A sexton is a religious position (not that kind of position, you scoundrel).

A sextant is a device for measuring latitude, usually at sea.

Really, that’s just OK taking one for the team. We should encourage their policy of Texas Isolation until they are the only bordering state.

I think they did that already? Or maybe I’m thinking of the Bond Arms lever-action…

I don’t recognize a manual/electric dichotomy.

Manual/automatic and electric/mechanical are the two acceptable variations.

Not that these are the end-all of the electro-mech spectrum…

What maniac left a vase on the shelf? That’s just asking for it to fall mysteriously.

One extrajudicial killing and you wanna call it off? By that reasoning, elections don’t solve social issues either.

But I get it: murder bad.

A man living before his time. Not much before, mind you.

Muzzle? No muzzle here, friend, just Reciever velocity.

Probably a design philosophy thing. I prefer cars not be designed around computers. Feels a bit ‘black box’ to me. And if the console dies, I’m kinda SOL for anything routed through it. To be contrasted with the usual ‘welp, I guess I don’t have A/C for the summer’

If’n I had a group to play with, I’d be keen to try a character with some sort of handicap relevant to their class: a one arm fighter or a mute caster or some such. Would be fun to learn how to workaround things like vocal spell components cannot be used or only one hand weapons.

I’m arguing (and have been) that Egypt is looking out for Egypt only. Allowing Palestinian refugees introduces a possible liability for the Egyptian government to deal with down the line.

You’re right. I’m a monster for allowing myself to try and rationalize the actions of a government instead of assuming all they do comes from a place of humanity.

Governments are not people, they do not act as such. At best they are corporations with the endgoal of “stay in power” instead of shareholder value.

The case of the Palestinians now pretty neatly fits into “give up the chance of ever getting back”

No, individuals having to watch this on the border have it rough and the entire situation is shit, but Cairo playing realpolitik on the matter of refugees is not something I can reasonably fault them for: they are elected to prioritize Egypt’s interest, and allowing a group that may reasonably become a southern Hezbollah is in direct conflict with that mission.

Allowing mothers and children is the human thing to do, but with no actionable plan to return them, they become a liability with a fuse of some 16-20 years.

It is an emergency, but will the next one be on Egypt’s border, or Gaza’s is the question they seem to be asking.

Palestinians seem to have had no say up to this point, why change course now? I know why, but it’s mighty inconvenient for any powers that be.

Finally, Your Trail of Tears analogy is really strained. As far as I know there was (and still is) no hope of tribes getting their land back, the tribes had a designated “indian territories” they were being relegated to. as opposed to the Palestinians who have the destination of “not here”.

This abuts with the “right of return” arguments. If Palestinians were allowed to leave, would Israel permit them to return to the Gaza Strip, or would the front of Palestinian resistance instead shift to Egypt’s border?

I know where my money is, but…

Not only that, the smoking gun clearly indicates the bear shot first.

Story is kinda optional. Depends on the genre. I’m big into Factorio and Dwarf Fortress, which go light (kinda? Df is a story generator?) on story, but big on mechanics.

My folks have a tesla, and it’s ok (from a passenger perspective). Really put off by the console UX.

I’m considering the F150 lightning, and looking for any input on that idea?

As for why Ford instead of Rivian? I try to buy union for big ticket items like this.

How they’re supposed to work or how they do work?

Cause at times those are very different.

A crying shame about what happened to Famous Studios.

They were a bunch of bastards, but made good work. Not unlike the Walt Disney co.

These guys mastered pivoting. Next time I’m moving my sofa, I know who I’m gonna call.