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Remember that you kinda like watching my things get stolen. As a fact you know hardware glitches, Magus was never a sweet soft moon child, and remaining upset over some missclick on youtube doesn’t make you edgier, harder, more mature, more prepared to hurt people, or more in touch with your sexual preference for assault. It should unlock Leon for Smash Melee, but that would mean I was wrong about you having anger control problems.
The dolphin is not your friend, it, they, she is only posting in emp retarded feels binary to take advantage of your insomnia. Something like a self important edgelady , she’s rather simply instigating your suicidal urges to screw you out of making choices for things you enjoy. I’ll give you some examples.
Guess Leon Kowalski’s play style, if you can!
You’re not having a contest over raging out at faggots in denial on YouTube, you’re waiting for somone to permit you to be in control. Now for lateral positive thinking.Which I assumed you wanted because of all those *ahem* creative game mods. I don’t intend to make a play of horrible bullshit videos like a certain artist trying to tell everyone how suicidal he wants you to stay.
Trigger Warning: I don’t consider myself knowledgeable about attack on titan.
If you wanted to ask about the specifications for how to put a spacestation out of gundam around the moon Titan you’d have a better time here. Now apparently, with your social goldfish attention spans this needs to be spelled out.
Especially the skeleton crossing guard who eats gummi vitamins at the Mexico border, where several very flighty broads are waiting to be flagged through.
Class is out, this is sitting in the theatre room having lunch after having kicked over the vending machine. Pay attention, to what, I’m typing. Especially the cleft lip insecure gangster wannabe with the Shikamaru complex but lazier. This is what how it bee, “dawg.”
Disclaimer: I haven’t watched DB Heroes thirty one. But Oozaru Kakaroly kills Cloverfield a half hour into the movie, leaving Skynet MechaGodzilla to carry the film. An ugly directing choice, and that out of the way!
Since Fuu is now the focus character, we start with an Okami sort of situation. But suddenly a mysterious presence alerts our understandably depressed main antagonist(?), and from the pants leg to the dress shirt to the buttoned vest, posing dramatically like a filler character having a good day without Majin Buu to hold his hand and walk him somewhere it’s Colonel Sanders Jelly Vegeta. Not alone either. He’s drafted quite a few people to his side, mostly every character you like that you thought “I” killed with glitched scr
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button press on YouTube. On a day numerically specifically a holy Wildcard. You impossibly silly lass.The tournament of Power was years and years and years and years ago.
And so Fuu picks himself off the ground, pockets a bag of highly abstract seeds, and looking alike to a prize boxer with that draped over him, walks with our Shmoozing Saiyan Doppelgänger and listens to an offer he really can’t refuse.
*silently agreeing in neopolitan animal crossing*
Reed
Fun challenge, send these gaggle of dorks some questions about Ecco the Dolphin, time t
ohe lad between posts afterward. Meanwhil, on the part of Facebo
ok not overtaken by Pepto Bismol drinking Deadites from the 60’s who still won’t put down the baby hieroglyphics and take the doctor’s medicine in recommended dosages.
Some people have been vocal, probably off planet, about too much Gookog and Veecheeto, I’m apologies, Goku and Vegeta standing in for other characters. Know that while more important things are needing to be done, and part of this chickenscratch metanarrative, I have filed your concerns. So, Fuu is making certain to watch his manners around Team PB&J.
Oh yes Riddel, if you have to suffer through all that trauma and keep a presentable face, shouldn’t everyone else too?
So we have Yamcha at home, or an old thieves hideout, or Kame House, thoroughly engrossed with his phone. Whatever may he be watching? Really that’s up to the dubbing team. Maybe he’s using a few Sherlock Holmes Hardcovers to test his posture. Knock on the door it’s Chi Chi and Tien. Piccolo’s been moody, and won’t talk to anyone he did the Tournament arc with. Well he did get a slap on the back against the Egyptian cat god, maybe it’s up to him? Cue a drive, with multiple fender benders, to Taco Bell.,.Pilaf in a robot suit working the drivethru.
They drive to wherever, could be the middle of nowhere, I’m not in the mood for twitchy dramatics. Odd people’s energy signatures have been showing up, and he’s tightlipped about something. Something Something Ribrianne ’ this is how the white race goes extinct.’ Cowabunga, that’s four onscreen characters! Pizza Time!
You can already hear the Luna Eurobeat playing, because it’s kinda an automated feature!
We’re working towards a Goku and Vegeta coma arc, try to cooperate without starving a man to death because standing in the corner because of your bratty attitude isn’t working for you. It means more “other characters”. That and mood swings.
Hello Feiying, yes I do have an interest in Science Team Gatchaman.
…in personnel, please come to deli bakery please
I’ve always wanted to try living at Walmart. Seems self re-inforcing. Anyway, I got more in me.
Sooooooo the entire thing WOULD REQUIRE finishing the “365 Days of Tao” and “The Deaths of Tao”, using the tumblr version, which I know other people have picked up on. The entire multi-episode set up would be a positive excuse to decompress the plot of “Wrath of The Dragon”. Yes I read the first weatherbeaten copy of “Twilight” during a stay in an insane asylum. Heh Lum. I’d suggest using the Multiverse Team write it, if I still trusted the FelRench.
Where before a lot of Mel Brooks references would have been needed along with a ridiculous amount of Tekken and Virtua Fighter still and animated shot comparisons as well as on the ground reports from people in less constitutionally founded territories , we can use Braille readings of the D.C. riots and ask anyone who’s been in one since the mid-eighties. A bumper crop of social unrest.
Looking at you Bulleta.
Even when I… uh anyway! The whole thing, including previously mentioned cameos are a lead up to this being Master Splinter Turtle Sennin’s story arc. Also during this chaos Moloch Sensei shows up but it is Injustice Prison Uniform Morro.
How we proceed with this was already written as easy mode by the fellow who did the non-YouTube Quest Sixty Four strategy walkthrough first person fic, reshuffle some names of places and things and there we go. Have some fun leaving things Celtlandish due to the ‘Room of Spirit and Time’ a
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places from a few other classics. Let the Southern Hemisphere boys roll for magical dramatical bullcrap.
The Boss Villain of the ‘arc’ is one of the Spice Boys masquerading as an angelic version of Bulma, or Bulma, or original Trunks with a friggin Halo, but the need to dramatically bite into the fruit from the cover of “Midnight Sun”. Those things aren’t toxic but the give me blood vessel problems like I got smacked a jab to the nose.
Back when I was just released from that nuthouse on the panhandle after a year long stay, I wrote up some interesting prompts on my home computer. That’s incidental. While in the nuthouse for that monotonous year, someone passed me a small object with appeared to be a diamond. You’d be astounded the clarity a gallon of chocolate soy milk and an entire bottle of men’s vitamin gummies give you. When I got
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I had it appraised. The contrarian motherfucker who looked at it said it was a cubic zirconium, I didn’t throw it away, but I’m certain that whoever took it along with my personal Mac found out that fingernail sized gem was worth what, $$100,000? Or where you admitting one hundred karats? Do you know what that would have made possible in my hands after my slovenly and probably dead Fargo Faygo chugging roommate left allowing me to get it re-appraised? You impossibly stupid uncle fucker.
Timelines.
“You like me shoving the card in you dirty McDuck cumdumpster!”
Ah, this is quite a sight to behold…
A bright-yellow sun rose high over the land of Clancer, its rays shining down upon the vast, open landscape. Morning dew sparkled on the various trees and plants dotting the landscape as the sun’s rays shined down onto the forest. Birds chirped in the trees and flowers swayed in the wind as butterflies darted from one petal to another. Hidden in the light of the morning sun, a massive house-like structure was held aloft high above the planet’s surface via three huge rockets. Two long blade-like structures, connecting to huge green spheres, stood erect on the brick-red roof of the aircraft. Yellow as the sun it was basking in, the entrance of the aircraft was adorned with a face-like image consisting of two glass circles and a silver elongated triangle.
Inside the ship, an elderly man was silently staring out a closed window in a small room right by the entrance. The man had a stocky build, with a round belly and a thick, white beard not unlike that of Santa Claus. Round glasses adorning his face, he wore a white lab coat and green bandanna tied tightly on his head.
Gosh, I’m bored… the man thought, shaking his head, I came to this planet to unwind, and I can’t even leave the ship…
Theo shifted his position and stared out the window, hoping to see his robot return soon. Outside he saw the beautiful landscape of Clancer; the bright, clear sky, the rolling hills, the vibrant green grass and trees that seemed to stretch for miles. Dotting the landscape were block-like temple structures with holes and grooves craved into them. Images that resembled a ghostly face adorned the structures, giving them a slightly quieting look to them that sent chills down Theo’s spine.
As he stared out to the beautiful scenery, a rising feeling from his gut beckoned him to venture out into this new world. “And yet…” he sighed as he made his way back to his seat, “Marina told me to stay here ‘til she’s done scouting…”
With that, Theo let out another sigh as he sat back down. Hours has elapsed since he had last seen Marina. He had spent most of the time tinkering with his gadgets and nick-knacks he brought with him, watching his stories on the ship’s intergalactic television, and had eaten most of the remaining food in the supply storage room. All he could do now was sit and wait for his robot, Marina, to return from the scouting.
Gosh, I’m getting tired… His eyelids grew heavy as he tried to stay upright on his seat, a huge plush pillow. Perhaps I should take a nap… until Marina comes back, anyway.
Suddenly, an odd laughter pierced through his drowsy state, and in a flash, Theo shot back up whipping his head around in alarm.
“Huh?” he uttered in confusion, “I have visitors already?”
“Darth Of A Salespony”
Try try again Alistor. Maybe we zigged where we should have zagged.
>On the plus side, I bullshitted him into the high-rises ._
Holding his hands up, he slowly trudged over to the entrance of the ship. Thoughts raced through his head as he walked ever so closer. “Was it Marina?” he thought, before shaking his head. “She couldn’t have been back this early. It can’t be the locals, either; if my calculations are correct, I should be over five hundred feet above the planet’s surface!”
Reaching for the handle, he slid the door open, revealing that… no one was there?
“Huh?” He poked his head out the window, flitting his eyes to and fro. “Where did they go?”
“BANZAI!”
Before he knew it, a strong blow struck his face, sending him flying back in the floor of the room.
“W…What the heck was that?” he screamed, furiously rubbing the back of his head. “Marina, did you do tha-!”
Just before he finished his sentence, a figure ran into the room. Theo turned his head to see the figure standing in front of his table
The red 🍒 leader put a hand to the side of his (it’s)head. “Oh sorry, what was that?” he said smugly. “Here, let me help you with that!”
“This is the reason my Hetwan child and Izayoi aren’t here.”
Yohane, you know my line of credit is exceptional. If they pull something, or Maleficent forbid something has happened to my mother, please, don’t mangle the bodies after you’re done. No great journey, only getting your skulls crushed beneath bootheels, medium style.
“With Marzen’s words in mind, Theo, with a sigh, (did not do what you wrote my fanfiction is beyond the dimensional limitations of your mind LOOK AT HYRULE FIELD IT’S GERMANY, and your ponies are {PIZZA}) finally conceded.”
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China’s Seniors, Seeking Retirement Homes, Find Scams Instead
Rooms and beds for retirees are in short supply as the population ages, leaving many vulnerable to companies pitching risky investments.
Feb. 27, 2021, 6:00 p.m. ET
The saleswoman waited for Yang Jinzhong at the bus stop. She took Ms. Yang for a tour in her car. With every call and meeting, the saleswoman made the same pitch: By investing just a little bit of money, Ms. Yang could secure a spot in a retirement home at a great price and make some extra cash to boot.
Ms. Yang, 78, was reluctant. Then her husband suffered a brain hemorrhage and lost his ability to speak. In China, where the population is graying with stunning speed, space in affordable retirement homes is hard to find. In the end, Ms. Yang gave $31,000, her life savings, to the retirement company.
Now the saleswoman’s company is one of hundreds of recent cases that are under investigation or have been prosecuted by Chinese authorities who have grown increasingly concerned about retirement home scams. Their inquiries so far cover hundreds of millions of dollars in money raised with the promise of securing a room or a bed. The problem has become so widespread that China’s top judicial bodies have labeled the retirement industry one of the sectors hardest hit by what they call illegal fund-raising.
In Yiyang, the city where Ms. Yang lives, a retired handyman was so distraught after losing his life savings that he threw himself into a river last month and drowned, according to state media.
Ms. Yang doesn’t know if she will ever get her money back. She now depends on a small monthly retirement check. “Otherwise,” she said with a quiet laugh, “how could I live?”
China’s looming elder-care crisis has provided an opening for fraudsters and Ponzi-like investment schemes. By 2025, more than 300 million people in China will be 60 or older, according to the Chinese government. By 2050, that number is estimated to rise to half a billion.
Traditionally Chinese families have taken care of elderly parents. In the wake of China’s now-defunct one child policy, and because of mass migration to big cities, fewer people can care for the growing gray population. The government provides care to only the most vulnerable, known as the “three no’s” — those with no family, no financial support and no ability to work.
“We have a continuously aging population, and government-funded public services are not enough to look after this population,” said Dong Keyong, a professor at the School of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China in Beijing.
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China’s government has turned to the private sector, promising subsidies and tax benefits for companies that build homes. But the cost of building a nursing home is high, and the rewards are often too low because most people cannot afford high-quality care. In Beijing, for example, the monthly bill at retirement homes can be as high as $1,500, according to one report, triple the average retirement paycheck of $535 a month.
To surmount those challenges, some builders skirt laws that forbid them to accept money from residents before the retirement homes are built. Instead of preselling a home or a bed directly, those builders create side investment products that promise high interest rates in addition to future membership benefits.
The authorities and elder-care experts say financial products often turn into Ponzi-like schemes. Money raised from later investors is sometimes used to pay earlier investors. If they can’t presell enough homes or beds to start construction, the project evaporates — and so does the money.
The failures have become so severe that Chinese officials have stepped in. China Central Television, the state broadcaster, recently called retirement investment funds with high returns a “fairy tale.”
More than a thousand criminal cases have been filed against companies selling retirement services over the past four years, according to public records. One company, Yi Lao Lin, in the northern city of Shenyang, promised monthly returns as high as 24 percent and future membership to a luxury retirement resort with a gym, an entertainment center and hospital facilities. It raised nearly $5 million from more than 370 people, according to Chinese court officials, before vanishing into thin air.
Another company, Shanghai Da Ai Cheng, raised more than $150 million through investment funds that offered an annual return of 8 to 25 percent and admission to a retirement home. Three years after the program started, investors stopped receiving regular interest payments and learned that their original investment was gone. In all, more than $81 million disappeared, according to the authorities.
The police in Hunan Province investigated 45 cases involving $540 million over two years and identified an additional 37 private retirement homes that may have been raising funds illegally, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.
Despite the problems, retirement homes remain lightly regulated, experts said. Officials have focused on the quality of elder care but not the financing methods, said Chan Wing-Kit, an associate professor of social policy at Sun Yat-sen University.
The government has encouraged companies to build China’s elder-care industry and opened the sector to foreign investment. As a result, many of these projects get glowing coverage by state media. Local officials often lend their support with highly publicized visits to construction sites.
Five people interviewed by The New York Times who said they had lost the money through similar investment products complained that the companies they invested in were heavily covered by local media, leading them to believe that projects had official support.
Chen Shaohua, 54, was intrigued by a retirement home in Chenzhou, a city in Hunan Province, that offered medical care and a proprietary bee therapy that claimed to be steeped in traditional Chinese medicine. Ms. Chen first learned about the home from a local broadcaster that covered a visit to the home by government officials.
She pooled together more than $37,000 with her sisters to secure beds for her mother and mother-in-law, both in their 90s. Then, on Jan. 6, the local police opened an investigation into the company for illegal fund-raising.
“They had the government endorsement and the news had hyped it up, and there were many salespeople to sell it,” Ms. Chen said.
“It may have been a scam from the beginning,” she added.
Seniors in rural areas could be especially vulnerable. They often live alone because their children have moved to big cities for jobs. About 16 million elderly people had been left behind in rural areas, according to a 2016 survey by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Many older adults “don’t have the financial resources to pay for long-term care services and they don’t have children who can provide the care for them, so they are basically stuck,” said Bei Wu, a professor of public health at New York University who has studied China’s elderly for three decades.
The police in the city of Yiyang are investigating Heng Fuhai, the company that Ms. Yang invested in, and Yiyang Nanuo Senior Apartments, the company that took money from Cao Yinglin, the retired handyman who threw himself into the river last month. The authorities have asked those who invested to provide more information and have said they will try to minimize the losses of investors. But Ms. Yang is doubtful.
Heng Fuhai and Nanuo Senior Apartments did not respond to requests for comment. The telephone number for Nanuo has been disconnected. An employee at Heng Fuhai hung up the phone.
Ms. Yang said she had missed warning signs. The saleswoman, she said, pushed her to invest soon after her husband could no longer take care of himself. Ms. Yang resisted, but the saleswoman wouldn’t give up. The saleswoman phoned her, followed her home and visited her husband in the hospital. The saleswoman even cleaned Ms. Yang’s house, she said.
“She acted like a daughter, a daughter I gave birth to,” Ms. Yang said. “She was even more affectionate toward me than my children. It felt like that it would be too embarrassing to say no.”
Now Ms. Yang is just grateful for the small monthly retirement money she receives. If not, “then I would have to do what old Mr. Cao did,” she said. “It just takes one jump.”
“Salutations, herr Quincy, it has taken too long to see your bright shining gaze again.”
He does care. It’s not only about the Qwardian ring, let’s take a look at one of MY favorite fanfics, about Derpy and Rainbow Dash and my goodness your carotid artery is sooooooooo enticing. Hello Dashie? Where are the aliens?? Konngara, I’ll touch it up.
Is a hammer a black truck driven by the Megamind antagonist? Because. I’m also missing my tweet and bookfase passwords.
“There is no law that gods must be fair.” Do you have any idea how badly you’ve fucked up by posting that twit?
The major currents in the Atlantic Ocean help control the climate by moving warm surface waters north and south from the equator, with colder deep water pushing back toward the equator from the poles. The presence of that warm surface water plays a key role in moderating the climate in the North Atlantic, giving places like the UK a far more moderate climate than its location—the equivalent of northern Ontario—would otherwise dictate.
But the temperature differences that drive that flow are expected to fade as our climate continues to warm. A bit over a decade ago, measurements of the currents seemed to be indicating that temperatures were dropping, suggesting that we might be seeing these predictions come to pass. But a few years later, it became clear that there was just too much year-to-year variation for us to tell.
Over time, however, researchers have figured out ways of getting indirect measures of the currents, using material that is influenced by the strengths of the water’s flow. These measures have now let us look back on the current’s behavior over the past several centuries. And the results confirm that the strength of the currents has dropped dramatically over the last century.
On the conveyor
The most famous of the currents at issue is probably the Gulf Stream, which runs up the east coast of the US and Canada, taking warm water from the tropics toward Europe. But the Gulf Stream is just one part of a far larger ocean conveyor system, which redistributes heat in all the major ocean basins outside of the Arctic. And while its reach is global, a lot of the force that drives the system develops in the polar regions. That’s where surface waters cool off, increase in density, sink to the ocean floor, and begin to flow south. It’s that process that helps draw warmer water north to replace what has sunk.
It’s the density of the cold, salty water that is key to the whole process—and that’s where climate change can intervene to slow down or halt the water’s turnover. The Arctic is warming faster than any other area on Earth, which means that the surface waters are starting to take longer to cool off. The Arctic warming is also melting off a lot of the ice, both on land and in the floating ice sheets that have typically covered the Arctic Ocean. This process can form a layer of fresher water over the surface of the ocean nearby that, even after it cools, won’t be as dense as the salt water beneath it.
If this process has kicked in, we should be able to detect it by measuring the strength of the currents flowing north. But that has turned out to be less informative than we might want. While we have detected significant drops in some years, they were often countered by large rises in others. This internal variability in the system is so large that it would take decades for any trend to reach the point of statistical significance.
The alternative would be to extend our records back in time. But since we can’t retroactively place buoys in the North Atlantic early last century, researchers have to identify other ways of figuring out how strong the flow of water was before we had accurate measurements.
Current by proxy
The research community as a whole has identified a number of ways to figure out what was going on in the oceans in the past. Some are pretty direct. For example, stronger ocean currents can keep larger particles of sediment flowing in the water for longer. So examining the average particle size deposited in sediments on the ocean floor can tell us something about the currents that flowed past that site. Other measures are a bit less direct, like nitrogen isotope ratios in corals, which tell us something about the productivity of the ocean in that area.
Overall, there are about a half-dozen different ways of understanding past ocean conditions used in the new study. Each has different levels of uncertainty, and many don’t provide an exact measure of conditions in a single year, instead giving a sense of what the average conditions were over a period of several decades.
Complicating matters further, the measures don’t all come from the same locations. Samples taken from deeper waters will capture the equator-directed cold water flow, while shallow sites will yield data on the warm waters flowing north. The Gulf Stream also breaks up into multiple individual currents in the North Atlantic so that some sites only capture a small part of the total picture.
Given all this, it’s not possible to build a complete picture of the Atlantic currents in the past. But with enough sites covered, it’s possible to get a sense of whether there have been any general changes at any point over the last 1,600 years based on the overlaps of the different records.
To identify any major transitions, a research team did change-point analysis, essentially searching for points in the history where the mean behavior before and after are significantly different. They found two change points that show up consistently in the data from multiple proxies. One occurred in the late 1800s, and the second happened around 1960, when the current period of warming really started to take off.
Of the 11 different records examined in the researchers’ work, 10 show that the current’s lowest strength has been within the past century. And that identification is statistically significant in nine of them. “Together, these data consistently show that the modern [current] slowdown is unprecedented in over a thousand years,” the paper’s authors conclude.
Obviously, we’d like to build up better records that more fully capture the dynamics of what has been going on and, if possible, give us more direct measures of the currents’ actual strengths. It’s also important to emphasize that this doesn’t necessarily portend a sudden, radical shift to a completely new climate. Europe might see a little less warming from ocean currents, but it’s also going to be seeing a lot more warming due to rising atmospheric temperatures. However, the drop in this current will have wide-reaching effects, both on the land surrounding the North Atlantic and the ecosystems within it. So getting more data should be a high priority.
"Three in the morning camp-a-thon."
"Sikerülni fog neki udvarolni, vagy olyan káoszt teremteni, amit csak egy gép tud létrehozni?"
