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The full name of this brew is Symphonic Chronic Double Haze IPA, and it comes from Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon. It's still an independent brewery despite the trend of mega-corporations swallowing

Previous installments: Intro for Xbox Players (and Everyone Else) and Stratagems, or How We Spread Democracy! Now it's time to look at the free Warbond available immediately to all players. What's a Warbond?

Christine Lagarde and the Privatization of Currency 07/31/2025 • Mises Wire • Ulrich Fromy • CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 In a recent speech in Portugal, Christine Lagarde—the president of the European Central Bank

It seems like the more convoluted the acronym, the more sinister the legislation. The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act) was recently passed by the government

Over the years, I have written a lot about Commander decks for Magic: The Gathering, but little on the traditional 60-card formats. This is because I don't have any interest in keeping up with the rotation

In my last post, I offered a high-level overview of how to play Helldivers 2 with an emphasis on welcoming our Xbox audience in a few weeks. Here, I will offer my opinions of the myriad support weapon

Helldivers 2 has been available for Playstation 5 and PC (Steam) since February 8th, 2024, but it was recently announced that Xbox players will be able to play on August 26th. As a veteran Halo player

The Mother Thing has a problem: old garden hoses are deteriorating. However, shorter hose lengths work well for parts of her irrigation plan, and there's no reason to go out and buy an entire new length

Today, I crossed the threshold of 100 million vests, the behind-the-scenes unit for account power on our blockchain. As such, I have graduated from dolphin to orca. This is especially gratifying because

I haven't really felt the urge to write lately. I've thought about re-posting more Creative Commons articles I found interesting while declining payout and offering appropriate attribution, but it's a

In a recent post, I mentioned accidentally mulching my neighbor's sprinkler head while I was taking care of her lawn when she went on vacation. I also fixed it. Here's how. Tools & Supplies Replacement

Alrighty, it's been a long time since I posted one of these, but I found something new to try, and there's also a new Fallout 76 update, so why not cover both? EDIT: Something seems odd about the image

It's already been a week since my last post, and it seems like on the one hand, time has flown by, but on the other, it's been a month of struggle compressed into such a short time. Before I get into the

First things first: there will only be pictures of the roses, not the blister, or the mosquito bites. Those also happened. You're welcome, or sorry for the disappointment if you're some kind of creepy

Well, here we are again: Pride Month. I don't embrace the progressive belief that everything LGBTQIA+WTF must be celebrated, but neither do I support the extreme conservative position that it should be

When the Illuminate somehow harnessed dark energy to move the Meridian Singularity toward Super Earth, many planets were destroyed along the path. We stopped it in the nick of time, but they used it as

This game is older than I am. My parents had (and probably still have) the original version, and I have fond memories of learning deduction using it. This is based on similar pen-and-paper games like Cows

As I mentioned a couple days ago, Super Earth has been invaded! I have since done my best to help punish these enemies of democracy and resist the Illuminate incursions, but one of our Super Cities has

Last week, I wrote a short post about the sudden attack from the Illuminate through the Meridian singularity. The challenge for the week was a delaying action to give Super Earth time to rally defenses.

After their crushing defeat at the hands of Helldivers and the superiority of Managed Democracy, the Illuminate entirely vanished from the galactic map for several days. However, this was but a momentary