Oh good, they’re doing early planning for defeat. FFS

The wikipedia article cites several attributions over the years, including Richelieu who seems to be the earliest.

Might I also suggest at least a 3 month supply of dehydrated/canned/nonperishable foods as a buffer. More would, of course, be better but you’ll want some kind of buffer before gardens start producing.

Bologna on a hot day works. Not as effective in winter.

How rude. They’re not even spending a full billion from the many we’ve given them!

Where is running society?

Give me the man and I will give you the case against him is a saying that was popularized in the Soviet Union and in Poland in the period of the People’s Republic of Poland, attributed to the Stalinist jurist Andrey Vyshinsky, or the Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria. It refers to the miscarriage of justice in the form of the abuse of power by the jurists, who could find any defendant guilty of “something”, if they so desired.

Great post.

In addition to your points I would add a frustration of mine is having to fight the same bosses over and over again. Take Hades 2 as an example: you can choose one of two paths at the start of a run but will always have to fight the same boss fights. That sort of repetition in a roguelike is expected, I guess, but I just stopped playing the game because I didn’t want to fight Scylla and Charybdis for the 1000th time just to get to the next boss for the 1000th time.

I suppose Dead Cells spoiled me a bit here: you had route choices and could skip boss fights if they weren’t necessary for you current goals.

Family separations during the first term provided cover for a harvest.

the ACLU’s later public estimates rose to about 2,000 separated children by March 2024—illustrating both initial scale and continuing gaps in reunification

Who’s running the ring behind the scenes is what we need to know.

Alan Dershowitz has entered the chat

Thanks for what wheatpaste into my lexicon and toolbox.

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Self serving deplorable person does self serving deplorable thing.

I am not a mathematician but…doesn’t that mean:

• Avengers made ~$3.2 per $1 spent making it.
• Melania made ~$0.17 per $1 spent making it.

Cool story bro. What is it you’re doing to help?

Not having a moral compass makes it easier to steer by the winds of change.

Words are wind, put more trust in deeds.

I think I’ll go for a walk dive.

“Don’t spylash de pot”

On a highway in the midwest US and the shoulders are clean, but also covered in snow. The snow is a double edge here with equally covering up and making trash more visibly at the same time.

I got in trouble for not standing or pledging allegiance to the flag as a kid. I stuck to it and they backed off. And that was before I even understood how wrong it was to pledge allegiance to a flag and republic instead of the constitution and laws of the nation.