Thanks for the reply. I'm looking forward to these cards evoking little memories of Redwall from 15 years ago. Always loved the badgers and hares in that.

Yeah this seems incredibly pushed. I have a hunch this whole set will be a high power level.

I wonder whether we will be getting Salamandastron references with the badgers. Anybody read the published stories who can tell me?

As for the card, seems like a limited bomb, but I think the colored pips keep it from being standard playable.

Thanks for sharing these links. I'm another off-instance lurker who has learned a lot by browsing Hexbear posts. The comments here reinforce that y'all are being strategic with your federation choices, which is cool to see.

For folks who haven't read it before: Andy Weir's 'The Egg'

Same thing is happening in Seattle and likely everywhere else.

The Garamantes are cool and notable for not being based around a river at all. I got introduced to them when they were added as a civ in the strategy game Humankind.

Another fascinating rabbit hole about the world's largest irrigation project in the same region: Libya's Great Man-Made River

One site in Cairo, one in Buenos Aires

"Well, that's all of Africa and South America accounted for!"

As others said, these are mostly all signs of some kind of executive dysfunction. Mine is from depression, not ADHD, but there's a lot of overlap. I obsessively keep my inbox empty which is a whole 'nother vibe

I've been thinking about this topic a lot lately and your comment is interesting. Your first sentence is definitely phrased in a more controversial way than the rest of your comment, but I can't help seeing it as very similar to "Being depressed is a choice the vast majority of the time, and I have a huge bias against depressed people." Is that an unfair comparison?

I know that treating fatness/obesity as a disease is kinda controversial but I feel like folks give people dealing with mental health a lot more grace than people dealing with health issues related to being fat. I've also heard that for some people they can be perfectly healthy at a higher weight (though this is clearly not the case for many fat people who are seeing health impacts). I guess I'm assuming that a lot of fat people would potentially like to be less so, but can't (for any number of reasons) quite get there. This seems really similar for me to people dealing with depression, anxiety, etc who want to change things but keep falling back into the problem.

I guess my question is do you have bias against people who can't escape other bad cycles like mental health or even stuff like alcoholism? Or is it more just that you think it's fair to judge people without the discipline/willpower to get out of a state they didn't want to be in, like you did.

Stonehenge and other megaliths. Cave paintings in France. Maybe some natural phenomenon like Giant's Causeway. Even ancient Greek ruins since people bring up aliens when talking about much more recent structures in the global south like Mexico or SEA.

From UPS:

Refusing to negotiate, especially when the finish line is in sight, creates significant unease among employees and customers and threatens to disrupt the U.S. economy. Only our non-union competitors benefit from the Teamsters’ actions.

We’re proud of what we’ve put forward in these negotiations, which deliver wins for our people. The Teamsters should return to the table to finalize this deal.

From the Teamsters:

“We break our backs working for this company. UPS needs to recognize our sacrifices not just with empty words, calling us ‘essential workers,’ but by putting the pay, benefits, and protections we deserve into a contract,” said Cesar Castro, a part-time UPS Teamster with Local 396 in Los Angeles and a member of the Teamsters National Negotiating Committee. “Every UPS Teamster expects this by July 5 or we will be ready to strike.”

UPS recorded $100 billion in revenue and over $13 billion in profits last year alone.

Makes you wonder who UPS PR means when they say "our people". Negotiation to acceptable terms is the responsibility of the company, not the workers. That is part of the basic requirements of running a corporation.