Yeah I don’t think I ever played it even once but I bought a bunch of packs back when. The instruction booklet that came with it had text that was so tiny I could barely read it even back then lol

Yes! I decided I needed this too lol

Middle Earth Collectible Card Game (MECCG) - I know I have a bunch of this card actually lol

and suddenly many people who have been wanting to start their own businesses, make that career move, or move to where the jobs are would finally feel secure enough to do so. I suspect this would boost the economy everywhere in ways it would be hard to predict.

Angus McBride’s Saruman used in the Middle Earth Roleplaying Game and I’m pretty sure was on a Tolkien Calendar. More Angus McBride art: https://jedigirlblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/the-art-of-middle-earth-by-angus-mcbride-article/

“Sure, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health … what have the Romans ever done for us?”

The text that actually adorns the building is from Obama’s 2015 “You are America” speech at Selma.

"You are America. Unconstrained by habit and convention. Unencumbered by what is, ready to seize what ought to be. For everywhere in this country, there are first steps to be taken, there is new ground to cover, there are more bridges to be crossed. America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone. Oh, what a glorious task we are given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours.”

https://www.obama.org/stories/exterior/

The fact that nearly every scene in that video is a 2 second edit suggests that if these are really being used in a factory they are doing none of the things shown in the video IRL.

As the saying goes, “no gentleman was dressed without his sword”

(b) individuals and federally licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, dealers or collectors who were members of Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., Second Amendment Foundation, or Louisiana Shooting Association at the time this action was filed on November 6, 2020

https://saf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Reese-v.-ATF-judgment-10.7.25.pdf

Minor correction: Trump won with less than half of registered voters, which is only 30% of eligible voters (over 18)

2024 election results as of Jan 15, 2025 (AP News)

77,303,573 votes (49.9%) - Trump : 23% of pop, 30% of eligible (18+), 45% of reg *

75,019,257 votes (48.4%) - Harris : 22% of pop, 29% of eligible (18+), 44% of reg *

337,375,114 - US Population as of Nov 6, 2024 (Census.gov)

*note the number of registered voters is not as easy to determine as the number that voted

I have never used the RFinder but the guy who developed it is local so I’m aware of it. https://rfinder.shop/product/rfinder-m6-dual-band-dmr-4g-lte/ it looks awesome but is more expensive than a really good HF base station so ymmv

How much to just torture him for awhile?

11 years+ here. Left almost a month ago.