Looks like a Disco Elysium portrait

I think for them it hinges on this idea of "purity"; that even a drop of non-white blood in someone's ancestry "taints" them.
Related: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenpass

To be fair to Ned, he'd just passed through a Kings Landing that had been sacked by Lanister soldiers, and seen Rheagar's children murdered by lanistwr knights. He prolly was thinking of that when he say Jaime sitting on the throne with a bloody sword.

Facetious answer: more cards
Serious answer: take any spare sleeve boxes or cardboard deck boxes you're not using, and fill them with bulk commons to make cardboard "bricks".

The quality of the apples is not the issue, the issue is that they have been weaponised for political intimidation and oppression.
A professional and courteous secret police is still a secret police.

Art cop time?

Rook d7 is a mistake - the follow up of black rook to g1 leads to mate.

Terrible 90 minute movies. But the OG ~20 minute long How the Grinch stole Christmas movie is peak.
Movies used to be allowed to be short.

You guys

Wait, does bough not rhyme with dough? I've only ever seen it written, have I been pronouncing it wrong in my head this whole time?

Sure, sex is great and all. But have you ever experienced the existential catharsis of realizing that the universe is, and we are?

Anime happened to elves.

Traders exist out in some small-town areas, but are not a significant population. Canadian populist nationalism exists, but is mostly anti-american, anti-trump.
Trudeau leaned too hard into his hype-cycle and crashed hard when the genuine scandals started piling up. No sabotage was really needed.

Obviously, he'll use this to exploit his fan base for financial gain. But there is also potential for foreign governments to use it as a way to directly bribe him in a way that will difficult to trace. I expect that to be the primary outcome of this.

Interesting article, on an interesting book.
I get the impression that there is a constant back and forth between top-down Control and bottom-up Populism; but off to the side is Capital, betting on both.
When Moses reigned, the banks were the winners. With small government, privatization wins.

Dragon Age 2
The awkward middle child of the Dragon Age games, 2 was overhyped and underwhelming on release. But the gameplay holds up better than either Origins or Inquisition imo, and the relatively fast pacing makes it the most replayable.