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Bards aren't just the run of the mill musicians. They are so much more than that.

And most of that "so much more" requires extensive training. Which requires some form of reading.

Bards are historians and have some magic of their own.

I even left out this bit.

Kaplan worked as a policy advisor on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, during which he was a participant in the Brooks Brothers riot on November 22, 2000.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrooksBrothersriot

Not a single person involved in the riot went to jail over it, and most got jobs with Bush's White House.

Joel Kaplan.

In May 2011 Facebook hired Kaplan as its vice president of U.S. public policy, as part of a Facebook's effort to "strengthen" the company's ties to Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.[16][17] In October 2014, Kaplan succeeded Marne Levine as Facebook's vice president of global public policy.[18]

Within the company, Kaplan advocated against restrictions on racially incendiary speech.[19] He played an important role in crafting an exception for newsworthy political discourse when deciding on whether content violated the community guidelines.[19] During the 2016 election, Kaplan advocated against closing down Facebook groups which allegedly peddled fake news.[19] Kaplan argued that getting rid of the groups would have disproportionately targeted conservatives.[19][3] During and after the 2016 US presidential election, Kaplan argued against Facebook publicly disclosing the extent of Russian influence operations on the platform.[20]

In 2017, after Facebook had implemented changes to its algorithm to expose users to more content by family and friends and less by publishers who were determined by Facebook to engage in misinformation, Kaplan questioned whether the algorithm disproportionately hurt conservative publishers and successfully advocated for Facebook to change the algorithm again.[19]

He pushed against a proposed Facebook project that was intended to make Facebook users of different political views engage with each other in less hostile ways. Kaplan argued that this feature would lead conservatives to accuse Facebook of bias.[7][5] Kaplan also reportedly advocated on behalf of Breitbart News and the Daily Caller within Facebook.[5][6] Kaplan has helped to place conservatives in key positions in the leadership of Facebook.[3]

In 2018, he advocated strongly for the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.[21] Kaplan sat behind Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearings.[21]

During Donald Trump's presidency, Kaplan was on friendly terms with the administration.[20] At one point, the administration considered nominating him as head of the Office of Management and Budget.[20]

That something was that they were bought out by a right wing billionaire.

Weird Al doesn't do mean spirited parody. Let me clarify, he doesn't use his music to tear someone else down.

However, there are plenty of other artists who would be happy to make such a song.

Well, as long as it's not any smaller than the hummingbird, it's still possible.

A hummingbird is pushing the limits of the wild shape ability, and would actually not be allowed under some versions of the game

A flea is too small for wild shape.

Pretend to be something long enough, and you slowly become that thing.

Superman does have a look that can kill. His heat vision.

19 shots fired at a person without hitting means 19 chances to hit something, or someone, else.

Bullets don't just vanish when they miss the target.

These cops have such shit aim, and such shit investigative talent, that they fail at every single metric. They should be in prison, but failing that, they should not be cops.

X-ray vision. He can see all the boobies he wants to. I'd imagine that he mostly got it all out of his system as a teen.

Also, it's not hard to resist a blatant setup like that if you know it's coming. Clark knows who Cat Grant is.

They literally go through the class schedule in each book. General studies are not in it.

There was Arithmancy, the Harry Potter wiki says that it was using numbers to predict the future. It was an elective and Harry didn't take it.

The only other class that would have had math would be Astronomy, which was a required class for all students. The students are required to make star charts and such... Seems like rote memorization was the only thing taught. The wink says that the end of year 5 tests was filling in a blank star chart from memory.

They might get some English pointers in the dozens of essays they wrote, but since essays are graded on the length of the scroll... it becomes questionable.

The true answer is to use maps created via Shortest Splitline.

How it works is easy. You take a map of the population of the state and then draw the shortest line possible that splits the population in half. You then continue this exercise until you have enough districts to satisfy the number of elected positions. For odd numbers of districts, you separate one district in to 1/3ds via the shortest lines possible.

This would fix almost every state's gerrymander problems.

The next fix seems counter intuitive, but is not if you learn some basic history. We expand the size of congress. Expand it massively. See, then the constitution was written, it was assumed that the size of congress would grow to better represent the will of the growing population.

The problem started in 1920. WW1 had just ended, and it played havoc on the census. This led to a bitter fight in congress over how many seats to award each state. Now, because of the arguing, there was no 1920 congressional apportionment (the assigning of the number of Representatives in the House)

The arguing and fighting lasted until 1929. Congress decided that they were not going to start the 1930 apportionment without finishing the 1920 apportionment, but still couldn't agree on a new number of Representatives, so they said "fuck it" and passed the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act. This froze the size of the House at 435 members (The number from 1910). It's been stuck at that level ever since, even with adding two new states and more than tripling the population since then.

This little quirk of law makes it so much easier to gerrymander control of the House today than it was when the term was invented. And all it would take to fix it is a single act of congress. Just one law to reapportion the House with a larger number. But then you have a fight over how many... Except that you can use any number of algorithms to automatically distribute seats.

She should be, and not just for this.

She got a job as a Trump lawyer by literally tricking a sexual harassment victim into signing a lopsided agreement that "absolved" the Trump property management of any wrongdoing.

LegalEgale has a video about it and the entire thing was scummy as fuck, and likely illegal.

The problem with that story is that the emperor was conned, he was a victim. Trump is a conman.

But more, he's a cult leader. So it's not that Trump has now cloths, it's more that he's convinced his followers to take off theirs.

If that child were to speak up today, he would be lynched and the cult would quickly go back to blaming the liberals for the cold, rather than their own lack of clothes.

While replication of research is important, one must be sure to use a diverse selection of subjects to compensate for any discrepancies caused by subject idiosyncrasies.

One may argue that a follow-up study may be warranted for any specific individual subject, yet without that additional, supplementary testing on diverse subjects, the follow-up study might present the appearance of some sort of emotional attachment.

I do apologize for the tone of my rebuke.

Cutting costs and laying people off makes the books look slightly better (more cash on hand) which makes the stock price jump, which is all these ghouls want because they're going to sell off on the high, and then bail out.

A Likud party member who is A-Okay with Nazis...

Continuing the traditions started with the Lehi terrorist organization.

That story is sort of wild, Avraham Stern and Yitzhak Shamir tried for several months to ally themselves with the Nazis, Fascist Italy, or anyone fighting the British in WW2.

They also carried out terrorist attacks and assassinations of anyone who they believed stood in the way of a Jewish ethnostate based on Nazi race science, just with Jews put at the top. This included other Jews who were seen as too friendly with either the British or Arabs.

Stern was killed and Shamir took over Lehi, and was leader for some of the bloodiest attacks on Arabs leading up to the 1948 war. Prompting this open letter.

Skipping ahead a bit to 1983, Shamir became the second Likud PM, and Netanyahu's mentor. He also issued out the infamous Lehi service medal.

That's not how it works. Making money today is the only thing these ghouls care about, ruining a company or brand is just dandy because they won't be holding the bag when it bursts. They'll have passed it to someone else. Someone else who will then work to gut the company even more before selling it to someone who will gut it and close it down.

And nothing of real value will have been made, but lots of rich asshats will be slightly richer.