Some parts near downtown and a few hipster areas are walkable. The rest of the city is not at all walkable.

There is some mass transit in Denver that works pretty well for specific areas. If you are not in those areas then there is very little access to mass transit.

I mean, banks are in the business of risk management and only making loans to people who can be depended on to make smart decisions.

A lot of Trump supporters do not fall into that category.

Still on book 1 of the Farseer series and still really liking it. She creates a warm and comfortable world that I enjoy being in.

Yeah, I can’t read Card’s stuff anymore. The 3rd and 4th Game books got real weird, and I only finished them because I didn’t have much else to read. The first Shadow book about Bean was pretty decent, but it was mostly a retelling of Game from another perspective instead of a new story.

Ummm, Roberts was nominated by Bush, not Obama. I know it’s funny to blame things on Obama that happened under other Presidents, but that is usually as a joke making fun of Republicans.

So racism is over? Interesting, I hadn’t heard that.

I kind of hate it. No disrespect for what you like, I just really hate it.

Probably. But whether a person can be punished in the courts system for a crime that would be very hard to prove is a different question.

Minor edit: If you can, plant some NATIVE milkweed.

A lot of big box stores sell tropical milkweed that can fuck with Monarchs’ natural navigation and migration instincts.

The interesting thing is in Southern California there is a huge bloom in the growth of the Monarch population. We’re part of a group of people in SoCal on a message board who have butterfly gardens, and everyone is seeing crazy numbers of Monarchs this season. We only have a small butterfly garden and in past years only birthed around 20 per season. The season is only half done, and we lost count how many have emerged from our yard. I used to be happy to see one butterfly per day, but this year I can stand in my yard every afternoon and have 3 or 4 flying around my head. I’ve watched 6-way butterfly orgies. We counted 20 caterpillars on just one of our plants one day.

The caterpillars this year are also morons. I lost count how many times I’ve watched them fall off a plant or eat the root of the leaf they are standing on (also causing them to fall off). There is a whole thread on the boards with pics of really stupid places they’ve seen chrysalises. One common spot this year is on car rims. The best are multiple people have pics of a chrysalis hanging from the bottom of another chrysalis. That is guaranteed to go poorly for the bottom one.

To answer the question I think you are asking: No, I’ve never done any of the modern game competitions or leagues. I am not nearly good enough to compete against anyone who is remotely good enough to compete in gaming competitions. I’m also a completely different gamer these days and prefer to just play more meditative single player games that have bursts of action.

To answer the question in a very literal way: Yes, back in the 80s I made it to the regional finals of the Nintendo World Championships (at the time when the Fred Savage movie The Wizard had just came out). I was up on stage in the central throne chair with the 100ft TV screen behind me projecting my game to 1000s of people in front of me cheering us on. I was roughly 10?? at the time, so I thought I was fucking amazing. I just barely missed out on making it to the next round in some other state because I screwed up placing a long piece in Tetris. I won a hat out of the thing.

I also played in a Tetris tournament at a bar in LA about 15 years ago. I fucking crushed it and won $100.

It sounds weird, but it is more a technicality. Some cities have grown so much they consumed what used to be small towns outside their boundaries. Those small towns stayed independent entities. Examples are all over.

Your assessment is spot on.

If so, you’re not gonna have a lot of friends, which is a pretty shitty way to live.

Or you choose friends who will stay your friends even if you miss a concert???

OK, fine. Sure, whatever.

This is about DROC, not ROC.

From the source: “The partnership will reportedly cost the Democratic Republic of Congo 44m euros ($50m; £38m), although the club has not disclosed the figure it will receive.”

Is this the same Maury Blackman who violently beat a woman less than half his age? I’m not sure, which is why I’m asking a question.

Where I live it is that people want bigger houses for their families, so they take a long commute instead of a small house with no yard. A guy at my company literally flies a small plane to work everyday. Another has a 100mi commute each way, so he comes in at like 5am to avoid most of the traffic.

Then his law has failed.

There are plenty of successful housing areas much farther out than 30 minutes one way (the 1 hour is daily). Nearly everyone I know has a longer commute than that.

Wow, that’s an incredibly bad look for Barcelona.

30,000 child soldiers still active.

Normalized and accepted violence against women. Known as the “rape capital of the world.”

Illegal to be LGBT.

Institutionalized corruption. Ranks 163 out of 180 in Corruption Index and 156 out of 167 in Democracy Index.

https://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/crime-victims-rights-ombudsman/victims-rights-act

"A crime victim has the following rights:

(2) The right to reasonable, accurate, and timely notice of any public court proceeding, or any parole proceeding, involving the crime or of any release or escape of the accused.

(4) The right to be reasonably heard at any public proceeding in the district court involving release, plea, sentencing, or any parole proceeding.

(9) The right to be informed in a timely manner of any plea bargain or deferred prosecution agreement."

The crime victims were not given those rights. This agreement was clearly illegal.

Also, the defendant isn’t being punished. The defendant is dead.