oromagi

I don't like Trump, but I hate Biden.  Biden sniffs the children of strangers without the consent of the children.

Going to set up a 1v1v1 with you three tonight if you are all up for it.

Play Colonel Blotto!

The tactical lotto!

Most highest totals:

That is our motto!

The starting board is as follows:

Let me know if you think I made any mistake.

Deployment rules are:

1) You can place armies on any of the ten zones.

2) It IS permitted to place zero armies on a certain zone for a round.

2) Once placed, no armies can be moved between zones

3) Both players are allowed to see the new board after each round

4) Ten armies are placed by each player during round one. Nine are places during round two, eight during round three and so on.

5) IMPORTANT - Final winner is determined ONLY by number of zones controlled after final round. Zones controlled between any other rounds are IRRELEVANT for final victory score.

The above two steps guarantee 100% efficiency. After that deciding what to do with the leftover is more subjective, though as a rule you should ignore zones that are relatively secure for you and ones that are relatively secure for your opponent.

I surrender, he's won.

• The Principal called the police immediately.  The Principal is not allowed to notify parents until a conviction has been rendered.  The Sherriff's Office decided not publicize the incident because:
  
• The boy and girl in question were well known to one another
  
• The issues were complex (and not yet explained) and
  
• Publicity was likely to identify a minor
  
• That is, the school board had nothing to do with it and knew no more than some sexual assault had happened at that school until Oct 6th.  All public schools in the district are constrained from even investigating a sexual assault much less relating details until after all police investigations are completed.  The investigation finished Oct 25th.
  
• So, when Scott Zeigler said on June 22nd that he had no reports of any assaults in public bathrooms that was true.  He had been notified of some sexual assault a month before but had no information about bathrooms, much less whether the assailant was wearing a dress.
  
• The only person who has stated that the assailant wore a dress or was "gender fluid" is the father of the girl who was raped- not exactly a reliable source.  We only know that the assailant was well known to Smith so this information may well be true but there is absolutely ZERO confirmation.  It is totally irrational to believe that the school board had possession of this information, much less covered it up.  If there was a cover-up that was the Sherriff's call.
  
• Your presumption out of years of FOX News brainwash is that if a boy raped a girl in a bathroom and the boy was known to sometimes wear a skirt, then this is the long-looked for case of a transgender woman using her female identity to gain access to vulnerable girls in school bathrooms.
  
• But this is false.  The Sherriff has confirmed that there was many flirtatious texts between the two before the rape and that the girl's bathroom was a hookup- a voluntary assignation
  
• So whether any gender identity issues exist in the case remains unconfirmed.  It is irrational to demand accountability on Jun 22nd from an board member who was not even officially allowed to know the details of the case until Oct 25th.
  
• Why blame the School Board when the County Sherriff made the call?
  
• Because the County Sherriff is a popular Republican while the School Board Superintendent is an unpopular Democrat,
  
• and next week is the election.
  
• MORAL:  JUST BECAUSE FOX TELLS YOU WHAT to THINK, DOESN'T MAKE it TRUE.
  

zone 8 didn't get 2 more but yeah the end amounts are right I presume

So when they film Star Trek for instance, do they send actors out into inter-galactic space for the sake of verisimilitude?

• They just sent 90 yr old William Shatner into space for no reason other than Star Trek. 
  
• The movie Apollo 13 famously filmed weightless scenes using NASA's Vomit Comet airplane at incredible expense.
  
• Tom Cruise famously scaled the top of the World's tallest building, the Burj Kalifa in Dubai for Ghost Protocol, even though it was dangerous, expensive, and probably would have looked cooler using special effects.
  

• Baldwin was using an authentically old west gun that had at least one live round loaded. 
  
• Officially, this was not a live round film set and there was no need or expectation of live rounds on the set
  
• The gun had misfired blanks on multiple occasions in the previous 24 hrs, to the dismay of crew members
  
• Most of 90 person crew belong to the IATSE union which had just made a deal on Oct 18th to prevent a popular strike
  
• Set safety was a major concern of the union negotiations
  
• Four crew members walked off the set in protest against the unsafe conditions earlier the same day
  
• The cast and crew were rehearsing an upcoming film scene that ends with Baldwin pointing his gun at the camera, but not shooting.
  
•   Although film was not running, the cinematographer and director were standing in their regular positions behind that camera.
  
• We don't know whether Baldwin accidently pulled the trigger of if the gun simply went off as it had earlier
  
• The rumor seems to be that after the walkout there was a break of several hours.  Some unspecified crew members passed the time by target practicing with live rounds in the vicinity and at least one of the three guns from the set was used.  This would explain the presence of live ammo on the set a few hours later
  
• I'm not sure this rumor adds up- hard to believe folks would target practice with a gun that was known to be malfunctioning
  
• I assume antique guns require custom ammo that would likely be too rare or expensive for target practice
  
• and that ammo would be blanks, so useless for target practice
  
• Both the Armorer and the Assistant Director had  previously been subject to criticism for unsafe firearms handling.  The AD had been summarily fired from one movie set for unsafe firearms handling.
  
• While Baldwin is likely blameless from his perspective as an actor relying on the experts to handle his firearms, Baldwin may well be culpable as a producer of the film for being aware of these prior complaints and hiring these two anyway.

-->@oromagi

Sorry...A dumb British question.

But why would there need to be live ammunition on a film set?

Or real guns.

What's wrong with a projectileless replica that just goes bang?

This is right from Hitler's playbook which Trump kept a copy of right next to his bed (according to Ivana).

Assuming you both understand and agree to face each other I will draw a picture for a new game.

Even after a store clerk opens the action to check for themselves for the 10th time and hands a firearm to you, regardless of what is going on, it is your responsibility to verify whether or not it is unloaded by opening the action and looking into the chamber and magazine. 

So, apperantly, 16% of Gen Z people are LGBT and this is significently higher than prior generations.

• This stat comes from an online Ipsos poll that ran for two weeks this spring
  
• The poll was titled "Ipsos’ LGBT+ Pride 2021 Global Survey" so let's not be surprised that LGBT
  
• So we are not polling a random selection of people, we are polling from a subset of people who would voluntarily participate in an LGBT poll.  I assume a huge portion of the population would see the title, say "I'm not gay" and skip it.  Therefore, you should expect these stats to skew heavily gay.
  
• Of those 19,000 self selected participants, the 16-24 year olds:
  
• 4% identified as  "transgender, non-binary, non-conforming, gender-fluid, or other than male or female when the other choices were male, female, don't know/won't say
  
• That's pretty wide ranging.  Just because you think of yourself as a sexual non-conformist doesn't necessarily mean the average joe would find your sex life exotic.
  
• 4% identified as gay and lesbian. 
  
• 9% identify as bisexual- again, that can mean just about anything.  I've known a few women who claimed to be bisexual although they've never had sex with a woman.
  
• science tells us that pretty much all women are aroused by naked women, lesbian sex and the majority of men are aroused by naked men, gay sex.
  
• One recent survey got 1 in 4 men admit to watching gay porn sometimes
  
• Pornhub says that 37% of users (99%male) watch some gay porn
  
• So, it may also be that Gen Z is just more honest, less unintimidated by this identification than earlier gens
  
• 2% identified as pansexual, omnisexual (I will just lump those in with the bi's)
  
• 2% identify as asexual- in my experience, such identity tends to be more of a transitory state than an actual sexual identity
  
• 1% identify as others, which deliberately provokes more questions than answer.
  

The argument for justifying this is that gay people were oppressed long ago and this caused people to be in the closect about it.

I think there is some truth to this, but if I were to ask, "Is homosexuality genetic?", most people woujld answer, "Yes".

How can this be the case?  If straight people have sex, they produce a bunch of straight babies. 

Gay people don't reproduce, so I don't know how they are able to spread their genes to make homosexuality genetic.

I think the only other way homosexuality can be popped up is by mutations.

I therefore think that most people who think they are gay think they are gay because of a few thoughts about men sexually, but I think it's an illusion.

Either that, or the homosexuality gene will in time be replaced by the straight gene.

Does anybody else think Trump set Baldwin up so he wouldn't make fun of him on SNL when Trump runs for President again in 2024?

I'd like to know how an non-living force [the universe] can direct the thoughts and actions of any living organism, let alone a sentient organism.

After four-star General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell died, emotional tributes poured out from elected officials honoring Powell's character and longtime service to his country. President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama issued long, personal statements about what Powell had meant to them. Former President George W. Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, expressed their deep personal sadness over the loss. And sitting Secretary of State Anthony Blinken delivered formal remarks recalling how kindly Powell had treated career diplomats and what a mentor Powell had been to many.

There was nothing from the immediate past president, Donald Trump – not even a brief, rote statement of condolence. And on Tuesday morning, Trump unloaded on the recently deceased man, dead at 84 from COVID-19 complications, who had crossed party lines to endorse Trump's Democratic opponents in 2016 and 2020.

"Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media," Trump said in a statement. "Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!"

WaPo says we should go to war with Haiti

Recently, a guest speaker who is a renowned scientist was scheduled to speak at MIT… regarding sciency stuff. However, staff at MIT realized that he once opined against affirmative action, so they cancelled his appearance. Politicization of science, anyone?