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Played for about an hour this morning, half of it legendary contracts, where i got squat, and the other half in freeplay GM2, got a legendary after about 20 minutes, and a lot of the MW/Legendary effects are better, like instead of Titans Hail triggering combos over the regular burst motar, each hit triggers a large explosion or their own combos now, the flamethrower now procs on hits instead of kills which was basically impossible before on the harder difficulties. The forge is now instant and accessible from anywhere in the city from the escape menu, and instantly loads after missions which is really nice. Overall though there still isn't a whole lot to do and i felt no reason to do legendary missions, which are beefed up story missions including cutscenes and all as they apparently don't guarantee legendaries and are just a band aid to the fact there isn't much to do.

Patch hit today, health bug was fixed and apparently some inscriptions weren't loading at times causing you to have massive fluctuations in health/shields lol. Almost every masterwork/legendary was made more useful or better, and drop rates of legendary boss enemies increased along with wolrd event chests and adding legendaries to stronghold bosses. Haven't tried yet but will give it a play later.

Morning Consult poll from yesterday and today, approval/disapproval -13 or holding steady basically, plurality understand mueller didn't make a determination on obstruction. Its scary how many in the GOP believe it says he didn't obstruct. https://morningconsult.com/2019/03/26/trumps-popularity-unchanged-after-completion-of-mueller-probe/

I'm trying to win re-election here!

Just remember the Mueller report isn't going to have any impact on the election, cause Trump is going to do what he does best for the next year and a half, lol.

So? It's not a strategy that's helped him, and the Russia investigation polled consistently as an issue voters were least concerned with. Trump shutting down the government, tax cuts, and Healthcare are far more important on people's minds and lives.

This will have 0 impact on the 2020 election, Trump has had a majority disapprove of him months before the special counsel even started. It slices both ways with him, bad news fades just as fast as good news cause hes retarded.

Well maybe if you guys hadn't mismanaged all your rivers and allowed water to flow into them you'd be fine!

Yeah, if the DoJ is doing things right no one outside of the people working on it should know anything.

A few deaths have been blamed on the flooding, along with thousands of homes being destroyed.

Their members aren't really democratic voters anymore, and union membership is sinking.

DoJ won't be releasing anything to congress today.

Anthem had $100 million in digital sales, only 3.5 million of it is microtransactions, so a lot of people bought the game digitally, but not many are buying any of the in game stuff with money. Compare that to Apex's 93 million in digital sales. https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/03/22/what-to-make-of-anthems-surprise-100-million-in-digital-revenue/#75eea6a84329

Tax cuts pay for themselves!

Trump is taking the deficit to new heights, hit 234 billion dollars last month, outpacing any month during the recession. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-government-ran-a-544-billion-deficit-over-the-first-5-months-of-the-fiscal-year/2019/03/22/932d3438-4cc8-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html?utm_term=.b87a67698ef8 The government spent $234 billion more than it brought in through tax receipts last month, much more than the deficit levels hit even during the global financial crisis. In the first five months of the fiscal year, the government has spent $544 billion more than it brought in through tax receipts, Treasury said Friday. The $544 billion deficit is up 39 percent from the same period one year ago. For February, the government spent $401 billion and brought in $167 billion in revenue. Tax numbers are traditionally weak in February because many Americans seek tax refunds, but February’s tax receipts were lower than the government received in 2016.

Baby come back! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-pulls-out-of-liaison-office-with-the-south-in-blow-to-warming-ties/2019/03/22/89a0b5ee-4c81-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html?utm_term=.0decf93165fd North Korea abruptly pulled out from a liaison office with South Korea near the border on Friday, another apparent sign of hardening positions following the no-deal summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump last month. North Korean staff members at the office left on “instructions from the superior authority,” according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry — an apparent reference to Kim.

To criticize black people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/22/whos-going-help-me-steve-king-denigrates-hurricane-katrina-victims-needing-government-assistance/?fbclid=IwAR1KDSUY4gzRLhIfGf0kIKmpSJEB8K9YhkmIMAokMgs_jeRqn0CcvbIxTWw&utm_term=.bb64a215f77d "We go to a place like New Orleans, and everybody’s looking around saying, ‘Who’s going to help me? Who’s going to help me?’” King said, recounting what he said officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, had told him about the relief effort, in which he said he had participated. Yet, he was also one of 11 members of Congress to oppose a bill providing federal aid to Katrina victims in 2005. In his home state, he said, residents looked after one another without government handouts. Meanwhile, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has declared a disaster in more than half of Iowa’s 99 counties because of severe flooding and is seeking a federal declaration that would free up funds from Washington. “We go to a place like Iowa, and we go see, knock on the door at, say, I make up a name, John’s place, and say, ‘John, you got water in your basement, we can write you a check, we can help you,'" King said. “And John will say, ‘Well, wait a minute, let me get my boots. It’s Joe that needs help. Let’s go down to his place and help him.’” King, who was stripped of his committee assignments in January over comments questioning whether the term “white supremacist” was offensive, said FEMA officials are “always gratified when they come and see how Iowans take care of each other.” “We’re Iowans, and I’m always proud of our reaction to this,” he added, suggesting that his constituents displayed up-from-their-bootstraps grit in the face of environmental calamity, while the victims of Katrina — the deadliest storm to buffet the United States since the Okeechobee hurricane of 1928 — helplessly went in search of government assistance.

Of course he did.

I really don't know why i still have a facebook account, when i do use it i usually just end up reading an article from places I follow on twitter anyways.

Hey look scientist did science and stuff, turns out it might not be so crazy to control an invasive species by reintroducing a natural predator! A lot less fun that just shooting stuff though. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1212&context=jur Abstract Invasive species are a problem in the United States. As their populations continue to increase in size they disrupt ecological systems. One of the most notorious invasive species is the feral hog. In Texas, the hog populations cause ecological and agricultural damage that costs the state $52 million annually. The reason for the large continuously growing population is that the feral hogs, unlike its relatives in Europe, have no natural predators and hunters cannot suppress the population growth. In Europe, the gray wolf is a predator to the European wild boar. However, wolves in the U.S. have been extirpated from most of the continental U.S. If gray wolves could be reintroduced into hog habitat, and had similar predation rates as their Europe relatives, could they reduce the feral hog invasion? A theoretical population model was designed in excel where it used life-history information for wolves and feral hogs to simulate their population sizes for 50 years. Three different predation rates were simulated on the feral hog population, and population rates were compared to the control that had no wolf predation. The results showed that medium and high predation rates significantly reduce the hog population. This research is intended to show a natural and sustainable approach to solving the feral hog problem while aiding conservation efforts for the gray wolf. To further this research, the next objectives would be to add a habitat model and perform a field experiment.