Don Edwards

DGB doesn't necessarily need all of Tedd's data (e.g. his friends' clone forms), and there has been no statement by anyone which strongly implies that they got all of it. Yes, they got Tedd's notes - but even a single clone form is likely to be vastly more data than a human can put into notes in one lifetime. Particularly if that lifetime is, to date, about 18 years. If DGB got a set of devices - a scanner and a TFG - and any necessary software, they can build their own collection of data.

It's explicit that he CAN see through the illusion, but Lavender is currently using a clone form - not an illusion. Can't definitely comment on that, because Lavender would have privileged access to it - considering she works for MIB and is dating Tedd's dad. But we know that Tedd has built several TF guns, and it's reasonably likely that MIB took one or more and replicated them. So I'm guessing that quite a lot of Uryuom - at a minimum, the ones near Moperville - have access to it. Also, I'm guessing that the ability to see through the illusions comes automatically with being a seer (but may or may not be limited to them).

While others are a loaf.

I've read a story where that plan was actually taken out and used. (Not on Earth though. And with extensive adjustments - no plan of battle survives contact with the enemy - because the zombies weren't human even before they were zombified.)

(Recheck thread title, you misspelled "Thursday". )

At least it isn't a STUPID answer, like midichlorians.

You'd "love" it here. Yesterday we looked out at bright sunlight while hearing thunder - then the clouds and rain rolled in - then they rolled out again and we had bright sunlight for the rest of the afternoon - then just before sunset we had another thunderstorm rolling in...

The universe consists of cat toys, cat food, and cat beds.

Lots of wars where one side is the comparatively good guys... Right now in eastern Europe we have one country that picked up a piece of "logic" that - if they really believed in it - would have them spontaneously and unilaterally surrendering to a certain other country, and using it as justification to invade that other country. And bragging about committing multiple war crimes in the course of that invasion.

There is an ironic detail about that. General Lee resigned from the Union Army, went home and freed all his slaves, and then accepted command of the Confederate Army. Making his slaves among the very first to be freed as a result of the Civil War. Meanwhile, Union commander (and eventually top commander short of the President) General Grant and his wife held onto their slaves until the amendment banning slavery in the US took effect - making those among the very last to be freed. Quite a few Southerners, at the start of the war, did not think it was primarily about slavery. Instead they thought it was about whether the Constitution gave the federal government only the powers defined for it (which is what you might think if you read the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, or if you wonder why the Constitution has a list of specific powers granted, and what quite a lot of people thought before the Civil War), or gave it every power not explicitly prohibited to it (which was the Republican Party's position in the 1850s, and became the more common interpretation in the aftermath of the war - and remains so today). Granted, they were effectively applying that question and their answer in defense of slavery, which is despicable and makes them clearly not the good guys... but I can't say the Union were the good guys either.

I think the dimension I'm traveling through is out of sight, out of sound, and out of mind.

I was expecting one of Tedd's friends to say something like "I don't get it. How can a hair style I've never seen you in before, make you look even more like yourself?"

There can be some interesting legal fictions. For example, four rooms in an Ottawa hospital were part of the Netherlands - and not part of Canada - for a short time in January of 1943. That legal fiction meant that when Princess Margriet was born in those rooms, she was not Canadian and officially did not have divided loyalties; therefore she would be eligible to inherit the Dutch throne. (She still is - 8th in line according to Wikipedia; her oldest sister's son is the current monarch.)

Have you mentioned to the docs that when you use gabapentin you gain weight? They may have something else that is almost as good for the intended purpose but doesn't have that side effect.

My dad's job during WWII was aircraft quality control across multiple factories. He was not only exempted from the draft, he was kicked out (and sent back to flying his private plane over the western US and Canada making sure airplane parts from factory A connected properly with parts from factory B ) all four times he enlisted.

"a dear bought victory; another such would have ruined us" - General Clinton, British Army, after the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolution. (Setup: Bunker Hill had a commanding view of Boston Harbor; if the rebellious Americans could put artillery there, they could deny the harbor to British ships. The land approaches to Bunker Hill, however, were similarly challenged by Breed's Hill. The American forces, then generally regarded as not amounting to much, were therefore entrenched on Breed's Hill, and the British decided that could not stand. In the end the British won, but in the process they lost nearly half of their forces in the Boston area - more than twice as many casualties as the Americans took - and 1/4 of all officers lost over the course of the entire war.)

While the extent of our destruction is clearly and significantly non-zero, it is frequently exaggerated. There are people out there under the impression that life on Earth will be severely damaged by atmospheric CO2 levels less than half of what was normal when the giant dinosaurs were at their heyday. Somehow this does not greatly concern me. On the other hand, there is debate over whether humans are about to be a mass-extinction event, were a mass-extinction event starting a couple hundred years ago, or were a mass-extinction event starting, in North America, about 23,000 years ago (earlier on some other continents, a bit later in South America). I think at least one of those sides is probably correct, and it's past time to stop doing that.

Allegedly, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did... at least once. "This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put." Then there's the time a father went upstairs to read his son a bedtime story, only to have the child express disapproval of the chosen book. "What did you bring the book I don't like to be read to out of up for?" (Ending a sentence with five prepositions.)

We arrived here late last week and had several sunny days with temps in the upper 80s. Followed by four consecutive days of rain with temps topping out in the lower 70s at most.

A search for "Thom Khatt" revealed that he (or another person using that name) had some medical & financial issues in 2018 that resulted in a GoFundMe campaign. Unfortunately, I use a standards-compliant browser rather than a Microsoft-compliant one, so my attempt to send an inquiry to the campaign organizer didn't work. You might give it a try, if you haven't already. https://www.gofundme.com/friend-needs-help-for-medical-issue

The pushing wasn't the problem. It was the poking.

It looks like wasabi, but doesn't burn the mouth.

If you deliberately blab secrets that don't matter, with the intent of earning a reputation of being unable to keep a secret, it gets easier to keep the secrets that do matter - because nobody believes you're keeping any secrets.

A few days ago, at both sunrise and sunset, I heard what sounded like three animals with loud, high-pitched voices, saying "Meow". No, not meowing, more like they were saying the word. (After some thought and comparing to sound clips from the internet, I decided they were probably foxes.)

So the front gives you trouble, and so does the back?