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"Dow set to fall more than 600 points on Trump’s new tariff threat over Greenland: Live updates" CNBC tonight = TACO TIME The lack of market blowback following Maduro gave him the Lil big blue pill old man boner confidence. But now he f'ing with Europe, who - if aligned- can make a real dent.

We're damn near Nigerian prince territory. Could see letter to supporters: Dear Sir/Madam: I am a wealthy King President from The United States of the Americas. Donate to me now so I can afford to open our vast vaults and will in return send you true MAGAs a 100 fold return for your assistance! (reply to [email protected])

I am pretty confident Trump asked them to look into issuing something to those who voted for him only. Likely offset with a special tax on those who did not (less commission to Trump Foundation of course)

This kind of writing spanned out over a number of books easily becomes a tangled web of plot issues. So many characters with so many abilities = tough to reconcile them all while staying story consistent. He comes up with some solid reasons for nerfing (AI says no teleporting, no offensive magic) which makes the variables reduce, but it's still pretty crazy when you think of all the characters in play. I would venture to say the readers for this series are pretty detail engaged and the types that contemplate possibilities (a la some home brew DnD or MinMax gamer types), so he's got to be trying hard to not skip glaringly obvious solutions he's already laid out just because they would suck the complexity and drama right out. I.E., avoid the Why didn't Antman just go up Thanos's butt and expand? solutions. I mean of course Carl/Donut gonna have 10-foot-thick steel plot armor but write it in as believably as possibly. The AI pet angle helps carry that. Carl engineering/jerry-rigging items in the earlier books was one of my fav parts. Made sense give his small engine repair skills and made the character more real world relatable.

That's a very good way of putting it. I'm about 2/3 way through. Feels mostly all ramped up, all the time. Which given total war scenario I get. But drains your energy after a while as a reader. And so many characters getting quick referenced but no longer explored much makes it actually feel shallower. Like the scene with Tserendolgor in the previous book's close was a nice moment to flesh out her character. Those moments missing more in Book 7 than in all the prior ones. Not done yet so maybe will change my mind by the end. On side note been imagining some massive white board and/pr spreadsheets Matt must keep to track all the abilites/spells, references, foreshadowed moments and so on. A LOT to keep track of. Book 7 also makes me wonder if he has ever consulted with others in terms of what COULD happen based on what he has laid out already in terms of war strategy and the like.

This really is #1 on the list for autism and many other similar cases. Even now more and more adults are starting to understand they are "on the spectrum," just highly functional. Almost a bit like dyslexia for example. At one point Johnny was just dumb and couldn't read. Then later he's got dyslexia. Then a whole bunch did as we understood it more, tested for it more. Wow rates shot up! Along a different but parallel track look at Detection Bias (since covid vaccine related complications were brought up): those more willing to seek preventative medical treatment ie say get the covid vaccine also tend to report higher levels of well, everything - cancer, etc et al. With rates rising soon after seeing a doc getting for example, a covid shot. Why? Because once at the doc's they're getting test run. Don't go to the doc, no test, no result = "no cancer." Meanwhile mortality charts demonstrate that when you sort by like kind health situations (age, smokers, etc) life expectancy is lower for those not using said preventative treatments a la The Shot across meta data sets.

My boys love Jersey Mike's out here and I end up eating it as they are kind enough to send free chow for the volunteers at tennis tournaments. Not bad at all. Not exactly cheap either, especially with my 2 chow monsters. Let's say we get 3 Big Kahuna ($21.95), then add in drinks, chips and a cookie or something (would probably not get anything besides drinks but anyway). It's about $110 for the 3 of us. And yeah gotta tip right? So $125+. [I think in reality we've gotten 2 big ones, a couple drinks and split it]. So not exactly nothing. Just looked out of interest and Jersey Mikes in Hendersonville TN is $17.30 for the same Big Kahuna. Honestly closer than I expected. Went bit further and checked Roundtable here and a location in Fresno and I think I saw a large Maui Zaui was $39.50 here and $34.50 there. More interesting these East and West coast places all have Hawaiian-themed items.

Speaking of legit local talk by an actual local (somebody sent this my way): Love this guy. No lolo, that braddah stay akamai.

Around here it's like calling someone a dumbass. Almost like 1980s Pollack jokes. I don't think I've ever really heard WHY the Portuguese immigrants were considered stupid. Mostly said now in jest only in Pidgin - often in self-deprecating humor by those of Portuguese ancestry. Bunch of them here. Started coming 1880s or so largely at 1st to work on sugar plantations.

Well he is part "Portagee" (my HI locals know what I mean)

Been to a 5 Guys once on the mainland few years ago. In And Out last in the late 90s in CA. So not too sure the cost disparity now. But yeah for me and a few kids with loaded burgers, fries, shakes... wasn't cheap.

THE person? They ever stop to notice what an overwhelming % of sexual crimes against children are committed by Christian/conservative/MAGA types? Very often the ones who most loudly protest their anti-gay/anti-trans/anti-everything not right, white and Jesus are the very ones getting the mug shots later. And that's just the ones caught. The Catholic church alone shows how many get covered for. On parallel front, look at Grindr activity during Republican convention. See: Milwaukee. Also see Utah often at or near top in Porn Hub searches. Your public church face a veneer over your real self. When not allowed to be honest, that real self can fester into a nasty boil of an issue.

Chick Fil A in South? Not horrible. Maui one sucks. My kids like Cane's way more and so do I. Though better ones elsewhere. Slim Chickens in Hendersonville definitely better. I don't really ever do fast food. Went to In and Out to check out the hype when I moved to Cali in the 90s. Sure was way better than McD's and their standards OK (except fresh fries? no. poach/parcook + freeze = refry high heat = crispy air pockets, yum). Honestly I think I like 5 Guys more than In and Out.

Yeah no kidding. You got me reading Suarez back then and though maybe not with as much steam as the years after Daemon his plots do keep touching on just slightly future realities.

Drone tech could create a new age of privateers. Russia's Shadow Fleet in some ways functions like that already, albeit transporting for sovereign nation undr a different flag not stealing goods. At the lower entry price points seems like drones could easily be operated by private merc teams to specifically harass/damage a rival nation while maintaining a thin veneer of "I don't know what you're talking about" defense. Sounds like something Russia would have put in place already in fact. Think cable cutting. Maybe we need Sir Francis Drake Jr. to show up.