Yep and they’re the strongest Pokemon in the game - this is now officially a pay to win scam.

Quiet The man is a war hero and I’m trying to not wish that his clot killed him.

There was quite a bit of press that he was the yes vote that they needed, if he actually doesn’t support the bill he could be coming back to vote no and make sure to kill that narrative (for his legacy, since I’d be shocked if he runs again, he doesn’t really have anything to lose by finally finding his spine).

The motivation for everything this “government” does is glaringly obvious if you accept a few simple suppositions. 1) They’re in bed with Russia. 2) It’s all about their own personal fortunes. 3) Literally nothing else matters to them.

He literally only took the job so he could ease sanctions on Russian oil, so he and his buddies could rake in billions. Now that congress is blocking the administration from doing so it’s no surprise he’s no longer interested in the job.

Except they’ve been practicing this for years with Ingress events. They had all of the information and experience internally that they needed to scale appropriately and pull this off. From what I’ve been reading, they didn’t even try.

They have no excuse, they’ve held ingress events that had pretty big attendance, with people also flying in from all over the country/world. The first few of those were rocky as well but they figured out the scaling. The fact that they dropped the ball here is absolutely inexcusable, they’ve already gone through their…

My question then is why in the hell did they hold it in Chicago?! Niantic is based in SF, and they’ve held events all over the country for Ingress. Surely they knew people somewhere at some park that could have helped them.

You get ~8 balls with roughly the catch rate of a standard pokeball, even with a golden berry, the catch rate is <5%. Then, when (not if, when) it flees, you can’t just play the same raid again with the same people. You have to wait for another one to eventually spawn and hope you can get the necessary ~10-15 people…

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I still don’t know who Ed Sheeran is, and frankly, still don’t care to find out.

This is a pretty great deal. Just a note: you don’t actually *need* the Hue Bridge if you already have a smartthings hub you can connect to and control them directly, you just have to install a custom handler and you won’t be able to disconnect them from the hub without buying a Hue hub/remote later (but you shouldn’t…

This is a pretty great deal. Just a note: you don’t actually *need* the Hue Bridge if you already have a smartthings…

I’ll buy it when I want to eat a pint of something cold but there was free food at work that I already ate too much of. It’s an important niche.

That is a horrifying hellscape.

Trump’s star should be removed. The guy who took a sledgehammer to it had the right idea.

This is the point where they can sue for libel...right?

That officer should have gotten the death penalty. And I’m against the death penalty and think it should be abolished. But police have a greater responsibility to society and they’re utterly, and systematically, failing us without any consequences.

I don’t understand (/s) how prison sentences got this out of control. The constitutional punishment for treason is death, *or minimum five years in prison and $10,000 fine. 5 Years in prison and 10,000 was one step below *death* in the constitution, yet we’re imprisoning people for decades over cellphone theft. WTF.

I think we can call it manopause, and classify it as some sort of debilitating sex-linked neurodegenerative disorder.

Oh for fuck sake.