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Yeah, Trump has transitioned from pretending to be a president to grifting people who think he should still be president and pocketing the money (as seen in many ways but especially from the fact that his raising money for further audits hasn't been spent in any manner toward promoting new audits despite the "fact" that the audits were supposed to put him back into power this month).
 
As long as he's rabble-rousing and grifting, nobody's going to care about the inside story except the few who follow politics as avidly as others follow baseball.
 
Now if Trump transitions from pure grifting to actually putting together a campaign structure for 2024, the material from the tell-all books will become more relevant since it'll be dragged out for examination on news show panels, debates, commercials, etc.
 
And particularly the "Trump wanted to use the military against protestors" thing was spoiled almost in real time from leaks inside the administration. The only thing we didn't have was all the identities of everyone who was in the room at specific meetings and the exact verbiage of what was supposedly said.

Stuff goes in such cycles in American politics.
 
We had HUAC and McCarthy running roughshod over civil liberties for years before McCarthy overreached and people started realizing he was in it more for himself than to fight a communist menace.
 
I think we're in better shape now than we were on January 5th or January 7th. Or yesterday.
 
If Trump goes through all his legal and financial problems unscathed and puts out the money/effort necessary to run a political campaign for the Republican nomination, I'll be more worried.
 
We're not quite in the same boat as Argentina was with Peron and the Peronistas.

Yeah, Trump has transitioned from pretending to be a president to grifting people who think he should still be president and pocketing the money (as seen in many ways but especially from the fact that his raising money for further audits hasn't been spent in any manner toward promoting new audits despite the "fact" that the audits were supposed to put him back into power this month).
 
As long as he's rabble-rousing and grifting, nobody's going to care about the inside story except the few who follow politics as avidly as others follow baseball.
 
Now if Trump transitions from pure grifting to actually putting together a campaign structure for 2024, the material from the tell-all books will become more relevant since it'll be dragged out for examination on news show panels, debates, commercials, etc.
 
And particularly the "Trump wanted to use the military against protestors" thing was spoiled almost in real time from leaks inside the administration. The only thing we didn't have was all the identities of everyone who was in the room at specific meetings and the exact verbiage of what was supposedly said.

Time out.
 
Disney is still the company that tried to dodge paying royalties on Star Wars properties by asserting that they bought the rights but not the liabilities, and thus the original royalty agreements were null.  They settled with Foster eventually, because I think their legal arguments were on par with Giuliani's.  They were trying to overturn very basic aspects of contract law that are simply complete non-starters.
 
Whether this would be characteristic for Disney as it existed 20 years ago, I don't know...but it is absolutely characteristic of their style now.  Whether this constitutes a breach of contract or simply is taking advantage of a loophole in it...that remains to be seen.  The Variety article closes with the observation that contracts moving forward will have to include language pertaining to streaming, not simply box office.  But for now, what this feels like is something you sometimes see in sports contracts.  A player might have incentive clauses for reaching certain milestones...the team, especially when they're out of the playoffs, might deliberately sit him so he misses them.  In baseball...a classic example was Kris Bryant with the Cubs.  He was called up to the major league roster 1 day AFTER the cutoff for gaining a full year of service time.  A player can become a free agent after 6 years...but if he's a day short of it at the end of year N, after year N+5 he's a day short of 6 years.  And thus, can't become a free agent in that offseason.  And you don't become a free agent during the season, so they effectively get a 7th year.  (Player control is a huge issue right now;  the trade deadline was this afternoon.  It's even called "rental players.")
 
So what I'm questioning is whether Disney is actually breaching...or simply taking advantage.  That said, the whole "it's call Covid's fault" is soooooo much BS that I hope they lose.
 

It's still a breach of contract. They could have renegotiated with her in light of the situation.

They also have the option of bringing a character from somewhere else in the multiverse. Of course it'd have to be used sparingly but the option is still there.
 
Personally, I'd like to see them give that treatment to Hawkeye and bring in a Hawkeye from elsewhere who looks and behaves like the Hawkeye from the comics. He was a fan favorite for a couple of decades and fans screamed whenever he was removed from the Avengers lineup. 
 
And Marvel made a huge deal of it whenever he came back. 
 
He was vocal. He complained, tried to grab leadership, was the best and knew it, never seemed like he acknowledged he was overmatched "just" because he had a bow and arrows, he had an eye for the ladies but wasn't obnoxious about it.
 
There was a scene in Age of Ultron where Hawkeye was trying to buck up Wanda and is telling her something like "I just have a bow and arrows against an army of robots: none of this makes any sense".
 
The comic book Hawkeye would have been telling her that He was the guy with a bow and arrows who was going to take down an army of robots then ask her "Are you with me?"
 
And be projecting the kind of confidence that would make you think that he might actually be right. Or might just be over-confident enough to be off his rocker but either way, you'd want to be with him.
 
Nobody who's a fan of the MCU is clamoring for a Hawkeye movie because the MCU version of Hawkeye sucked on several different levels. 
 
I don't mind if Kate takes over someday. But I don't want her taking over due to "the MCU version of Hawkeye sucked but we paid a big name actor to be in the role so we're going to replace him".
 
Let's get a glorious Hawkeye who is recognizably Hawkeye (complete with a purple Hawkeye costume), celebrate him for a few years, then send him off to a well-deserved semi-retirement with the occasional cameo.
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"Why doesn't your quiver run out of arrows?"
"Tony and Hank came up with some gizmo. I can stick a huge number of arrows in there but you only see the few that are on top."

Stuff goes in such cycles in American politics.
 
We had HUAC and McCarthy running roughshod over civil liberties for years before McCarthy overreached and people started realizing he was in it more for himself than to fight a communist menace.
 
I think we're in better shape now than we were on January 5th or January 7th. Or yesterday.
 
If Trump goes through all his legal and financial problems unscathed and puts out the money/effort necessary to run a political campaign for the Republican nomination, I'll be more worried.
 
We're not quite in the same boat as Argentina was with Peron and the Peronistas.

Stuff goes in such cycles in American politics.
 
We had HUAC and McCarthy running roughshod over civil liberties for years before McCarthy overreached and people started realizing he was in it more for himself than to fight a communist menace.
 
I think we're in better shape now than we were on January 5th or January 7th. Or yesterday.
 
If Trump goes through all his legal and financial problems unscathed and puts out the money/effort necessary to run a political campaign for the Republican nomination, I'll be more worried.
 
We're not quite in the same boat as Argentina was with Peron and the Peronistas.

Egotism and petty jealousies, chauvinism, borderline sexual harassment on set. I never heard anything about his political beliefs until they became prominent in recent years, though that revelation caused zero surprise.

If you bought the Sticky advantage for (+1/2), if you ever vaccinated one, they'd spread it to the rest.

It would explain so much!

There's generic prescription medications that are dirt cheap. If this is going to be a continuing problem, get your doctor to prescribe you something. 
 
If you have a decent pharmaceutical benefit on your insurance or use one of those prescription discount cards, you're probably going to end up much cheaper in the long run with a prescription rather than OTC.

The good news: I found a Tylenol formulation that also includes 65 mg of caffeine. Should do the trick.
 
The bad news: Nobody around here carries it. I had to order it from Amazon. And it was way too expensive.
 
The good news: It should be here tomorrow.

Watch how she lands after a vault. Something is up. There have been cases where the invincible suddenly become vulnerable. One of Twae Kwan Do  athletes got caught the same way and lost in Tokyo.

If I am building a character for a Fantasy game, and the magic system imposes a strong probably of failure if my mage tries to do as much damage as my fighter or archer build could do without risk of failure (other than hit probability), then I am NOT building a mage. Done deal. Yes, there are loads of utility spells one could have a mage around for, but I am not interested in playing the jack-knife support character. I want to be able to shine when push comes to shove.
 
Now it may well be thematically appropriate for your campaign setting that magic is NOT particularly useful in a combat situation. Gandalf did use a sword. But it is germane only to a rather small subset of fantasy RPG settings I think. The VAST majority of people playing such games (usually using other systems) have mages either at the top of the damage dealing spectrum, or on par with other character archetypes.

I had a couple of supervillain individuals who essentially made enough money to get a Wealth perk then retired their costumed identities and reemerged as part-time heroes.
 
Honestly on Marvel Earth, you can't throw a coffee mug without hitting some hero who's a multimillionaire. And since most of their villains seem to be motivated by money, I've often thought the best way to handle their supervillain problem would be to hire them as heroes. Not as a prank or a long-term scheme of some sort. Just a simple exchange of money for "go punch that bad guy when we tell you to".
 
 
 
I also had one character who was essentially a Daxamite/Kryptonian hero. He got tired of being the focus of world-beating supervillains and nearly losing his life. So he announced he was leaving the planet to fight an alien invasion elsewhere (touchy natives, very hush hush location...and OOC it also helped move the PC's to a more prominent position).
 
He disappeared himself, obliterated his costume, and moved to a different large city on Earth.
 
He didn't have anything against being a hero. He just didn't realize the enormity of it all until buildings started hitting him in the face. We've sort of gotten used to the Superman or DC Captain Marvel characters who with greater power comes an ever-increasing sense of responsibility. But I don't think that's very realistic. Power is fine. Heroing is fine. But there's a lot of potential heroes who I think wouldn't go all in just because of an awesome power set and I wanted to show something like that.
 
So he reinvented himself as a street level crimefighter with some gadgets. 
 
He wins because he's just fast enough and just strong enough and his armored costume of course is amazingly tough.
 
The gadgets and armored costume are real enough but just for show so really tough bad guys figure out who he is and don't start showing up pounding him again.
 
A couple of times he's come out of retirement in his original costumed identity explaining that he was escorting a fleet of refugees in the general area and though he'd check in (or some other excuse for being here but needing to leave again). And what do you know, his return just in the nick of time....

After a lot of COVID delays, trials, and tribulations (including a "one day install" which lasted 7 days), my solar system has been installed and has been up and running for a partial month. 
 
Our electric bill was a negative $42 and some odd cents. And that billing period included a week when the system was supposed to be installed and running but wasn't.
 
If the system had been up and running for the whole month, I'd estimate that our electric bill would have been well in excess of a negative $100. That's roughly what we'd been led to believe that it would be...but that was one of those claims which my wife swallowed without skepticism but which I was unable to.

Olympic Observations
 
The Irish team would have a better chance at winning long distance running events if they'd quit stopping at every pub along the way.

1) When I think of magic in general, I think of creating small and useful things. Sort of like a sleight of hand but real:
bottle of water or liquor
food
small flame
a coil of rope
shirt
pants
hat
coin
bandages
knife
bird
cat
telescope
 
2) Disappearing similar small objects
 
3) Small effects on the magic user's person:
slightly better running/swimming/STR/DEX/CON/etc.
more charming to animals/people
momentary levitation
cleaning or dirtying his clothes
mending his clothes or gear
aura of fear/menace/power which deters or impresses others
 
4) A magic skill for one time powers like you see for some D&D cantrips like Thaumaturgy, Prestidigitation, or Druidcraft.
Your voice booms up to three times as loud as normal
You cause flames to flicker, brighten, dim, or change color
You cause harmless tremors in the ground
You create an Instantaneous sound that originates from a point of your choice within range, such as a rumble of thunder, the cry of a raven, or ominous whispers.
You instantaneously cause an unlocked door or window to fly open or slam shut.
You alter the Appearance of your eyes
You create an Instantaneous, harmless sensory Effect, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor.
You instantaneously light or snuff out a Candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material
You make a color, a small mark, or a Symbol appear on an object or a surface
Your moving finger leaves an afterimage so that you can draw very temporary writing or pictures in the air.
 

Wow, you plan on giving your stuff to my daughter as well? That's extremely generous of you!
 
 

Without knowing more about your magic system it would be hard to say more, but at the minimum some way to detect magic.
 

I usually only buy a burger when I'm paying, out with my family, and everyone else has ordered something horrendously expensive.  
 
I prefer a 1/3rd pound burger, red onion, tomato & lettuce on the side until the burger has cooled a bit, and a lot of pickles on the side. Mustard and mayo. But I usually get whatever their basic burger is.
 
I also like grilled onions but most places don't go through the effort of making those.
 
 
For a dedicated burger joint, my wife introduced me to the joys of Chapps. And I do mean the joys.
 
Their basic burgers are 1/2 pound with grilled onions and grilled bun.
 
http://chappsburgers.com/

I'd like to share this, if I may. I will cite it as "Dr. C" for the sake of anonymity.

In a hundred years, I think that people will remember the conservatives who deny the existence of the virus and oppose taking the reasonable steps against it, in the same way as the high commands of the armies in World War 1 are remembered now: Robert Nivelle, Douglas Haig, Erich Falkenhayn, Grand Duke Nicholas, etc., as heavy-handed, incompetent, status-conscious obstinate butchers incapable of adapting to a new environment, and seeing only their own status as important, and spending the lives of millions of their countrymen as valueless tickets, and indeed putting the survival of their countries beneath their own pride of command.

I used to love grapefruit. I can't eat it any more because it interferes with one of my meds. 🙁