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The stated reason for cutting it is that the ring was already destroyed, Sauron already dead, it was somewhat bizarre to have a 2nd, smaller final battle.

Yes it adds to the story and gives Wormtongue/Saruman a sendoff the theatrical release lacked. Its great wordbuilding but just like Tom Bombadil, doesnt add to the overall movie.

He can sell the centuries old US /Denmark agreement as one he achieved and the orange moron would believe him?

Because Magats and the GOP insist everyone else is eating the tariff costs.

The terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies involves the US giving up all claims and intents on the island of Greenland as part of the deal that saw the US gain the Virgin Islands.

So there is a 109ish year old law.

Used to work with an Iranian who had childhood memories of being bombed by Iraqi migs, and it was US provided F-14s that saved his village from being destroyed by them.

He said that despite all of the bad things the US is responsible for, he still had hope in the US military because of that.

Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.

The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.

China has already eclipsed the US on green energy.

France and China are leading the world in fusion research. Canada showed just this week that a liquid wall design can also produce fusion

Duke Nukem 3D Demo.

62 floppy disks.

They have tried and failed to capture/kill him and his family multiple times.

Hell, just last week they said he’d have to be in hiding forever.

Made list on phone.

Went to store

Distracted and forgot about list.

Birdwatching: get and support the Merlin app. Its a great way to find out what birds live or pass through your area.

Yeah, it’s a niche for the 3d printing machine ecosystem that I am surprised hasnt been more eagerly filled.

A recycling grinder into filament machine shouldn’t be that difficult to make.

At the time of the concept of plastic recycling, most plastics couldn’t be melted down and re-molded. They just burned when heated.

Now though, most plastics used can be ground down to pellets and reused in a mold.

The big factor is that he is a blue dog democrat.

The entire reason Obama selected him as VP was an olive branch to the corporate sellout branch of the Democratic Party who were worried that he was “too progressive”.

Putin’s leaked position at the start of this(read: take with truck of dubious salt) is that Russia had a potential armed forces pool of 25 million people.

As far as I understand that statement, until he burns through most of that, he likely won’t see himself as losing.

Have to admit its a smart play from the orks.

1. Rebase the western position to your previous position by convincing a narcissistic senile moron to adopt it.

2. Move your new position to complete takeover of Ukraine.

3. Agree to “compromise” on a new agreement that is considerably better for you than your original position.

Don’t forget giving accounts the ability to hide their activity on the profile page, making bots and corporate spam accounts very easy to hide.

Making it functionally impossible to track bot activity.

Becoming more like the US isn’t a good thing here.

To add on a hypothetical:

If someone drives into you and totals their car and hurts you while you are on work business, they only worry about paying for your costs. The car is a tax writeoff to them.

If someone drives into you and totals your car and hurts you while you are on work business, they need to now worry about paying for you and your car.

Neat, I stand corrected.

I doubt the french history teacher I had who taught me that is still alive though.