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I literally voted every option that lost💀

That's great but preaching the truth makes things political. Just saying that marriage is between a man and woman is now political.

I enjoy C4SS' content, but their political test is undeniably inaccurate and laughably biased. Otherwise they're top notch.

​ **US requires travelers from China test negative for COVID amid surging infections and deaths** https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/29/chin-d29.html >On Wednesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that, beginning on January 5, all travelers flying from China to the US will be required to show a negative COVID-19 test result from within two days of their flight departure. Similar measures have also been implemented by Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan and India. \- Over the past month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has rapidly lifted the Zero-COVID policy which had kept the country’s per capita death rate by far the lowest among major countries. In a matter of weeks, [hundreds of millions](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/28/pers-d28.html) of Chinese people have been infected with COVID-19… **In effect, the CCP is condensing into the span of a few months the years-long and ongoing process of mass infections and deaths that have taken place in nearly every other country. They have adopted the “herd immunity” strategy pioneered in the US, Brazil, India and other countries which are now hypocritically imposing a test requirement on travelers from China…** \[…\] A CDC press release on the new measure states that their goal is “to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the United States during the surge in COVID-19 cases in \[China\].” It denounces China’s “reduced testing and case reporting” and “lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data,” which “are critical to monitor the case surge effectively and decrease the chance for entry of a novel variant of concern.” \- **What hypocrisy and cynicism!** \- **Over the past year, the Biden administration has overseen the dismantling of virtually all COVID-19 testing, data tracking and reporting.** Regarding testing and genomic sequencing, the US is arguably the worst in the world relative to economic output and technological capacity. \- At present, the US is in the midst of likely the third-largest wave of infections since the beginning of the pandemic, [according to wastewater data](https://biobot.io/data/)… The CDC is doing nothing to stop the deepening surge in the US… In the past month, tens of millions of Americans have flown back-and-forth across the country and internationally without testing, masking, or any anti-COVID mitigation measures whatsoever. Regarding genomic sequencing, [throughout the pandemic](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genomic-sequencing-is-critical-to-our-understanding-of-covid/) the US has sequenced relatively low levels of positive PCR tests, and done so very slowly… **just two months ago the CDC was caught** [**deliberately covering up**](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/17/rpke-o17.html) **the spread of new variants…** It took place just weeks after US President Joe Biden falsely claimed that “the pandemic is over.” In recent weeks, the Omicron XBB subvariant… has become dominant in the Northeast region and will likely become dominant across the US in the coming weeks. Numerous scientists have raised the alarm about this subvariant, while the CDC, the White House and the bourgeois media have done nothing to warn the public about this danger. \- **The measures against China are entirely political and in no way meant to ensure the public health of the American, Chinese or world populations.** Underscoring this fact, travelers are allowed to use results from a self-administered rapid antigen test, which are known to be more likely to return false negative results… Furthermore, these measures are not being imposed on any other country, despite the fact that COVID-19 is now spreading unchecked throughout the world. \[…\] The new CDC policy follows a meeting last week between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in which Blinken decried China for a lack of “transparency” regarding COVID-19. **American imperialism is increasingly utilizing the COVID crisis which it has fomented in China to escalate the threat of war.** \- For over two years, US imperialism and its media mouthpieces have continuously demanded that China scrap Zero-COVID. After Apple, Nike and other major corporations threatened to move production from China elsewhere, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) relented and lifted all public health measures… \- The scrapping of Zero-COVID in China is reactionary and must be counterpoised with a comprehensive public health program fought for by the Chinese and international working class. But the measures implemented by the US and other countries against China will do nothing to stop the spread of the pandemic and will only be used to escalate military aggression against the country. China will be vilified for any new variants detected, and [all the lies](https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/internationalPoliticsCategory/wuhan-lab-coronavirus-conspiracy) told about the “Wuhan lab leak” will be repackaged and disseminated once again. \- **The** [**Zero-COVID policy**](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/13/chin-d13.html)**which had been in place in China proved to be the only viable program to stop the spread of COVID-19, but it could not be sustained on a nationalist basis and within the framework of world imperialism. Only through world socialist revolution, in which all of mankind’s economic resources and technology are geared towards providing for human needs instead of private profit, will it be possible to massively expand public health globally and put an end to the pandemic.**

>Just saying that marriage is between a man and woman is now political. I disagree. The Church makes it political by not respecting the separation of Church and State. Our system of government is not theocracy and our laws must be equal. The church should stay out of civilization marriages or marriages outside of the Catholic church.

I think that they need to update their political quiz.

There was a priest in Ireland recently who gave a homily on marriage etc (Fr. Sheehy). Some people were offended and walked out, someone recorded the live stream and it became public. He was bullied by the Left, the Government and even thrown under the bus by his weak Bishop. The point I'm making here is that there is no separation of Church and State, his homily (preached in a church) became political. The truth is the truth and cannot be contained by saying "keep church and state separate". If a priest or bishop is preaching the truth it has the potential to be political if it annoys certain groups.

By your logic liberal is evil because it killed Communism also bad because it killed Socialism bad because it killed Capitalism bad because it killed There is no one system. But ur obviously a child so

While progressivism and conservatism are more often than not placed at the forefront of the divide, in my experience it's often a false dichotomy. I've found that most Lib Rights I've spoken with are often progressive past the bounds of their authoritarian counterparts. The chief divide is an economic one, with Leftists either advocating for the workers ownership of the means of production, or (in the case of some of the more modern Leftists) strong unions and regulated capitalism. Additionally the Right will almost always defend property rights (with the exception of some Georgists who consider themselves Lib Right), whereas Leftists will usually disregard private property in favor of personal property. Finally the Right emphasizes negative liberties, often disregarding positive liberties. Conversely leftists often favor a blend of positive and negative rights. Have a great day!

You made it out as if we were starting off from scratch, ofc in a liberal system I’d vote for the people who’d make the liberal system the best it can be while still advocating for revolution to replace the liberal system, this is because I personally vote for the lesser of two evils, but I completely understand people who don’t, so ye in a liberal system id vote for people who’d keep that system, because you can’t vote in socialism/communism And if by democracy, you mean statist liberal representative democracy with its majority vote and minority rule and all the tyranny that comes with that (homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, imperialism, classism, etc.) then yes, I am 100% against democracy In my eyes ofc I view liberal democracy as an immature democracy, I support socialist democracy, that being a stateless directly democratic confederation, if we take the ideals of democracy to their conclusion then we have anarchy, or mature democracy, a self government, where nobody can rule over anyone else, no majority nor minority rule, just the free association of producers

I can see the hate for *economic* liberalism, but the problem lies in the disdain for the *ideas* that liberalism stands for, which is liberty, equality before the law, separation of powers, and things like that. And then there are those who believe that liberalism and socialism are incompatible with each other. How do you respond to all of this?

>The Spartacist uprising (German: Spartakusaufstand), also known as the January uprising (Januaraufstand), was an armed uprising that took place in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919. It occurred in connection with the November Revolution that broke out following Germany's defeat in World War I. The uprising was primarily a power struggle between the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) led by Friedrich Ebert, which favored a social democracy, and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, which wanted to set up a council republic similar to the one established by the Bolsheviks in Russia. In 1914 Liebknecht and Luxemburg had founded the Marxist Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), which gave the uprising its popular name. Ripped from Wikipedia

No doubt. On the other hand, I do think that Robin would probably tell Rosamund about this conversation - she needs to be forewarned - and she's already explained The Facts of Life, Political Marriage Edition, to Charlotte¹, so I think once she *knows she needs* to explain the matter to her hot... husband... she will be entirely ready and able to do so gently and compassionately. In addition, this excerpt makes it clear that they have more time than Caroline previously implied. In any case, the Hawkhurst children were no doubt already acquainted with marriages of politics or of state, and how they can turn out to be love matches as well. In turn, I'm fairly sure, that made the "Who's that man you brought home with you, Mum?" conversation at least slightly less awkward than it might have been. 1: I am assuming here that Hugo taught Edmund much the same material, if off a slightly different syllabus.

In my latest (free!) monthly newsletter, I take a look at how some behavioral economics concepts can help us better understand inflation and better deal with inflation. [https://johnhowe.substack.com/p/inflation-redux](https://johnhowe.substack.com/p/inflation-redux)

There is no such thing as libunity because one side is actually libertarian and the other side is just liberals

Being a liberal isn’t bad.

But a liberal isn’t as bad as your making it out. What do you hate about them?

Liberals are statist capitalists, I’m an anti-statist socialist, clearly I’m going to be anti-liberal… I’m too tired to go into depth rn, I might later

So if people vote for a liberal government and institutions. Are they bad and wrong?

Yes, I don’t care what a majority or minority wants, both are authoritarianism… liberalism is an evil ideology it has done horrible things, I don’t care if a liberal government is formed during a power vacuum, I will detest it and fight for stateless communism because I believe in freedom and fighting for freedom

so if the communists vote for liberals you will consider them evil…got it. And you aren’t a democracy fan.

I am engaging with you, I didn’t put emojis. You hate liberalism because it’s the status quo and evil. By this logic any ideology can be evil. You dislike liberal democracy and it’s ideologies even though it’s the basis for most libertarian ideas left or right. I have been nothing but curtious to you, bar one meme.

I think it's social issues and economics. Left is thicker and more liberal in regards to social issues and likely more socialist economicly where as the Right is thinner, more socially conservative and economicly more capitalist. That's my take.

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So having finished a play through of the Stalingrad Campaign (which I lost by 1 mission point. Not mad at all.) I saw potential in the final scenario #151 to be adapted to an open play skirmish mode that could be played outside of the campaign system. This involves drafting a supply from the locked, upgrade and reserve decks on top of the basic starting deck, and then using the deployment cards and objectives inspired by those found throughout the campaign, to create a set of balanced scenarios. Here is the first draft for what I have come up with: [https://www.dropbox.com/s/ixqyltu7ve4u1o3/Undaunted-Stalingrad%20Open%20Play%20v1.1.pdf?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/ixqyltu7ve4u1o3/Undaunted-Stalingrad%20Open%20Play%20v1.1.pdf?dl=0) It would be great if people could have a look at it, maybe try it out, and tell me what they think or suggest changes.

Before you begin to answer, please note that this is about your personal preferences. Would you prefer a secular Ichkeria? A sharia Ichkeria? And if secular, a presidential republic? A parliamentary republic? Or others? And if Sharia, what type of political system would you prefer? Вай къам ч1ог1 декъдел ду х1ар вопроси т1ехь. Цхьам шариат ол, вукхар светский хил ез ол х1унд аьлчи шариат хилахь цхьаъ мировой поддержк хил яц (цар олш хьум ду х1ар).

>market anarchist This is an oxymoron. Anarchism should oppose capitalist pseudo-science and religion about "markets". It's recuperation in action. No thanks. related: * [The Market as God](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/03/the-market-as-god/306397/) * [There Is No Invisible Hand](https://hbr.org/2012/04/there-is-no-invisible-hand) * [Economics as Ideology](https://www.tni.org/en/publication/economics-as-ideology-challenging-expert-political-power) * [Review: Debunking Economics](http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarcho-review-debunking-economics) * [What's Wrong with Markets](https://participatoryeconomy.org/whats-wrong-with-markets/) * [How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (podcast)](https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-150-how-economic-jargon-and-cliches-make-cruel-anti-poor-policies-sound-sterile-and-da4019040bec) * [Why game theory never will be anything but a footnote in the history of social science (PDF)](http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue83/Syll83.pdf) * [The Comedy of Mises](https://taiyangyu.medium.com/the-comedy-of-mises-aa5ad06aaf9a) * [The Austrian School is a classic example of crank science](https://aliveness.com/kangaroo/L-ausmain.htm) * [Economic Nihilism](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bobby-whittenberg-james-economic-nihilism) * [Heterodox Economics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_economics) * r/makhaevism

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Ah I see exactly what you mean. Great insight. In this case, a lot of this is capitalism. It's easy to get loads of corn syrup and make a huge profit margin and yet still sell the food at a low price. And then advertise in a way that makes the food normal

Juche isn't Socialism, is a Monarchy with red aesthetic.

I only installed Joey a few hours ago and still learning the app features. I have a couple of questions. I am a Mod and would like to use Joey to manage my sub. /r/ProgressiveDemocrats 1. Do you have a Pro-Version of Joey? 2. Do you have videos showing me how to use the app? 3. Any documentation I should be reading? Thanks in advance for your help.

The game never clearly defines several key concepts of the world the game takes place in, which is interesting because the codex and memories already contain a lot of information on other stuff. I'll link the wiki pages for these concepts in case you're interested. Essentially, the [\[Veil\]](https://othercide.fandom.com/wiki/Veil) is a physical/metaphysical barrier that separates [\[Reality\]](https://othercide.fandom.com/wiki/Reality), the regular world where humans live, from [\[Unreality\]](https://othercide.fandom.com/wiki/Unreality), a separate dimension that is inhospitable to life, but where supernatural creatures dwell. These creatures, whom the humans call [\[Others\]](https://othercide.fandom.com/wiki/Other), are physically unable to cross the Veil onto our world, but can sometimes establish a connection with a young human, who becomes a [\[Chosen One\]](https://othercide.fandom.com/wiki/Chosen_Ones), extending some of their abilities onto the host. The game takes place *in media res* and the characters all talk about these concepts using capital letters, as you said, which gives us a sense of mystery since we're fed the details progressively instead of as a direct definition. I'm pretty sure this was an artistic choice from Lightbulb Crew, and they used it really well in my opinion, especially since there are no real holes in the logic; after playing the game and reading the lore, the player has all the information they need to create the definitions themselves.

Ya - this seems like what I’m going to be walking into - the super conservative (but tryin’ to be cool with business casual haha) - I’ll start minimal makeup day one - my manager is female, but I’ve only met her via Zoom, so I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have on heavy eye shadow, but as far as foundation/brows/etc, I can’t tell!!

My Mother is a 50+ year old woman, raised in a small farming community, very conservative christian born and raised. Also, very probably undiagnosed high functioning autistic. This last is relevant because she has a level of social blindness, she has made her way through life by following "The Rules" as set out for her in her youth. She survived school and childhood by being a straight A student who religiously followed "the rules". Be good, follow the rules, the adults will protect you, and you will go to heaven. That was and is, as near as I can tell, how she survived in a world that was not built for her. The older she has gotten the more it has become: Follow what God says, and you will be alright. Fast-forward to now, windowed, with most of the children out out the house, but all of us only two are still in the church, and at least two have come out as not straight. Through out all this my mother is devout as ever. She believes in gods love, and trust in the promises made to her. Her church community means the world to her. Given all this, I want you all to know how much it means to me, that when I had my Boyfriend over for Christmas, she worked hard to get his pronouns right. The church she goes to is pretty hard line against the LGBTQ community, but when she heard who I was dating, she told another sibling: "That's the guy, He is either Gay or Trans, I don't remember, but I know I have to get it right." My boyfriend is trans and only just starting to transition, so to still reads female to my mother, but she makes a huge effort to get it right. She a woman in her 50s, trying reprogram a mind that had gendered norms hard coded in, (she told me that, growing up, you couldn't call a groups of girls 'guys', or you would get in trouble.) and she does it because she wants my boyfriend to feel seen, loved, and respected. God loves everyone, and wants us to be caring and accepting. That the rule.

I’m not sure what you mean by “bank”, so I guess it’s simulations that I know. The exam simulators usually run in 4 different modes. Correct answer after each question, at the end of the test. Timed or not. My main point is to know as many strange situations as possible and be able to come up with the correct answer as fast as possible. As a consultant, that’s what my clients expect; an aswer to their strange questions NOW. “Tricky questions” is an individual selection. I’ve been through 5-600 questions for each of the 6 (soon 7) certifications I hold. “Tricky” would be in an area that I simply haven’t seen or a very specific detail that really doesn’t make sense to have in a question anyway.

It isn’t that it can [result in the election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_loser_criterion) of the *least* popular candidate, it’s not that that incentivises dishonest voting, and it’s not even that parties can hurt their own supporters’ best interests just by running. It’s the fact that “*most votes wins*” seems highly intuitive that it *is* a good system for running an election. So intuitive, that the suggestion that it’s an awful system can result in the other person’s instinctive response to just be immediately dismissive of and even mock the person making the claim. This is in essence what C S Lewis referred to as [Bulverism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism) and just casually assume the other person is wrong and explain their error. The only argument that seems to be made against it seems to be repeating "*but the most vote won*". How do you mean by "*won*"?

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Until there is strong political action behind it, that's not necessarily competitive. We produce an insane amount more books, often print on demand.

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Putin Wants Ukraine Back in the U.S.S.R. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-wants-ukraine-back-in-the-ussr-lenin-socialism-soviet-culture-ideology-war-famine-1991-russia-war-invasion-11672343842](https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-wants-ukraine-back-in-the-ussr-lenin-socialism-soviet-culture-ideology-war-famine-1991-russia-war-invasion-11672343842) A hundred years ago, on Dec. 30, 1922, representatives of the “Ukrainian socialist republic” initiated a formal agreement with Russia and the republics of Belarus and Transcaucasia to create a new nation, the Soviet Union. The agreement was puzzling because Lenin had said repeatedly that the goal of socialism was the fusion of all nations, and his slogan was: “The proletariat has no fatherland.” But agreement to a new country, which defined itself as a union of independent national republics each with the formal right to secede, was a tactical move to contain Ukrainian nationalism. It held together for 69 years. But it couldn’t last forever, because it was based on lies. Today’s Russian spokesmen insist that Ukraine is an “artificial nation.” Yet the only artificial nation was the Soviet Union, which re-created the Russian Empire on the basis of socialism. Russians, Georgians, Ukrainians, Yakuts and Uzbeks were citizens of one country, but the only thing they shared was the false reality of communist ideology. When that ideology collapsed in 1991, the result was the emergence of 15 historical nations, including Russia and Ukraine. The Soviets defined class as the motive force of history and subordinated national culture to ideology. Each Soviet republic had its own government and parliament, but their only responsibility was to carry out the edicts of the Communist Party leadership in Moscow. The regime promoted national languages and cultures, but everything that was printed or performed had to treat each nation’s history as an upward struggle that culminated in becoming part of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s, the communists needed Ukrainian-speaking cadres to strengthen their position in Ukraine, which had been the scene of peasant uprisings in 1919. Ukrainian language instruction, Ukrainian newspapers and lectures to miners in Ukrainian all increased. Nothing, however, could protect Ukraine from the horror that was visited on the Soviet Union as a whole and reached its apex with the creation of the Gulag, dekulakization (the destruction of the most industrious peasants) and the famine of 1932-33. The last was caused when the Soviet government confiscated grain to feed the cities and for export, imprisoned peasants in their villages and left millions to die from starvation. Ukraine, the agricultural breadbasket of the nation and a potential center of national resistance, suffered disproportionately. Of the seven million victims of the famine, more than half were in Ukraine. For more than 50 years, it was forbidden to mention the famine, but with the accession of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 and the policy of glasnost, what had long been whispered began to be discussed openly. Memorial services were held in Ukrainian villages for the victims, and Rukh, the Ukrainian movement for national independence, used the memory of the famine to rally support for an independent Ukraine. On Dec. 1, 1991, as the Soviet Union disintegrated, 90% of Ukrainian voters voted for independence. In the heavily ethnic Russian Donetsk oblast, almost 77% supported independence. In pro-Russian Crimea, the vote for independence was 54%. A week later, Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich—respectively the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus—met at a lodge in Belarus’s Belovezh Forest and signed a statement certifying that the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Gorbachev resigned on Dec. 25, and the upper chamber of the Soviet Parliament, the Supreme Soviet, ratified the union’s dissolution the following day. The birth of an independent Ukraine realized the national aspirations thwarted after the Bolshevik revolution. But there would be no peace for Ukraine, because the moral damage inflicted by the Soviet regime outlived it. That was particularly true in Russia, where property was seized by insiders, gangsters and ex-communist officials and the leaders used war to rally the population around a corrupt regime. The First Chechen War, in 1994-96, was started, according to a high official, because President Yeltsin needed “a short, victorious war” to increase his approval rating. The Second Chechen War began after the bombing of Russian apartment buildings in 1999 that took some 300 lives. According to all evidence, the bombings were carried out by the Federal Security Service, or FSB. They were used to justify a new invasion of Chechnya, which made it possible for Vladimir Putin to become president. In 2014 the seizure of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine distracted Russians from the meaning of the democratic Maidan revolt in Kyiv. As a result of the annexation of Crimea, Mr. Putin’s popularity reached a high of 82%, and Russia was swept with chauvinistic euphoria. The present attack on Ukraine resulted from the perception of U.S. weakness after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and Mr. Putin’s desire to restore the “Crimea effect” that buoyed his regime for five years before beginning to wane. Some foreign-policy “realists” in the U.S. blame the present war on the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but Russia’s desire to dominate Ukraine isn’t new. On Aug. 27, 1991, while the Soviet Union still existed, Pavel Voshchanov, Yeltsin’s press secretary, warned that Russia would re-examine its borders with any republic that didn’t want to be part of a new union. There were reports in the Moscow press based on leaks that in the event of a conflict, the Russian leadership was considering tactical nuclear strikes against Ukraine. In 1993, well before the first expansion of NATO into the former Eastern Bloc in 1997, Russia was laying the groundwork for future aggression, defining as a threat to Russia “acts against the Russian population” in any neighboring country. When the imaginary world of Soviet ideology collapsed, all that was left in Russia was rule by criminals and the drive to dominate Russia’s neighbors to guarantee their hold on power. It is against this background that we need to weigh support for Ukraine. Russia’s inability to rid itself of the Soviet legacy is the underlying cause of the war. If Ukraine cedes territory, the Soviet imperialist mentality will survive intact. Russia’s defeat in the Crimean War (1853-56) led to the emancipation of the serfs, and defeat in the Russo-Japanese war (1904-05) led to Russia’s first constitution. We need to support a decisive Ukrainian victory to punish aggression—and to free Russia from the burden of its past. *David Satter is author of “Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union.” He is an academic adviser to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.*

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All, general question. I've seen in some places that when a state or area reaches a certain support level, the campaign map borders or area will turn either red or blue. My question is, is this true and if not, how do completely turn a state or area to your control so that it is indicated on the campaign map what is truly under your control and what isn't. Thank you!

Hey so I'm doing a campaign in 4e and will be setting the fist adventures in a kind of lost world located in the center of the world. So I'm looking for prehistoric and giant versions of normal creatures and insects. I know the behemoths are dinos and are spread across the different manuals, but where can I find other stuff to put in the adventures set in this area.

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>[Bardin](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)’s date of birth is unknown, as are other details of his biography. It can only be stated that he was a Moscow antiquary, well known among bibliophiles and collectors of the capital. In his shop one could buy antiquities, books and icons. > >In 1812 or later, Bardin learned that the collection of Count Alexei Musin-Pushkin, the famous Russian collector of antiquities, had been burnt during Napoleon’s army’s retreat from the capital, which was accompanied by a huge fire. Among the lost relics was, for example, the priceless original of the Tale of Igor’s Campaign. Together with other exhibits of the collection it was kept in the so-called "Bruce the Sorcerer’s House" on Razgulyai Square. > >What for historians and philologists was a tragedy, to Bardin provided a convenient opportunity to make a profit. He decided to sell in his shop at the Moscow Book Market the lists of those manuscripts that were in the Musin-Pushkin collection. > >It is noteworthy that the scammer had predecessors. Even before the fire, due to the fashion for collecting antique rarities, the market was flooded with fake manuscripts. Particularly infamous was the collector Alexander Sulakadzev, for example, who cut out miniatures from some ancient books and pasted them into others. > >The first thing Bardin did was to rewrite the Tale of Igor’s Campaign several times on parchment – he sold one of such books as a genuine one to the Musin-Pushkin himself in 1815. Another purchaser at the time was Alexander Malinovsky, who was told by Bardin that the manuscript was written in 1375 and that it passed through several hands and came into the shop from an unknown landowner in Kaluga province. https://preview.redd.it/65yip7xlgh9a1.jpg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87ddf6f3398e035b1535b503b04ba14d017ea748 >The simultaneous discovery of two manuscripts of a very rare book in the same place could not fail to arouse the suspicion of serious researchers. Historian Nikolay Karamzin immediately suspected something amiss. A little later the comparison of manuscripts by Malinovsky and Musin-Pushkin showed that they were made by the same hand. > >For Bardin the falsification, apparently, was not difficult. Earlier he had made copies of manuscripts on commission from collectors, and he tried his hand at writing XIII-XIV centuries’ handwriting. In his workshop artificially "aged" dressed calfskin, made clasps and bindings. Sometimes authentic ancient parchment was used. > >Bardin "rewrote" a number of ancient texts which had already been published by the beginning of the nineteenth century. And some buyers were confident that they were buying the original "originals", written earlier than those known to the discoverers. The bookseller did not compose new "works". All he allowed himself was to make up paragraphs with the scribes’ names and dates. &#x200B; https://preview.redd.it/tk65b24ngh9a1.jpg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c8adc047d5e1e2f9c9e54795025bdb675c12d32

I’m in Australia, and I tried thrifting for a while but it was so time consuming and the things I did get didn’t last. I tried depop and buying secondhand online, but it was the same issue. I find it difficult to find ethical fashion which fits my style, and after a few years of researching, the brands which do are almost always based in Europe. My ideal style is Sézane, and while I’ve seen people recommend them, according to Good On You, their practices aren’t the best (although I’m not sure how accurate Good On You is) and I’d prefer to support all vegan brands if possible. There’s a website in Australia which sells some ethical brands from Europe but the selection is limited. It’s got to the point where I’m considering using a forwarding service so I can try out some brands and then have the items sent to me. Apart from the cost, this would also save on emissions if they were all sent in one package. Does anyone have experience using freight forwarding services from Europe? So many seem like a scam. All I want is to buy high quality ethical clothes in my style and it seems like Europe is my best option. **TL;DR:** I’m in Australia, and virtually all the ethical brands which suit my style are in Europe. I’m considering using a forwarding service to save on shipping costs and emissions. What are some reliable companies which do this? My favourite style is Sézane but they don’t have the best Good On You rating.

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I will try to put myself in the position of a field commander of the Zorzal's force. And now I'll have to come up with a strategy for my units to wage an effective guerrilla campaign against the Loyalist Forces and the JSDF (and hopefully better than what's shown in the manga). So, I went to my command post at Dumas mountain range and got to work. **Strategy and Doctrine** Overall, I would advocate an approach to combat that revolves around the concepts of stealth, harassment, sabotage, hit and run and force conservation. The commanders under me will have to control the tempo of the battle to engage only when the conditions are most ripe. Try your best to preserve as much of your force as possible so that you can continue fighting tomorrow. **Tactics** * It may sound absurd to you, but I'm really going to continue the [scorched earth tactic](https://cdn.mangaclash.com/manga_5fc6d6ac11a8b/3380e68bfcfa6d6375ab671a15000f58/14.jpg). Why leave all those resources (manpower, money, food,...) in the hands of the enemy if you can rob them all for your own and prevent the enemy from using them? They will have no effect on the JSDF, of course - except for the minor inconvenience of destroying transportation infrastructure such as bridges or roads, but will affect the Loyalist Forces. * Launch as many spies and agents as you can, trying to learn everything about the enemy: when and where they are stationed, the protocols they use, how they line up,... To defeat them, I must understand them; I can't just charge blindly into the dark cave without knowing about what inside it. * I also will support the infiltration of refugees to destroy [JSDF assets and personnel](https://cdn.mangaclash.com/manga_5fc6d6ac11a8b/532622f39cce86818ec42a3a934596bc/18.jpg). But you'll have to do it more definitively than just sneaking back and stabbing a knife in: Instead of just one, have as many people launch simultaneous attacks on all elements of a JSDF group: soldiers, vehicles, heavy weapons, etc. to try to wipe them out and prevent them from making an organized resistance. * I've come up with a way of being able to overwhelm a JSDF patrol: pretending to be a convoy of refugees or merchants traveling alone/mingling with other groups of refugees, with wagons filled with soldiers and demihumans; they will attack all at once when the patrol gets close enough to check, or when we get to the middle of their formation. * Weapons for this type of attack would need to be compact, light, easy to conceal, and easy to disguise. Daggers are a very good choice, but I also like things like darts. Against vehicles and groups of soldiers, a couple of inexpensive ceramic Molotov bottles should suffice - as long as they're small enough and you have a way to light them up quickly. * When conducting an attack, try to get as close to the target as possible and hide your weapon until the last second (or deploy it in an inconspicuous place, in the case of the Molotov bottle because you will have to find how to light them first). With infantry, target weak areas of full body armor like the sides of the chest, thighs and especially the neck - places where you can dig deep into the flesh and inflict the most fatal wounds to the arteries. With a vehicle, try to attack the inside of the vehicle (if its doors or lids are open) or its weapon station (for example, the machine gun nest mount on the roof of the Komatsu LAV). * That said, you'll have to use every objective advantage to hide your forces and attack stealthily. That is to say, [an attack from afar, crossing the open field with hordes of beasts](https://mangaclash.com/manga/gate-jietai-kare-no-chi-nite-kaku-tatakeri/chapter-87/) was simply stupidity and a waste of force. You can hide your forces hiding right in the ruins of the village to take advantage in urban warfare, right? Why get all of your the forces out the forest and force them to cross the open field? That's exactly what the JSDF is looking to! * It also means that, once the JSDF is fully alerted to my activity and begins to bring the main force to search and destroy, I will not be foolish to bring out all of my cards. I am not looking for a decisive battle, what I do is just harass and drain their resourses gradually. Encountering such a large force in chapter 87, I would simply withdraw. Once the JSDF withdraws from the area, or they begin to disperse their forces, I will bleed them again.

I currently have an optiplex 3020 with an i5 4590, Rx 460, and 2x4gb ram and I get to the setup menu with the language selections and once I select my wired connection for internet and installation screen comes up and after 4 seconds and error message pop ups and restarts my system. Is there any solution to this problem or any forums you guys can link? Thank you all

i got steamOS to work on a chromebook without modifying the firmware for those of you having the black screen intel graphic issue just add the official arch linux repositories and install the latest mesa version Note(I suspect that's the Same problem with the nvidia graphics since mesa only installs the radeonsi mesa packages), and the experience is very good but not perfect in gaming mode if I use the mouse with the interface a graphical bug appears but it is not something that prevents me from using the interface either. system, for the same reason it is better to use the gaming mode interface with kde since the graphic bug occurs with the gamescope, and the other error that occurs to me is that in gaming mode it does not start if steam is in internet connected mode, I You have to leave it in offline mode to be able to start gaming mode and then activate it in online mode and in that way it works perfectly. https://preview.redd.it/afliaccc9h9a1.jpg?width=2976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4128970626a5873110b5350875909bbaa02a9d6 https://preview.redd.it/x035wtqd9h9a1.jpg?width=2976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=817bdb709009344860a0cc56a565a53351897106 https://preview.redd.it/mam8r6ge9h9a1.jpg?width=2976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64c9926956bea6859b8a92e495af7111894c9f48 https://preview.redd.it/dwu9wiwe9h9a1.jpg?width=2976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aeff2499eb18dc3ec3846f31627e5a60dca15e0e https://preview.redd.it/fl5avjfg9h9a1.jpg?width=2976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45d3e8fb581ae5ebf9ad99014b284d47493a5bf1 https://preview.redd.it/xa4u8g7h9h9a1.jpg?width=2976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80278c79fd260fd5be1f6e92024a71520c3a4e8a https://preview.redd.it/vq1bs5th9h9a1.jpg?width=2976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d61f8c6148c11ace6bf04f5d2779e47f0865990 https://preview.redd.it/vp9sckai9h9a1.jpg?width=2976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07d18576c6b26094874078538d4beb987f920666 https://preview.redd.it/mi57z1ej9h9a1.jpg?width=2976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a1a01d442284dc9dae762579fd23bc0a7c869dd

Edit: I think the answer is to remove the 'jobSkills' column, create a separate table of 'jobSkillsTable' then Create a 'listingsJobSkills' intermediary table. Is that correct? Should jobSkills have only as many rows as the total number of unique job skill? Video with the proposed solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLMwRxKDhxQ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS listings ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, job_id INTEGER, employer_id INTEGER, employer_name VARCHAR(255), employer_profile_id INTEGER, employer_profile_name VARCHAR(255), job_title VARCHAR(255), location_name VARCHAR(255), minimum_salary INTEGER, maximum_salary INTEGER, currency VARCHAR(255), expiration_date DATE, date DATE, job_description TEXT, applications INTEGER, job_url VARCHAR(255), jobSkills JSON searchTerms JSON ); Here's what my table currently looks like. At the moment I'm storing a list of `jobSkills` and `searchTerms` as JSON objects. However I want to instead be able to query to this table to find the entries where the `jobSkills` column contains SQL, React, JavaScript and so on. I think a practical way to do that would be to make a list (without a fixed length) of jobSkill strings. 1) Would that be the most practical way of doing this? 2) Would there be a more practical way of doing this? Maybe doing the reverse, creating a second table of `jobSkillsTable` which I could query for `listings` IDs. I'm very new to SQL, I know how to make queries, but I'm struggling with building an application.

[Photo](https://imgur.com/gallery/qfdQWdt) Sorry, I’m having trouble posting a photo. It’s just boomer cursive on a griege colored stall wall that doesn’t show up well because the metal underneath is almost the same color, The stall had a ton of graffiti and a few Fuck Trumps and Fuck Yous amidst other messages. The longest message was written in careful cursive and must have taken several minutes to write: The hand that rocks the cradle Rules the world Such filthy language in a woman’s restroom Makes me shudder for the next generation! Right beside the boomer message in big letters is #OK BOOMER I laughed so hard when I finished reading the message and response. Karen must have been big mad to vandalize the stall like that

Hi, guys! It's been a long time, and I want to get in touch with this community once again by sharing my tier list for all main weapons and handguns currently in MW2, along with my favorite setup and tips for using each gun. As per tradition, I will separate the weapons into four tiers, C, B, A, and S (there is no D or F because no weapon is that much of a failure). I will order the weapons inside a category from best to worst. I will also post each tier in the days to follow, so stay tuned for that. Right now is the time for the S Tier to shine, so without further ado, let's begin this! S Tier: 12 Weapons [A Tier: 14 Weapons](https://www.reddit.com/r/CODLoadouts/comments/zzzf8d/mp_a_tier_mw2_weapons_tier_list/) [B Tier: 13 Weapons](https://www.reddit.com/r/CODLoadouts/comments/zz5dib/mp_b_tier_mw2_weapons_tier_list/) [C Tier: 10 Weapons](https://www.reddit.com/r/CODLoadouts/comments/zyhx4g/mp_c_tier_mw2_weapons_tier_list/) # Assault Rifles Kastov-74u The best gun in the game, the AKS-74, excels at most ranges you will find yourself in multiplayer. Banned from competitive games, this weapon features a criminal TTK, amazing reload speed, it even has clean iron sights. If you find yourself in sweaty lobbies, just pull out this gun and watch the smile fade away from the faces of your enemies. https://preview.redd.it/otuvd2h38g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf94e922b084bd4194e749fdccef849d41323481 TAQ-56 The Scar-L is the assault rifle of the competitive scene by choice, and I’m here to let you know why. It has amazing recoil, decent reload speed, and moderate handling. Nothing special there, right? Well, the thing that sells this weapon, aside from its incredible recoil, is its TTK: being able to get a 3-shot kill with upper torso shots. This weapon excels at engagements beyond 30 meters, and its TTK holds its own against SMGs up close. https://preview.redd.it/x6afy0458g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48ed714498827c2bc5954913142f861c80cfec25 M4 The M4A1 is the first gun you unlock in the game, and for good reasons too. Unlike last time, the M4 really feels like a balanced weapon, a decent choice for any range or any fight you can find yourself in. In the words of many people, the M4 is "a jack of all trades, master of none." Expect to lose to SMGs, shotguns, or LMGs at close range, but for what it's worth, you'll have a good chance. https://preview.redd.it/d7l1gfx58g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41bf89985225248cd2a568eab7c0979744b3c551 ## Submachine Guns Vaznev-9k The PP19-01 Vityaz is the SMG of choice in the competitive scene. Everybody thought the MP5 would be the best gun in the game once more, but this weapon is here to refute that. It has high recoil and somewhat unforgiving accuracy if you hit too many limbs. But if you treat this weapon right, you will have in your hands one of the best weapons in the entire game; it’s not even close. https://preview.redd.it/2jp952378g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a11b4e617811b8c5e8292b208a367bd5e0e3d0cb Lachmann Sub The MP5 proves again to be a great choice for rushers. It has good mobility, a good range, amazing TTK, and every other trait a great SMG has. And don't be fooled; this is an incredible weapon with great TTK up close that still holds its own at medium ranges, so it's not quite the extreme close-range monster we described in the previous title. Although you can stack heavy attachments, I prefer to have just an accurate and still mobile version of the MP5, while still being able to increase my magazine capacity whenever needed. All around, it's one of, if not the best, SMGs out there. https://preview.redd.it/h5m5ge588g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=649b8bd6142e76096f4986071fedddbb1c78bd43 ## Battle Rifles TAQ-V The Scar-H is an amazing weapon for people that can control its recoil because damn, this gun kicks like a mule. The biggest downside of using this gun is its initial recoil since it has wide gaps between the first couple of shots. But once you are familiar with its recoil, you will be left with a 3-shot killing machine, killing foes from left to right. Just be careful with ammunition, and you will be fine. https://preview.redd.it/uxx1vo798g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d7279edeac2e5000458165cfbd1d3b8b2bc6527 ## Light Machine Guns RPK The RPK is an LMG conversion of the classic AK, and I have to say it lives up to its legacy. It has great damage, and good mobility for an LMG, and the best thing, it has no recoil, the thing doesn’t move. I believe it accomplishes the role of an LMG better than all the other options, and it can be converted to an AR-LMG hybrid for extra mobility. https://preview.redd.it/h0yd9qca8g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a5939bc59d5cacf4f6248007e4d9531a2a1f4be # Shotguns Expedite 12 The Benelli M4 is a spammy shotgun that doesn’t work like a spammy shotgun. What I mean by that is while its fire rate is good, you won’t be getting multiple-shot kills as often as 1-shot kills. This means getting as close as you can and trust in your instincts, this weapon is amazing when treated more like a pump action with the benefit of a decently high fire rate. Just wait and see when you have multiple people in front, you will unleash mayhem among those poor mortals in front of the barrel of the Expedite 12. https://preview.redd.it/8awc2a7b8g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d3ca45aa232ed1f65bb4f6e59ee15ea3de466cc ## Marksman Rifles SP-R 208 The Remington 708 is by far the best marksman rifle right now. While its ADS is not something to be proud of, it has the most consistent 1-shot kill out of any of the marksman rifles. But what makes this weapon borderline broken is the amount of flinch it has, or should I say, the lack of. Just a strong and fun weapon to use, deserving of the title of best marksman rifle. https://preview.redd.it/q07et63c8g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63368862a7e35a5225f20c5199985158ea7d16dd ## Sniper Rifles SP-X 80 The Remington MSR is the sniper with the best mobility in its category. It is also designed for long-range engagements, which means you will excel at any range you choose to use this sniper. Best at quick-scoping and decent at long range, this weapon deserved the title of the best Sniper. https://preview.redd.it/fbcmtaxc8g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d883420ff48252d0dccd844da411ec387eae2ece ## Handguns Basilisk The .500 S&W is a revolver that specializes in power and destruction. This weapon can get a 1-shot kill to the upper torso in close ranges, and while that is extremely powerful, it still isn’t the strong point of this weapon. It returns from the previous title the ammunition that keeps everyone up at night, Snakeshot, turning a single bullet into buckshot to pepper those guys nicely. And terribly so, you can put akimbo on this bastard and become a powerhouse up close, the guy no one wants to run into inside a building. https://preview.redd.it/zmy2pzid8g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ac0997569985ab1f84597390a97ea16bc740ef5 P890 The P220 Is a semi-auto handgun that has a decent fire rate, slower than the X13, but what the Glock lacks, this weapon makes up for. Its most notable attribute is brutal, a 2-shot kill to the body at close ranges. You can run around using this as a primary and you will absolutely crush people at close quarters. I can’t understand how they thought it was a good idea to have a semi-auto pistol as a 2-shot kill, but hey, it's nice having a couple of strong handguns occasionally. https://preview.redd.it/ppbd3cee8g9a1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5e93b55b8d977d2eae0ec87f90ba964bafa94da

The subduedly ornate and candlelit Grand Hall of Adderwood Manor was both abnormally quiet and unusually empty, for tonight was neither a festive celebration nor a general meeting of high-ranking Addermen. At the front of the hall sat all twelve Arch-Addermen, six to each side of an unoccupied throne. Newest among them, to the confusion and resentment of many, was the portly and relatively good-natured Fenwick Humberton. His position was perhaps not surprising, since the Grand Council of Arch-Addermen were in practice merely an advisory body with no authority other than what the Grand Adderman choose to delegate to them. They served at his pleasure, so a pleasing disposition went a long way to getting and keeping them where they were. Across from them, only a few of the hundreds of gleaming lacquered chairs held a guest, the most uneasy of which was Seneca Chamberlin. He was a disgraced former Head Adderman, and now held the informal and somewhat honorary title of ‘Elder Adderman’, which was essentially any older or otherwise remarkable Adderman who was not the head of a Chapterhouse. The two strange beings to either side of him shared this rank as well. To his right was the undead and eerily phosphorescent brain of Whitaker Crowley, suspended in a glass vat of bubbling preternatural fluids, mounted on a wheeled podium powered by psychically-operated clockwork contraptions, and topped with a bowler hat. To his left was Drogo Raubritter; a pallid, slender, and hairless industrialist who shared Seneca’s grandiose and outdated fashion sense of three-pieced suits and top hats. His keen-sighted but unsightly eyes were concealed behind a pair of shaded hexagonal spectacles, whose gaze was currently set upon a tumultuously dark orb perched upon the ebony cane clutched in his silk-gloved hands. Across the aisle from them, which was still far too close for comfort, were James and Mary Darling. Twins, lovers, and supernatural sociopaths who lured their victims into their own pocket reality to torture, kill, and cannibalize. This was the first time they had appeared at Adderwood Manor without an explicit summons, for the matter of today’s discussion was one of great personal interest to them. It was so important to them that Mary hadn’t had anything to drink since breakfast, something which terrified everyone present. She smoked incessantly with a shaking hand to try to calm her overactive nerves, sweat noticeably dripping down her face despite the chill of the room. On the floor between the council and the onlookers was the Head of the Harrowick Chapter Ivy Noir, her sister Envy, and her *de facto* husband Erich Thorne. All were prostrate before the Council, knees and foreheads to the ground with hands bound behind their backs. The elongated body of the Grand Adderman slithered around them, his crimson cloak trailing behind him like a tail. He clutched a sceptre of Seelie Silver in his spidery fingers, its handle comprised of three intertwining serpents. Its head had once held an ancient and mystical crystal orb, but now it held only its midnight blue shards. Only the Grand Adderman and his inner circle knew for certain how the orb had been shattered, and they were forbidden to speak of it to the rest of their Order. Rumours ran rampant amongst the lower ranks as to how such a powerful and priceless artifact had been ruined, but none likely guessed at the [absurd truth](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheVespersBell/comments/mhoa5z/a_fool_and_his_money_april_fools100_member_special/). “These repeated humiliations are beginning to weigh on me,” came the Grand Adderman’s raspy voice out of the near-lightless abyss of his hooded face. “First, Emrys is summoned by Seneca, who promptly loses control of him. Emrys then not only manages to evade capture, but proceeds to start robbing us blind, one by one! One particular theft happened to include one of the Darling Twin’s many corpses. That corpse then waltzed right into Pendragon Manor, despite its alleged technological and thaumaturgical impregnability, lied in wait in the Cuniculi Chamber for Head Adderman Noir, stole her Cuniculi Keys, contaminated the many thousands of pounds of Sigil Sand held within, all before topping off her crime spree by devouring a Sanguine Egregore! Thorne! You claim that the only way Petra Stone could have circumvented your security system the way she did is with administrative access. Have you learned how she accomplished this?” “No, Grand Adderman,” Erich replied, not daring to move from his position until he was explicitly commanded to do so. “After an extensive internal investigation, we’ve found no evidence of an information breach. All passwords have been reset, new protocols have been implemented, and sensitive information is now more restricted, but without knowing how the breach was originally accomplished, we cannot guarantee it will not happen again.” “And I assume you’re equally as mystified as to how she managed to overcome the protective wards, as well, Miss Noir?” the Grand Adderman asked. “Yes, Grand Adderman,” Ivy replied. “I did observe, however, during my brief opportunity, that Petra appears to share Emrys’ ability to remain incorporeal while out of direct light. Her ability to move unseen and undetected through shadows is likely how she was able to avoid setting off both the wards and the security system. The wards protecting Pendragon Manor were also not designed specifically with Emrys or his vassals in mind. Envy and I have devised new wards that we believe should be more effective, but they of course remain untested.” “Miss Noir, do you realize how valuable Petra Stone would have been to us, dead or alive, in our efforts to bring down Emrys?” the Grand Adderman demanded, stooping down directly in front of her, his icy cold breath beating down on the back of her head. “Of course I do, Grand Adderman,” she said through chattering, shivering teeth. “And yet, you let her escape, with your set of Cuniculi keys, no less,” he reminded her, his raspy voice thick with vehemence. “Why?” “I… I had to make sure Envy was safe, Grand Adderman,” she confessed. Mary screamed in rage as she bolted up from her chair, tossing her cigarette aside and pulling out her favourite butcher’s knife. She pounced upon Envy, pushing her face down into the floor with one hand as she raised her knife in the other. “That was *my* corpse!” she screamed. “I killed her! I should have shat her out by now, but Emrys stole her from us! You big-breasted bimbos had the chance to take her out, and you let her get away! I oughta cut this slut’s heart out and eat it right in front of you, Ivy, so that you won’t have the same excuse to screw up next time!” “Mary! Mary, let’s ease up on the death threats and internalized misogyny for a tick and talk about this,” Fenwick suggested as he leapt from his seat and crept towards her as quickly as he dared. Nobody but James had remained seated after Mary’s outburst, either out of concern for the Noir sisters or their own lives. Even the Grand Adderman had been somewhat taken aback by Mary’s audacity. Crowley and Raubritter exchanged glances, Crowley nodding down to the small Tesla coil on his podium and then towards Mary. Raubritter nodded, lifting his cane slightly and subtly gesturing towards James. Seneca, however, found himself paralyzed with indecision. As much as he wanted Ivy to suffer for replacing him as Head of the Harrowick Chapter, he was terrified that Mary could just as easily turn her rage on him for his summoning of Emrys. “Mary, the Council is in agreement that the expertise of Ivy and Envy Noir are critical in our campaign against Emrys,” Fenwick said in the most soothing tone he could manage. Envy was sobbing and quietly pleading for her life, with her sister feeling equally helpless to protect her. Ivy knew that if the Darlings wanted to kill you, you were already as good as dead. “You want your revenge? We need them. It’s as simple as that.” “You need Ivy! Her sister’s just her little puppy dog and you know it!” Mary claimed. “We need Ivy’s full and willing cooperation, and that means we need Envy alive and well,” Fenwick countered. “Let her go.” Mary didn’t respond, nor did she retreat from her position. “James, for God’s sake, call her off!” Fenwick demanded. “Sorry Fenny, but I’m afraid Mary only answers to me in matters that fall under my purview as the man of the house,” James said smugly. “When it comes to her choice of prey, she can be surprisingly independently-minded.” Mary did not release her prey, but neither did she bring her knife down upon her. Her atypical sobriety was almost certainly the only reason Envy was still alive. Ordinarily, Mary did as she pleased with no concern for consequences, but now she was torn. Her blade, already drawn, was begging for the familiar taste of human flesh. But doubt, normally drowned out with alcohol, was gnawing at her. What if the Council was right? What if she did need Ivy to get to Emrys, and that she would be of no use if she was heartbroken over the death of her beloved sister? What would the Grand Adderman do if Mary cost him a critical asset in his quest to defeat Emrys? Mary looked up from her prey and into the shadowed face of the Grand Adderman, now looming over her like a cobra about to strike. With his frigid breath wafting into her face, Mary was, for the first time, able to catch a glimpse of his glinting eyes beneath his hood. What she saw in those eyes filled her with a fear she had not felt since Emrys had broken into their playroom and murdered their pet Voggathaust in front of them. “Mary, *darling*, you are interrupting my interrogation,” the Grand Adderman said with a sinister yet lilting tone, pointing the ragged shards of his sceptre towards her. “Return to your seat. Now.” Lowering her knife, Mary stumbled backwards, suddenly overcome by a need to get out of his reach. “Yes. Yes, of course, Grand Adderman. My apologies,” she muttered meekly, her shaking now as much out of fear as it was from alcohol withdrawal. She returned to her brother’s side and practically collapsed into his protective embrace, while he glared down the Grand Adderman as he fought to control his rage. For everyone else in the room, however, the sense of relief was palpable. Even the Grand Adderman let out a sigh, going so far as to give Envy a pitying pat on the head. “Rise. All of you,” he said as he telekinetically released their bindings before returning to his throne. “And would someone please get Mary a drink!” “A real drink! None of that high-school wine you pretentious snobs think counts as booze!” she barked at the attendants scurrying off to the galley. Fenwick helped Envy to her knees, fussing over her as Ivy clutched her tightly to her chest and stroked her hair. “Miss Noir, consider what just happened your penance for letting Petra escape,” the Grand Adderman decreed. “In fact, I’ve come to the conclusion that your strategy for using the Sigil Sand to capture Emrys may indeed have been our best chance of besting him. If he didn’t consider it a threat, he wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to sabotage it.” “If I may interject,” Seneca interjected, regardless of whether or not he may. “I think that the incident with Petra is proof that we are pursuing a fundamentally flawed strategy in our pursuit of Emrys. It’s well past time that we consider diplomacy as a viable alternative. I have maintained relations with the Hedge Witch Samantha Sumner, an individual whom Emrys briefly expressed an affinity for and who would be willing to serve as an intermediary at negotiations. She has a vested interest in avoiding a massive occult conflict between Emrys and ourselves, and frankly, so should we!” “And has the Hedge Witch actually had any contact with Emrys since your Halloween party?” the Grand Adderman demanded. “Not as of yet, no. However –” “Then I’m not interested!” the Grand Adderman said with a wave of his hand. “I want the Sigil Sand beneath Pendragon Hill purged of Emrys’ taint! God knows what havoc that dark magic has already wrought. Crowley! Tell me you can save the Sand!” “Grand Adderman, there are billions of grains of Sigil Sand in that pit, every one of which has absorbed some non-trivial amount of Emrys’ Miasma,” Crowley replied, his booming monotone voice trumpeting out of a gramophone horn mounted beside his brain vat. “Anything less than a one hundred percent successful purification would result in some taint remaining and inevitably spreading throughout the volume. If you command it, I could attempt to purge the Sand, but I believe that failure would be the most likely outcome. While I realize it would be a costly loss, writing the Sand off is most likely the most pragmatic choice of action.” \*\*\* “Why does no one ever listen to me?” Crowley demanded as he looked out over the pit of corrupted Sigil Sand that he had been charged with salvaging. “I advised against summoning Emrys, and you summoned him anyway! I told the Grand Adderman that I was perfectly capable of being the permanent Head of the Harrowick Chapter, a position he handed over to Ivy Noir instead! Then when she messes up, and we have multiple metric tonnes of miasma-saturated Sigil Sand under Pendragon Hill, does anyone so much as humour my recommendation that we just get rid of it?” “For what it’s worth, I’m with you this time, Crowley” Seneca agreed as he raked the Sigil Sand smooth. “If Artaxerxes was still with us, it’d be a different story. Even if we still had one of his descendants, it might be worth a try. But without a Crow, I don’t much care for our odds.” “Have you considered asking Miss Sumner if she might be willing to lend us the services of her familiar?” asked Woodbead, Seneca’s valet and chief manservant, who was still someone out of breath from the exertion of pulling Crowley and his infernal contraption down the spiral set of stairs into the subterranean Cuniculi Chamber. “There’s no point. Even if he wasn’t a ghost, Elam was technically disowned by his father, and was far less initiated in his bloodline’s secrets than most,” Seneca explained. “Besides, I want Samantha to remain a neutral third party in our little feud with Emrys. Undoing his sabotage would quite firmly put her on our side.” “I’m trying not to take offence at your lack of confidence in my abilities,” Raubritter remarked dryly. “Artaxerxes Crow is dead and his bloodline erased from the Earth. We are still alive and were all confident enough in our immortality that we felt no need to sire progeny to begin with. Is that not proof enough that our occult abilities surpass those of Crow and his heirs?” “Artaxerxes made one mistake; selling his soul and the souls of his descendants to Persephone. In all other aspects, his skill and knowledge of the occult were beyond sublime,” Seneca insisted. “We never would have defeated Morgana King or that maleficent multitudinous minion of hers if it hadn’t been for Crow. And what are you going on about him having kids for? I can believe *your* lack of offspring was a coldly calculated decision to maximize your profits with no need to offset the risk of old age and death, but I simply had no need and little tolerance for the second sex. As for Crowley, he was… oh, to put this delicately…” “Imponent due to my morbid obesity,” Crowley finished for him. “Seneca, please tell me you had this place ritualistically cleansed and thoroughly sanitized after the incident with the Gorgonian Lions? The last thing we need is alchemically active lizard offal interfering with the purification ritual.” “Yes, Crowley. Rest assured that all that necessary prep work has been seen too,” Seneca said with a roll of his eyes. “Can we please get on with this, fail, and then head back to Adderwood so that the Grand Adderman can yell at us some more?” Crowley’s brain nodded up and down in its vat as his pedestal rotated to face the now smooth pit of sand. “Witches’ Salt is the preferred means to purify Sigil Sand,” he remarked. “All it takes is getting it to resonate at an inverse astral frequency to whatever’s contaminating the Sand and it will dispel any unwanted energies. The problem here is that Emrys’ Miasma is extra-universal in origin, so it doesn’t exactly play by the same set of rules. We do know that Emrys is vulnerable to Chthonic forces, specifically those associated with Persephone, due to her role in forging his chains. I *believe* that any emanation of Emrys on our plane, including his Miasma, should have the same vulnerability. I have brought three totems carved from Samhain-consecrated Chthonic Salt, ensuring the fullest possible alignment to Persephone’s aura. Woodbead, would you be so kind as to place them evenly around the inner circumference of the pit, making sure that they are partially embedded into the sand itself?” Woodbead flipped open the small wooden chest that Crowley had them drag down for him, revealing three corvine statues carved from faintly luminescent, stygian blue salt. “Ah. Seems there are some crows here with us after all,” he quipped. “Those are ravens, you ornithologically illiterate ignoramus!” Crowley chastised him. “As usual, this ritual takes three occult practitioners to complete the circuit. Ideally, it would be three Witches, but since Seneca is remaining obstinate that Miss Sumner and her Coven do not aid us in this endeavour, the three of us will do in a pinch. We each stand between one of the totems on the outer perimeter of the sand pit, with the sacrifice going in the middle.” “I beg your pardon; the what now?” Woodbead asked as he finished placing the final totem. “Not you,” Seneca assured him. “Raubritter, what did you bring?” Raubritter reached into his jacket and pulled out something wrapped in fine linen. He carefully pulled it back to unveil a well-preserved human heart, one with a puncture wound piercing right through the middle. “Dare I ask where you got that from?” Woodbead queried, his face paling noticeably despite the poor light. “You didn’t buy it off the Darlings, did you? Their victims don’t go peacefully and that trauma has a significant impact on the applicability of their organs,” Seneca insisted. “It’s Petra’s,” Raubritter said as he callously examined the unbeating heart. “When Emrys resurrected her, he wasn’t able to repair the damage that Mary had caused, so he took her to Urhzeigerzinn’s to find her a mechatronic replacement. He rather carelessly left her original heart behind for Uhrzeigerzinn to do with as he pleased. He alchemically preserved it, and my representatives were able to convince him to part with it as reparations for that Adderman he dismembered.” With a single, casual toss, Raubritter threw the heart into the dead center of the sand pit, glad to get some practical use out of the notoriously impractical organ. “Dear God,” Seneca muttered. “What makes you so confident it was mere carelessness on Emrys’s part, hmmm? That heart was removed after she was dead but before she was resurrected, so any somatic connection it may have had to Petra has been severed. Emrys knows the sort of things we do with ill-gotten organs, and he knew we’d likely be able to persuade Urhzeigerzinn into handing it over! This is a terrible idea. Emrys wants us to use this heart, mark my words.” “I’m in full agreement, but the Grand Adderman wants this Sand purified,” Crowley explained. “The Miasma has to go somewhere once we dispel it from the Sand, and since it came from Petra in the first place, her old heart is the best vessel we have at our disposal.” “And did you tell the Grand Adderman it was Petra’s heart you planned to use?” Seneca demanded. “I didn’t *not* tell him,” Crowley replied. “I told him we would use a suitable human heart as a vessel for the Miasma, and he didn’t ask me to expound on that. “Now, there’s one final monkey wrench that we have to deal with, which is that the Miasma is going to be highly resistant to any attempt to purify it. That’s why, in addition to the ritual, I’m going to attempt some electrothaumic modulation to speed things along.” His Tesla coil instantly whirred to life, discharging a semi-continuous bolt of lightning between the Sand, the three totems, and the heart. “Christ, Crowley, is that really necessary? What if you miss and hit one of us?” Seneca demanded. “Don’t make me miss, and you’ll be fine,” Crowley assured him. “Raubritter, since you’re filling in for Crow, you take the lead.” “Just to clarify something before you begin,” Woodbead interjected. “The worst thing that can happen here is that it doesn’t work, right?” The three of them stared at him for a beat, before turning inwards and beginning the ritual. *“Ave Thaumaturgica Serpentis. Ave Ophion Orbis Ouroboros. Cum Sal Maleficarum, hanc Terram purgamus Tenebrarum. Cum Fulmine Jupiter Patris, damus Lucem Tenebris. Cum hoc Sacrificali Sanguineo, vincimus Tenebris,”* Raubritter chanted as he slowly traced sigils into the sand with the end of his cane. “Hail the Great Magic of the Serpent. Hail Ophion the World Serpent. With Witches’ Salt, we purge this Earth of Darkness. With the Sky Father’s Lightning, we give Light to Darkness. With this Sacrificial Blood, we overcome the Darkness!” *“Ave Thaumaturgica Serpentis. Ave Ophion Orbis Ouroboros. Cum Sal Maleficarum, hanc Terram purgamus Tenebrarum. Cum Fulmine Jupiter Patris, damus Lucem Tenebris. Cum hoc Sacrificali Sanguineo, vincimus Tenebris.”* Seneca and Crowley joined in with the chanting now, Seneca drawing sigils with his ceremonial serpentine sabre, and Crowley drawing his with bolts from his Tesla coil. They repeated their chant over and over, and as they did, the totems of Chthonic Salt began to vibrate and glow. Their auras extended outwards from their outstretched wings, forming an enclosed perimeter that began to grow towards the center of the pit. As they encroached along the Sand’s surface, the grains of sand began to glow and vibrate in synchronicity with the totems, and a black miasma began to exude from the surface. It mostly just crept and circulated along the pit’s circumference, with Crowley using his electrothaumic coil to shoot down any wisps that might venture too high or too far. When the light finally touched the heart, it was the catalyst for some kind of thaumaturgical chain reaction. The heart began to beat, its rhythm resonating with the Sand’s and causing them both to beat faster and harder. More and more of the Miasma was heaved up, circling around the heart in a heavy vortex that occluded everything within it from sight. Only the totems themselves remain visible, and only then as vague points of light in the storm. Inevitably, when every iota of Miasma had been expelled from the Sand, it began to collect inward, the dark cloud shrinking as the ravenously beating heart gulped it down, making it as much a part of itself as its own sinew. When the last puff of Miasma was swallowed, the Sand fell still, the totems went dark, and the three chanting occultists fell silent. Panting in relief and astonishment, Woodbead stepped back from his hiding spot and whipped out his parathaumameter to begin taking readings. “You did it. You did it!” he proclaimed. “The Sand’s reading as completely neutral! I’m not picking up a single taint of Emrys’ Miasma. It worked, gentlemen!” He looked up from his gauge, expecting the others to be excited, celebratory, or at least relieved. But instead, they all continued staring at the sand pit in silent dread. “It shouldn’t still be beating,” Crowley said. In the center of the pit remained the heart, and it had not fallen still. The Miasma had transmogrified it into gleaming obsidian, and yet it somehow maintained a strong and steady beat as it rested upon the Sand. The condensed Miasma flowed rapidly in small loops, in and out of every vein and artery, seemingly quite content with its new home. Crowley glared at Seneca and Raubritter from within his bubbling vat, indicating that one of them should step forward to investigate. “It’s your heart,” Seneca muttered to Raubritter. “It’s your pit,” Raubritter muttered back. Before any decision could be reached, however, the heart began to sink beneath the Sand, possibly burrowing of its own accord. Now there was no hesitation, Seneca and Raubritter each jumping forward and desperately sifting through the Sand to catch the wayward heart. They dug frantically, soon reaching the bottom of the shallow pit, with no sign of the heart or where it had gone. The four of them all shared knowing disquieted glances, each too terrified to bother placing blame for the moment. Seneca was the one who finally broke the awkward silence. “Well, like I said earlier; none of us were ever any good at chasing [after](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheVespersBell/) [women’s](https://www.reddit.com/r/Odd_directions/) [hearts](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCrypticCompendium/).” \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ *By The Vesper's Bell*

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Heyo, I was watching a RPG horror story earlier about a loner who refused to join the group no matter what, and it reminded me of this ironic campaign I was once a part of. It was a while back, so I don't remember many of the details, and trying to find them would take hours - for the most part, it was a campaign run by my brother, who based it off of One-Piece (Being an island-jumper pirate campaign, but featuring homebrewed islands and special lore on how devil fruits were made). At the time, I had made a new character called Senja (Indonesian in origin, but I pronounce it sen-hah because I'm a loser). He was pretty much a range-based Artificer, sticking to the sidelines and sniping down opponents before they could get close, though he would later multi-class into Monk, thanks to his high DEX stat. His backstory isn't very relevant. Senja is the usual loner who typically avoids people, with the quirky aspect of being a selective mute and only talks through vague hand gestures or white-boards. So, that kind of character would be hard to introduce, wouldn't he? ... Yeah, he wasn't. Due to witnessing a few crimes and also participating in them, he was forced to join the rest of the party on a boat to escape capture. Most of the members ended up leaving for one reason or another, so there was maybe two or three of us at the time. For reasons that are unknown to even me several sessions in, my dear loner here... had made a club for the anti-social NPCs who helped man the boat. At first, it was him and another mute, albeit this one being one due to an injury. Both didn't talk, and since they both sat in the crows nest, it was one awkward ride - so they "talked" and became more-or-less pals. We get a few more NPCs as he island jump until we get about four or so people counting Senja. So there is an entire party worth of people in the crows nest, people dubbed as Anti-socials mind you, being a social club who'd talk back and forth via the few who could actually speak, charades, white-boards, and one or two who had mind-linking abilities like aasimars. The reason this was so funny to me and the DM is because the other player didn't interact with the NPCs... At all, aside from the occasional comment. So this random mute loner had somehow made friends with everyone on the boat while the other person meandered or stuck to a specific activity. It was just one of those moments of absurd confusion on "How, when, and why did this happen?" Ironically, I don't even remember WHY there was multiple NPCs. I think some joined because they were bored or had a random common ground, such as not liking crowds (irony) or liking the s p a r k l y g e m s, as Senja was a cave diver who was also a gem hoarder... I miss that campaign, as it got cancelled due to the DM running out of ideas.

Always, always, always promise everything when they know they can't deliver(A house that will block anything they think makes people happy because ??? reasons) and progressives see through it so they better stop talking shit and deliver their on word for a change or stfu. That would be my suggestion. I can't wait for the combo of old dems forced to retire by reasons and Gen Z and Millennials taking over.

> The individuals granted clemency had served sentences and "demonstrated a commitment to improving their communities and the lives of those around them," a White House official said in a statement, adding, "These include individuals who honorably served in the U.S. military, volunteer in their communities, and survived domestic abuse." > The decision comes on the last business day of the year and follows an executive order in October that pardoned thousands of individuals convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law and D.C. statute. In April, Biden also granted clemency to three individuals and granted 75 commutations.

So, about 6 months ago my computer died and with it about 90% of all of my files... A long time ago I had some really sweet files that I borrowed from somewhere on the internet that had a huge selection of Twilight 2000 weapons and the Palladium Mega Damage stats for them. It doesn't really count as a conversion because all of the weapons are real world stuff just in Palladium damage stats... Anyway, those borrowed files are gone. I would really like to find them again, so if anyone has really good google-fu I would really love to get those files again. As a small aside... is anyone else noticing that Google and the other search engines are getting worse in that more and more it returns ads that are only tangentially related to the actual search...or things that are absolutely NOT what you are looking for, and the search results are getting smaller and smaller so instead of 38 pages of relevant stuff... you get 1 page of irrelevant ads. Anyway, thanks in advance.

You don't. If you like mechanical things and want to work with your hands, get into industrial maintenance. -A prior Mercedes Benz master tech

>industrial maintenance I'll look into it. Can I DM you a question? There is a college program that may be related to industrial maintenance in my city but I'd like to send you think link to it so you could tell me if it is for sure related or not.

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^(Full Text—Part 1/3) Monkeypox loomed as the next great viral threat — sickening people at a rapid clip during the summer and becoming the first public health crisis since the dawn of the coronavirus pandemic. But within months, the viral outbreak, which spurred U.S. and global agencies to declare public health emergencies, began disappearing almost as quickly as it had arrived. Infections are rare now, the Biden administration is poised to end the public health emergency, and monkeypox has faded from the headlines and social media chatter. After the disappointments and failures of the response to the coronavirus pandemic, the decline of monkeypox revealed the power of public health to quash disease threats when politics and science align, a community mobilizes to protect its own and medical advancements are deployed expeditiously. “It is good news to see cases down, but it’s not an invitation for triumphalism or complacency,” said Gregg Gonsalves, a professor of public health at Yale University and a longtime AIDS activist. This year’s global monkeypox outbreak spread among gay men largely through sexual activity, a pattern scientists said was unusual because the virus typically spreads among a more diverse community through other forms of close contact. But an aggressive public health response — drawing from decades of lessons learned fighting HIV/AIDS and employing efforts among gay men to raise awareness and encourage vaccination — prevented monkeypox from circulating more broadly. New daily infections in the United States peaked at about 450 in early August, when the Biden administration declared a public health emergency, and have declined to fewer than 10 per day. Experts caution against prematurely declaring the response to monkeypox — which global health authorities recently renamed mpox — a success story. They fault government agencies for failing to move swiftly enough against a virus for which tests, vaccines and treatment were already available. And it’s unclear how much of the decline in cases reflects government action, rather than the virus’s running out of susceptible people to infect. Nearly 30,000 Americans contracted monkeypox, which causes flu-like symptoms and rashes. Patients were required to isolate for weeks until the lesions scabbed over, forcing many to cancel plans or lose income. At least 20 people died. “We didn’t need to have such a large outbreak that persisted all summer and threw many people’s lives into disarray,” Gonsalves said. One lesson from the monkeypox response is clear, especially after fierce disagreement about coronavirus sharply divided Americans: A common sense of purpose can be a powerful weapon against a microscopic enemy. “It’s inspiring to see when community, political will and science come together,” said Demetre Daskalakis, the deputy coordinator of the White House monkeypox response, who has spent decades on the front lines of gay sexual health. “This is what we all signed up to do.” Episodic reports of gay men developing unusual rashes and unfamiliar illnesses this spring brought back memories of the first AIDS cases in the 1980s. Top figures across public health, research and medical institutions who came of age during that epidemic were determined not to repeat the mistakes of that crisis, when the widespread suffering of gay men was ignored. “It was malign neglect in the Reagan administration starting with leadership not even wanting to use the word AIDS and the implicit idea that the population was expendable and behavior was not socially sanctioned, so why should we do anything?” said Kenneth Mayer, a co-chair of the Fenway Institute, an LGBTQ health-care provider in Boston. As Massachusetts reported the first known monkeypox case in the United States, and European officials reported that men who have sex with men were contracting the virus, Mayer braced for an influx of patients. Eventually, Fenway would treat more than 100 monkeypox patients and vaccinate more than 6,600 individuals. He contrasted the Biden administration’s response to monkeypox with the sluggish actions early in the AIDS crisis, with Biden directly addressing monkeypox and forming a response team, and his administration holding regular Zoom meetings with LGBTQ organizations.

^(Part 2/3) While Mayer and other providers who primarily work with gay men praised the administration for that engagement, they faulted officials for not responding faster. In the crucial early months of the outbreak, testing was difficult to obtain, a daunting amount of paperwork faced those seeking medication, and the vaccine was in short supply. Anthony Fortenberry, the chief nursing officer at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, an LGBTQ health provider in New York that treated as many as 30 monkeypox patients per day during the summer peak, said the wave of infections began to crest as the federal government took steps to improve access to testing, treatment and vaccination. “The quicker we can address barriers to care, the quicker we can get on the other side of these outbreaks,” Fortenberry said. While monkeypox is curable and rarely deadly, the lesions it causes can be extremely painful, and the virus can force weeks of isolation. It led to especially severe outcomes in people with untreated HIV. The toll of monkeypox spurred activism in the gay community and placed enormous political pressure on big-city Democratic officials who count on LGBT voters as a key flank of their electorate. Local political officials pressured the Biden administration to expand vaccine availability and to ease access to care. “Monkeypox happened in the gay mecca cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, three of the most liberal cities where the government and the academic institutes and scientists and public health were already aligned anyway,” said Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of California at San Francisco who treated monkeypox patients. “If the outbreak was in North Dakota or South Dakota or Texas or Florida primarily, one could have imagined it would have been harder.” Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the monkeypox response demonstrated how the “biggest successes” in public health often come from those in government and community working side-by-side. She said she regularly consulted gay people to understand how access to testing and medication worked on the ground and how to improve it. It was a starkly different response from what unfolded four decades earlier amid a different viral outbreak. “I was in meetings where it was said, ‘Could you imagine what we could have done with HIV if we had meetings with the community as early?’ ” Walensky said. ###A community takes charge Yet, many who worked to quash the outbreak within the gay community paint a far less rosy picture. While they are relieved they did not endure outright hostility from the federal government and had many allies in the response, they noted that gay men still were left largely to fend for themselves throughout the summer. Doctors were unfamiliar with monkeypox symptoms, which can be confused with other skin conditions or sexually transmitted illnesses, and were unsure how to help patients. Messaging often was muddled as authorities tried to balance acknowledging that the virus was spreading almost exclusively among gay men against fears of stigmatizing that group. And the rollout of vaccines was uneven. In ways big and small, gay men stepped up for one another. In D.C., members of a gay kickball league discovered a vaccine site through links shared on group chats. In Denver, napkins at gay bars had QR codes to sign up for vaccine shots. Bathhouses where sexual encounters are common were temporarily repurposed as vaccination sites. Joseph Cherabie, an infectious-disease physician at Washington University in St. Louis who identifies as queer, said he made himself available to answer questions on Instagram, where many gay men turned for information. He felt it was important for people to hear from others like them that they should consider reducing their sexual activity to minimize exposure to monkeypox. “If I say that, members of my community hear that much differently than if a White cisgender heterosexual male or a White cisgender heterosexual female said that because you don’t know my life,” Cherabie said. Joe Osmundson, a microbiologist in New York, was among the queer scientist activists who organized to spread the word about monkeypox, co-writing an article on ways to reduce exposure while maintaining an active sex life, and promoting vaccines at bathhouses and other venues. He coined the term “anal autumn” as something to look forward to after making temporary behavioral changes. “There was a huge number of us who want to give people information and the ability to make behavioral choices to avoid painful infection without shaming people who like to have sex,” Osmundson said. “It’s sort of a muscle memory in the queer community: We know shame-based outreach doesn’t work, and if you meet people where they are at and provide resources, that tends to be much better.”

^(Part 3/3) Polling suggests he was right. Nearly three-quarters of gay and bisexual men surveyed in September said monkeypox was a threat to their lives, and two-thirds planned to get vaccinated, according to the Pew Research Center. In August, half of men who have sex with men said they were reducing their sexual encounters and number of partners because of monkeypox, according to a survey cited by the CDC that did not have a random sample. Jennifer Nuzzo, a professor of epidemiology at Brown University, takes a dim view of the public health response, arguing that it should have been a containment “slam dunk,” given that the world possessed the necessary tools. “This is not an administration success story by any means. A lot of the success resides within the LGBTQ community itself,” Nuzzo said. “Had it infected another group of patients, I’m not sure we would have done as well.” Although the number of monkeypox cases has plummeted, experts caution that the virus could rebound. They said they believe people most at risk probably have resumed their usual sexual behavior. If monkeypox establishes itself in animal hosts in the United States, it could become a permanent threat, as it is in parts of Africa. And the vaccination campaign has slowed. Officials estimate that about 1.6 million Americans are at risk of contracting monkeypox, but only about 430,000 people have received the two-dose vaccine regimen. Nearly 300,000 have received one dose. Racial disparities in vaccination persist, even though people of color make up most of the newly infected. White people have received almost half of all administered doses, Latinos about a fifth, and Black people about 11 percent. Remaining doses have gone to Asians, people who are multiracial, or recipients for whom information on race or ethnicity was not available. “I think we will get to zero” cases, said Robert J. Fenton Jr., coordinator of the White House monkeypox response. “The question is how long can you sustain that, and that’s really going to depend on vaccine uptake.” Walensky said public health authorities need to be especially vigilant as Pride festivities and large gay gatherings resume next summer and a new generation of teenagers and men not previously infected or vaccinated becomes sexually active. CDC research showed that at-risk unvaccinated young men were 10 times more likely to become infected than someone who received two shots. And while the United States was able to dramatically expand access to the monkeypox vaccine, shots remain hard to come by in Africa. “Just because we are not seeing cases doesn’t mean we can certainly declare victory,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California at Los Angeles who has studied monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of Congo for two decades. “One of the big root causes of this is because we have failed to deal with monkeypox at the source in places where we know it’s likely still spreading,” she said. ^(Author | Fenit Nirappil | the Washington Post)

>The arrest came almost eight months after Hines put the gasoline into an ambulance that was being donated to a volunteer fire company in upstate New York, but just weeks after a hotly contested municipal election held after the borough council abandoned a controversial plan to take the first aid squad building by eminent domain, according to the suit. That was despite the municipal Fire Department administrator witnessing Hines using the gas pump and reporting it to the borough administrator the same day it happened, according to the suit. > >“Rather than bill (the squad) for the fuel or ask plaintiff or any other (squad) members for the outstanding $56 on the account, defendants waited more than seven months to have plaintiff arrested and maliciously prosecuted for official misconduct and theft, the charges carrying a mandatory 2-year prison sentence without the possibility of parole," the suit said.  > >The county prosecutor’s office immediately dismissed the charges against Hines on Jan. 28, 2022, after reviewing the case with him and his criminal defense attorney, said Freehold attorney Thomas Mallon, who filed the civil suit on Hines’ behalf. Hines had to pay a $25,000 nonrefundable retainer to his criminal defense attorney, Steven Altman, to handle the criminal case, the suit said.

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Hello, can anyone comment on what this could mean? Are we talking dilution here? What else can funding arrangements could be made? Thanks. "intends to complete funding arrangements in the first half of 2023 for working capital and to fund its anticipated 2023 drilling and testing campaign" &#x200B; [https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pantheon-resources-shares-plummet-after-fy-2022-pretax-loss-widened-going-concern-warning-271672393344](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pantheon-resources-shares-plummet-after-fy-2022-pretax-loss-widened-going-concern-warning-271672393344)

tRUmp dangled pardons like rewards for his cronies to "just commit this crime for me and I'll make you whole" like a mob godfather would do. Thank God we have a POTUS not showing his buttocks like a John Gotti or Donald tRUmp.

Kroger has their Private Selection in-shell nuts on sale for 2/$1. I just got $80 worth of nuts for $8. I've never been this excited about nuts.

Politicians are 99.99999% trash. Obunga, Trumpster, Pedo Joe, we have had enough.

(Note: in writing this I realise something like this probably better suited for an actual Harry Potter subreddit in terms of style - over analysis of the books - but I dunno if they'd take it well over there, lol. ) This just popped into my head as I was thinking about the series today. See I used to be a big Harry Potter fan so a lot of the deep-cut shit about the franchise is stuck in my head. And I've never seen this brought up before but... why is Cornelius Fudge the Minister for Magic for both Britain and Ireland? So in the fourth book, there's the Quidditch World Cup and there's a bit where the main characters are sitting in the top box with a bunch of government officials. And since the match is between Ireland and Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Minister for Magic is there and Fudge is representing Ireland. The Harry Potter books are set in the 1990s, decades after the establishment of the Republic of Ireland as an independent state from the UK. And while Britain still controls Northern Ireland, it's clear that this team in the books is representative of all of Ireland not just the North. Now excuse me for all that nerd shit and let me make my point here: Does JK Rowling have a problem with Irish independence? Like there's never any lore explaining this and the rest of the world seems to function like our world, so it seems really weird that Rowling lumps Britain and Ireland together as one state in the books. And normally I wouldn't think too much into it but because of her coming out as a transphobe, it's made everything she's ever said or written really sus. Like with the anti-semitism that a lot of people are calling out or more people questioning the names 'Cho Chang' and 'Kingsley Shacklebolt' or people raising their eyebrow at the House Elf stuff. Rowling, quite rightly, no longer gets the benefit of the doubt from the people who enjoy her books. Rowling is also quite right wing as many know. She's professed support for the UK's Labour Party but only supports it's right-wing faction. During the left-leaning Corbyn leadership, she spent a lot of time promoting the tabloid slanders against him. She's also spending a lot of her energy rallying against the left-leaning Scottish government (though this is mostly due to the trans rights being passed up there). Now with this in mind, I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest she may have an issue with anti-colonialist movements and anti-imperialism and thus she might have some issue with Irish people asserting their independence. It feels kinda weird that she went out of the way to make it so her imaginary Irish magical community is being run by London based government rather than giving the Irish their own ministry. Like that's apparently where her head is at. And we know she has very national chauvanist views through her books as in same book (book 4), she introduces a ton of non-English characters, all of whom are written to have exaggerated, comically thick accents as well as being written to be conniving and slightly malicious where the British characters are presented as more trustworthy. Also in the chapter I mentioned earlier, where they're at this World Cup match, there's a bit where the Irish team have a bunch of Leprechauns as mascots throwing fake gold into the crowd. Now idk how messed up that is. I'm not Irish, I am close friends with one Irish person, they told me 'leprechaun' is kind of a slur towards Irish people. And it is kind of a bad stereotype right? But I guess they're Irish folkloric characters and in a world with centaurs and giants it isn't that fucked up but still, considering the other stuff, it does raise some questions. So then we come to the actual Irish supporting character in the book. Seamus Finnigan shows up in all the books as one of the people who shares a dormitory with the protagonist. People have criticised his name as being very stereotypical, the Irish equivalent of 'Cho Chang'. He's also speaks in kind of a stereotypical way. In the movies there's a recurring gag where he keeps blowing his eyebrows off but iirc that isn't in the books. In the books instead he's presented as a little bit aggressive and almost antagonistic in the fifth book. Look none of this is really a burning gun, I know. It's not as cut and dry as Rowling's transphobia which is far more overt. Like the accusations of anti-semitism, misogyny and racism, it's all based on people taking a closer look at the books since Rowling showed her true colours and people finding some stuff a bit sus. There's much more overt anti-irish sentiment that exists out there, but like I said, she doesn't get the benefit of the doubt anymore. It's clear she always harboured some very reactionary/chauvanistic sentiments and I think it's worth calling this to attention as well to add the pile. Because I mean the transphobia is bad enough, but more we emphasise the breadth of her bigotry the more we establish this isn't just a person with 'alternative views' on trans people, this is a person with hateful opinions and views on a lot issues and a lot of different groups. Sorry for this weird and rambly essay, it just popped into my head and I needed to get it down somewhere.

Can we have energy use per second displayed for weapons? Right now I have to assume it's energy per shot, then (with damage and DPS) work out rate of fire and multiply that by energy figure to get energy per second. I want that to calculate loadout energy consumption (could also be done and displayed automatically in ship's stats), saves a lot of trial end error, also helps estimating efficiency (damage per energy point) against shields and hull/armor.

Maccas and HJ’s are always hiring. There was several “hiring” signs around the light industrial area near the train station last week.

I recently watched all three books for the first time. I’m going to start by saying that despite what criticism I leave in this comment, watching the show is an oddly enjoyable way to kill some time. I read elsewhere in this thread about how this show has extremely strong female characters, and I totally agree. Strong women doesn’t mean what Marvel thinks, women who are so flawless and amazing that they don’t have to develop, strong female characters are women who are able to have trials and handle them and develop from it — Dragon’s Blood does this perfectly for its main female characters, and shows a clear disdain for Davion’s “conquests” and how the women are treated as objects by some men in the show. Marci is an incredibly likeable character, so expressive without a single word, and a total badass. (I didn’t have a place to put my praise for Marci but I love her as a character so I tacked her on here) Davion on the other hand is (imo) a weak character. He’s supposed to be the knight in shining armor, but falls into bed with random women and gets his ass kicked in every single fight beyond the first one with the Primal Beast-looking dragon. He develops as a character, but not in any meaningful way. He stays the incredibly brave/stupid hero he always was. The pacing is breakneck speed. So much stuff happens offscreen, I assume because scenes had to cut for time constraints; things like Lina’s death, or the death of the Eldwyrms. Layer after layer of plot is packed on before you have any time to digest what happened. My biggest criticism is its devolve into complete chaos. The first season starts out as a dirty, boots-on-the-ground feel, where characters are going through fantastical versions of real-life problems and conflicts. Compare this to the third season, where half of our main characters are literal gods (and in the case of Mirana, an Empress as well). The events of Season 3 were so un-grounded in the rules of both the story’s world and especially ours that I personally found it impossible to have any emotional connection with the events of the book. Any meaning I could have found was lost in wave after wave of colorful, screen-filling, well-animated magic.

My Tello should be arriving on my doorstep in a couple of days. What I'd like to do with it is to run a regular pattern of photos and perhaps video at the plant I work at to monitor things over time. We're doing some major upgrades that I'd like to record that aren't easily visible from the ground. I'll also probably do this on my property "just because I can". From what I gather, the Tello app doesn't support this but I believe that I could code this in either Python or GoBot and then use my laptop with these running in a Virtualbox VM to control the mission and save the media? I do have some coding skills and will have a few days off next week to trial things around the house first. I know that the video quality etc won't be nearly as good as it would be with a higher priced drone, but should be more than good enough for my purposes. I also know that I'll have to pick a calm day and also that the drone has to stay within I believe 100' of the controlling device. Is this a reasonable approach to use these tools to set up the waypoint mission or is there something else out there where it's a bit more capable / easy to set up? I've read some articles where they talk about being able to set waypoints based on a map or satellite image but don't know if those systems are compatible with the Tello. Thanks.

These tips will allow you to boost settlers happiness while having a crowded settlement (these tips come from my own trial and error): 1. Make homes with internal tile size of 6x10 2. Place at least 8 pieces of furniture for each home (candelabras count) 3. Farm for ingredients of choice and eventually have at least 3 gourmet meals in settlers diet for a huge happiness boost I hope these tips were useful for many of you :)

&#x200B; https://preview.redd.it/yatkcs6ppb9a1.jpg?width=2103&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=253ebb2953e60e4bdeb36509e10562d6f69efe6d **\[NA\] House Calderon | 18+ Heavy RP-PVX | Node building | Noble RP | Military | Social** Welcome to House Calderon! We are a 18+ Heavy RP-PvX guild, with a focus around Noble House RP. This guild centers around the Calderon Family, a noble house of Kaelar, and Empyrean origins. We first and foremost, are a community of adults, who seek to tell a story. The officers of the guild who makeup the Calderon Family have worked together in MMOs with an over 10 year record of experience from previous MMOs. **What we seek** \-We seek \*\*Community\*\* to find a node to call home, and pledge our House to a liege who will honor our house with land and title. \-We seek \*\*Growth\*\* through Land, a Freehold or Manor in which to establish our House as a lasting influence in a region. \-We seek \*\*Glory\*\*, knowing that we will not merely hold to our estate, but journey forth and fight in both PvP and PvE wherever the need arises. Be it to defend our land from raiders, rally to our node against enemies, or be called upon for war. \-We seek \*\*Family\*\* to nurture those who would call themselves Calderon, and to build a network of friends and allies. \-We seek \*\*Loyalty\*\* from those who would swear an oath to House Calderon. Banners who will answer the call and see our House as a symbol to rally to. **Goals** \-Claim land either in a Freehold or in a node Village or City. \-Become influential and a leading House of our area. \-Serve our Liege, our sworn King, and the Realm. \-Raise our own family and all families who swear to House Calderon together in a community. \-RP is a primary, with PvX content supported along with raids. \-Build a PvP ready force for the House to lead, participating in Guild Wars, Node Wars, and Castle Warfare. **What we offer** \- Open, honest, and transparent leadership. \- Over 10 years of experience in previous MMO's \- A story-driven and player-focused guild. \- An opportunity for you, the player, to be a founding member of an immersive, growing, and active community. \- Multiple paths to fit your playstyle. \- Progression within House Calderon for outstanding members. Join House Calderon, and venture forth into Verra together. **Guild Details** \-Empyrean Elf and Kaelar Human based House (Heavy lean on Empyrean) Half Elves. \-Accepting all races to serve, but family is centered on Elf and Human lineages. \-Worshiping the God of Truth (Shol) \-Building our House from ruin, a story that will grow with time and challenges \-Sigil is that of a Wyvern. \-Three branches of the House: ***House Staff*** The House Staff as it is called, are the direct staff members who aid in the day to day of the Houses management, or independent loyal citizens who pledge to the Calderons. These individuals are not Caldeorn family members, but our support staff who are in our employ. Support roles and full blown dedicated RPiers will feel at home here. Players focusing on their Artisian Classes such as dedicated Fishermen, Crafters, Cooks, Farmers, Miners, and more will all be members of the House Staff for now. There are several paths to follow in the House Staff branch: \-**Advisors** are players chosen to fill an advisory role in support of the Calderon Court. These Advisors are not officers, but specialists in a field so much so, that they are granted a place beside the ruling Court to advise, instruct, and give insight to a subject. \-**House Workers** are players who fill domestic roles to work directly for the Calderon Family. Joining the Workers means joining the Calderon Family RP, filling supportive roles and RPing at our Estate, and joining us directly. \-**Commoners** are players who aim to have their own journey in Ashes of Creation, but desire a place safely to do so. RPiers alone or differing families can choose to become Commoners and pledge allegiance to House Calderon by agreeing to serfdom, aligning you to our House. You would be free to live your life in Verra as you wish, under the watchful protection of House Calderon. You may even be provided land on a Freehold to work, or levied to join a war. ***Men at Arms*** The Military arm of House Calderon. The Men at Arms are where our dedicated Martial forces will branch. Any and all Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, or Tank players who intend to play combative roles, will find themselves beginning here. Men at Arms serve as House Guards, Professional Soldier, and more. **NOTE: In House Calderon, we do not RP out combat, we play the game. Thus, all members of the Men at Arms are forced to participate in PVP.** This is done specifically due to the nature of Ashes of Creation and the need to defend ourselves in the open world. A medieval military structure and life awaits you here as part of the Infantry, Archers, Cavalry, and more. The paths of Men at Arms: \-**Infantry** is the primary fighting force of the Men at Arms. Infantry covers a majority of the front line combat force and organized into teams (of party size) to work together. Infantry act as Guards for Freeholds or Nodes we are affiliated with, they go on patrols to keep the land safe from monsters and hostile forces, and march to war when called upon. \-**Knights** are players who have achieved Knighthood or a preliminary apprenticeship as a Squire. Knights of House Calderon are chosen by the Lord of the House and Knight Commander to become lower nobility, and a place of prestige for their honor and bravery in combat. (\*\*NOTE\*\*: Knights will be limited, and you cannot join the guild purely to become a Knight. Actions in RP will create a pathway to become a Knight, and you may have to do time as a squire first.) \-**Vanguard** are players who have joined "The Van", a military force of forward scouts who focus on lightning fast quick strikes, and are also House Calderon's premier Monster experts. Arriving on Verra, with its wide range of mythical and exotic beasts, someone will need to take the challenge of fighting or taming these creatures. Look no further, then the Vanguard. ***Magisterium*** The men and women of the Magisterium will be new once we enter Verra, as magic was once thought lost. All Arcane focused archetypes: Mage, Cleric, Bards and Summoners. Due to the volatile nature and mystery of the Essence. The House has formed this institution in the pursuit of mastery of magic. The Magisterium will have a religious background, as we make connection to the Gods and the Essence. Battle Mages will be trained to work alongside the **Men at Arms** as both combative and support roles. (Healers and Combat). \-**Mages** are players who join the Magesterium Academy, and work toward learning and mastering the Essence. Mages are both scholars, and magical experts who learn many different styles and schools of magic dependent on their interests. A Mages Academy will be formed hosted by House Calderon. Mages who wish to fulfill combative roles, may join the \*\*Men at Arms\*\* as Battle Mages on loan during battles. \-**Clergy** are players who wish to join the Church, and pledge their life to the Gods/Goddesses of Verra. House Calderon seeks divine wisdom in the God of Truth; Shol, but all divinities must be carefully adhered to. The Clergy serves as mentors, healers, and guides to religious guidance in Verra. **How to find us** Discord: [https://discord.gg/aRfw8FVKg7](https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscord.gg%2FaRfw8FVKg7) **Contacts:** Badkamikaze#9625 on discord Riji#6431 on discord

Davion absolutely progresses as a character in a meaningful way. Not sure how you came to the conclusion he doesnt. He just doesn't progress as "Big strong man becomes stronger bigger man." Chaos isn't the right word. Complex is. The storyline doesn't devolve into chaos, it evolves into a more and more complex story as it sets up it's pieces. Kind of like how a Dota2 match becomes more complex over time. It only looks like chaos to an observer who doesn't yet understand what's going on. Seeason 3 is where I found almost ALL of the emotional connection within the anime, and my primary complaint about the anime as I was watching it the first time was that there wasn't all that much of an emotional kick for me. Until Season 3. Marci's death hits hard from Season 2, but it doesn't really hit home that she's truly dead until Season 3. Season 3 is where the emotions hit a relatable point especial because of Filomena. Filomena gives real stakes and understanding to why Invoker is as twisted as he really is. But also Mirana. The way the anime pivots to focus on Mirana as the story's final main character focus really contextualizes the previous 2 seasons into what the stakes really were.

Hey everyone! Please let me know if I’m out of line here. My wife teaches first grade at our local elementary school, and she works with our kindergartener at home. She has designed word mapping worksheets to help teach sight words in the primary classroom. I designed and 3D printed mittens to go with her worksheet and she uses them at school with her class centers, and at home with our son. She has also gifted them to other teachers and has put her work up on teachers pay teachers for free. If anyone is interested in the link to the TPT for the worksheets or are interested in picking up some mittens, let me know! She’s really excited about it so I figured I’d help her out lol 😂. Happy new year everyone!

Happy New Year everyone! We just signed a contract for our venue in Geyserville for a September 2023 wedding (just like someone else who recently posted on this thread). Now a primary focus is booking the caterer. We want our wedding to be an amazing experience for our guests and part of that is excellent food. We want a cocktail hour with apps, family style dinner, and late night snacks. I’ve heard good things about Elaine Bell, but only from the venue side. They also seem relatively pricey (about $180/person all in). But we are willing to throw down that moolah if they are great. Curious if anyone has an experience with Elaine Bell Catering that they’d be willing to share or any recommendations for great catering options in Sonoma County. Thanks!

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I was staying in Bern Novotel for a week and had a great view of city, Gurten park/hill. But only yesterday I saw 4 lights on 4 different mountains on the left side of Gurten. Those alps that I see from my Hotel. What are those lights about? Is it for the planes? But then why these were only on yesterday? I was really thinking maybe there will be some fireworks on top of those 4 peaks too. LOL but of course that wasnt the case.