Kered13

Can you hold your breath for that long, come up for one breath of air, and then do it again, or is it something that requires some amount of recovery time after or preparation before?

Charizard was never actually a good card. Discarding two energy cards makes it virtually unplayble. The only viable strategy was to use a Venusaur to move energy onto Charizard to keep it fueled.

Now Blastoise, that was a powerful card. Load a deck up with Prof. Oak, Bill, Computer Search, Pokemon Breeder, and some powerful basic water pokemon. Get a Blastoise on turn 2 and dump all your water energy on your pokemon, then sweep.

Instead of borrowing or adapting an existing writing system, like most languages do, a brand new writing system was created just for Cherokee.

Cherokee, like most languages of the Americas, had no writing system before contact with Europeans. A Cherokee by the name of Sequoyah understood the importance of writing, and sought to create a writing system for Cherokee. However, although he had seen English writing, he could not read it and did not know how it worked. Despite this, he succeeded in inventing the Cherokee Syllabary. You can clearly see that many of it's characters are inspired by Latin letters, however they represent completely different sounds because Sequoyah did not know how the Latin letters were pronounced. This is also evident in that Cherokee is a syllabary, where each letter represents a syllable, instead of an alphabet like English, where each letter represents a single sound.

I once saw a Penny-Arcade comic that (apparently) was quickly taken down and replaced with something else. It was so strange I wrote down a description of the comic, in case it would reappear later or maybe someone else also saw it too:

Tycho and Gabe were discussing ticket games at arcades. Tycho says that when he was a kid the prizes were rare gems and pearls. Then Gabe says that his children turned $100 into a ring pop, some tootsie-rolls, and a parachute man.

I saw this on 2018-01-05.

No one's going to disagree that a UBI is going to help the people who receive it. The question is, is it worth it? A UBI is expensive. If a lot of people end up collecting UBI and either not working or doing work that most people see as having little value, it's not going to be popular. UBI was trialed in the US back in the 70's (they called it Negative Income Tax back then), and as I recall the main reason that the idea was rejected was that they saw that many of the people receiving it stopped looking for work, or looked for less work. That was enough to convince the politicians back then that it wouldn't work.