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I mean… That being said, I do agree the series has been rather scattershot thus far and moreover is a decidedly acquired taste I myself can often take or leave. They seemed to have aligned the storylines now though, so hopefully it ends strong.

Ok, Nepo - Pragg a draw in the French exchange variation. And wins for Caruana (Vidit), Gukesh (Abasov) and Nakamura (Firouzja). Thus Nepo, Gukesh and Nakemura sit on 7.5/12 with Caruana in pursuit with 7/12. Tomorrow's a rest day. And then we enter the two final rounds. Round 13 has Nepo-Naka as top pairing. Nepo also still has to play Caruana in the Final round. With Naka having to deal with Gukesh then.

Sure, if we were reading an altogether different story. I don't know about reputation, I know only my opinion and that is that their stuff is usually ridiculous tbh. Instead of finding possible clues to something and trying to work out a cogent theory, they seem to have ideas they find interesting and then try to shoehorn these ideas into the text. It obviously never fits, but I'm sure they have their share of fans.

What can I say, it's part of our culture here:

Like a few people already said the problem is that the Riverlands are too divided, but that is because of lack of leadership, at least of respectable leadership, all other kingdoms use to be independant with a ruling dynasty, and except for the Reach they all are still ruled by that dynasty. The Reach as the advantage that it is just too big and too populous but the Tyrells are also very good at the mariage game, something that the Tully's are actually not that good at. If the Riverlands had a ruling house from old royal stock like a Mudd, a Justman or even a Teague then it would most likely be more prosperous and united. As so far for the cities the problem is not of population but of number of disunited cities, Saltpans is so small because it has to compete with Lord's Harroway's Town upstream from it and close to where all the branch of the Trident merge, and Maidenpool is also not very far and before being sacked 3 times was most likely the biggest town in the riverlands.

If it weren't for some of Ned's actions and choices, Benjen would have married Catelyn and ruled Winterfell, and Ned would have taken the black. As to what those were, I leave you to your books. What's the reputation of order of the green hand's stuff? I mean, in what way does the Benjen manipulated Jon theory go with their other stuff?

Miami is in a bad spot long term. Butler's contract isn't great, but they could dump it in a year. Bam is a nice player on a good deal, but he doesn't have much value if they have to rebuild (which they should). Herro's contract is good enough to get something. Overall I just don't think this roster has much left in them and they shouldn't cling to how they overperformed the last few seasons.

How long was it? And how short is it now?

You asked me to use my imagination? Are you sure about this? So lemme picture it. So to get in the mood, you went to a restaurant, had a fine bottle wine, then you went home and put on some music, which I just assume was the Beetlejuice musical. Yeah, I think I am getting the picture.

Well today it finally happened, cut almost all of it off. I found it to be fun having long hair, but it was time and frankly it didn't look the best. I'll miss twirling it with my fingers though. There was so much on the floor, lol. That said... Only the evil dog seems to disagree. I am now a stranger to her, but she's coming around.

If I recall correctly Victarion does burn alive a few slaves girls has a sacrifice to R'hollor, and my guess is that Moqorro is the one that gives the idea of burning them alive, I could be wrong but it does seem so. So we have 2 Red Priest who do it and if I recall Thoros was by is own admittance a bad priest so there is a good chance he was not exactly very devoted. So it could be a niche practice that only some factions of the follower of R'hollor actually practice, but that the majority don't.

I think the players are tired again. Going deep in four competitions, with all of the injury absences, just adds up. Unfortunately it’s a familiar pattern. The team runs out of steam each season. Guardiola seems to do a better job of having his team peak in March, April, May, even if they had a rough patch sometime earlier.

Results are really starting to show. I've switched to a two day routine where day 1 is weights and cardio and day 2 is yoga and/or stretching. I just need to stop being so lazy with the row machine. That shit is hard if you try to do it for a long time.

It is, but if you love someone you'll do their laundry and not think twice about seeing it. She liked that I could fill up the whole trunk. Sleep with that on your mind.

Perhaps there is some misunderstanding of what bias means? Bias is never an objectively good thing, at best it's neutral in situations where the issue is of a benign nature, like what's your favourite colour. When it comes to economic systems, social and environmental policy bias is an undeniably bad thing. Good things happened with capitalism, but that does not mean they would have only ever happened under capitalism. Bad things happened and are happening because of capitalism. To me capitalism is like thalidomide. Seemed to be amazing for a while, and then the deformed babies started to turn up and suddenly people realised it was not so great after all. And now it's time for my fortnightly MMT plug: Capitalism was on the brink of failing hard in the 1970s, but then Richard Nixon did the world a huge favour and killed the gold standard dead forever, transforming almost all the world's currencies into fiat currencies with the flick of a wrist. This, along with floating exchange rates, finally released governments from the shackles of having to balance budgets and allowed the near perpetual running of national deficits to be used for the general public good (but often were not, sadly). Remember folks deficits don't matter (within reason and depending how they are used) and taxes don't pay for [national] govt spending. Govt budgets are moral documents, not financial documents.

Look at the photo here of him leaving the courthouse today Former President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he leaves court on the second day of his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 16, 2024 in New York City. (Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty Images) -- he is losing weight. https://www.salon.com/2024/04/18/hes-dropping-little-clues-the-troubling-message-we-are-missing-from-maga-rallies/

How much money do you have to make to be considered above absolute poverty? Like 2 dollars a day?

I am with DMC on this one. There are better ways for you to come out as a Republican than with a Red Elephant thong. Yes, I am assuming this was a political statement better placed in the US politics thread. No, not going in the other direction with that.

Should have been 2-0 at half time if Salah cared to score. Sure Atalanta did well, but there simply was less of a fighting spirit from Liverpool compared to other European matches.

Well the North does have few knights mainly under the Manderly's, but interestingly the North also has "Masters", the Glovers and Tallhart notably, and will it is not clear if they are equivalent to landed knights but they could be, making them the hierarchical equivalent to a big landed knight like Templeton's. Well in this particular case the Clearances did not help, while it is true that the Highlands cant maintain a huge population they still had a greater share of the population they have today, in fact in 1851 the population of the Highlands was roughly equivalent to today population of the Highlands but the rest of Scotland double in population.

In this case I’d really rather not!

Um.....spotting is a bitch

Ex-fiancé would disagree. Just saying, white or light colored underwear, especially for most men, bad idea. But ladies, don't think that it isn't an issue for you too. Darker colors work better unless you need something for a specific outfit.

you clearly don't have a vivid enough imagination because that makes perfect sense to me

No it didn’t.