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Unless you’re Republican, in which case you raid the capitol.

I downloaded Tour de France 2021 as part of Sonys new PlayStation Plus shit, and as is my wont in sports games, I was immediately drawn to the “create an athlete in the sport and play their career” mode.

This also meant I had to create a cycling team for some reason, and one of the shirts had a sponsor or something called Magma on the back, so I created the Bay12 Racing Team.

I also won the World Championship in my second season in what was the most boring race imaginable, but the game offers a fast forward feature which was used extensively to make a 280km race a bit more bearable.

Lately I feel like I'm running on borrowed time. Still no covid in the house (unless someone had an exceptionally minor case that no one picked up on), but every bit of news regarding covid symptoms or new variants just make the thing sound worse and worse. I'm more than a little afraid that when someone does get it, it will be brutal regardless of how many vaccines and boosters we've all had.

It seems like the symptoms are getting milder with each new variant. Could just be that LW is fitter than me, which isn’t difficult, but I was in horrible pain for two weeks, then just in pain for a further two weeks with OG Covid, plus no taste or smell for a few weeks beyond that.

I didn’t really have any respiratory symptoms though, other than it hurting to take a deeper-than-normal breath.

Bahzil allows Alrin to make the introductions, it usually makes it easier for everyone involved.

Afterward he shakes Thale’s hand if still offered.

“Glad to have you aboard. Alrin thinks I’m cursed and that’s why the machine spirits rebelled against us on our last sortie. Hopefully you can keep them in check, Thale.”

At least you’re not dead.

Hopefully you also get your taste and smell back, assuming you lost it. My cousin is still dealing with having weird taste sensations when he eats, months after his recovery, and I occasionally smell cigarette smoke for a day or so at a time in a household with no smokers almost two years after I recovered from mine.

I’m good yes.

I mean… no? The parties are turning into extremes of one another. The best choice for a Republican is the worst choice for a Democrat, and vice versa.

Viable third options are what’s needed, but the type of person drawn to politics is inherently unstable, moreso if they think they can push back against the inertia of the current two party system from outside it.

praise hypnotoad, herald of The Toad