Darth Fluffy

In his defense, he thought he was placing a tariff on some Hispanic guy named Diego Garcia . . . . . . Send Vance to parlay with the penguins! How is this Bozo not in prison? He didn't evade accountability based on his wits.

Pandora was capable of planning that Hope wold figure out access; she may have laid it out so that Hope would gain experience with finances before she had access to the whole shebang.

He's two days late! His day was April 1. Donald Dunning-Krueger.

Our weather right now is pollen.

Big numbers is why goblins go barefoot.

Family by blood to Diane and Susan; relationship with Tedd was 'Godmother'. She had pretty strong ties to Susan, and she prompted Nanase to wake up to save Ellen, so was involved with Ellen indirectly.

Online or on your phone, 1 to 10 is not common, 1 to 5 is more common. Think 'Yelp!' or feedback ratings. Five increments is intuitive, ten gets vague and has interpretation issues; harder to aggregate. Working with 1 to 12 is less common than thinking in steps of ten, especially with pressure 'to go 'metric'. But for much of your life, British commonwealth currency (and Irish as a former British possession) was based on 240 pence to the pound, with a key feature of 'shillings' or twelve pence. Then there's inches and feet, clocks, and degrees of angle (with an embedded factor of twelve in a full circle). 12 also has more useful factors than 10 does, although base 10 has a little more obscure feature that is as far as I can tell unique that makes it fun to work in. In base 10, 7 x 11 x 13 = 1001. this make it relatively easy to see if any of these three factor a large number. Thanks to /me for the star, please orbit it at a safe distance, we already have global warming. Notes to /me - "Lighten up, life's too short to be humorless", and "You have no idea how easy it is"

Susan is expected to be golden. She is the ultimately reliable member of the cast. Cases: challenging the uniforms, exposing Tom, then telling Ashley she (Ashley) was not at fault, running into battle at the mall (and being fairly effective). She is often the voice of reason. I don't think the gang is intentionally playing a long game with Hope, I think they genuinely care about her. Pandora was already a friend to several of them.

Slight negative points for lack of realism, but I like the direction she's moving. There is a bit pf Liz about her, but she's been more isolated, not as generally aware as Liz is. I'm also not fond of the term 'nice'; it's too vague. 'Nice' can be manipulative (the sales people are 'nice' to you) or it could be because you are actually a caring person, and I'm sure there are other variants. In the case of the core group, they are genuinely caring people who go out of their way to do the right thing, such as attack aberrations, or bounce soccer balls off of griffins. So the comic builds up to Jay caring about her new friends for the first four panels, Susan dropping a velvet covered hammer on her in the fifth, and and Jay awakening to her own motivations in a very golden fifth panel. She's in shock, because it's not 'her', but it is her, just a side she's never felt safe exposing before. She's been self-centered, she hasn't had anyone she could trust, and now she has a peer group that cares about her. I'm not sure what her grandfather's attitude is about (EGS) America and what it stands for. He seems primarily concerned about keeping magic secret. He was an agent, used a weapon to take out a hostile actor, not an unreasonable action on his part. He is older, has some conservative values, but approaches them in a flexible manner - I'm thinking of his reaction to Tedd's gender fluidity. We aren't privy to exactly why he isolated Jay. Perhaps he understood her part in the death of the would be assailant, thought she was innocent, and wanted to protect her. Perhaps he's not aware she even has magic, and saw no reason to modify his instructions to her as she got older. Most of his interactions with the cast have been fairly positive (other than Magus, who is being hunted). He has also given some good advice, both to Tedd and to Ashley. IMO, Magus would have been treated better if he didn't flee, seems likely they would have assisted him to get to his home dimension.

Val Kilmer has passed away. If you saw him in Top Gun: Maverick or a recent photo, maybe this isn't a surprise. I'm a bit shaken, because he was a bit younger than I am, and I recall his youthful movies; we are all on a TDY to this life. Some more links, if you wish: CNN, BBC, Variety (because Firefox Pocket suggested the article), search link.

I could give you a dozen historical examples of counting by twelves. (I could not give you 288 examples, it's two gross.) Counting by tens is an accident of having that many things sticking out of you hand.

Simon Whistler does his research.

Hope still seems to be an example of why Immortals do not drag their memories along when they reset. Keep a set of puppy dog eyes with you, just in case you need to use them. Ooh, maybe sunglasses with puppy dog eyes printed on them.

The power of computing!

I think they've hinted that they've had Immortal aid before.

What do we want? Apathy! When do we want it? Meh, whenever . . .

Scratch and sniff animations sound awesome, but would be rough on your display screen. Would be a reason to go back to glass displays. She's going to end up in school with them. I can smell it in the scratch and sniff.

That is indeed something a cat is highly qualified to teach.

I don't recall Greg having a mark nor magic. Do you know about when that occurred? I think Sarah has a spell book, not sure. She would have gotten it from Pandora, if she does. I don't think Ashley has one yet (weak wizard). I don't think Tedd has one (seer). Haven't seen Diane with one. Have not seen AJ with a spell book. Have not seen Grace with a spell book, in spite of, 'she's learning non-uryuom magic'. Have not seen Luke with a spell book. Have not seen Camden and crew with spell books. Have not seen Have not seen Sam with a spell book. Have not seen Magus with a spell book. Have not seen Lucy (magic TBD) with a spell book. Have not seen Noah with a spell book. I don't think we've seen any of the adults with a spell book.

No joke, this is a serious deficiency of language in making a Trump comparison, he's so far below the bar.

It appears no one gets them by default, Justin being a case in point.

You're not wrong.

Robert Reich is awesome sauce! He is worth following.

That's not entirely fair. Manure is a useful commodity that promotes plant growth. Trump's policies are harming farmers and driving food prices up in the US.

Given their relationship, I doubt that she will share this revelation. Unless she lives in his household (we don't know that she doesn't), he's unlikely to see it. For wizards, yes, for 'marked' and awakened, the descriptions seem to come from magic itself.