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Also @Cody11533 and @ScareChan could save my day

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Drakeryn posted...

here you go

I soloed a Deoxys-Attack yesterday. It was on a whim and I didn't know if I'd be able to manage (I don't quite have an optimal team), but I managed with 29 seconds left. Makes me wish I'd done more raids last week.

Very nice! I managed a solo too but it was a near thing. Most of my tyranitars have Smack Down because I don't want to switch it to bite and not be able to switch back (limited available moves are ass). It was electric typed too which didn't help.

My wife and I went around during everything except the Defense forme.
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@Drakeryn
@master_moltar
@StifledSilence
@Mac_Arrowny
Pls. It's going to be my only day this week without hitting gift cap

Edit ty drak. Now I just need 2 more!
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Oof, it was 100 degrees today so I'm out walking now that it's cool. I still need 6 gifts to cap today, please help if you can and haven't gifted me yet today.
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That's why they should have split the debate.

10 candidates in one night is beyond dumb.
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In

And don't forget to remind ulti that he has to take me off his block list for mafiA
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Maybe it works differently there, but here I'm not sure a private business can legally impose a parking fine. Seems fishy.
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At approximately 10% odds for each regional you should have one of each within 10ish eggs, though realistically within 20. Shiny is another matter, but at least you can complete the dex entries
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XIII_rocks posted...

I now only need Farfetch'd. Can I only get that if somebody sends me a Japanese egg?

No they can come from any 7k.

XIII_rocks posted...

I GOT TAUROS

Thank you to whoever sent me a gift from Fresno, California!

And you're welcome!

That was either myself or my wife.
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The Show Must Go On
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~C~ FD
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Possibly the best update yet! The face paint was an excellent touch.
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~C~ FD
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Friday:
17 Egg / 20 Gift

49) Munchlax
50) Elekid
51) Happiny
52) Farfetch'd (82%)
53) Bonsly (SHINY!) (89%)
54) Wynaut
55) Magby
56) Magby
57) Mantyke
58) Pichu
59) Happiny
60) Tyrogue
61) Azurill
62) Happiny
63) Kangaskhan (87%)
64) Happiny

Gifts given: 23.

So I'm at over half odds now without a shiny regional but I'm hopeful I'll land one this weekend. And my boy Bonsly is pretty legit! He's in the 1-2% hatch range right now so that part feels good.

5 Tauros (7.81%)
5 Farfetch'd (7.81%)
2 Kangaskhan (3.13%)
3 Mr. Mime (4.69%)

Totaling 23.44% regionals. Keep in mind that they should all be around 9-10% right now so that's disappointing to see. Oh and one more stat:

14 Happiny (21.88%).
Fourteen. This chick is supposed to be 8.5% and I'm pulling triple odds on one of the few 7k Pokemon that doesn't even have a chance to roll shiny. None of them have even been good. They only bright side is I have infinite candy to take my perfect Blissey to level 40 now I guess, but still way more than I need.

But here's my boy!




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Yeah, and we hit our 50k milestone from it, oops
This event has ruined my ability to benefit from lucky eggs.
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Nanis23 posted...

Forceful_Dragon posted...

I need 4 more gifts to cap out today, pls help

Edit: 3

I opened your gift
Send me another

Done! And now I need one more gift to cap out
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~C~ FD
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You don't have to get stage 4 cancer before you become a healthy person.
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~C~ FD
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I need 4 more gifts to cap out today, pls help

Edit: 3
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We're still a few iterations away. But we're are currently experiencing a Pokemon Go Renaissance with good events and gen 5 dropping soon. I think we're safe.
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Regional Shiny Data FYI:

https://thesilphroad.com/science/quick-discovery/kanto-regional-shiny-rates/

At this stage, and considering our past experience, we can state that both encountering methods share the same rate. Aggregating data across all methods and species (including data where the method of encounter was undefined), we have amassed 3,227 encounters and 84 shinies, leading to a 99% confidence interval for the shiny rate of of 1 in 30 52. This confidence interval will continue to narrow over the coming days as more data is accumulated.

So 1 in 40~ that a regional will be shiny, and around a 40% chance the egg will have a regional. (Though only a 30% it will be for a region besides your own)

Tough odds. If it's 1::40 you would need to hatch 100 7k eggs on average to hatch 40 regionals to have 1 shiny regional.
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Spoilers for tonight's update: FD checks a new shiny off his list!

But will it be a regional?

Find out all this, and more! . Only on the Board 8 Pokemon network!
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JackMan posted...

Forceful_Dragon posted...

Also @JackMan, we are going to hit Best Friends when I open the gift from you. Did you want to coordinate a lucky egg for the bonus 100k XP?

Nah, just pop it when you want, I dont care about the XP really.

Well that's good to hear because I fucked up earlier and opened it when I was refilling eggs. So neither of us got bonus xp lol
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The fact that the rope is typically only secured in the middle at the top makes the ladder game next to impossible until you have sufficiently practiced. In addition to the required skill it also helps to be a smaller person to mitigate the impact to slight changes to your center of gravity.

Mark Rober covered it a bit in one of his videos.



The part about the rope ladder starts around 6:51 but the entire video is worth a watch.
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~C~ FD
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Saves on incubators at least?
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~C~ FD
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Thursday:
16 Eggs / 20 Gifts

35) Igglybuff
36) Happiny
37) Elekid (96%)
38) Mr. Mime (87%)
39) Magby
40) Azurill
41) Alolan Sandshrew
42) Togepi
43) Budew (93%)
44) Tauros
45) Tauros
46) Happiny
47) Togepi (91%)
48) Happiny

5 Tauros
4 Farfetch'd
1 Kangaskhan
3 Mr. Mime

13/48 regional. Nothing shiny yet.

Also I only have out 21 gifts today. Less people have been opening compared to 1-2 days ago.
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Castro had a few really good moments.

Also that was the end? I figured they would still have closing remarks for everyone after the "setback" question.
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~C~ FD
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Harris continues to stutter and stumble and slurr.

Her handlers need to get her some caffeine before she gets on the stage.
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~C~ FD
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I couldn't make anything out.

And of course all that will do is draw (more) attention to Biden and create an extra clip of a Biden moment to be replayed.
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"I'm going to go like the rest of them do, twice over"

It's true though
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If I was a moderator I'd be cutting people off and muting people.

It gets gradually more absurd how long people will keep talking when their time is up.
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red sox 777 posted...

We need to increase the emphasis on standardized tests. Start paying teachers and students based on their standardized test performance!

Not every student fits into a mold. Individualized learning plan and smaller classes are where it's at.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Is Yang replacing "Freedom Dividend" with "Democracy Dollars"???

No.

Freedom Dividend is UBI. The 1000/ month

Democracy dollars is a bonus 100 you can put to the politician of your choice.

From his website:

We need to diminish the influence that mega-wealthy individuals and companies have in our elections. While we must push for a Constitutional amendment to allow our campaign finance laws to properly limit the power that the top 1% have, we must act much faster to save our democratic processes. To do so, we must make it possible for all Americans to contribute to candidates they feel strongly about, in order to drown out the voices of the few who can spend millions of dollars to influence our politicians.

The easiest way to do this is to provide Americans with publicly funded vouchers they can use to donate to politicians that they support. Every American gets $100 a year to give to candidates, use it or lose it. These Democracy Dollars would, by the sheer volume of the US population, drown out the influence of mega-donors.

Imagine running for office when every American has $100 Democracy Dollars to give to their favorite candidate. Just 10,000 supporters could mean $1 million for your campaign. Once elected, you could act primarily in the interest of the people you represent instead of appeasing wealthy donors and corporations. Calling rich people for money is soul-crushing. Wed all be better off if politicians only needed to worry about representing the people that elected them.

It has been used in Seattle to great effect, and we can take their program national to move towards publicly funded elections.

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Klobuchar still so cringe with her "humor".

Also she just went from "you can do all that without Congress which is great" to "and then I will work with Congress to..."
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"Andrew Yang, you share this stage, as you know."

Did he feel the need to remind him because they haven't been calling on him much?

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Grimlyn posted...

jesus that's a painful question to Yang

And yeah, that was a difficult one, but I thought the answer was solid.
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That was a hot mess of nouns and verbs.
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~C~ FD
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What is Biden even talking about right now
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Very good immigration answer from Yang

Indeed, strong response.

But I'm not likely this trend where they spend 30 minutes on a topic going back and forth and then toss Yang a scrap of 60 seconds to talk after the grown ups are done.
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Biden needs to man the hell up and admit that he's messed up before.
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I'm glad they are touching on the filibuster. I'm with a Warren on this one.
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pyresword posted...

Do you have another explanation? I admit I don't have data to back up the second half of that statement, but like what else could it be? This feels like common sense to me.

Edit: Responding to Chris

"I haven't needed to go to a doctor so my health insurance is great" is what I think causes the reluctance.

Also "I want muh FREEDOMZ to have whatever shitty insurance i won't and I won't have The Government take it from me and give me affordable care dammit."

.

Meanwhile my experience is that wife had a miscarriage in January and being seen by doctors was difficult and time consuming to set up and be approved. Then afterwards the bills charged were mysterious and poorly explained. The process and the red tape made a tragic situation even more difficult.

The doctor himself was fantastic. We're not taking about taking away or access to doctors, just reducing the expensive hoops that have been added to the process.

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But I'll leave health care alone for now, the debate has moved on.
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pyresword posted...

Spoiler alert: The reason why abolishing private insurance is not popular is because many people are happy with their current insurance plans.

They are happy with the health care they are receiving, sure.

No one is talking about taking the care,
but rather changing how and to who the checks get cut.

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Alternatively there are people who are lucky enough to have not needed to actually utilize their health insurance in significant ways or to have been denied crucial services.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Lots of countries have good health systems that aren't single payer. In the best case M4A might be a little better, but it's also a hell of a lot riskier and imo that risk is not at all worth it when there are other models that work.

Our current system is not one that I would describe as "working". So what then is so great about adding a shackle to hold onto the current system.
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Let's go to the fair, today!
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LordoftheMorons posted...

What if I'm pretty happy with my health insurance, and I'm not 100% confident that Sanders or whoever will implement M4A well? You'd be asking me to take a risk for no clear upside relative to a public option.

"No clear upside"?

You can't honestly believe that's true.
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Meanwhile Booker is also trying to establish himself as the high road candidate.
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"are you forgetting what to fair two minutes ago?"

Ouch
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~C~ FD
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Harris trying to play nice before deflecting to Trump.

She doesn't need to sell people on the idea that Trump is bad. Maybe try selling people on why you are good.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

If people think their insurance sucks they can switch to a public option

Because by the time a bill gets passed they will have gutted the public option. You think health insurance lobbyists are going to allow a strong public option?
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Her bit about people liking their doctors/nurses/etc was really good.

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Klobuchar: "149 million won't get to keep their current insurance and that's bad"

Screw that. Current insurance sucks.
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Biden getting dumpstered right now imo.
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^5 Chris
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Inviso posted...

"I'll give a thousand dollars to ten families who support me!"

Just...it makes my skin crawl as a political move.

That is not what happened.

All you have to do is visit his website and fill out the form explaining how UBI would transform your family. No purchase or donation necessary.
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I'm #TeamYang

I hope he hits other points besides UBI though, because he does have other policies
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~C~ FD
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Debate time. Klobuchar seems to have decided to go for "cringe" with her opening remarks.
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