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To prevent mischief by pro-abortion courts with Issue 1, Ohio legislators will consider removing jurisdiction from the judiciary over this ambiguous ballot initiative. The Ohio legislature alone will consider what, if any, modifications to make to existing laws based on public hearings and input from legal experts on both sides.

So, if I'm understanding the right, the Ohio legislature is thinking about declaring that the Ohio judiciary is not permitted to make any rulings about whether certain Ohio laws comply with the amended Ohio constitution? Because that seems like a grotesque violation of the whole "separation of powers" concept.

Really doesn't make sense how 75%+ of the House (Dems + moderate Republicans) can't get together and outvote the others.

Any Republican that votes with Democrats risks losing their next primary.

I have to admit that "The British navy will be moving on from its tradition of employing Chinese laundrymen... by giving the work to Gurkhas" certainly sounds like a joke. However, I suspect it is merely one of the ways in which our timeline is the dumbest.

Yes, because Healer is a class in Nethack. Even without counting it as a pacifist it sucks at combat almost as much as the Tourist, which fulfills the "joke" portion.

Sucks at offense, sure, but you start with a metric ton of healing, have innate immunity to poison, and get basically infinite food as soon as you can cast level 3 spells. I'd probably rank Archaeologist below Healer, and maybe Rogue too. They're better than Healer in the late game (as is Tourist, honestly) but the late game isn't where most of my characters die.

Sorta related Animists in FFTA have sorry accuracy so why bother - potentially - afflicting status effects (...well, different from stat debuffs) when you can just deal some damage.
Its been a long time since I played it but I remember accuracy numbers being mostly miserable across the board in FFTA, it was kind of an annoying game to play.

My memory is that in FFTA, all status effects have the same accuracy (50/60/70 from front/side/back), regardless of how powerful the status is. Which means that once your Animist has their Frog-inflicting skill and Concentrate, they can just spam Frog at 70-90% accuracy. Why accept an 80% chance of just dealing some damage, when you can get an 80% chance of indefinitely crippling the target?

Dunsparce. Or, as I like to say, DOOMSPARCE!

Man what f***ing crime do you have to commit to NOT be able to run for President?

You have to lose the support of about 40% of your own party in the Senate. (At least, that would have been enough back in early 2020.)

...nah, Trump probably would still have run for President in 2024. "I have no honor, no one should trust me, and everything I own goes bankrupt. Therefore, no office I am elected to can be an office of honor, trust, or profit, and I can still be President."

Play the game once, start another run with a different character/class, fail to complete it.

Why is candy taxable, but cookies aren't? Like, okay, cookies you bake yourself, maybe, but Chips Ahoy?

If I recall correctly, here in Illinois, Twizzlers are taxed at a higher rate than Red Vines. Why? Because Red Vines are made with flour, so they count as food, while Twizzlers are taxed as candy. I would guess that Texas, too, declares "if it has flour, it counts as food" somewhere in the relevant part of the tax code.

What this does tell you is after this and the new York congressman fraud democrats need to do a better job fact checking because that is apparently necessary these days

Actually looking into these things would have blown them out of the water but neither were discovered until it was too late to matter

What we need is for Republicans to stop lying; for Republican voters to value honesty above "owning the libs". Democrats recognizing that they cannot safely assume Republicans are acting in good faith can only slow the bleeding.

I have a plush Magikarp and a plush Ditto-impersonating-Bulbasaur.

If you enjoy Fire Emblem gameplay, Engage delivers. It also has plenty of goofy supports and, thanks the Emblems, references to older FEs. On the other hand, if you want a riveting story or complex world building, you're out of luck. (At least they remembered to name the continent.)