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Westeros has had an exceptional amount of war lately and scorched earth tactics on display. If not for that they’d be fine. Essos is fine except around Mereen. If Dany is coming west, it would be on the condition she has sorted things out and likely gotten her supply line in order and support from the free cities, at least pentos from how the story has been shaping up. So good supplies should be coming with her. winter storms, pirates, and iron islanders could be an issue to that though. once on land and advancing in-land there would be less to forage, but if anything Dany having a supply line from Essos makes sense as part of her invasion plan if she’s bringing food to help the issue in Westeros. A great way to make allies and get some love.

Wtf?

Gaza is and will be a ruin. The area will have to be occupied indefinitely by Israel, and all UN aid must be managed then dispensed by Israel. They will have to build and back a local government as rebuilding takes place, with say a 50 year plan to empower this government towards statehood. I mean it's not what I would do, but I'm a monster.

Or a way of proving forgetting id is no problem as he simply went home picked upmhis id and then voted. Reports i read are stressing so much why its not a problem and it proves there are no real issues when people forget to bring id Unfortunately this misses the point that many people dont have time to return home and come back later.

WTAF. I guess being able to turn an adult wearing diapers into a positive worthy of celebration is quite something?

Doubling down, tripling down, They wear diapers for him. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/888fec97ded6d101ab9589b553c67d74237c9fa65dc4a31dca8abbeafe4e1821.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/addae62970113a6ffbe836cfa47a7b2079fa5a89920e6f828f01323110e3fbbb.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cca8e4421d41522a0b196df93d1ed9734f1fd016b63909a82a4b7bfc05576e7d.jpg

Ah… I hadn’t noticed that.

Turkey halts trade with Israel over 'humanitarian tragedy' in Gaza https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68945380

The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant has hit a production rate of 36,000 155mm artillery shells per month. The plant is currently on track to hit 100,000 a month next year. These aren't all going to Ukraine, but a healthy chunk are. A second ammunition production plant in Texas is coming on-stream soon. The US has also apparently completed a "surge order" of ATACMS and is now reliably producing dozens of new ATACMS missiles every few months, enough to meet Ukrainian needs without dipping into American reserves. Ukraine has also received a significant influx of 8-inch shells for its 2S7 Pion 203mm self-propelled cannons, allowing them to return to service after apparently spending a large chunk of the last year out of service due to ammo shortages. Ukraine has also started hitting Russian forces along the front with their own glide bombs, air-launched from MiG-29 Fulcrums. Germany has provided AMPS self-protection systems to Ukraine, a bolt-on system compatible with various platforms to defend them from incoming missiles at both short and long ranges. About half a dozen Ukrainian helicopters are believed to be operating the technology, and may have already deployed it in the field. Ukrainian drones have destroyed an air defence system in Kursk Oblast.

Do I give the next clue this time? Not been following this thread/game for long.

LuckColumbia is lucky no one was killed. https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/

I thought so too, at first. But I did the math, and it's actually a reasonable number. 20 to 1 is the exchange rate for silver to gold, which is different from the ratios of monetary values or weights of the actual coins. If you scroll back about 6 posts, you can read how I analyzed it.

BG3 has the most realistic nude bodies Wert if that’s what you mean by characters

I got some of the worst lurgies ever from my sisters' kids. Fucking jellyheads.

Oh he's definitely partly based on Elagabalus. Ancient Egypt provides a lot of parallels too. The ancient Egyptians worshiped meteorites, one in particular called the BenBen stone, and meteorites were the original source for their metalwork....a big parallel with what might be going on with Lightbringer/Dawn/Bloodstone Emperor. As for whether the Shade trees are corrupted.....I have no proof, of course, but all the parallels to Weirwoods are dark and inverted. Their sap gives similar visions/abilities as the weirwoods, although all those visions seem to have a very dark twist to them, and all the people associated with them (Warlocks, Euron) are openly evil. They're the exact inverse color as weirwoods. Dany notes, as she walks through the Shade grove around the House of the Undying that it is "unusually dark." Very much like the trees are drinking the light, just as the stones in Assai do. It's also suspicious that there are zero Weirwoods in Essos and zero Shade trees in Westeros, considering we know they were connected via a very large land bridge for most of history. As for nothing growing in Assai, that's true. But we've got no idea at all what's inside the city of Stygai. If Stygai were in fact the Royal Capital...it might make sense for it to have some version of a Godswood, even that far back in time. For me, the biggest clue is Euron himself. He's drinking Shade of the Evening all the time and it's resulted in him emulating everything we know about the Bloodstone Emperor. I have to think the trees are somehow linked to the original stone that the Bloodstone emperor took his name from. Euron didn't learn the ritual that he's preparing for in Winds of Winter from nowhere. Conjecture....but a lot of things line up and start to make sense if the initial conceit of Shade trees being corrupt Weirwoods is taken as correct. Hopefully we won't have to wait for A Dream of Spring for Bran to get visions that far back.

What is annoying is that he did say early on that Way of Kings would be the longest novel and the rest would be shorter, and he's since bemoaned how big the books are because of the time they take, so if he reduced the books from say 1,400 pages to around 750 pages, they'd still be bloody big books, but much more digestible and he'd shave at least a year off the writing of each one. I do wonder if he's planning to significantly shorten the books in the second half of the series, bearing in mind it's taken 15 years to produce the first half and will presumably take the same to produce the second, if not longer as he's likely to slow down as he gets older.

Ugh. You know when you baby sit your sister’s sick kids? And you just know your’e gonna get sick yourself in 2 days now? I just hope it’s not that bad.

Cooking in the sense that your gaming room will be a sauna from the heat the GPU will be exhausting in to it, I assume?

In later seasons, particularly 4, Burnham develops a very strange way of speaking, a sort of whisper-rasping thing. It's not quite as bad as Aidan Gillen's inexplicable Batman voice as Littlefinger in later seasons of GoT, but it is equally inexplicable that they both use their perfectly fine, normal human speaking voices in earlier seasons and abruptly switch 2 or 3 seasons in for absolutely no apparent reason.

I think it's become increasingly clear that Sanderson has no editorial hand constraining him. I believe he's stated outright that he enjoys vomiting all his ideas out onto the page but dislikes rewriting and editing, and at this point sales juggernaut that he is nobody's going to make him carve out the good book from the surrounding bloat when it'll sell hugely regardless.

My brother calls it Whisperboarding. i.e. Once again, Michael Burnham resolves the plot by whisperboarding a galaxy-threatening threat into submission.

What?

I think it was Monday or Tuesday. But I can't be at all certain. Might have been last week, lol. He was talking to women who have decided, for whatever reason, not to have children. We heard how society drills into girls, from a very early age, the idea that motherhood should be their ultimate goal in life. And how, if you weren't a mum, there must be something wrong with you. They also spoke about the demands of parenting being vastly different, depending on your role. Apparently, many women who have chosen to remain childless would have kids if they could take the "traditional" role of father.

Egg shaving his hair:

BTW -- her church taught her, as so many have believed since the Greeks lost their dominance in the world of thinking and culture, that gay men weren't men either. This despite. you know, having all the items, including prostates. I'd kinda like some of those who are still saying this stupidity to meet some gay men from around the way and see them with their manly weapons and their fists, for that matter -- since so many of them think gay men aren't men because, you know, they can't fight (tell it to Alexander, Hadrian, etc.) IOW, we contemporary enlightened ilks really should know better than have this endless scroll as to who is what, where and why, gender, sexually, etc. But no we'd rather go around hurting people, insulting people because -- l guess it makes us feel good.