Steven Stahl

Politics and IQ: Are liberals smarter than conservatives? via @psypost psypost.org/the-politics-o…

Josh Marshall on the current situation with Iran.

I got off to a very late start on my workout last night (headache, listlessness), but once I started, my legs worked great. I finished at about 2 a.m. This morning, I woke up hungry. That's better than waking up and coughing up undigested food, but it's not a good start. My right leg pushed 7.5 more lbs. on the gluteals machine than my left leg could yesterday. I'm supposing that's due to nerves being stretched. Being able to increase the weight was the nice surprise.

Over a dozen injured after drunk driver strikes pedestrians at Lao New Year parade in Louisiana, police say nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m… via @nbcnews

Second airman in F-15E that was shot down over Iran rescued safely, U.S. officials say nbcnews.com/world/iran/sec… via @nbcnews

The Vision by david.river_art and The Vision Redesign (John Byrne) by xts33.

The Scarlet Witch from eBay, by Glauber Gonzaga, by Alba Sacristán (MCU), and by Dustin Nguyen.

The Vision and Scarlet Witch from Etsy and by sher.ln3 (MCU).

Absolute Wonder Woman (with Absolute Zatanna in one) by Kyuyong Eom (2), by Dan Panosian, and by Matteo Scalera.

Zatanna by Stephane Roux (2), by James Chen, and by Forty Fathoms.

Arisia Rrab from Facebook, by SketcheandoArte, by tiangtam, and by MC Wyman.

@RonFilipkowski I see that there are news articles that address the hospitalization rumors but don't prove them wrong. Trump could do that himself, obviously. Why hasn't he?

Whether it happens 6 hours from now, 6 days from now, 6 weeks from now, 6 months from now, or 6 years from now, it will be one of the largest worldwide celebrations in the history of the human race.

MAGA seems to be having a collective bipolar manic episode.

I encourage ScarletVision fans to think about creating stories about them. If they're the theme, one's imagination can run almost wild. In the not-so-far-off future, someone could try to create AI versions of them. How close could he or she get? To the point that they think of themselves as being Wanda and Vizh?

The reason to take Vizh, Wanda, and however many kids out of the MU for a novel about them is that the MU is a major character. They have to react to events in it. The MU can go along without them; they can't exist as superheroes without the MU, but they can be people outside of it.

A large group of C-17 military transport aircraft of the US Air Force is crossing the Atlantic and heading towards the Middle East, according to data from Flightradar24. C-17s are used for transporting personnel, heavy weapons, and armored vehicles. This is one of the largest aerial troop deployments since the beginning of the war. Trump is not about to exit the conflict.

@C_3C_3 358,000 NGOs, by your count, and you're assuming that they're all fraudulent? Crazy, man.

New York: 133K NGOs handle $450 billion per year. California: 225K NGOs handle $610 billion per year. Over $1 trillion per year is moved within the NY and CA NGO ecosystem. The fraud is staggering. America is not in $39 trillion in debt. America is in $39 trillion in fraud.

Someone might say that those two stories aren't actually about Vizh and Wanda. The stories are about what they mean to each other: two souls linked for eternity.

While the choice for ScarletVision fans who read comics is between plot-driven stories and character-driven stories, assuming that there are character-driven stories to read, my preference is for theme-based stories. My broad outline for a ScarletVision novel is that the family (Vizh, Wanda, two boys, two or three daughters) have to flee the MU and end up merging with counterparts in a real-world Earth analogue. The adults try to find out if magic exists in the world and make a living; the girls try to regain their status as goddesses; the boys try to become studs. Things happen as time passes. The primary advantage of a theme-based story is that there's no need for direct conflicts. Say that a story begins with the souls of Wanda and Vizh being displaced by demons who possess their bodies. She's put in a cat; he ends up in an autistic man. Their souls are connected, so they're invisibly drawn to each other, but how will they find each other? What happens if Wanda has kittens? What will the demons do with their bodies? That they'll find each other isn't in doubt, but there could be complications. That type of story is better, IMO, than one based entirely on defeating villains.

For @Chaos_and_0rder He couldn’t think, eat or recover — and no one knew why wapo.st/4twprKU

@wretchedplebe @Wormwarone @DataRepublican That's the problem with being a rigid ideologue. The assumption is that anyone who's not an ideologue is misinformed and/or stupid. Intelligent people think for themselves. They can't be indoctrinated.

@Synsidar @Wormwarone @DataRepublican Ah, it's a conspiracy to notice a thing that's happening. Got it. Man, the sooner you boomers leave along with your vapid and naive "civic mindedness," the better.

Went to DC for a couple days just to pick up a Pentagon badge, expecting it to be quiet. Had some downtime, started poking around and reading. Stumbled onto something called the Mikva Challenge and mentioned it in a random reply. Didn’t think much of it. Now it’s at 6+ million views. More on this later. But yeah. DC is structurally formed by NGOs to rule in favor of Democrats for any court case.