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They're items, not abilities, but generally any super powerful potion or healing item is useless to me, because I just hang on to them forever and never actually use them. I can be in the middle of the final boss battle and have 50 Elixirs or Unicorn Potions or whatever and I won't use them even then because I might need them later.

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Finished Search the Sky this afternoon. (L-sub-T equals L-sub-zero e to the minus-T-over-two-N)

This makes 18 books since Jan 1. I started a new book, the House on the Cliff (Hardy Boys #2), by Franklin W. Dixon.

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I just downloaded 9 more books from Standard Ebooks this morning, and got another 3 in the past week from various Kickstarters, and a total of 70 new books since January 1st. I've read 17 books so far this year...

I'm currently 63% of the way through Search the Sky, by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth, and 81% of the way through Medicinal Plants of the World, by Ben-Erik van Wyk and Michael Wink.

My last few books were:

The Meister of Decimen City, by Brenna Raney
You're Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station, by Mary E Lowd
The Canary Murder Case, by Philo Vance
The Visitors, by Clifford D Simak
Citizen Orlov, by Jonathan Payne
So You Had to Build a Time Machine, by Jason Offutt

What have you been reading?

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Revelation34 posted...

How much does that cost?

The peanut butter powder? It's $13 on Amazon for 30oz/850g, which is like 53 servings. But I bought it at Costco and I'm pretty sure it was less than that. It's more expensive than regular peanut butter, but it's had most of the fat and water removed so it's more concentrated.

In the original Battlefield: 1942, the scout class is mostly useless because the engineer gets the exact same gun, just as powerful and accurate with only slightly less zoom, and the engineer gets more ammo plus det packs and land mines, and the ability to make repairs. The only special ability the scout has is spotting for other players using artillery pieces, which is only useful if your teammates are actually using artillery correctly.

The anti-tank class isn't that useful either. Their main weapon is a bazooka/panzerschreck, which is great for taking out armor but it has limited splash damage against enemy troops and is useless against aircraft. You also only get a handful of shots and it's very slow to reload. Other classes can do nearly as much damage to tanks using grenades, or the engineer's det packs and land mines.

And the assault class is mediocre at best. They have a powerful gun and lots of ammo, but that's it, no other special abilities.

This is the hardest one yet. They're both equally crazy, just in different ways. Daffy is more silly crazy, while Donald is angry crazy.

I made a chocolate banana green tea smoothie for breakfast instead of coffee.

Sweetener (I use a mix of sugar, stevia, monk fruit, aspartame, and sucralose), culinary-grade matcha (green tea powder), unsweetened cocoa powder, freeze-dried banana powder, coconut milk powder, and Benefiber powder. Mix it all together, add near boiling water and stir until it's dissolved, then add just enough ice cubes to cool every down, and fill the glass the rest of the way with milk.

The blend of different sweeteners tastes better than any individual artificial sweetener but has far fewer calories than sugar, the green tea offers all kinds of antioxidants and other health benefits, cocoa has antioxidants and minerals, banana has vitamins, magnesium, manganese, and especially potassium, coconut milk has manganese, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, and potassium, and the Benefiber gives you a big boost of soluble fiber, and of course the milk has protein, vitamins A & D and calcium.

I have a bunch of different powdered fruits I can use instead of banana: blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, orange, and dragon fruit, as well as peanut butter powder (which is very low fat but high protein).

Living in farm country in the Midwest, whenever someone mentions "AI" I'm never sure which one they're talking about.

Recent Midwest Messenger article titles:

From the AI box to the board room

AI education facing unique challenges

When it comes to AI, we are a step ahead

AI work, haying, selling beef make for busy week

Top traits: Embryo transfer calves, A.I. pushes Kansas breeder toward his goals

Lessons in AI

Can you figure out which AI is which?

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The Saw in Final Fantasy Legend is mostly useless except at the very end of the game. The way it was supposed to work is if the user's strength is higher than the target's defense, it's an instant kill. But they got the check backwards, so it only works against enemies with a higher defense than the user's strength. That means it's totally useless against most normal enemies, though it can be used to one-hit kill the final boss, the Creator, and the normally undefeatable form of Su-Zaku before obtaining ERASE99 (this is pointless, however, as you get nothing for winning, and it will continue to attack you randomly until the actual story encounter).

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The show was at its funniest when it was Frank Burns, Colonel Blake, and Trapper John.

Probably one of the funniest scenes is the one where Trapper and Hawkeye steal Blake's antique desk by knocking down the back wall of Blake's office, and Burns and Blake enter the office and Burns just stands there staring at the missing wall, while Blake only notices his desk is gone. Blake finally notices the wall has been knocked down and they walk outside just in time to see the desk flying off under a chopper and they both just stand there dumbfounded.
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Frank Burns eats worms!

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Mignon is French for delicate (or cute). Mushroom is champignon.

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Filet mignon

Cheap cables, maybe? Or damaged/defective?

aHappySacka posted...

This would be a lot more concerning if this was about your horse.

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The California Milk Processor Board (that's a thing) did an entire epic series of commercials about aliens trying to obtain milk from Earth.

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Glob posted...

Not sure what youre going for with that one.

I guess we'll just take our millions of Dongs elsewhere.

During the winter the highest I usually set my heater is 62F (16.7C)

Glob posted...

No, VND.

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When you need to hold it in...
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KJ_StErOiDs posted...

Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haa! (Reverse Side)

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Glob posted...

I made about 2.85 billion last year.

Unfortunately, it was in a currency where that is less impressive.

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kind9 posted...

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For a long term investment, just pick a mutual fund that invests in a broad range of companies and industries, like the companies of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, the NASDAQ Composite, the Russell 2000, or the Wilshire 5000 Total Market. The broader the scope of the fund, the more insulated you are from individual companies problems. You just need to be aware of what kinds of companies each of those indexes represent; the Russell 2000 is all small companies, while the 30 companies in the DJIA are among the biggest (Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, Walmart, etc), the S&P 500 is all large companies, and the Wilshire 5000 covers companies of all sizes. The NASDAQ is heavily technology-biased. Small-cap stocks tend to be more volatile, large-cap tends to be more stable.

If you're investing in the short term, there are ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) that behave like mutual funds but are traded like stocks. Instead of having to buy 30 different stocks to mimic the DJIA, or 5000 to follow the Wilshire 5000, with the trading fees for each and every one of those transactions, you only have to buy one ETF and pay one transaction fee.

I was hoping the topic title was "Pink Floyd animation contest won by (Weird) Al", because that would have been awesome.