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Tea for sure; even caffeinated tea has just the right amount of caffeine where it doesn’t irritate me. I don’t like the affects of too much caffeine. I’ve become a bit of a tea connoisseur. I’ve got tea from all over the world. I have a tea tumbler with infuser, all I do is boil water, only takes a minute with an electric kettle and put it in tumbler, then put the leaves in the infuser; it’s done pretty quick. The tumbler keeps it hot or cold for many hours in case you want to save it.
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7 hours ago, m76 said:
Probably the only meaningful thing to come from George W Bush, the soft bigotry of low expectations, which is what democrats are engaged in.
Another thing I want to add is that Major League Baseball even pulled the All Star game from Atlanta over the new voting suppression bill. Since when the hell is MLB democratic bigotry??? I always thought it was anything but liberal. But they are standing with democracy.
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The Houston area/Harris county is an extremely diverse city that is liberal. Atlanta Georgia has a very large black population where new voting laws will directly affect them too. Black churches have 'souls to the polls' early on Sundays to vote. And republicans have made it so the polls won't open to the afternoon. You have to understand the whole point of these laws is to make the lines longer in bigger cities with less time to vote and harder access to get there. And I'll say it again, urban areas tend to be more liberal and diverse. Not everyone is going to be able to take another day off work to stand in line all day if they weren't able to get in the doors the first time. This tactic was used when blacks in the south first got the right to vote. They even worded their new voting bills 'purify the ballot box'. They said the same exact wording in Jim Crow era of voting when they tried to weed out the blacks. At least they redacted that wording after being confronted by it. Will republicans be affected? Sure, but not nearly as much. Take a rural town of 10,000 or 20,000 or even 50,000 people. How many of them might not get the chance to vote, or be deterred from voting? Now take a few million people with limited access and reduced days and hours. Yeah, there will be republicans with the same problem in these directly affected counties; and to me, it's as if they are used as a sacrifice to deter the larger demographic. But if the people in larger counties endure chaos and lower voter turnout, that will in affect increase the rural voting power of the swing states. It is up to every individual to risk their jobs to take that time off to vote, to get the transportation necessary, go with a friend and bring your own water, go early as possible, make sure you are registered because they are dumping people off the registry, know when to ask for a mail in ballot, fill it out properly, get a witness if required by the new law, know exactly what you need to do ahead of time.
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And shelter, there are people out there that live a nomadic life. There are others trained in military or terrorism as kids that spend their lives living in the wilderness. There are also adults who train in military living in conditions without shelter. Do they prefer shelter? Can’t say for sure. Do tents count? We all need protection from the rain, but otherwise there are plenty who enjoy sleeping under the stars.
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21 hours ago, killamch89 said:
I'm sure we can agree that most politicians are corrupt and self-serving. Putting their needs above the needs of the citizens they're supposed to serve. Do you agree with my choice?
I don’t think everyone agrees on that cause how many times is a politician depicted as a saint or god sent?
8 hours ago, The Blackangel said:You're right about that one. I think we can also agree that clean water, clean food, and shelter are the most important things in life.
Not everyone is an advocate for clean food and water. Many people don’t even care and actually support the opposite either politically or financially. The places that still have lead in the water, at least a few years ago, there were people knowingly drinking that stuff and pushing that it isn’t so bad. I saw on a documentary after the Flint Michigan crisis.
I don’t think there is a single thing everyone can possibly agree on. If you can come up with it, I will bow down to genius.
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2 hours ago, The Blackangel said:
Jellyfish. If you look into it, they actually have no heart or brain. So by definition that makes the damn things a plant and not an animal.
You just described half of America
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I'm definitely excited about this. The underwater looks great and they are gonna have free climbing!!! That's a big plus for me.
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It looks awesome, but no co-op for me. They should have a single player campaign and put it on console. I'd get it. But they are obviously limiting themselves.
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12 hours ago, killamch89 said:
That could except what if the enemy has an AOE attack?
If the enemy has AOE attacks, then keep battlefield awareness and don't get stuck in a corner too long. Stay fluid and move around till you can get some critical strikes in. That old saying stick and move. Try to master parrying because I found it's always the easiest way to stun an enemy. If you are talking about magic on magic, then those scenarios are endless.
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That's a hard one. With beaches you have to worry about hurricanes and beached whales. lol. The forest has too many skeeters, and predators. There is something magical about both worlds. So I would take a cabin in the woods close to the beach where no hurricanes go, like the Mediterranean Sea. Then head off to a village and soak the culture. Then I pick up a newspaper and read about the Dumb Plague that has wiped out the minds of everyone in my old country.
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The color palette in Horizon is a photographer's wet dream. How can they make such a beautiful game and not inspire us to want to be able to capture these moments? But I feel like an idiot because I didn't know HZD had a photo mode. Now I'm looking at the options in all my games to see which ones offer it. I've found RDR2 also has a photo mode which I never knew.
But out of the games I've played, I think the photo mode in Ghost of Tsushima is the best so far. There are a ton of options in there. I think that's the direction gaming is moving toward and soon every game will have a way to personalize photos.
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I would run around and dive to confuse the enemy and get to an area where I can start attacking the weak ones to build adrenaline. Then stop toying around and go for the kills.
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Everything in life requires balance. If balance gets upset, nature will weed you out once way or another.
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QANON wacky cookies have been pushing that since day one. It’s a tactic to undermine the presidency and democracy. If they keep doing it every few months, then more and more people will believe it, and it’s an attempt to confuse world leaders and to sow the opinion that democracy is weak so that authoritarians can use America as an example to justify their own ways of leadership.
As long as we have bravery in social media to ban any that may incite violence, or spread conspiracy that can result in violence, and law enforcement brave and federal agencies brave enough to protect democracy and threaten the comfort of white supremacist groups, and politicians brave enough to protect the voting process, and citizens brave enough to defend democracy, then we will be ok. And if the traitors ever try to use force again, those on the front line should be brave enough to kill.
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5 hours ago, m76 said:
If you think voter ID only affects minorities then you are the one who is deeply bigoted.
It is not anti-democracy as the actually extremist far left portrays it. We in Europe couldn't even imagine democracy without first checking that the person voting is actually registered citizen of the voting district and can identify themselves by proving they are who they say they are.
Voter ID? Is that all you think it's about? I'm all for voter ID. Their voting restrictions isn't about ID. They are getting rid of ballot sites to just one only in major populated counties. Democrats and people of color are more populated in larger counties. Then they are decreasing early voting days. They are decreasing the number of hours to vote on the weekends. Blacks have Sunday voting where they go vote after church in the morning. Republicans are making it so that on Sunday polls are closed till the afternoon. The whole point republicans are trying to do is cause mass crowding in a limited time in more populated areas to deter people from voting. They made it illegal to provide water for those in line. They are allowing voter intimidation at the polling places and encouraging it by allowing watchers carry guns. In Harris County in Houston, the 4th largest city in the USA with a few million people, in 2020 the republican governor closed all ballot sites from around 10 to just one, and he just made sure to keep it that way. So now people have to drive who knows where and wait who knows how long just for their right to vote. There are also a lot of people with transportation problems or don't have the access to drive across the county to vote. This is directly targeting minorities and democrats in populated areas and we all know it. And they are dropping people from the mail in ballot list, making it harder to even get the ballot to vote. Then they are passing laws to be able to have a biased recount of ballots like they are doing in Arizona who even republicans are calling it sloppy, embarrassing, and outright disgracing democracy for only the reason to weaken the democratic system and make people not trust it.
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And republicans want to claim 'cancel culture' when they are in fact the ones using government to cancel culture. They want to cancel the culture of democracy.
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Correction-it is a county in N. Carolina that used its government to pass legislation banning Coca Cola not the whole state...yet. And of course every republican in every state will follow. Legal? I don't know. They should be sued and this is a good case that could change this ridiculous new law. I mean WTF world is this now?
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Popularity doesn't mean anything as long as you got a handful of people on the inside luring democracy into the showers to get prison raped without soap, while the guards watch and giggle.
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And the crazy extremists keep getting more and more extreme. Ever since republicans started pushing voting restriction bills, they have been bumping heads with corporate America. One bill passed in Georgia to make it harder to vote, created backlash with Major League Baseball as they pulled the All Star game from Georgia due to the bill. Coca Cola expressed their view the bill was wrong. Republican politicians in return have threatened to not give them tax breaks or help them financially in any way if they regain power. That is blatant blackmail or something with specific corporations. I don't know what to call it. Conflicts of interest? Using the government to bribe and blackmail corporations?
I understand corporate America shouldn't get involved with politics. But when democracy is on the line and they speak up, then if you don't like it you can boycott as a consumer. But republicans have now gone into a poltical war using the government to fight their battles. In N. carolina, republicans have now used the government and their voting process to pass into law to ban Coca Cola machines in all government buildings in N. Carolina due to what they said about Georgia voting restriction bills. First of all, the voting bill was passed in Georgia, and yet N. Carolina is banning Coca Cola. And we know when one republicans state does it....the sheep follow in line.
The headquarters of Coca Cola is Atlanta Georgia, and that is why the corporation spoke up. But to pass legislation in another state banning their product is pretty absurd. I don't know what to say anymore.
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Collecting mineral specimens or rocks, people think it's all just tumbled stones to meditate with. But they don't realize that every mineral has a crystal structure including salt, gold, iron, lead, etc. I have a wide variety of specimens that are just beyond amazing in beauty and science. People also think that just because I collect rocks, that any piece of limestone crumbed from a mountain is a good present. If I could turn back time and be a geologist that is a prospector and go out to dig and mine my own specimens, I would be at peace, and one with the Earth. I wouldn't mind being a dwarf mining mithril and all kinds of other stuff my whole life. The clinking against stone is music. And when I find those jewels, I will honor it as if it's a gift from the Gods. Not for riches. But for beauty and mysteries on how it formed. And the pure energies radiating from it after millions of years.
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9 minutes ago, The Blackangel said:
I'm not able to play it, so I don't even know what the hate is centered around. Something about homophobia if I remember right?
You should at least try the first one and see if you can get through it.
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Yeah, that's pretty much given from the first Last of Us DLC Left Behind. But I'm gonna shut myself in a room till I finish the game if I have to so nobody spoils it. LOL
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I just started the game, so please no spoiler hints.
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Getting drunk off one drink would have saved me a fortune over the years, but then again I'd be dead of alcohol poisoning! 😆 🤢...🤮 🚑 😇
If you never got drunk, then you can wager in drinking contests. But...does the liver still get messed up? I would prefer one toke gets me stoned. That would be Heaven on Earth after they legalize it. Bud and shroom will make you a groom. Spirit and ale leaves you posting bail.
Hamburger or Taco?
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I’d definitely go with tacos because there are so many different ingredients and seasoning to put in there. @The Blackangel you can get the hamburger and fold it in home made tortillas...lol. Man, I don’t care if it’s burger, fajita meat, or beans; I will load them tacos with cheese, tomato, sour cream, salsa, cilantro, lettuce, onion; avocado? Sure. I’ll eat 20 tacos a day if I could. Damn I’m hungry.