I mean Nintendo’s lawsuit against Palworld for awhile was “throwing a spherical object” to catch things. Game IP law can get stupid.

LitRPG doesn’t necessarily mean you are reading about someone playing a game, although there are definitely those types of books as well. I’m my eyes it is a story that has rpg elements built into the story. MC’s gaining levels, items with stats, or even building a town that a building increases x resource per day.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is a great series. I just don’t recommend listening to it in the car with the little ones lol. If you like the DCC books there is another LitRPG book. The name escapes me at the moment but it’s about a guy that is working at an RV Park in the desert when the apocalypse comes. It’s also a very good series, I’ll see if I can’t find the name somewhere.

Lol it was an example, I actually stayed with the family for a week. They are the family of my best friend and I was invited to go to one of the family members Debut. As a rather tall person going shopping with Grandma was a treat and stood out for many reasons.

I mean sure to an extent. But there are still different cultures. Going shopping in a filipeno grocery store and having to duck every 6 steps so I don’t hit my head on anything. Eating authentic Filipino food. I think that is just as culturally different than eating gator in the swamps and tasting soul food.

That being said, I don’t REALLY care about cultures. How the live their lives, daily patterns, and way of doing things don’t matter to me. Just not interested but camping, seeing nature, and just being out and about that is a lot of fun. I can do all that without leaving the US.

I mean within America we have a huge diversity of locations/cultures/biomes/travel destinations.

So we don’t NEED to leave America to see different things. I’ve visited Hawaii, Washington, New York, Florida, California, and several others. From fishing, to seeing the redwoods, to a swamp tour, to the beaches of Hawaii.

I would like to see Europe but that’s expensive.

If it’s not your phone\computer (ex work\government devices) and if you are super paranoid even if it is your phone\computer, always assume someone is always watching and can see\recreate what you are doing.

Yes… I’m occasionally sorry I was born too. Thanks for that.

That’s fair, and knowing nothing about it at all. Everything has gotten more expensive. The article states that some price index for construction has gone up 67% since 2021. But i have no idea what the cost is of a normal bridge, much less one that has to deal with the added burden of being a wildlife bridge. I assume that made it more expensive because they needed to make sure none of that wildlife/eco system would unnecessarily wear the bridge.

I dunno just my 2 cents

Mummy ILF, MILF, is what they were going for i think

I mean, you didn’t address anything i said. You don’t understand what “real wars” are. Afghanistan was not a war and there was no way to win, hence any comparison you use to it is rediculous.

What are those drones or those defenses going to do about an naval artillery bombardment? Not high tech missiles, just straight shells hundreds of miles away?

I’m not a fan of either nation at the moment. You are just romanticizing anti America sentiment, which, you do you boo, I disluke them at the moment too.

I’m also going to ignore the Afghanistan in worse shape sentiment. If you think women shouldn’t go to school, be heard or be seen, you are not even worth having a discussion with.

“but America has dug such a hole that not a single other country is coming to their aid.” I mean, we are their with Israel. Not that I like them out agree with what they are doing. But that is a single other country.

" Hopefully you and or your kids are not within a draft able age, because it’s most likely coming if you see what they’re doing with increasing the age of eligibility."

This conflict with Iran would not require a draft by any means. Why would you think it would? Iran reportedly has 610k active duty personnel, while America has 1.33-1.34 million active duty personnel. With the arguable American military tech advantage, if this went to a real war, how? How do you think Iran would destroy them?

Say what you will, Afghanistan wasn’t a “real war” either.

I’m not going to say if we would win or lose in Iran. Again I DONT want to be their. The other major American losses you are mentioning were before the beast that is the American military became a large portion of our spending. The American military industrial complex largely came about in the past 50 years.

When the American military has a uniformed enemy and a target to destroy/apprehend we are one of the best military powers in the world.

Iran for SURE would have home field advantage. But if we went to war home field advantage wouldn’t mean much when we can park our destroyers in your pond, deploy a defense garrison on the ground to protect them and shell the country’s military emplacements to smithereens. Send troops in helos as fast surgical attacks.

The last military operation that we partook in that was a war action and not a peace keeping action to my recollection was operation desert storm. right/wrong or indifferent about being their we know how to do fast attacks against uniformed military. And that is why you didn’t see uniformed enemies fighting in Afghanistan. They used gorilla tactics quite well against us and we didn’t have an answer.

I’m going to be downvoted i know it. I don’t want to be in Iran, I don’t know why we are there.

But, what we are doing on Iran is not even close to a conventional/real war. If Orange Cheeto in charge hasn’t already done to much damage to our military by forcing the good commanders out, and we went to “real war” with Iran, boots on the ground and all. We wouldn’t be losing these planes. But at the moment we are hanging the planes/fighters out to dry with little to no support. So yes, they are going to get shot down. But you can’t call this a “real war”

If you are worried about just the sites you go to, use a VPN. If you don’t it is a lot easier than listed above to just see sites you go to. It’s a simple traffic analysis, most routers you buy at best buy will do that for you out of the box. Use a VPN. And always flush your dns cache when you are done. Even on VPN/incognito mode.

How to display all cached DNS entries on Windows - gHacks https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/07/how-to-display-all-cached-dns-entries-on-windows/#%3A~%3Atext=Open+Start%2C+type+PowerShell+and%2CFormat-Table+-AutoSize".

My other post would allow them to see what you were doing on the site.

So I’m not an agent but i work in IT.

If i were inclined I would snoop traffic going over the home network probably with a packet capture with the ability to decrypt ssl traffic. So I would have tools installed on your computer/device to make that easy. This would amount for computers/ tablets and other devices that don’t have LTE/cellular connections.

To make sure you didn’t use the tor and other end to end encryption I would block those protocols on the network.

To make sure you were not going through other networks/hotspots I would monitor and get alerted to any new ssid’s at the house then blast the frequency that ssid is broadcasting on to make it unusable.

To make sure your phone was always monitored I would put parental controls and backdoor remote access and logging.

That covers a decent amount of situations I can think of off the top of my head.

Want to circumvent this? Use internet at the friends house on a secret device that your parents will never find out about so keep it away from your house. Use online personas, don’t use your real anything online.

“Send them home! Send them home! Force their government to take them with your amazing diplomacy skills!”

A presumption of innocence means that any defendant in a criminal trial is assumed to be innocent until they have been proven guilty. As such, a prosecutor is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person committed the crime if that person is to be convicted.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/presumption_of_innocence

‘Proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt’

I don’t need a jury or judge or prosecutor to tell me what my own eyes have seen. That man shot her. Beyond a reasonable doubt. He did it. The only semantics here are if he can get away with it under some stupid immunity rule. Even if he somehow gets off the charges, he killed that woman.

Manny pack was my first thought. Saw a ticktock about them some time ago

Oh I’m not judging or caring about previous relationships or drama. I was just after the facts after all the grifts floating around “go fund me for wife and son” raised a couple red flags when I thought she was the mother of 3. Turns out she was in a different type of relationship hence “wife” and the youngest was from a different marriage. That all sort of falls in line with go fund me. So sure I’ll donate some to help out.

I mean, if i was a prosecutor I’d show the video and say “you can see here she was clearly serving away from the officer who discharged his gun several times into the deceased. He was never in danger for his life. She was not a clear and imminent threat to others. Should she have done what she did? Should she run from the cops? Should she have listened and stopped? Those are great questions with various answers but not the point of the trial. The question is, should she have been shot to death for doing what she did? That answer is no. He is guilty of murder.”

So she does have 3 kids 15, 12 and 6. First marriage had the first two and the second marriage had the final one. Second husband died and they are looking to raise money for the son and common law(?) Spouse.

So maybe the first two children are with the first father still?