GoodLuckToFriends

It's weird that I would never remember either face as being unusual, but seeing the pictures as still frames really starts highlighting the oddities.

I've been playing through the first one. It's definitely a good time.

That checks out. I think I beat most of my friends simply because I remember a chess aficionado mentioning the center as being important to hold.

Ain't ain't a non-word. I'll fight anybody who says otherwise.

Being able to parse a specific ruleset, or doing a specific kind of math fast

Oh man, I would love competitive tabletop games, where the goal isn't to min/max your build, but to min/max your build after being given a brand new system and 45 minutes to read the rules.

I doubt anyone will invade the us. China, if it had any military movement, is much more likely to want to consolidate everything close to it. Japan, eastern russia, the philippines, korea. Canada doesn't have the motivation to invade (it might allow areas to join if our military is dead enough to not fuss about it), and mexico doesn't have the wherewithal to use their military against the cartels (they did let their military loose once and it was kicking some ass, but they stopped because of internal reasons), much less a foreign country. They might annex parts of the southern states, in the same manner as canada if the military is done for.

India definitely doesn't want to suddenly build the logistics to invade, no south american country wants the headache, and european areas will probably be looking to their east.

Russia might be the only one with the motivation and quasi-ability to do it. They wouldn't get much more than they are currently out of ukraine, but it's possible putin would make a play for alaskan territory. I think it's unlikely, considering china would really take advantage of that extended and vulnerable supply chain.

Even worse! It was about a car with a warranty that wasn't being worked on!

Never let your kidnapper take you to a secondary location.

It really sucks when it doesn't work though. I used to wake up 5 minutes before my alarm like clockwork, and then ONE day I didn't set it. Well, guess what phone call I get that lovely morning.

I still get emails from AmeriCorps every now and then. It was a fun year of camping in a tent and maintaining trails and such in remote parks, and then another fun year of working in an impoverished school with families who needed help applying for aid. It is mind boggling that these idiots think the best way of saving money is cutting people from the workforce who make a stipend (not even a wage, so it can be fucked with in taxes even more) of something like $11,000 a year... and thus losing labor that makes a large impact down the road.

Was this the girl with 6 teslas that has been seen posting about her experiences camping with them? Or is that another generic blonde with too much money?

I can only hope it's his daughter (and maybe there'll be more) that pulls the release cord on him.