No, they were not directly involved and no, pimping minors was not proven in court. Money laundering and conspiracy to facilitate prostitution were the charges that stuck. In fact, prosecutors claiming they were involved in child sex trafficking caused a mistrial https://apnews.com/article/business-trials-3b1c9d3e59e90cd60764b3eb989fec80
The point is not about what they did or didn't do, it's that if you try to go outside the system you get hammered.
That's what Backpage tried to do when the cc processors pulled out. The owners of Backpage were at some point charged with money laundering among many many other crimes. The years of legal battles that started in 2018 drove one of them to suicide. Would not recommend.
In the same vein, podcasts. With books if I'm not paying close attention I can miss important things, but with podcasts they're generally on the same topic for an hour.
Found a game I own has text and audio in my target language, so it's been a bit more fun this week. The vocab might not be so useful, but I'm getting use out of the words and their pronunciation being together.
If you are not expected, you are not welcome. I don't answer unexpected knocks anymore.
Omg it's treatable. How do you die from it? Or did the person die via the insurance system?
In a Japanese language course, students were assigned native speaker penpals. I had asked some pretty boring questions in the first letter like how old are you, what are your hobbies, etc. The teacher proofread the letters before we sent them. The feedback I got: you really don't need to ask what nationality they are, there's only one country that uses Japanese. I turned beet red on that one.
Have you seen the standard for cops? It's almost as low as priests. Screw up somewhere, just get yourself shuffled to another place if things haven't blown over by the time your paid leave is up.
Yes, satire military propaganda. They also didn't actually bring aliens on set. The aliens have a union and demanded pay that's way too high for the budget.
Can't let those boobs ruin the violence and military propaganda for the children.
Just make it well enough that you don't mind if it stays up for a bit.
Idiotectomies required the subject's corporation for the best results. Hanneman's (Journal of Medical Ethics, June 2017) breakthrough, illustrated here, uses bomb glasses to increase compliance. It is rare the fuse needs to be lit, but a lighter should be kept in plain view of the subject as both reminder and enforcement if necessary.
For less insightful stuff, may I recommend Boatmurdered, the chronicle of a succession game (one person plays a year and then passes the same file to someone else) of Dwarf Fortress:
Video https://youtu.be/nI1UmlfP1Cg
Text https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introduction/
Maybe they should arm wrestle about it.
Yes, this works especially well for baguettes. More surface area for the brie or whatever you're putting on it.
Also, the houses are in poorer towns that are depopulating.
Falcom spoiled me forever by offering a startup option to continue from last save that skips all the logos, intros, etc.
I remembered liking the Pierce Brosnan one when I watched it a long time ago and recently rewatched it. It's a story about a rich guy who drags a bunch of people into investigations from police and insurance by pretending to steal art because he's bored. I can't imagine that landing well currently, but I'm not a movie producer so who knows.
Jim Bakker comes to mind. What are some other poor persecuted saints (/s)?
Going to a wedding with two weeks notice with a cat theme. I had some fabric with cats on it, so I decided to make a bow tie instead of buying something new. Just used a tie I already had as the pattern. It has been so long since I've done any sewing, so 4 small pieces all the same size was perfect for where I'm at. Had a few mistakes but they're all in the back, so I'm pretty satisfied.
When she finally came to bed to spoon and apologize, again, we fit together oddly because she was now a foot too long.
By the time it was too much, I didn't have the ability to do anything about it but scream.
I recognized my children.
They had torn her apart just for fun.
I'm not talking about the consumption of animals here, to be clear. What I'm talking about is spending days and a bunch of money planning to kill something, doing the killing, and skinning/eviscerating what was killed, and often displaying the stuffed corpse. Hunters and fishers refuse to admit they're obsessed with taking pleasure in killing something.
Miss me with the "tradition" stuff, it's just peer pressure from the dead and a fallacious argument. Don't tell me it's to eat, like I said, I'm not talking about the consumption here, so please prove to me you are literate by not bringing up that point. And don't tell me you're respectful to the animals you kill; I don't believe the planning, stalking, and killing is a good way to show respect.
Looks like the hasn't made any crosswords for a while but the old ones are still available. Link goes to the themed ones and there's links to online versions in each post. Enjoy!
My tools serve me, not the other way around. It's not worth the time and effort to wash by hand or sharpen on a whetstone. I don't need an expensive knife to cook at home. A pull through sharpener and honing steel are adequate. Get the right material and you don't have to worry about the metal in the dishwasher.
Blocking a user hides their content in comments, but it still shows up in inbox when viewing all as well as in comment chains in the profile view. It would be great if blocked users didn't show up in these places.
Let me know if there's more info needed.
I still remember this card and its artwork. Holy moly, the date on it is 30 years ago.
The Foglios have been involved in quite a few projects over the years and it took a while for me to make the link between this card and Girl Genius.
Western setting where a new gold rush for dark stone pits gunslingers, lawmen, saloon girls, etc against tentacles, the undead, mutated gangsters, snakemen, and lost technology as they travel between worlds.
It's coop and there are different missions, most of which have randomly generated maps that are created from a deck on you explore, giving it endless replayability. Characters gain experience, skill, and gear but also can become injured or mutate (nothing the church or surgeon in town can't fix for a price).
It also has tons of expansions. While the physical games add up in cost and require a lot of organizing, you can give it a try on tabletop simulator.
There's even a Japanese themed set that can combine with the Western ones.