Well it’s not just health issues, there’s the arrangement and depth of the creases, callouses, tan lines and stains, cuts and scrapes. If you can map those broadly to character traits (rough and calloused hands imply hard work and industriousness, lots of little injuries imply absent-mindedness, etc), then you can use those character traits to predict the answers to some questions. An absent-minded person is more likely to meet with small misfortunes, for instance.

Combine that with whatever the subject’s questions are, and a bit of basic psychology.

Not any more than palm reading is a science

Well… stick with me here, this is just a devil’s advocate hypothetical.

Your hands are your primary method of interacting with the world. The creases, callouses, and other incidental features are reflections of the ways you most frequently use them.

Obviously you can’t divine the future, but you can gather information about a person. I dare say you could devise experiments to detect correlations between certain features of the hands, and features of the person: their profession, hobbies, grooming habits, clumsiness, etc.

I think a sincere scientific study could identify several hand features with moderately predictive correlations.

Near-photographic for most things actually.

A second eponymous album 10 albums in is wild to me. I totally get eponymous debut albums, and I get bands like Krokophant whose albums are mostly just eponymous albums with a number tacked on (Krokophant, Krokophant II, Krokophant III).

But to debut with an eponymous album, release a bunch of other albums with their own names, and then circle back to another identical eponymous album title, no number or tagline or anything, is just so unhinged to me.

Fuck, I might be terminally online.

Is this the “Don’t be such a silly little boy” green text?

What do you mean by “appealing”?

By where some bugs had made it red

I’m more of an Inexplicable guy

She had that Camarillo Brillo

Yup, all boils down to faith in the currency. For something like the dollar, it’s backed by faith in the US government. For something like Bitcoin, it’s backed by faith in the resilience of the blockchain and the value buyers place on it. Emperor Norton minted his own currency which was accepted all around San Francisco based purely on the fact that people accepted it.

I’d say average about -5. Verbal, physical, and emotional abuse was the norm. My mom was fine, but due to the age gap she was functionally more like a big sister. My dad must’ve been going for the high score on the Dark Triad.

School was a fun one; I was regularly held out of school to the point I was nearly kept back multiple times for truancy alone, at one point my grandmother had to threaten to call CPS because I wasn’t even enrolled in school at all. Every day I’d have so many chores that homework was impossible, and that lack of structure kicked my ass in college. Bit of a mindfuck to constantly be told that school is for stupid conformists, and still get punished for bad grades. It’s a good thing I’ve got a great memory and phenomenal test-taking skills, or I never would have passed a single class.

Socialization was fun too. Between frequent moves and the pile of chores on my list, I didn’t have the opportunity to make many friends. Tried to get into Boy Scouts and sports to get some kind of social life, but those were for stupid conformists too. Combine that isolation with my dad’s attempts to turn me into his shadow, I grew up real weird and isolated. People think I’m sociable now, but that required years of focused work. And I’m still pretty weird.

Character and values, ho boy. I wasn’t exaggerating with “Dark Triad high score”. He literally tried to become a Latin American island dictator, it was a lifelong project for him. I was taught the values of doing anything you can get away with, exploiting rules, lying all the time to get what you want, emotional manipulation, and countless other Machiavellian, narcissistic, psychopathic behaviors. Fortunately, my grandparents were much more moral and ethical, so it was a bit easier to deprogram myself on that front.

I won’t even get into all the other little things, but I think anyone from an abusive household can tell you that all the little things can often have a more serious long term effect than the big ones. Daily whoopings suck, but they go away when you move out. Not so much a lifetime of being trained to treat every conversation like a competition.

On the bright side, I’m very resilient now. I joke to people that i never get stressed because my brain doesn’t produce the stress chemical, but really I just coped with so much stress growing up that none of the minor daily stresses register at all.

So yeah, others have definitely had it worse, -5 feels about right.

I’ll go further, and say the text of the 2nd Amendment implies gun owners should be members of a well-regulated militia. I think every State Guard should accept anyone who applies, and give them basic training. In exchange for being part of the reserve, and passing firearm classes, you can keep and bear arms.

If you don’t want to be part of a well-regulated militia, no guns. If you can’t pass firearm training, no guns.

The Secret Service has traced your IP address and is converging on your location as we speak.

Thank you for sparing me the rant I was inhaling to deliver.

The system is so good. You wanna run a political intrigue campaign? Great! Not only are there dozens of skills to navigate the nuances of that style, but there are multiple supplemental guides if you want to get real nitty gritty. You wanna run a hyper-tactical combat heavy campaign? Great! The combat can be extremely rich, with an entire book dedicated to Martial Arts.

You can run any setting you can think of: sci-fi, fantasy, modern, historical, cinematic, realistic. The mechanics are there. But the base system is so simple and modular, you can run it off an index card. I almost think of it less as an RPG than an RPG engine. You really can adapt it to any kind of game concept.

Pam Bondi said the list was on her desk to review. Then suddenly there was never a list. I wouldn’t call that a “total lack of evidence”.

Yes, I gave far finders.

The correct answer

How many times do you think graffiti writers will have to correct the signs before they start stationing guards?