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One of three train routs between China and Russia.

Two more to go.

I've been itching to play a dragonborn monk dubbed, "the golden god of the fist".

He would be somewhat of a nudist because of his belief that the physical form is perfection, and perfection must be shared with others to inspire them to seek out their own perfection.

He would have polished, radiant golden scales and a body builder's physique.

His main camp supplies would be polishing wax, and a buffing wheel.

It would be bribery, and yes, quite a few people could theoretically go to prison, including conservatives on the supreme court.

Also, senators and representatives as well.

If this is big enough, it could mean a massive blow to republicans, and the dismantling of their conservative movement funding.

Now, all of that happening is an almost impossible ask, so don't get your hopes up.

Still, just the possibility of it has the repubs scared shitless.

The man personally ordered countless bombings, and even overruled generals who wanted to scale back or target actual military targets.

Nixon never actually cared much about the day-to-day minutia of the war, but Kissinger sure did.

But did they also expel Anthony Devolder? No, well, he'll take his place on the floor on Monday then, just after he finds his Groucho Marx glasses.

Lemmy.ml calling slave labor efficient because it's Chinese slave labor.

Got to love your patriotism, but maybe dial it back a bit on the justifying slavery.

Although, thanks to that somewhat bland accent being so prevalent on TV and in movies, regional accents are shifting to sort of match it. Especially in younger generations.

I imagine it's that combo of salty, savory, and sweet that draws you in.

But from the description I found online, it's way too much of each part to even seem like a good idea.

I could see those elements on toast though... You get the crunch of the toast and the bacon, that would handle the texture aspect.

Then just having a spread of peanut butter and jam instead of full jars would complement the savory of the bacon better.

The description of the loaf specifies grape jelly... I'd swap that out for something like a marmalade for some more acid to balance things out.

It should be fun a challenge, but maybe not as fun as my naked golden dragonborn monk.

At some point in the run, I just stopped and said, "fuck, I need to play this guy in tabletop game"

He has the shiniest golden scales beneath rippling muscle. He sees the physical form as perfection itself, perfection that is too godly for such window dressing as clothing. But for modesty's sake, he might be convinced to wear a schlong thong. If you ask nicely.

To download the game in the first place, I had to leave my laptop running overnight. Twice.

It was rough.

As to my paladin... I'm torn. I hard saved as soon as I figured out that I had broken my oath, but I have a soft save just before it happened.

I might just press on.

I'm also playing this run as a "no illithiad powers" run. No mind control, no eating tadpoles. I'll see how long that lasts.

I'm on an Arch based distro called Garuda.

This is where I found the fix.

https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940/

Got to love that site. Always good to know that I'm not alone in my random errors.

It does.

Granted, the fix for the last patch was pretty simple. Just delete a single file and it works.

Steam might redownload that file, but who knows...

The joy of trying to run a windows only game on linux.

I played a bit this morning. Accidentally broke my paladin's oath while trying to get more info from a bad guy I was planning to kill.

Killed them instantly after the conversation, but that conversation broke the oath. Shouldn't have bothered either. Didn't get anything new.

And now I won't be able to savescum/press on until tomorrow at the earliest due to download speeds. I'm also on linux, so I might have to wait even longer if this patch breaks things again.

And I had a few mods...

So maybe this time next week?

So pure lobbying.

Seems his heart is malfunctioning.

Since it's an implant, does he take it to medical or engineering?

We're not yet in a post scarcity world. We're tantalizing close, but not quite there yet.

There are three main areas we need to work on.

First is power generation. We need more, and it needs to be decupled from fossil fuels. Nuclear is the obvious answer for massive amounts of power output without using massive amounts of land, but fossil fuel lobbies have been hamstringing development since the 50s.

The important thing here isn't just replacing fossil fuels. That would just leave us were we are now. No we need to double or triple world power generation as a start.

The second area that needs work is connected to the first. Transportation. Not just electric cars, but container ships and trains and everything in-between.

This is where that added power generation comes in. We need to make it basically free to move things from point A to point B. There are some ways to do this, particularly for container ships. But we need the raw power available before they become viable.

The final area is automation. We need more. Once people need to be put out of work in massive numbers. We need to decuple work from life.

That final step is the hardest with the most pitfalls. It will happen. Well, the automation and unemployment will happen. After that we can either spiral into a hell scape or rise above into a post scarcity utopia...

It really depends on when and how the guillotines come out

1920s orchestral jazz fusion. I'd say it counts. Especially since it's classic jazz, not the more modern jazz that people are familiar with.

It hits all those classical notes and takes them a step further. It's also a true masterpiece. Which gives it even more leeway.

Rhapsody in blue.

Bits and pieces of it have been used in all sorts of places. The story behind it is fascinating.

The TLDR, the guy putting on the concert asked Gershwin to write a jazz fusion piece, Gershwin declined. Then the guy put out promotional material anyway saying that Gershwin was premiering a new piece.

Some back and forth, and Gershwin wrote a masterpiece in less than 5 weeks.

You mean the slavers who moved to Mexico and then fomented a rebellion?

Because that's what the Alamo was. It was slave owners moving to Mexico and then rising up in rebellion against the Mexican government when Mexico said, hey, slavery is illegal. Mexico outlawed slavery almost immediately after winning their independence from Spain.

Most importantly, Texas was not a part of the US until a decade after the slavers were defeated at the Alamo.

You have such a twisted view of history that I can only assume you were taught in either Florida or Texas.

The US then annexed Texas, and then Polk sent a diplomatic mission offering to buy more land. Mexico said no, so Polk Started a war and took the land anyway.

After the Mexican-American war, the US paid out a pittance in damages, but one of the terms of the peace treaty forced on Mexico was the revocation of all territorial rights of Texas, California, and everything in between.

A later administration then bought a small sliver of the border along New Mexico and parts of Arizona for an elevated price. Partially to smooth tensions with Mexico over the blatant war of conquest that was the Mexican-American war.

"bought"...

Again, you ignore the fucking war of conquest.