DadWagonDriver

Yeah, but I’d generally take our shittiness over Saudi or Russian shittiness. As a note, my family escaped Russia when the Bolsheviks took over, so I’m HIGHLY biased there.

China… I’m not sure about. I studied Chinese history in college, but that was 20 years ago so I kind of stopped paying deep attention around the time of Hu Jintao. Xi seems much more forceful and willing to expand China’s power via dominance and enslavement.

There are no GOOD superpowers, but I think the US is the least bad.

What are we supposed to do? Seriously.

Congress is a logjam in both chambers.

The military would split if you tried to force red states to stop being shitty.

Most of our top weapons are in those red states.

So what’s the solution that doesn’t lead to half the country dead?

Plus, on the world stage, a “United” United States protects countries like Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, etc. What happens when we’re gone? China becomes dominant and just starts enslaving people in the lands it takes? The Saudis take over parts of the world and bring their shittiness with them? Russia fucks up more of Eastern Europe?

So what’s the answer here to some really complex questions?

Isn’t he washed at this point?

I missed last week’s game. Did Mims just suck or what?

In 2022, they were my then-12-year-old child’s favorite band, so I took the kiddo to see the band in Milwaukee. Holy shit, they put on a FANTASTIC concert.

You have to trust 12 random people to convict him. That’s how. There’s no way Trump gets convicted in ANY trial by jury; the cult is simply too strong.

The Stormlight magic system is a lot better than the metal system in Mistborn to me, but the goofiness of using essentially marbles as money just sticks with me. I just picture Adolin constantly walking around with like a cartoon money sack from a bank filled with spheres.

The Mistborn series is just OK, but I want to see the payoff and how this ties into the Cosmere as a whole. I actually disliked it so much the first time I read Mistborn that I gave up halfway through; I thought it was absolutely the dumbest magic system I’ve ever read.

I came back to it after reading the Stormlight books, which is also a dumb magic and currency system but such an epic story I got past it much more easily. The Mistborn series feels a little too YA for me, but I do really like some of the characters.

So they agreed to pay Brighton £110M for the rights to Caicedo, but now they need to agree to terms with Caicedo himself?

Ok, I’m still learning how the Prem works from the States. Is he ours now or is it still up to him deciding to sign with us?

I’m more used to the American systems where the teams have FAR more power over the players.

What’s the series? And what genre is it?

(Yeah, I could goog that, but I’d rather hear what other users here think!)

I’m reading The Hero of Ages from the Mistborn trilogy right now. I’m only on chapter 9, but it’s a little “meh” so far.

On audiobook, I’m listening to Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold. I’ve read it before, but wanted to reread the six books in the First Law universe before I jump into The Age of Madness, but I had heard good things about the audiobook version. Say one thing about Steven Pacey, say he can voice act!