@Horace said in Sands of Time:

In fairness, they took videos and posted them for the world to see.

Folks have been making ephemeral art since long before video recording was commonplace.

I'm putting that shit on FB and watching all the 'don't inconvenience me!' heads explode. 😆

The room appears to be a storeroom for teaching spells. You find jars, canisters, and wooden boxes full of basic spell components.
"Oh, if there's gold wire or leather string I'd like that please."
"I CALL ANY COPPER WIRING!"
"Fucking junkie. That is such a Baltimore thing to call dibs on."

Do you all go up the ramp, or down the stairs into the arboretum?
"No splitting up. It's what horror movie idiots do."
"Defo. With a demon, dwarf and half-elf, we have WAY too many racial minorities in the group for that to be a solid plan."
"That's right! This is no horror movie! We are real, imaginary people in a life or death situation on paper damnit, this is no time to be reckless."

"Random question...Do dragonkind have barbed penises? This might inform my next move."
"Are you telling me that you're so big that you can't see down there?"
"I guess I could cast minor illusion so that you can check yourself out."
"...Would you please ca--"
"No I'm not doing that."

The two gelatinous cubes advance towards the party, both encompassing the space of hallway... The one slowly consuming the human is in the rear.
"Great. We're gonna be chased all the way out of here by a lime jello."
The gelatinous cubes are translucent, with no apparent color or tonal value to them.
"Even better. Clear jello: the dry hump of jellos."

You make it to the wide stairwell and see a dead human man on the stairs, his throat slit... Something is in his hand...
"Zoom and enhance."
"This isn't CSI, jackass, just lift up his fucking hand."

Well the age of enlightenment didn't come until at least 1687... 💡

What about the guy closest to the impact? I wonder about his injuries. He took the worst of it.

I want Lieutenant Uhura back!

@Aqua-Letifer said in So what happens when they move pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the US?:

@Loki said in So what happens when they move pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the US?:

it is far from the worst of our issues.

The fewer expensive medications you take, the easier it is for you to say that.

There used to be a time when companies picked up the majority of healthcare costs. Many reasons for that change. I suppose now it is the out of pocket cap right that people can hit, and which plan a person picks with respect to how long it takes to hit that cap? You can pay more or less monthly right for a different cap? Is your point that people are hitting the cap sooner because of drug price increases?

@jon-nyc said in Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California.:

Of course I agree, and I was openly critical of him in early March.

But I must say seeing people pile on Cuomo now who at the time were saying ‘it’s just the flu’ seems a bit ... opportunistic.

One does the best they can, with the information available at the time. I don't fault Cuomo. Or Trump. Or Newsom. Or DeSantis.

Most national pols and the governor's have done ok, to about as best they could. Only a few have really screwed the pooch.

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Doctor Thread:

@Jolly What do you think about PAs?

About the same as NP's. They do have their place and they serve a useful function.

But they are not physicians.

@Larry said in Olivia:

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This is the Olivia that tripped my trigger..

Well.... there was an Olivia in Memphis who pulled my trigger a few times....

Ah, you prefer Down Under...

Haaahahaha! That’s all we need.

If you are going to go into a highly leveraged business plan you had best have disruption insurance.

@Jolly said in ABC reporter calls out Fox reporter about masks.:

@Loki said in ABC reporter calls out Fox reporter about masks.:

Funny how it took so much longer with drunk driving and smoking to get people to say it’s not acceptable. Even today smoking a cigarette doesn’t carry the same scarlet letter as not wearing a mask.

Move to my part of the world.

Yup. In the few stores that I have been to during the last month, masks have been maybe 50/50 yes/no, maybe 40/60. That includes Walmart, True Value Hardware, Food Lion supermarket and the Liquor store.

At the golf course there are very few people wearing masks, probably fewer than 1%.

I might be moving to the back pew...

Pastor and I were discussing this today and he said that sometimes you need to trust in God to protect you.

“Pastor, there once was a dutiful deacon that trusted The Lord completely. When his town was flooding, he was on the roof of his house praying “Oh God, our Creator, please lift me from these waters.” A boat comes by and a man tells “Brother, jump in the boat!!” The deacon says “No! The Lord will save me!” He keeps praying and a second boat comes... Same thing happens... By this point the water is up to his neck. This time a helicopter arrives... Same thing. So the deacon frowns and is standing before God. “God, thank You for all you’ve done, but may I ask why you didn’t save me?” God replied “I sent you two boats and a helicopter. The rest was up to you.”

@Rich said in You can’t make this shit up:

Tough crowd. I thought it was funny.

It’s funny but it isn’t meant to be.

I’ve definitely become more aware of people dying since COVID, many of natural causes. Don’t know if it’s getting more widely reported or if I am much more aware. I suspect it’s the former.

But what would you do with them, Copper? The holes they'd make would be too deep for your boxwoods. 😀

@Loki said in Imagine trying to explain this to her when she was alive:

Looks like someone already tapped that.

Hahaha

Someone ****** her brains out, huh.....

@Jolly said in Love Jones:

@mark said in Love Jones:

WTFC about this crap? Probably his wife.

Not I.

And all this time I thought you were the good government guy...😸

I want our government to be "good". This has absolutely nothing to do with that.