Raptorpat

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/nyregion/sam-miele-charged-george-santos.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/meadows-seeks-move-fulton-county-election-case-federal/story?id=102295084

I'd have to do some "Hero's Path" math, but I'm assuming at this point I have well over 100 hours into the game. A lot of game sessions began with specific tasks in mind ("I'm going to explore X") where I play for hours but never actually get to them and the subsequent two sessions begin with the same original goal. But I feel like I'm into more of the "end game" phase, at least with regards to the surface. I've got like 117/152 shrines, 400+ korok seeds, all the glyphs and sky-tablets, and the compendium is near full without buying any pictures, and my mindset I think has organically shifted towards exploring the spaces I've missed or returning to key landmarks I put off (akkala citadel, the labyrinths, coast/islands, things with gleeoks), and I'm trying to gauge how long to draw out remaining quests so I dont burn out on the rote exploring.

Ma'am, that's not for sale. This is my living room. THAT'S MY PURSE AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-georgia-indictment-pardon-board-2023-8

@wacky1980 we're about to level up our friend level, do you care about timing it together to pop lucky eggs?

Oh I just assumed it did lol that's so in character for them

SPACEBABY FOR COMMISH

congrats NYC https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1691132707928182784

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1691257106601508864

It's a consistent argument in Dem administrations (at least the most recent two) because partisan priorities get wrapped up into vague omnibus finance bills and don't take effect for years so they are easy to vilify because their priorities are blocked by the filibuster, and bipartisan priorities still get vilified because the modern political-industrial complex requires it. Are you telling me that if we broke down all the omnibus bills into their component parts instead of referring to the omnibus bills and vague "spending", those component parts wouldn't sell better? Or are you telling me the non-conservative media is already breaking down all the omnibus bills to hawk the component parts but they're not selling? What mainstream media out there is going beyond the general in between talking about Trump indictments and Hunter Biden? Are Republicans taking credit for Biden-funded projects they voted against because it's unpopular? What about the "it's great! oh it's Biden? then it's dogshit" crowd? I'm not saying he's the greatest thing since sliced bread, which he's practically as old as. I'm simply saying that if his legislative accomplishments were broken down into their component parts (and frankly if you hid the names to counter partisan bias), on the whole they wouldn't be objectively unpopular.

The team/solo thing is making it extra hard to vote, I like parts of everyone's

I don't really agree. The problem is the lack of branding, not that the individual policies are broadly unpopular. When everything has at least a two-year lead in and is all wrapped into mega omnibus spending bills because that's the only way around the filibuster, the opposition is apparently the only side who knows how to brand. Like if you break down the IRA or CHIPS or infrastructure or COVID relief or whatever major landmark Biden keystones into their component parts, it's more often than not probably popular stuff (whether universally popular or just popular amongst relevant constituencies varies from policy to policy). But they are just completely incapable of marketing any of it on one hand, not sure if that's just because of the abstractness due to the lead in time or even if it took effect the day of. And on the other hand you've got the "it was a great idea until I was told it was a Biden program" people.

it's based on the 'captain's log' chapter from dracula, which was actually a pretty great read when I divorced it from 100+ years of pop culture

I saw that article this morning and almost shared those exact three paragraphs

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump

WGAW received a counter-offer from the AMPTP https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/negotiations-update-8-11-23

MEANWHILE, IN IOWA

I told you that you couldn't unhinge your jaw to swallow your prey whole!

Some quotes from a local article, worth the read in full though. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/08/ohio-issue-1-special-electionresults-voters-decide-tuesday-on-august-8-ballot-issue/70487461007/

me, Ohio state-level politics is an absolute shit show on the top tier of disproportionate partisan control (a moderate right-leaning state governed like its Idaho) where the gerrymandered supermajorities don't feel beholden to anyone but their caucuses to the point where they openly flout the courts, the governor, and the voters. that attitude is why they thought they could get away with this.

Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected a GOP-led referendum to make it harder to approve a state constitutional amendment. There's a ballot initiative coming up to protect abortion in the state constitution (which all polling indicates will pass in the high 50s), so this would have upped the bare majority requirement to 60% to prevent the amendment from hitting that threshold because they weren't honest when they said "let the states decide". https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/ohio-constitution-abortion-voting-00110394

The challenge is to do his job for him and come up with an interesting challenge.

#3 means he is imposing the actual limitations he had coming up with game challenges (to make them accessible to anyone) on the finale contestants for their fake challenge submissions.