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In case it wasn't clear, we won't be sending people home in the team rounds.

I think one of the common questions people might have is how the team portion works: At the beginning, teams are drafted and for the first rounds, they collaborate to win as a team. For the second edition, there were eliminations during the first few rounds, but it was kind of awkward and we ended up eliminating the people that just didn't participate during the team rounds. So, the purpose do the first 4 rounds is to win as a team and accumulate points for each participant that carry over to the elimination rounds.

The longer Netanyahu tries to drag the assault out, the more catastrophic the political implosion will be when a cease fire happens. He's been playing a very risky game of chicken since long before October 7th - he has always had all the political acumen of his buddy Trump, focusing more on opportunism than doing the actual legwork involved in building coalitions and prioritizing tangible results. It's horrifying to see the unified message over the extreme collateral costs of selfish behavior, but that doesn't disguise the chaos inside his own administration. Netanyahu's collapse won't be sudden but it will be dramatic.

The whole guessing part ruins the mood.

I’ve noticed that the paramours in your life are really really passive aggressive about asking for the D.

What did you find most confusing?

Just the person - Survivor II Champion and all around bad ass: Disco! Maybe you could tell us all little bit about what the experience was like.

So, let's start with any questions anyone has. Does anyone not know how this game is played?

We can't have a Survivor without you.

Well, that changes everything.

Was she hot?

Anyone interested?

This is why you're a swim LEGEND.

Yeah, I'm not really familiar with their music, but I do remember the nightclub fire.

Yeah... that's bullshit.

It's all a refinement of an extremely delicate process to control the reaction with more stable fuels. Ironically (yeah it is), a heavy hydrogen atomic device has a more controlled reaction than a pure hydrogen fueled combustion. I would imagine that the russians unlucky enough to the unorthodox car bomb got the turbo charged equivalent of lighter fluid fireball.

Everything Tesla blows itself up eventually.

It's been about a year and a lifetime of political shenanigans, sport bloopers, and entertainment that defies imagination for all the wrong reasons. I thought now might be a good time to see if you all would be interested in another edition of UEMB Survivor. For those who are newbs, infrequent visitors, or don't pay much attention to anything outside their folder, UEMB Survivor is, like its name suggests, a competition with participants competing with each other than against each other to win the title and a special gift. Teams compete against each other to run phony election campaigns, create absurd stories and art, and sell useless products, among other things, to win the votes of our esteemed judges and their UEMB peers. You can stop by the Survivor club to get an idea of the sport itself. This competition is a whole-site event; it's something that everyone can participate in even if they don't sign on to be competitors. If you could all be so kind as to take a moment to answer the two question poll, I would really appreciate it. Edit: The poll closes by Friday 08/30, now

But, you're going to lose that YETI sticker.....

Like Buddy said, it's click-bait and it's most definitely not a scientific article. The idea of calling a thermonuclear device a" hydrogen bomb" is itself something of a misnomer since the hydrogen isotope component of the nuclear device is secondary to the actual process itself. It's not that the writers even expect the general public to know what is actually involved in generating a cataclysmic bomb, just that there should be heavy (pun intended) scepticism about the idea that a rag tag bunch of soldiers have the technological know-how to build such a device and that a wrecked Japanese import has the requisite fuel for such a device. That's how clickbait works - it makes an ostensibly absurd statement that is just interesting enough to warrant the reader opening the article to confirm that doubt and discover how the literal clever "trick" works. That's not to say you shouldn't be angry, though. Clickbait articles almost always are a waste of time because they have a tend to foist minor or irrelevant events onto a time constrained reader. ... FWIW- hydrogen had a notorious reputation well before Oppenheimer's team developed the atomic weapon. It had been a little less than a decade since the Hindenberg captured the public's imagination and first introduced the idea that hydrogen itself posed a lethal risk of combustion. When it came time to describe the next generation weapons, identifying the unrelated hydrogen isotopes used as fuel could be a quick way to describe the increased peril of the advanced weapons. Personally, when I think of "hydrogen bombs", the first thing that comes to mind isn't a nuclear bomb, it's an exploding Zeppelin. That's because the strongest visual image I have of hydrogen being destructive is of a fully engulfed blimp, while the images ingrained in me of atomic weapons are distinctly different and less defined by the explosion itself and more defined by the surreal destruction that comes from the weapon's shock waves. Clickbaiters rely heavily on these collectively understood visual images when peddling their misdirections.

Well, that's one way to come off a ban.

I was kind of hoping you were going to say someone made a hydrogen bomb out of a cyber truck.

Probably because the average reader doesn't actually have common sense. I mean, even McGuyver couldn't make a thermonuclear device out of a Toyota.

I’d say you can’t outrun a thirsty Fuggs, but you can.

It would make sense that there are ultra progressives who are willing to warp reality to an ideology. As absurd as it sounds, the idea that Bernie Sanders might be a sellout is easier to process than a geopolitical reality that suggests Jewish progressives are powerless to stop a strongman that is hijacking Jewish identity to further his personal aims. Israel can’t stop protecting itself just because Netanyahu is engaging in a genocide. It’s not as simple as cutting off arms shipments, and putting restrictions on shipments is hard when they go through a strongman with a ultra conservative agenda that aligns with racist Republicans who are also pushing to approve those arms shipments. It goes to the greater concept that idealism rarely meshes with reality in ways that easily disillusion idealists. It’s no coincidence that Distorted isn’t all that intelligent - he rarely processes information other than to directly refute. But, more than that, he’s similar to Trumpers and Musk Bros in that he’s powerless to maintain the worldview he thrives in.