JaymesRS

@JaymesRS@literature.cafe

Nerd; Board, Card, Pencil & Paper Gamer; Avid Reader; to find me in other places: lnk.bio/JaymesRS

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JaymesRS,

This announcement is entirely part of a plan trying to build up good will before ruling Trump immune from everything.

JaymesRS, (edited )

Not “may”, the wording is “shall” and “with””. And while I would have rather they try to end run around the road block, shall and with have specific meaning in legal documents that is much less wishy-washy than “may”

JaymesRS,

I wonder how hard it will be to make this all… DISAPPEAR…

JaymesRS,

The book is so much better than the Pirates adaptation. I was looking for fantasy books a few years ago that didn’t have such a Eurocentric setting and stumbled across this. I liked Tim Powers so I read it and enjoyed it tremendously.

The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker - $1.99

Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and feels compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a restless creature of fire, once free to roam the desert but now imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they’ll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings...

JaymesRS,

This book is fantastic, it’s got “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”

If you love the movie, this book is the movie ramped up your 11.

JaymesRS,

Not even being subtle here.

JaymesRS,

Bah, like the Romulans could do any better.

JaymesRS,

If a bear pisses in the woods, would Bear Grylls try to drink it before going back to his hotel for the night?

JaymesRS,

Sure it’s good, but it’s no Streets of Rage… 😉

JaymesRS,

In a normal media environment I’d agree with you completely, the problem is that we have a media apparatus that is set up as a propaganda arm of a political party and mainstream media thinks that balance is that any negative news story must be balanced by a negative news story in the other direction (“Trump incites riot and Biden mispronounced his granddaughters name, why both could mean the collapse of their campaigns” type coverage), instead of being balanced in standards of reporting.

I don’t know what the solution is. My strategy though is to work down ballot to get better people in positions to push Biden and get him more flexibility to make better choices and changes.

JaymesRS,

Pitch for the NYT:

THIS Week: Top Republicans not sure if they’ll accept election results. And Biden is so old and confused he mispronounced the name of the prime minister of Belarus. Which is worse? We asked ten voters in a diner.

9/10 agree it’s Biden.

JaymesRS,

Sometimes things aren’t your fault but are your problem. And men making excuses like “just locker room talk” and not confronting other men in their lives who do or say toxic things or espouse ideas or personalities that generally make women uncomfortable are our problems, whether or not they are our fault.

JaymesRS,

Arctic and Mlem for iOS.

Arctic is my primary, it was the first that I know of to include admin tools, the single developer is super accessible and on top of for resolving bugs and does a good job at supporting markdown both in the editor and the viewer.

Mlem is my backup if I need to access 2 different spots on the Lemmy-verse. It has a great viewer and interface but is missing a markdown editor.

JaymesRS,

It was discovered apparently when he went in for mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna. Mercury poisoning… in an anti-vaxxer… who has cited mercury as a reason to avoid vaccines…

Nathian Fillion speachless gif

JaymesRS,

“There are just too many pre-trial motions yet to be decided for us to continue on the original plan*” she opined, having chosen not to decide them in the when they were raised months ago.

*- not an actual quote

JaymesRS, (edited )

In the US they never dropped the mandatory overtures to religiosity. In fact, there was a period in the 90s-early 2000s where one sizable religious group who had replaced their prior youth organization with the BSA got pretty involved at the national level to the detriment of the program as a whole. While it’s not really required in any real sense at the troop level, you do have to affirm a belief in some “higher power” as an adult volunteer. (I’m an Eagle Scout and now atheist)

In Sweden, the Svenska Scoutförbundet was an outgrowth from the original UK scouting movement, but I don’t know how big it was/is.

JaymesRS,

I know. It just seemed to me that their influence began to ramp up even more (perhaps that was just my local troop though) when the LDS Church started paying registrations and activities fees in the early 90s but it truthfully happened slowly like boiling a frog over a long time.

JaymesRS,

Do you have any recommendations?

Maybe: One you feel is the Best? First I should read to get a feel? Your Favorite?

JaymesRS,

Thanks, I bought the series a while back and I have yet to start reading it, but I’m looking forward to it

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