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  1. Emperor Tippy

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Politics Thread Mk. 2
    Staff: Enhanced Civility Rules. By Posting here, we assume you have read this

    This thread exists to discuss the political side of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you want to talk about the more directly military aspects then you want this thread. Because people are being people (i.e. annoying cunts whose actions require me to do things and thus piss me off), this...
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    Breaking News Justice Breyer Retiring (US SCOTUS)

    https://www.axios.com/supreme-court-breyer-retiring-biden-justice-128d68d9-fde1-4693-8cfc-3634a944c363.html So Breyer is apparently retiring come the end of the current term (June). Odds are strongly in favor of Biden getting whomever he decides to nominate confirmed, probably on a party lines...
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    Lilith: Rise of the Succubus (SG Goa'uld fic)
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    Synopsis: Lilith comes from an Harry Potter/ Mass Effect fusion universe. She ends up a DoM infiltrator into the N7 program (and later Cerberus) after the First Contact War and decides that beating the Reapers is an impossibility, instead she decides to relocate to another universe and manages...
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    Stargate Death is but the Next Great Adventure (HP/SG/other multicross, semi jumpchain like, OC/SI)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1

    -x-x-x- Gringotts Bank, Diagon Alley, London July 31st 1972 As his grandfather rummaged through a file cabinet, Regulus wanded the massive vault that stored some of the treasures the House of Black had gathered over the millenia it had been an extant House of Magic. For all of the Black scions...
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    Business & Finance SCOTUS tosses Eviction Ban

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a23_ap6c.pdf So the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 opinion, tossed out the Eviction Ban in language that is pretty absolute. The CDC does not have the authority to ban evictions, and absent specific Legislation that is highly unlikely to change. The...
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    McAuliffe makes a boo-boo, might see him DQed from Governors race

    https://virginia.gop/virginia-gop-files-lawsuit-seeking-mcauliffe-disqualification/ So apparently Terry McAuliffe, the Democrats pick for Governor of Virginia, forgot to sign his name on his Declaration of Candidacy form. Or maybe he signed it in invisible ink, because two witness signatures...
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    Election 2020 Election 2020: It's (almost) over! (maybe...possibly...ahh who are we kidding, it's 2020!)

    So since we don't have one, this is the general election thread. And to start things off: https://www.toptradeguru.com/news/republicans-now-lead-in-michigan-in-number-of-ballots-returned-experts-stunned/ https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html...
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    Marvel The Benefits of Trust (MCU Oneshot snippet)

    "Really Cap? You couldn't have called?" snarked Tony as he walked into the safehouse in Berlin that Rogers currently called home. "Tony." said Steve with a nod of greeting. Tony leaned against the wall, hands crossed over his chest, and asked "What made you think open-sourcing Shields database...
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    Stupidest Warning label you have seen?

    So we've all seen the stupid warning labels/instructions that make you ask "What happened to cause them to specifically add that warning?"; so whare are the best ones that you have seen. My best is an old VCR, its manual said "Do not stick penis in video slot."
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    Crossover Multicross story planning help

    So I'm rewriting Circular Godhood with some improvements. At the moment, I'm looking for suggestions for 'verses to travel to in the beginning. I have a current plan but one or two more wouldn't hurt (especially if they have easily acquired shinnies). Da Rulz: 1) No higher powers, this...
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    Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere verse theorycrafting

    So I was re-reading Warbreaker when I got and idea and wondered what people's thoughts on it were. What happens if a Feruchemist who is also a Mistborn travels to Nalthas and acquires Breath? A Feruchemist can use a Nicrosil metalmind to store Investiture, and per word of god it can be used to...
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    Smollett Criminally Charged for his fake hate crime...again

    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jussie-smollett-indicted-chicago-empire-special-prosecutor So the special prosecutor decided that criminal charges were warranted.
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    United States DHS Suspends Global Entry for New York Residents

    In response to New York barring their DMV from cooperating with ICE and Customs & Border Patrol, DHS has suspended enrollment and re-enrollment by New York residents in Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI, and FAST. Global Entry is the big one as is massively speeds up international travel. Preventing...
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    United States 2020 State of the Union

    Since somehow no one bothered to make a thread about it. The 2020 State of the Union is going on right now. What are your thoughts?
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    United States An inside look at judicial confirmations

    https://fedsoc.org/conferences/2019-kentucky-chapters-conference?#agenda-item-judicial-nominations-in-the-trump-administration-a-conversation-with-senate-majority-leader-mcconnell-and-former-white-house-counsel-don-mcgahn Mich McConnell and Don McGahn spend an hour talking about judicial...
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    Election 2020 California Supreme Court Strikes Down Tax Return Law

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-court-strikes-down-law-requiring-candidate-tax-returns-11574368643?mod=hp_listb_pos3 Glad this was struck down, but I was kinda hoping it would be upheld so that it could go federal.
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    News at 11, there's no such thing as a free lunch; Cuomo shocked

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/nyregion/cuomo-national-grid.html 1) Generating energy requires inputs to produce said energy. 2) In the case of National Grid, that input is Natural Gas. 3) Natural Gas is a gas and thus needs its entire supply chain from production to final use...
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    The (self inflicted) Death of Europe

    An interview with Douglas Murray on why Europe is dying. Came across this while browsing for something else and thought it expressed some of the sociological causes of Europe's current situation. It doesn't reach the first order causes that created the sociological issues but it is a good look...
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    Warhammer The Unedited History of Rogue Trader Tristan Abrasax (40k SI)
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    -x-x-x- Prologue -x-x-x- How and why my soul was reincarnated into a universe that I knew as fiction is beyond my knowledge; although I do suspect my second fathers very ill advised interactions with some psyker xenos tech was probably to blame. What I do know is that my fathers consort...
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    German Fears

    https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/10/04/no-trust-in-self-no-money-for-defense/ An interesting take on why Germany is a ball-less wonder.
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