck.

Maybe a brother from another mother, if his mother was in Germany in the 1950's.

As I pointed out earlier, Minnesota has two different manslaughter laws on the books: one is manslaughter with intent, the other is manslaughter without intent (which is the crime she's being charged with).

I'm just celebrating that neither the Rangers nor the Rockies have twenty losses yet.

Manslaughter in the first degree is out. The prosecution would have to prove intent or that she drew her weapon and discharged it while attempting to commit some other crime. That didn't happen https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.20 Manslaughter in the Second degree: "A person who causes the death of another by...the person's culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another" https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.205 That sounds right. Looking into it, an explanation of that crime from the University of Minnesota: "Reckless involuntary manslaughter is a killing supported by the criminal intent element of recklessness. Recklessness means that the defendant is aware of a risk of death but acts anyway. Negligent involuntary manslaughter is a killing supported by the criminal intent element of negligence. Negligence means that the defendant should be aware of a risk of death, but is not. This category includes many careless or accidental deaths, such as death caused by firearms...." In this case, the defendant knows that she's carrying a deadly weapon, knows that discharging into someone can kill them, drew her weapon on purpose, but the wrong weapon accidentally, and discharged it into the victim deliberately without checking to make sure she had the correct weapon in hand. That's textbook 2nd degree manslaughter in Minnesota. https://open.lib.umn.edu/criminallaw/chapter/9-6-manslaughter/ She didn't deliberately screw up her life and career or deliberately kill the guy. She just killed the guy. That'll all be brought up, mainly because the defense team has nothing else. But all of that is only a defense in the court of public opinion. It isn't a legal defense that's going to absolve her of the crime. It might help with sentencing which can be up to 10 years in jail plus a fine of somewhere between zero and $20,000 (that fine doesn't count toward the civil case the family will file). But aside from that, you're right. The threat focus and adrenal response are formidable things, regardless of your nature and, I suspect, are still formidable things regardless of training. I haven't experienced them in police work but I have experienced them. Yeah, I haven't heard much about the nature of the call that started the incident and I'd be interested to see the hours of body cam footage leading up to the incident. I don't think it'll help her in the trial but it might help us understand. And it could have been something that happened to her outside of work that day. A work incident days ago. Or she may have been attacked recently. Or seen a friend killed recently. Or have been almost run over recently. My wife in watching the video says it's clear to her that the suspect was trying to drive off and that the officer had only seconds to act. I've only watched the video once but that wasn't my impression at all. It looked like to me that the officers had control of the situation and that she had plenty of time to have leisurely drawn her taser, looked at it, sighted the suspect, etc. before firing.