a half dozen participants were so drunk that they couldn't even participate in the training scenarios.
as for the chief of police;
"No one will ever look at Chief Eynon the same. He did not represent the city of North Ogden in a professional manner.'
he was reinstated the following month.
rump pissed off the factory of the world and now the country with the highest population in the world is also letting him know he's in some shit.
heartwarming.
Nova Scotia lobster emoji sure looks like a ding dong
I was in the same boat and read a lot of different books and watched videos on how to draw, and the number one thing that helped me was the frequency with which I drew.
techniques made a difference certainly, but the amount that I drew was the primary factor in how satisfied I became with my art.
if I can share purely anecdotal evidence, something that seems to help me was not drawing the next line until I could see the next line in my head, and project that mental next line onto the paper that I was drawing.
I didn't read that or watch that anywhere, I just thought that if I could picture what I wanted to draw in my head, I could probably draw it, and until that point I wasnt clearly picturing what I wanted to draw in my head.
this is so great to hear!
I am fully in support of this move, great great to hear.
damn thank you I really appreciate that explanation and will check out those videos.
I understand half of enough of that to know what you mean by context, and you really tied a lot of it together for me just now.
I don't have tiktok so I'm sure I'm sitting out a lot of cultural tides at the moment.
wow, yes I appreciate you adding that context, that's some important information to know
yup, I was speaking to the US context of the post.
aa for the "standard expectation", maybe in a perfect world, but unfortunately not in this one.
universal healthcare, education, housing, and the protection and maintenance of fundamental civil rights must be "part of the debate" because they are not guaranteed in most, and arguably all, countries.
"Bernie is a centrist at best."
Plainly incorrect:
Bernie fights for universal healthcare, universal education, strong unions, higher taxes for the wealthy.
These are radically progressive positions in the US and most other countries.
"I believe Bernie is more based than centrism in his real views"
Your belief has no basis in reality, while his political track record is filled with the introduction of legislation and his public advocacy for the causes above and many more.
"you need corporate backing to win an election in the US by design."
this is also incorrect, the design was for anyone to be able to enter politics in the US. At a local level, this is still largely possible.
Corporate backing determining higher-level political outcome is a recent consequence of Citizens United, the ruling by the US Supreme Court that allowed unlimited political funding by the wealthy. That ruling is a corruption of the US political process, not "by design".
Bernie has also proposed legislation repealing CU and regularly advocates for repealing CU so that the "design" of political entry in the US can be reestablished.
wow, that's crazy. thanks for the video, i just watched it.
if thatchers goal was to close the mines, wouldn't miners voluntarily not working play into that?
or does strike in this context mean general protest rather than specifically not working?
got it, thanks for the broad strokes and context
I don't remember much of this book, probably because it ends with some time travel reset nonsense.
This book really was "the forgotten" for me.
That ending scene with Jake remembering what happened and nobody else remembering is pretty good.
The title of the book kind of gives it away, but I hadn't read enough stories about androids at this point for them to be a trope and I like the series so much I don't think I even remembered the title, I just saw the spider and opened the book.
I think the part that sticks with me right off the bat was when they see Erek running and he hits a bus and then turns into a metal skeleton thing for a second and then turns back into Erek.
That sort of blew my mind, I was so confused as to what happened and just wanted to finish the rest of the book.
Oh dang this is the first we hear about the howlers.
And then of course that brutal ending scene where
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Erek destroys all of the controllers and saves all of the horribly dying animorphs
Fantastic take on the enigmatic god-gamer.
I definitely remember the bug morphing again, freaking termites, and Cassie has to demorph and crash out of the wooden planking.
Cassie is always an interesting character to me now, although I didn't like her because she wasn't practical enough for me when I was too young to understand how young the animorphs were.
And taking care of the skunk kits, almost getting trapped in morph, and the way they all work together to act as surrogate mothers.
A few things stuck out to me upon my initial reading of this book. I loved every time Ax ate something and freaked out in his human morph, I vividly remember his chili-eating gusto and picking treats and goodies off the floor in the movie theater. Literally every time ax eats food and freaks out it's so funny to me. And every time ax talks with humans is hilarious. They really managed to make a funny fish out of water character without taking advantage of inappropriate stereotypes of any kind. Do funny
This was also the first time we meet a Yeerk who is not hell-bent on destroying and enslaving for the sake of evil, where you start to realize that OG is even the yeerks love each other and have romantic relationships. This Yeerk wants to help the animorphs because visser 3 killed his sweetheart.
And we learn about Seerow's kindness, which is a much more realistic way to explain the animosity that led to a war between alien races than some boring cultural misunderstanding or regular diametric goodies and buddies war, it turns out that the andalites created their own worst enemy through kindness, through sympathy and good intentions.
I actually didn't remember that this was the first appearance of the ellimist, I thought that happened later.
Once I realized it, I remembered his very clever way of helping the animorphs out.
But I think what actually sticks with me is them morphing into cockroaches, because I grew up in a humid tropical land of cockroaches and hated them as much as I could hate anything at that age.
I'm pretty sure reading that description of morphing, I was grimacing and shuddering in disgust the entire time.
Yikes, this one was replete with horror.
I think there are two scenes from this book that hit me hard, but it was the description of the animorphs being ants and losing themselves entirely to the hive mind that stuck with me.
The absolute terror and horror everyone who morphed an ant felt, that even relative to getting shot or sliced or anything they've experienced so far, losing themselves was the worst experience of their lives, and how they were almost pulled apart and killed by that enemy ant colony. That scene is crazy!
And then of course,
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Marco's mom. He miraculously finds out his mom isn't dead only to realize that she is a slave that he cannot go rescue right away. Awful.
The machinations between visser one and three are interesting too, that you know it's not just good guys versus bad guys, everyone has their own motives for their actions.
This comic is giving me preternatural flashbacks. Has anyone figured out the code they refer to in issue #2?
i did this! yes.