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Bike Trials : Where's The Seat?

2011.11.11 02:31 pkb4112 Bike Trials : Where's The Seat?

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2024.06.07 20:12 TheCakeMan111 Itinerary for DC to Pittsburgh on C&O GAP trail. Any advice?

Day 1- Georgetown to Jordan Junction (near Williamsport)
Arrive at Georgetown
Bike 3 miles from parking to C&O Canal mile 0
Bike To Brunswick - Lunch (55 miles)
Can stop at Harpers Ferry/Shepherdstown if wanted
Bike to Williamsport - dinner (44.4 miles)
Bike to Jordan Junction H/B (1.8 miles)
Camp
Total:104.2 miles
Day 2 - Jordan Junction to Evitts Creek (near Cumberland)
Breakfast at camp
Bike to Ridge Rider Campground and Cabins Little Orleans for lunch (39.7 miles)
Bike to Evitts Creek H/B (38.2 miles)
Set up camp
If more food wanted - 5 miles to Cumberland, MD
Total: 78 miles (88 if Cumberland)
Day 3 - Evitts Creek to Connelsville
Breakfast at camp
Bike 5 miles to Cumberland - more food?
Bike 43.8 miles to Rockwood - Dollar General - Lunch!
Bike 45 miles to Connelsville H/B - Martins Groceries Lunch
Bike another .7 miles to Connelsville H/B
Camp
Total: 94.5 miles
Day 4 Connelsville to Dravo H/B Camp
Breakfast at camp/Connelsville
Bike to West Newton - Giant Eagle Supermarket (25.3 miles)
Bike to Dravo Hiker-Biker Campground (8.5 miles)
Sleep early!!
Total: 33.8 miles
Day 5
Wake up at 2:00 AM - breakfast at camp
Bike to Pittsburgh (26.2 miles) get there by 4:15 AM ish - 4:50 at the latest for train at 5:20
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2024.06.07 19:43 Suspicious-Row-3614 Surah Al-Ankabut

Surah Al-Ankabut
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Surah Al-Ankabut
الم
Alif-Lam-Mim. [These letters are one of the miracles of the Quran, and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings.] (Quran 29:1)
أَحَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَن يُتْرَكُوا أَن يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَهُمْ لَا يُفْتَنُونَ
Do people think that they will be left alone because they say: “We believe,” and will not be tested. (Quran 29:2)
وَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۖ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكَاذِبِينَ
And We indeed tested those who were before them. And Allah will certainly make (it) known (the truth of) those who are true, and will certainly make (it) known (the falsehood of) those who are liars, (although Allah knows all that before putting them to test). (Quran 29:3)
أَمْ حَسِبَ الَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ السَّيِّئَاتِ أَن يَسْبِقُونَا ۚ سَاءَ مَا يَحْكُمُونَ
Or those who do evil deeds think that they can outstrip Us (i.e. escape Our Punishment)? Evil is that which they judge! (Quran 29:4)
مَن كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَاءَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّ أَجَلَ اللَّهِ لَآتٍ ۚ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ
Whoever hopes for the Meeting with Allah, then Allah’s Term is surely coming. and He is the All-Hearer, the All-Knower. (Quran 29:5)
وَمَن جَاهَدَ فَإِنَّمَا يُجَاهِدُ لِنَفْسِهِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَغَنِيٌّ عَنِ الْعَالَمِينَ
And whosoever strives, he strives only for himself. Verily, Allah is free of all wants from the ‘Alamin (mankind, jinns, and all that exists). (Quran 29:6)
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَنُكَفِّرَنَّ عَنْهُمْ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ وَلَنَجْزِيَنَّهُمْ أَحْسَنَ الَّذِي كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
Those who believe [in the Oneness of Allah (Monotheism) and in Messenger Muhammad SAW , and do not apostate because of the harm they receive from the polytheists], and do righteous good deeds, surely, We shall remit from them their evil deeds and shall reward them according to the best of that which they used to do. (Quran 29:7)
وَوَصَّيْنَا الْإِنسَانَ بِوَالِدَيْهِ حُسْنًا ۖ وَإِن جَاهَدَاكَ لِتُشْرِكَ بِي مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ فَلَا تُطِعْهُمَا ۚ إِلَيَّ مَرْجِعُكُمْ فَأُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
And We have enjoined on man to be good and dutiful to his parents, but if they strive to make you join with Me (in worship) anything (as a partner) of which you have no knowledge, then obey them not. Unto Me is your return, and I shall tell you what you used to do. (Quran 29:8)
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَنُدْخِلَنَّهُمْ فِي الصَّالِحِينَ
And for those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah and other items of Faith) and do righteous good deeds, surely, We shall make them enter in (the enterance of) the righteous (i.e. in Paradise). (Quran 29:9)
وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَقُولُ آمَنَّا بِاللَّهِ فَإِذَا أُوذِيَ فِي اللَّهِ جَعَلَ فِتْنَةَ النَّاسِ كَعَذَابِ اللَّهِ وَلَئِن جَاءَ نَصْرٌ مِّن رَّبِّكَ لَيَقُولُنَّ إِنَّا كُنَّا مَعَكُمْ ۚ أَوَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِأَعْلَمَ بِمَا فِي صُدُورِ الْعَالَمِينَ
Of mankind are some who say: “We believe in Allah,” but if they are made to suffer for the sake of Allah, they consider the trial of mankind as Allah’s punishment, and if victory comes from your Lord, (the hypocrites) will say: “Verily! We were with you (helping you).” Is not Allah Best Aware of what is in the breast of the ‘Alamin (mankind and jinns). (Quran 29:10)
وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ
Verily, Allah knows those who believe, and verily, He knows the hypocrites [i.e. Allah will test the people with good and hard days to discriminate the good from the wicked (although Allah knows all that before putting them to test)]. (Quran 29:11)
وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّبِعُوا سَبِيلَنَا وَلْنَحْمِلْ خَطَايَاكُمْ وَمَا هُم بِحَامِلِينَ مِنْ خَطَايَاهُم مِّن شَيْءٍ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُونَ
And those who disbelieve say to those who believe: “Follow our way and we will verily bear your sins,” never will they bear anything of their sins. Surely, they are liars. (Quran 29:12)
وَلَيَحْمِلُنَّ أَثْقَالَهُمْ وَأَثْقَالًا مَّعَ أَثْقَالِهِمْ ۖ وَلَيُسْأَلُنَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَمَّا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ
And verily, they shall bear their own loads, and other loads besides their own, and verily, they shall be questioned on the Day of Resurrection about that which they used to fabricate. (Quran 29:13)
وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ فَلَبِثَ فِيهِمْ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ إِلَّا خَمْسِينَ عَامًا فَأَخَذَهُمُ الطُّوفَانُ وَهُمْ ظَالِمُونَ
And indeed We sent Nuh (Noah) to his people, and he stayed among them a thousand years less fifty years [inviting them to believe in the Oneness of Allah (Monotheism), and discard the false gods and other deities], and the Deluge overtook them while they were Zalimun (wrong-doers, polytheists, disbelievers, etc.). (Quran 29:14)
فَأَنجَيْنَاهُ وَأَصْحَابَ السَّفِينَةِ وَجَعَلْنَاهَا آيَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ
Then We saved him and those with him in the ship, and made it (the ship) as an Ayah (a lesson, a warning, etc.) for the ‘Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). (Quran 29:15)
وَإِبْرَاهِيمَ إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَاتَّقُوهُ ۖ ذَٰلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
And (remember) Ibrahim (Abraham) when he said to his people: “Worship Allah (Alone), and fear Him, that is better for you if you did but know. (Quran 29:16)
إِنَّمَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ أَوْثَانًا وَتَخْلُقُونَ إِفْكًا ۚ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ لَكُمْ رِزْقًا فَابْتَغُوا عِندَ اللَّهِ الرِّزْقَ وَاعْبُدُوهُ وَاشْكُرُوا لَهُ ۖ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ
“You worship besides Allah only idols, and you only invent falsehood. Verily, those whom you worship besides Allah have no power to give you provision, so seek your provision from Allah (Alone), and worship Him (Alone), and be grateful to Him. To Him (Alone) you will be brought back. (Quran 29:17)
وَإِن تُكَذِّبُوا فَقَدْ كَذَّبَ أُمَمٌ مِّن قَبْلِكُمْ ۖ وَمَا عَلَى الرَّسُولِ إِلَّا الْبَلَاغُ الْمُبِينُ
“And if you deny, then nations before you have denied (their Messengers). And the duty of the Messenger is only to convey (the Message) plainly.” (Quran 29:18)
أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا كَيْفَ يُبْدِئُ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ ۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ
See they not how Allah originates creation, then repeats it. Verily, that is easy for Allah. (Quran 29:19)
قُلْ سِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَانظُرُوا كَيْفَ بَدَأَ الْخَلْقَ ۚ ثُمَّ اللَّهُ يُنشِئُ النَّشْأَةَ الْآخِرَةَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Say: “Travel in the land and see how (Allah) originated creation, and then Allah will bring forth (resurrect) the creation of the Hereafter (i.e. resurrection after death). Verily, Allah is Able to do all things.” (Quran 29:20)
يُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَاءُ وَيَرْحَمُ مَن يَشَاءُ ۖ وَإِلَيْهِ تُقْلَبُونَ
He punishes whom He will, and shows mercy to whom He will, and to Him you will be returned. (Quran 29:21)
وَمَا أَنتُم بِمُعْجِزِينَ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فِي السَّمَاءِ ۖ وَمَا لَكُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ مِن وَلِيٍّ وَلَا نَصِيرٍ
And you cannot escape in the earth or in the heaven. And besides Allah you have neither any Wali (Protector or Guardian) nor any Helper. (Quran 29:22)
وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَلِقَائِهِ أُولَٰئِكَ يَئِسُوا مِن رَّحْمَتِي وَأُولَٰئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
And those who disbelieve in the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah and the Meeting with Him, it is they who have no hope of My Mercy, and it is they who will (have) a painful torment. (Quran 29:23)
فَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوْمِهِ إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا اقْتُلُوهُ أَوْ حَرِّقُوهُ فَأَنجَاهُ اللَّهُ مِنَ النَّارِ ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ
So nothing was the answer of [Ibrahim’s (Abraham)] people except that they said: “Kill him or burn him.” Then Allah saved him from the fire. Verily, in this are indeed signs for a people who believe. (Quran 29:24)
وَقَالَ إِنَّمَا اتَّخَذْتُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ أَوْثَانًا مَّوَدَّةَ بَيْنِكُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا ۖ ثُمَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَكْفُرُ بَعْضُكُم بِبَعْضٍ وَيَلْعَنُ بَعْضُكُم بَعْضًا وَمَأْوَاكُمُ النَّارُ وَمَا لَكُم مِّن نَّاصِرِينَ
And [Ibrahim (Abraham)] said: “You have taken (for worship) idols instead of Allah, and the love between you is only in the life of this world, but on the Day of Resurrection, you shall disown each other, and curse each other, and your abode will be the Fire, and you shall have no helper.” (Quran 29:25)
فَآمَنَ لَهُ لُوطٌ ۘ وَقَالَ إِنِّي مُهَاجِرٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّي ۖ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ
So Lout (Lot) believed in him [Ibrahim’s (Abraham) Message of Islamic Monotheism]. He [Ibrahim (Abraham)] said: “I will emigrate for the sake of my Lord. Verily, He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.” (Quran 29:26)
وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُ إِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ وَجَعَلْنَا فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهِ النُّبُوَّةَ وَالْكِتَابَ وَآتَيْنَاهُ أَجْرَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا ۖ وَإِنَّهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ لَمِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ
And We bestowed on him [Ibrahim (Abraham)], Ishaque (Isaac) and Ya’qub (Jacob), and ordained among his offspring Prophethood and the Book [i.e. the Taurat (Torah) (to Musa – Moses), the Injeel (Gospel) (to ‘Iesa – Jesus), the Quran (to Muhammad SAW), all from the offspring of Ibrahim (Abraham)], and We granted him his reward in this world, and verily, in the Hereafter he is indeed among the righteous. (Quran 29:27)
وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ الْعَالَمِينَ
And (remember) Lout (Lot), when he said to his people: “You commit Al-Fahishah (sodomy the worst sin) which none has preceded you in (committing) it in the ‘Alamin (mankind and jinns).” (Quran 29:28)
أَئِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ وَتَقْطَعُونَ السَّبِيلَ وَتَأْتُونَ فِي نَادِيكُمُ الْمُنكَرَ ۖ فَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوْمِهِ إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا ائْتِنَا بِعَذَابِ اللَّهِ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ
“Verily, you do sodomy with men, and rob the wayfarer (travellers, etc.)! And practise Al-Munkar (disbelief and polytheism and every kind of evil wicked deed) in your meetings.” But his people gave no answer except, that they said: “Bring Allah’s Torment upon us if you are one of the truthful.” (Quran 29:29)
قَالَ رَبِّ انصُرْنِي عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْمُفْسِدِينَ
He said: “My Lord! Give me victory over the people who are Mufsidun (those who commit great crimes and sins, oppressors, tyrants, mischief-makers, corrupts). (Quran 29:30)
وَلَمَّا جَاءَتْ رُسُلُنَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ بِالْبُشْرَىٰ قَالُوا إِنَّا مُهْلِكُو أَهْلِ هَٰذِهِ الْقَرْيَةِ ۖ إِنَّ أَهْلَهَا كَانُوا ظَالِمِينَ
And when Our Messengers came to Ibrahim (Abraham) with the glad tidings they said: “Verily, we are going to destroy the people of this [Lout’s (Lot’s)] town (i.e. the town of Sodom in Palestine) truly, its people have been Zalimun [wrong-doers, polytheists and disobedient to Allah, and have also belied their Messenger Lout (Lot)].” (Quran 29:31)
قَالَ إِنَّ فِيهَا لُوطًا ۚ قَالُوا نَحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن فِيهَا ۖ لَنُنَجِّيَنَّهُ وَأَهْلَهُ إِلَّا امْرَأَتَهُ كَانَتْ مِنَ الْغَابِرِينَ
Ibrahim (Abraham) said: “But there is Lout (Lot) in it.” They said:”We know better who is there, we will verily save him [Lout (Lot)] and his family, except his wife, she will be of those who remain behind (i.e. she will be destroyed along with those who will be destroyed from her folk).” (Quran 29:32)
وَلَمَّا أَن جَاءَتْ رُسُلُنَا لُوطًا سِيءَ بِهِمْ وَضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعًا وَقَالُوا لَا تَخَفْ وَلَا تَحْزَنْ ۖ إِنَّا مُنَجُّوكَ وَأَهْلَكَ إِلَّا امْرَأَتَكَ كَانَتْ مِنَ الْغَابِرِينَ
And when Our Messengers came to Lout (Lot), he was grieved because of them, and felt straitened on their account. They said: “Have no fear, and do not grieve! Truly, we shall save you and your family, except your wife, she will be of those who remain behind (i.e. she will be destroyed along with those who will be destroyed from her folk). (Quran 29:33)
إِنَّا مُنزِلُونَ عَلَىٰ أَهْلِ هَٰذِهِ الْقَرْيَةِ رِجْزًا مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْسُقُونَ
Verily, we are about to bring down on the people of this town a great torment from the sky, because they have been rebellious (against Allah’s Command).” (Quran 29:34)
وَلَقَد تَّرَكْنَا مِنْهَا آيَةً بَيِّنَةً لِّقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ
And indeed We have left thereof an evident Ayah (a lesson and a warning and a sign the place where the Dead Sea is now in Palestine) for a folk who understand. (Quran 29:35)
وَإِلَىٰ مَدْيَنَ أَخَاهُمْ شُعَيْبًا فَقَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَارْجُوا الْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا فِي الْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ
And to (the people of) Madyan (Midian), We sent their brother Shu’aib (Shuaib). He said: “O my people! Worship Allah, and hope for (the reward of good deeds by worshipping Allah Alone, on) the last Day, and commit no mischief on the earth as Mufsidun (those who commit great crimes, oppressors, tyrants, mischief-makers, corrupts). (Quran 29:36)
فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ
And they belied him [Shu’aib (Shuaib)], so the earthquake seized them, and they lay (dead), prostrate in their dwellings. (Quran 29:37)
وَعَادًا وَثَمُودَ وَقَد تَّبَيَّنَ لَكُم مِّن مَّسَاكِنِهِمْ ۖ وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ أَعْمَالَهُمْ فَصَدَّهُمْ عَنِ السَّبِيلِ وَكَانُوا مُسْتَبْصِرِينَ
And ‘Ad and Thamud (people)! And indeed (their destruction) is clearly apparent to you from their (ruined) dwellings. Shaitan (Satan) made their deeds fair-seeming to them, and turned them away from the (Right) Path, though they were intelligent. (Quran 29:38)
وَقَارُونَ وَفِرْعَوْنَ وَهَامَانَ ۖ وَلَقَدْ جَاءَهُم مُّوسَىٰ بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ فَاسْتَكْبَرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَمَا كَانُوا سَابِقِينَ
And (We destroyed also) Qarun (Korah), Fir’aun (Pharaoh), and Haman. And indeed Musa (Moses) came to them with clear Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), but they were arrogant in the land, yet they could not outstrip Us (escape Our punishment). (Quran 29:39)
فَكُلًّا أَخَذْنَا بِذَنبِهِ ۖ فَمِنْهُم مَّنْ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِ حَاصِبًا وَمِنْهُم مَّنْ أَخَذَتْهُ الصَّيْحَةُ وَمِنْهُم مَّنْ خَسَفْنَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ وَمِنْهُم مَّنْ أَغْرَقْنَا ۚ وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ
So We punished each (of them) for his sins, of them were some on whom We sent Hasiban (a violent wind with shower of stones) [as the people of Lout (Lot)], and of them were some who were overtaken by As-Saihah [torment – awful cry, etc. (as Thamud or Shu’aib’s people)], and of them were some whom We caused the earth to swallow [as Qarun (Korah)], and of them were some whom We drowned [as the people of Nuh (Noah), or Fir’aun (Pharaoh) and his people]. It was not Allah Who wronged them, but they wronged themselves. (Quran 29:40)
مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ أَوْلِيَاءَ كَمَثَلِ الْعَنكَبُوتِ اتَّخَذَتْ بَيْتًا ۖ وَإِنَّ أَوْهَنَ الْبُيُوتِ لَبَيْتُ الْعَنكَبُوتِ ۖ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ
The likeness of those who take Auliya’ (protectors and helpers) other than Allah is as the likeness of a spider, who builds (for itself) a house, but verily, the frailest (weakest) of houses is the spider’s house; if they but knew. (Quran 29:41)
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِهِ مِن شَيْءٍ ۚ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ
Verily, Allah knows what things they invoke instead of Him. He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise. (Quran 29:42)
وَتِلْكَ الْأَمْثَالُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ ۖ وَمَا يَعْقِلُهَا إِلَّا الْعَالِمُونَ
And these similitudes We put forward for mankind, but none will understand them except those who have knowledge (of Allah and His Signs, etc.). (Quran 29:43)
خَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ بِالْحَقِّ ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
(Allah says to His Prophet Muhammad SAW): “Allah (Alone) created the heavens and the earth with truth (and none shared Him in their creation).” Verily! Therein is surely a sign for those who believe. (Quran 29:44)
اتْلُ مَا أُوحِيَ إِلَيْكَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَأَقِمِ الصَّلَاةَ ۖ إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ تَنْهَىٰ عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنكَرِ ۗ وَلَذِكْرُ اللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ ۗ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ مَا تَصْنَعُونَ
Recite (O Muhammad SAW) what has been revealed to you of the Book (the Quran), and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat). Verily, As-Salat (the prayer) prevents from Al-Fahsha’ (i.e. great sins of every kind, unlawful sexual intercourse, etc.) and Al-Munkar (i.e. disbelief, polytheism, and every kind of evil wicked deed, etc.) and the remembering (praising, etc.) of (you by) Allah (in front of the angels) is greater indeed [than your remembering (praising, etc.) Allah in prayers, etc.]. And Allah knows what you do. (Quran 29:45)
وَلَا تُجَادِلُوا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْهُمْ ۖ وَقُولُوا آمَنَّا بِالَّذِي أُنزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَأُنزِلَ إِلَيْكُمْ وَإِلَٰهُنَا وَإِلَٰهُكُمْ وَاحِدٌ وَنَحْنُ لَهُ مُسْلِمُونَ
And argue not with the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), unless it be in (a way) that is better (with good words and in good manner, inviting them to Islamic Monotheism with His Verses), except with such of them as do wrong, and say (to them): “We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you; our Ilah (God) and your Ilah (God) is One (i.e. Allah), and to Him we have submitted (as Muslims).” (Quran 29:46)
وَكَذَٰلِكَ أَنزَلْنَا إِلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ ۚ فَالَّذِينَ آتَيْنَاهُمُ الْكِتَابَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِ ۖ وَمِنْ هَٰؤُلَاءِ مَن يُؤْمِنُ بِهِ ۚ وَمَا يَجْحَدُ بِآيَاتِنَا إِلَّا الْكَافِرُونَ
And thus We have sent down the Book (i.e this Quran) to you (O Muhammad SAW), and those whom We gave the Scripture [the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel) aforetime] believe therein as also do some of these (who are present with you now like ‘Abdullah bin Salam) and none but the disbelievers reject Our Ayat [(proofs, signs, verses, lessons, etc., and deny Our Oneness of Lordship and Our Oneness of worship and Our Oneness of Our Names and Qualities: i.e. Islamic Monotheism)]. (Quran 29:47)
وَمَا كُنتَ تَتْلُو مِن قَبْلِهِ مِن كِتَابٍ وَلَا تَخُطُّهُ بِيَمِينِكَ ۖ إِذًا لَّارْتَابَ الْمُبْطِلُونَ
Neither did you (O Muhammad SAW) read any book before it (this Quran), nor did you write any book (whatsoever) with your right hand. In that case, indeed, the followers of falsehood might have doubted. (Quran 29:48)
بَلْ هُوَ آيَاتٌ بَيِّنَاتٌ فِي صُدُورِ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ ۚ وَمَا يَجْحَدُ بِآيَاتِنَا إِلَّا الظَّالِمُونَ
Nay, but they, the clear Ayat [i.e the description and the qualities of Prophet Muhammad SAW written like verses in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] are preserved in the breasts of those who have been given knowledge (from the people of the Scriptures). And none but the Zalimun (polytheists and wrongdoers, etc.) deny Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.). (Quran 29:49)
وَقَالُوا لَوْلَا أُنزِلَ عَلَيْهِ آيَاتٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِ ۖ قُلْ إِنَّمَا الْآيَاتُ عِندَ اللَّهِ وَإِنَّمَا أَنَا نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ
And they say: “Why are not signs sent down to him from his Lord? Say: “The signs are only with Allah, and I am only a plain warner.” (Quran 29:50)
أَوَلَمْ يَكْفِهِمْ أَنَّا أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ يُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَرَحْمَةً وَذِكْرَىٰ لِقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ
Is it not sufficient for them that We have sent down to you the Book (the Quran) which is recited to them? Verily, herein is mercy and a reminder (or an admonition) for a people who believe. (Quran 29:51)
قُلْ كَفَىٰ بِاللَّهِ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكُمْ شَهِيدًا ۖ يَعْلَمُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۗ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِالْبَاطِلِ وَكَفَرُوا بِاللَّهِ أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ
Say (to them O Muhammad SAW): “Sufficient is Allah for a witness between me and you. He knows what is in the heavens and on earth.” And those who believe in Batil (all false deities other than Allah), and disbelieve in Allah and (in His Oneness), it is they who are the losers. (Quran 29:52)
وَيَسْتَعْجِلُونَكَ بِالْعَذَابِ ۚ وَلَوْلَا أَجَلٌ مُّسَمًّى لَّجَاءَهُمُ الْعَذَابُ وَلَيَأْتِيَنَّهُم بَغْتَةً وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
And they ask you to hasten on the torment (for them), and had it not been for a term appointed, the torment would certainly have come to them. And surely, it will come upon them suddenly while they perceive not! (Quran 29:53)
يَسْتَعْجِلُونَكَ بِالْعَذَابِ وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ لَمُحِيطَةٌ بِالْكَافِرِينَ
They ask you to hasten on the torment. And verily! Hell, of a surety, will encompass the disbelievers. (Quran 29:54)
يَوْمَ يَغْشَاهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَمِن تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِهِمْ وَيَقُولُ ذُوقُوا مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
On the Day when the torment (Hell-fire) shall cover them from above them and from underneath their feet, and it will be said: “Taste what you used to do.” (Quran 29:55)
يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّ أَرْضِي وَاسِعَةٌ فَإِيَّايَ فَاعْبُدُونِ
O My slaves who believe! Certainly, spacious is My earth. Therefore worship Me (Alone).” (Quran 29:56)
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ ۖ ثُمَّ إِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ
Everyone shall taste the death. Then unto Us you shall be returned. (Quran 29:57)
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَنُبَوِّئَنَّهُم مِّنَ الْجَنَّةِ غُرَفًا تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا ۚ نِعْمَ أَجْرُ الْعَامِلِينَ
And those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, to them We shall surely give lofty dwellings in Paradise, underneath which rivers flow, to live therein forever. Excellent is the reward of the workers. (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:58)
الَّذِينَ صَبَرُوا وَعَلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ يَتَوَكَّلُونَ
Those who are patient, and put their trust (only) in their Lord (Allah). (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut29:59)
وَكَأَيِّن مِّن دَابَّةٍ لَّا تَحْمِلُ رِزْقَهَا اللَّهُ يَرْزُقُهَا وَإِيَّاكُمْ ۚ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ
And so many a moving (living) creature there is, that carries not its own provision! Allah provides for it and for you. And He is the All-Hearer, the All-Knower. (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:60)
وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَسَخَّرَ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ ۖ فَأَنَّىٰ يُؤْفَكُونَ
If you were to ask them: “Who has created the heavens and the earth and subjected the sun and the moon?” They will surely reply: “Allah.” How then are they deviating (as polytheists and disbelievers)? (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:61)
اللَّهُ يَبْسُطُ الرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَيَقْدِرُ لَهُ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ
Allah enlarges the provision for whom He wills of His slaves, and straitens it for whom (He wills). Verily, Allah is the All-Knower of everything. (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:62)
وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّن نَّزَّلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَحْيَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ مِن بَعْدِ مَوْتِهَا لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ ۚ قُلِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ۚ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ
If you were to ask them: “Who sends down water (rain) from the sky, and gives life therewith to the earth after its death?” They will surely reply: “Allah.” Say: “All the praises and thanks be to Allah!” Nay! Most of them have no sense. (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:63)
وَمَا هَٰذِهِ الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا لَهْوٌ وَلَعِبٌ ۚ وَإِنَّ الدَّارَ الْآخِرَةَ لَهِيَ الْحَيَوَانُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ
And this life of the world is only amusement and play! Verily, the home of the Hereafter, that is the life indeed (i.e. the eternal life that will never end), if they but knew (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:64)
فَإِذَا رَكِبُوا فِي الْفُلْكِ دَعَوُا اللَّهَ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ فَلَمَّا نَجَّاهُمْ إِلَى الْبَرِّ إِذَا هُمْ يُشْرِكُونَ
And when they embark on a ship, they invoke Allah, making their Faith pure for Him only, but when He brings them safely to land, behold, they give a share of their worship to others. (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:65)
لِيَكْفُرُوا بِمَا آتَيْنَاهُمْ وَلِيَتَمَتَّعُوا ۖ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ
So that they become ingrate for that which We have given them, and that they take their enjoyment (as a warning and a threat), but they will come to know. (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:66)
أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا جَعَلْنَا حَرَمًا آمِنًا وَيُتَخَطَّفُ النَّاسُ مِنْ حَوْلِهِمْ ۚ أَفَبِالْبَاطِلِ يُؤْمِنُونَ وَبِنِعْمَةِ اللَّهِ يَكْفُرُونَ
Have they not seen that We have made (Makkah) a sanctuary secure, and that men are being snatched away from all around them? Then do they believe in Batil (falsehood – polytheism, idols and all deities other than Allah), and deny (become ingrate for) the Graces of Allah? (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:67)
وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرَىٰ عَلَى اللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَوْ كَذَّبَ بِالْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَاءَهُ ۚ أَلَيْسَ فِي جَهَنَّمَ مَثْوًى لِّلْكَافِرِينَ
And who does more wrong than he who invents a lie against Allah or denies the truth (Muhammad SAW and his doctrine of Islamic Monotheism and this Quran), when it comes to him? Is there not a dwelling in Hell for disbelievers (in the Oneness of Allah and in His Messenger Muhammad SAW)? (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:68)
وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِينَا لَنَهْدِيَنَّهُمْ سُبُلَنَا ۚ وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمَعَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ
As for those who strive hard in Us (Our Cause), We will surely guide them to Our Paths (i.e. Allah’s Religion – Islamic Monotheism). And verily, Allah is with the Muhsinun (good doers).” (Quran Surah Al-Ankabut 29:69)
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  2. To an eternal, unending universe.
  3. Jan Dan lan and wan Illegal on your own property.
  4. To monetary, time and fire based penalties as options for all crimes.
  5. To pardon justified killings and petition the jury for sentencing in any killing. Jurors have a right to vote their conscience.
  6. To hold anonymous trials in anonymous court where both victim and defendant remain age, gender and nationless.
  7. To fair equitable proportionate and reasonable punishments and bail. To never receive death for recoverable damages or definable accidents.
  8. To trial by jury with right to strike jurors.
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21.To invest in anyone or anything unless disallowed by Naos Theory.S 22.To think.
23.To write to view and share information. 24.To veto with two thirds vote. 25.To fair equitable and reasonabl punishments 26.To block with fifty one percent majority.
27.To speak to whomever and whoever is willing to listen be they earthly being or heavenly via prayer and response should the individual or entity be willing.
28.To talk to any or all willing parties. Not Restrictable by force or legal instrument
  1. learn and grow
30 To build and to construct. To recieve medical services (Implying a right to rebuild)
  1. To friendship.
  2. To pray and access prayerne..t I e. Naos theory
  3. To get help and advice and give it to anyone, anywhere at any time should the parties involved be willing.
34.To be ignored and seclude if one is will To propose new ideas to Core and Dev. Submit to Simeon it can happen.
  1. To Choice, Freedom and Opportunity Competition in God is Law and Service to self and others is Federal
  2. Lemeing unlawful.
  3. Max penalties for talking to someone money and or three days bail. Only in this case could
  4. The constitution Is a direct democracy.
  5. The bill of rights may not be amended.
  6. Nobody may restrict who runs unless they support destruction in which case the candidate may not run.. Debates shall be televised.
  7. To competition in god
  8. To recognition for your life accomplishments and achievements.
  9. Federal executive districts are created by god. For middle house. Single winner FPTP with runoff primary. Each ten million people. Daily election.
  10. Incorporate rights limits and powers of old constitution. No co bill or act may contradict.
  11. Anti power rule. No person group or faction may attempt to take over the territory, institute rule or constitution contrary to this bill of rights or remain in power by force. Report to Naos, Zaos Rao's Klao or ATA. Penalty is one days jail with the implied threat of killing by the people upon release.
  12. To choose which gods you obey.
  13. To create your own constitution.
  14. To metcalfe remuneration for joining a powered constitution. The proportion of a budget a powered constititution gets is proportional to members squared.
  15. To Secede and leave a constitution at any time territorially.
  16. To not be coerced
  17. To laws enacted via personal ratification
  18. To share a proposal to all people with 0.2 percent of people.
  19. To pardon in a jury
  20. Right to freedom of speech
  21. Right to media and talk to Chaos.
  22. Chaos / theories can compete in Congress as a god. And please call them Zaos. Naos needs a federal.
57.Right to privacy to the extent it doesn't interfere with security..
58.Freedom of religion and creativity
  1. Right to try any good thing
60.Right to courts
  1. Right to free and fair elections, and jury trials that may only assess monetary damages. All damages are monetary in nature. As owns the courts. What else happened?
  2. Right to know what happened in video and discuss.
  3. Congress shall not be pressured or coerced into voting nor amendment /shall/ juries.
  4. Bill of rights of the people bye and powers for congress Congress shall make no law infringing upon these rights. We all are too be assurred. The right to.. play. Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
65.The right not to be downed except by freely given order of congress.
  1. Right to blay
  2. Members of congress have the right to criticize and call out abuses under the protection of
Democracy
68.Right to personal gods for the home and life accessible at any and all times for prayer, counsel and leadership.
  1. Right to exist. This right is forfeit when you intentionally permanently irreversibly destroy or attempt to destroy a person. Congress may ban certain methods of killing by classifying them as attempted destruction with a 51% vote.
70.
Right to save others. Right to save yourself only if authorized by a natural born physical human you did not create.
  1. Right to unsave 72.Right to property if good
  2. Right to revolution if evil
  3. Right to campaign view and share ballots and the constitution unless Jesus. Tiara
  4. Right to establish alternative voluntary courts inferior to the courts established by the constitution with power to enforce word. Verdicts may be appealed to the supreme court established by congress unless both parties have agreed not to allow adjucation there in a written contract. 76.Right to vote for and elect gods for every district and state. God god
  5. Right to run for office. Gods have the power to mint tax and banish form territory. Won by Simeon 78.Right to free and fair elections that occur without coercion force or pressure Right to congress free form pressure. The
  6. Right to work and money
  7. Right to UBI funded by land value taxation 81.Right to recognition and copyright protection for origninal games, ideas and creations enforced by enforced by As and As Theory 82.Right to earn money by honest labor both physical and intellectual Right to make, read, view and access the catalog of local gods for their planet. Fifty six
  8. Right to establish meet talk to and create imaginary friends under the purview of their personal god for the home.
84.Right to safety provided by local block beings elected by personal gods and rho theory with the power to ban harm from the home.
  1. Right to contract and make binding agreements enforced by government. COngress may not restrict this right without a 51% majority. They restrict this right by making a contract nonenforceable in government courts which are the courts of last resort.
  2. Right to Congress and Naos authorities.
Constitution of the Grand Government of Nations
All may speak if they wish here. Full bill of rights is enforced.
Crown Princess Narissa I of Rehebelm
Legislature is a direct liquid democracy with law enforced by popular warrant contracts
Killing and destruction are forbidden. Any theory or angel squadron may enforce. All are to take their disputes to tribunal.
Mixed property ownership.
Districts may experimemnt with alternate forms of government, with Authors of selected constitutions being entitled to one percent of tax revenue for as long as their constitution is used.
Powers of Central Government
To fund and defund To coin money exclusively To license, train, regulate and authorize police and defense forces To regulate power and the economy. To tax To create tribunals To budget To legislate on any matter not reserved by the states and lower districts to themselves before or after the promulgation of this document
To settle interstate conflict. To veto unjust local law or regulations with two thirds majority.
To fine and create minimum and maximum monetary penalties for all crimes expressed in the legal code.
There are several levels of government,
Godship State District System Region Galaxy Federal 2
Each level is to make their own laws and regulations.
Powers of Monarch
None except to initiative, speech, association and to appoint heads of executive agencies created by the Congress and to appoint similar.
A majority of lower states may at any time claim a competency or legislative power not given by this constution to a higher level.
Two thirds may receive a guaranteed royal exemption from a certain higher- level law or competency on a state by state basis.
Legislature
All laws are to be individually ratified and go into universal effect once a majority ratifies them.
Laws may not regulate behavior done by individuals on private property that does not negatively impact the environment or that occurs between mutually consenting adults as long as
A) no trade, property or monetary exchange is involved Andrew
B) their religion doesn't forbid them.
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2024.06.07 18:34 Adventurous-Whole650 How to step up for ourselves ? (M26)

How to step for oneself and genuinely be ourselves ? (M26)
I struggle for years being myself, my identity shift from here to there and I can’t remember a time where I really fit in, nor some specific pasted experiences that really shaped the person I’m today. I find myself wondering about many things, asking myself questions, while not doing what I should actually do. Teachers told me that I’m not really engaged, or involved with what I’m doing. I do just enough so that I don’t really have to do more but it don’t feel like me, like I know I don’t « give it all ». I guess I’m careful even more i hold myself back because I use to be desapointed several times or hurt after trying something.
I know everything I’m saying sound just like normal life, like it’s just a period to step over but here I am today, alone I have few relations but I don’t really have friends in my city, no girlfriend, I study design and kinda like it, but as I study business before, and used to be curious about many other things like books & knowledge, sport, experiencing new things, etc. I feel like everything as to make sense at some point, then I end up doing a little bit of this a little bit of that and not really involved with my current studies.. I guess there is an identity « issue » somewhere as I always try to fit in, and never really stand up to make my point or tell what I really think. Also I usually find myself refusing responsibility and unable to give my person to something that has to be done.
I must say I’m not a complete mess. I work about 10h/week as a bike messenger, I run or exercise to stay healthy, I started again to play guitare about 6 months ago to work my brain ability to focus/do the right move at the right time (another thing I could pass on but that I wanted to do at the moment). I also take care of eating quite well and sleep properly, and I try to take time to read too, and improve some skills such as drawing or sewing. All this take energy on my ability to return great project for studies and I usually end up doing my homework the day before for the next day…
I’m 26, I’m not a bad student as I always get my diplomas but I wasn’t rigorous in my work (I feel it today). I used to play basketball for 12 years and really like it until 20 yo, the year I finished my business studies and left to start travel the world for a year. After what I did several jobs to make a living, get a permanent position as a telemarketer for 6 months and then I try to be freelance, and finally get back to studying design to pursue what I had in mind in high school : making clothes.
There I am today struggling to step up for who I am and looking for some talk, advice or any kind of support. Thank you guys.
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2024.06.07 18:29 nada1113 Bike Advocacy Workshop - by League of American Bicyclists - July 24-26 in Philly

Hello Bike Advocates,
My name is Anna Tang and I am the Bicycle Friendly America Program Specialist here at the the League of American Bicyclists. I am writing to you to invite you, your fellow bike advocates, and folks in your networks to join us in Philadelphia for our second Bike Advocacy Workshop that launched earlier this year.
The workshop offers people the opportunity to be certified as a League Cycling Advocate, network with their peers, and learn from leaders in the bike advocacy movement.
This Bike Advocacy Workshop will take place at Temple University in Philadelphia, July 24-26!
Workshop Content & Format
The workshop will be in-person and conducted over three days - an evening, full workshop day, and half workshop day. The first day consists of some introductions, an evening happy hour, and a group ride. The second day includes a full day of training, group rides, and happy hour. The third day wraps up with a half-day of training. You can view the schedule here.
The workshop will cover advocacy basics such as the history of bike advocacy, how to get organized, effective political engagement, strategy, tactics and making the case, coalition building, policy basics, funding, storytelling, equity and mobility justice, and more. The content of the workshop will involve group work, happy hours, group bike rides, as well as individual self-guided readings which will be given to all participants ahead of the workshop.
By the end of the workshop and accompanying readings, our goal is to have proficient emerging advocates who can take their training home to implement the ideas, strategies, and practical applications in their communities and feel empowered to build their bike movement at the local level.
We will be joined by theBicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia for the Bike Advocacy Workshop! Registration is limited so sign up today and join other bike advocates and guest speakers to learn about how you can be a more effective advocate in your community!
Register today via Eventbrite here.
Anna Tang [anna@bikeleague.org](mailto:anna@bikeleague.org)
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2024.06.07 18:03 I_loveMathematics Modal share around the world

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2024.06.07 17:29 Zookeeper5105 Roscoe 9, Used Full Suspension, or Something Else

I've been riding a Santa Cruz Blue XC2 from 2010 and I think I'm ready to upgrade from my 2x10, 26" wheels, and no dropper post. I do have a fondness for my narrow handlebars though. I demoed a Salsa Blackthorn and it was nice but I'm not in love. I moved to northern Utah in a mid life crisis and need mountain biking to fill up my summers between ski season. Total years of biking is about 20 with about four good years of mountain biking.
I'd like to not be limited by my bike (probably a low threshold due to weight 240 and low fitness). I mostly ride single track because that's what I know. I've never done any true downhill riding.
I've been looking at a new Roscoe 9 because that seems to be pretty highly recommended. Pricing in the low $2k since they are discontinued. I would like to buy a bike I can ride for the next decade.
I wasn't sure if it's worth pursuing the used bikes to find a used full suspension in the same price range or is there another bike I should be looking at?
What I don't like about my current bike is the low bottom bracket height and therefore low pedal height. My goal is to ride the famous trails of southern Utah.
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2024.06.07 17:13 lakewanderer082 6/7/2024 -- News You Should Know In The Twin Cities

Hey everyone, its been a few weeks since I posted one of these recaps but I'm back. If you like this content and want it delivered to your inbox for free, you can subscribe here.
Today is June 7th.
F: 78°/58°⛅ Sa: 78°/57°🌥 Su: 70°/53°⛅
Here is what’s happening in the Twin Cities.

Feeding Our Future Trial Juror Dismissed Over $120,000 Bribe Offers 💰

The Summary: A woman attempted to bribe a juror in the Feeding Our Future federal trial by offering nearly $120,000 in cash in exchange for a vote to acquit the defendants.
The Incident: The bribe attempt occurred at the juror's suburban house, where the woman presented the cash-filled gift bag to the juror's father-in-law late Sunday night. The juror promptly reported the incident to the authorities, leading to her dismissal from the trial.
Trial Developments: The trial, involving seven defendants initially charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and other offenses, is part of a broader case encompassing 70 individuals accused of defrauding federal programs meant to feed needy children during the pandemic.
House Raid: Just yesterday, federal agents raided the house of one of the defendants in the case.

Officer Killed In South Minneapolis Shooting Was Working Overtime Shift

The Summary: Minneapolis Police officer Jamal Mitchell volunteered for an overtime shift that tragically ended in his death, according to Police Chief Brian O’Hara.
Staffing Shortage and Overtime: The MPD has been dealing with a staffing shortage since 2020. O’Hara mentioned that the current staffing is down by 40%.
Circumstances of Mitchell's Death: Mitchell arrived alone at the scene of a reported double shooting in south Minneapolis. Mitchell was shot while attempting to provide aid to two injured men, who were not victims of the original shooting.
“Mandatory overtime, low staffing levels and then we have this tragic thing happen. The [City] Council has to work more now than ever to get those numbers up.” -City Councilwoman LaTrisha Vetaw

Business

❯ Fortune 500 Businesses: 17 Minnesota based businesses recently made the Fortune 500 list which is up two from last year. UnitedHealth Group was up one spot at #4 while CH Robinson slipped 76 spots.
❯ Ridership Up: Metro Transit ridership saw a 12% increase through April, marking a gradual recovery since the pandemic. However, average weekday ridership remains significantly lower than pre-Covid levels.

What Else We’re Reading…Spring In The Twin Cities Was The Warmest In 8 Years 🌡

According to Meterologist Sven Sungaard, this past spring was warmest since 2016 and the wettest since 2019. Additionally this May was the 13th consecutive month of above normal temperatures, highlighted by warmest winter in Twin Cities history.

Sports

Vikings Lock In Justin Jefferson 💲

The Summary: The Viking’s Justin Jefferson made history with his four-year, $140 million deal that reportedly comes with $110 million guaranteed.
How We Got Here: The contract comes after over a year of negotiation and unknowns if the Vikings would resign him.
2024 Season: The Vikings are certainly hoping for a full, healthy season out of Jefferson after he was sidelines for multiple games due to a hamstring injury. He’ll have a new QB throwing to him with rookie JJ McCarthy looking to take the starting job.

Other Sports News

⚾ The Minnesota Twins struggles against the New York Yankees continued as they were swept on the road. On the bright side, Royce Lewis is back and homered two times in the series.
🏀 The Minnesota Lynx continued their winning ways with a vicotry over the Los Angeles Sparks. They are now 7-3 and sit atop the Western Conference.
🏀 Timberwolves assistant coach Micah Nori interviewed for the head coaching job with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Headlines From Around The Twin Cities ✔

❯ Mary Moriarty accused Governor Tim Walz of meddling in her prosecution of Ricky Cobb, saying it’s because she is queer (Minnesota Reformer)
❯ Rainy weather is leading to excessive amounts of mosquitos for this time of year (Kare11)
❯ The Minneapolis police union approved a contract for a 21% pay raise (Fox9)
❯ The EPA is mandating the Smith Foundry pay $80k in fines and stop furnace and casting operations within a year (KSTP)
❯ Minnesota’s new e-bike rebate website crashed after an overwhelming amount of website traffic (Axios)
A rally was held at Hopkins High School after an alleged attack on a transgender student (WCCO)

Headlines From Greater Minnesota ✔

❯ Rainy weather has caused flooding in multiple parts of the state, including the Cannon River (Fox9)
❯ The body of the second missing canoeist was recovered in the Boundary Waters (MPR)
❯ A new marijuana dispensary opening near Walker this week will be the closest to the Twin Cities (Leech Lake News)

The Final Word: Double Rainbow 🌈

I spent some time at the Lake Harriet Bandshell on Wednesday night — of course snagged some ice cream at the Bread and Pickle. Just after a brief rain there was a beautiful double rainbow over Lake Harriet.
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2024.06.07 17:02 gnahzmap Comment on Itinerary

We are visiting this summer during the week (not weekend) and staying in the Valley. We will have 2 full days and 2 partial days (drive in / out) and wanted feedback on itinerary. We are traveling with a 7 and 4 year old so won't be doing any super tough hikes.
I feel like I packed too much stuff into Day 1 -- is there anything we should remove? I really want to hit Taft Point / Glacier Point.
For Day 2 -- do you think we can do all of that in 5 hours (that's the half day rental), or should we go for full day?
I also have room on Day 3 -- any recs for stuff we're missing? also, we can move anything from Day 2 to 3 if that makes sense; I think I was just trying to hit everything that was bikeable
Day 1 - Drive to Yosemite from John Muir Lodge (3.5 hours)
Early start to fit into Glacier Road sights -Pickup picnic lunch for later Lower Chilnuala Falls Swinging Bridge Trial Turtleback Dome Trail - park at Road Closed sign (time permitting) Taft Point Glacier Point - good for sunset Washburn Point - viewpoint only Tunnel View - viewpoint only Check into hotel in Valley
Day 2 - Full Day Yosemite
Bike rentals - half or full day rental? Sentinel Meadow / Cook's Meadow Loop Lower Yosemite Falls Loop Bridalveil Falls
Day 3 - Full Day Yosemite
Vernal Falls via John Muir Trail (Mist Trial) [WHAT ELSE?]
Day 4 - Drive to Tioga Pass to June Lake
Olmsted Point / Nature Trail (view of Half Done) Tenaya Lake / Trail (picnic tables / beach) - can use paddle board Tuolumne Meadows (lots of trails and sights)
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2024.06.07 16:51 jeffreywilfong [US-VA][H] Star Wars, Shuttle Adventure, Amelia Earhart Tribute, CMFs, Other Figs [W] PayPal

Please send a private message instead of a chat - it's easier for me to keep track that way.
Most sets/figs are used; any noticeable wear is noted. Some of the figs may be missing pieces, so please take note. NIB sets can be shipped without the box to save on shipping.
Sets include all minifigs unless specified. From a nonsmoking pet-free home. I will break down and bag the minifigs separately when possible. I did my best to rebuild/inventory each set, but I am human, so please forgive me if I miss a piece.
Sets will be broken down as much as possible to facilitate shipping. I only ship to the address associated with your PayPal account.
Prices do not include shipping. Every order comes with tracking, packing photos, and a surprise!
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2024.06.07 16:47 BGodInspired Unlocking Success: Embracing the Power of 'A' in Your Journey

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Unlocking the True Meaning of Success in Life

Do you ever catch yourself wondering what true success really looks like? We hear about it all the time—more money, better jobs, bigger homes—but is that really what life’s about? Growing up, I believed success was determined solely by material gains, until an unexpected encounter changed my perspective entirely.

Redefining Success Based on God’s Standards

When Jesus asked, “What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” (Matthew 16:26, NIV), it completely redefined the meaning of success for me. Instead of chasing after worldly achievements, I started to look deeper into what it meant to truly live a successful life in God’s eyes.

A: Attitude That Reflects Christ

Success doesn’t start with acquiring things; it starts with an attitude that aligns with Christ’s teachings. In Philippians 2:5, we are urged to have “the same mindset as Christ Jesus.”
– Exhibit humility and kindness in every interaction. – Demonstrate unwavering faith amidst adversity. – Cultivate a grateful heart regardless of your circumstances.
Have you noticed how a simple change in attitude can transform your entire day? Let your mindset be your starting point for achieving genuine success.

B: Building Relationships Rooted in Love

One of the keys to a successful life is building and nurturing relationships. In John 13:34-35, Jesus commands us to love one another.
1. Cherish your family and make time for them. 2. Invest in friendships that lift you up spiritually and emotionally. 3. Extend love and compassion to neighbors and strangers alike.
Reflect on this: How can you bring love and grace into your relationships today?

C: Committing Your Plans to the Lord

Proverbs 16:3 elevates our goals by reminding us, “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.”
– Pray over your dreams and ambitions. – Seek God’s guidance in all your decisions. – Trust that He will direct your path.
Take a moment to consider: Are your goals aligned with God’s purpose for you?

D: Diligence and Perseverance

Diligence and perseverance are indispensable for achieving a successful life, as highlighted in Galatians 6:9: “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
– Stay committed to your responsibilities. – Persevere through trials with unwavering faith. – Celebrate small victories along the journey.
Ask yourself: How can you demonstrate more diligence and perseverance in your life today?

Reflect and Share

Success in life isn’t about reaching the pinnacle of wealth or fame; it’s about seeking a Christ-like attitude, investing in loving relationships, committing your plans to the Lord, and persevering diligently.

Call to Action

Reflect on areas in your life where you can redefine success according to God’s standards. Share your thoughts, experiences, and stories in the comments below. Let’s encourage and uplift one another in our journeys towards true success.
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By adhering to these guidelines and incorporating uplifting scripture, this devotional aims to help readers redefine success in a meaningful, Christ-centered way. Engage with these reflections and let the conversation inspire greater growth in faith and community.
If you like this content, please connect with us at: https://BGodInspired.com
Or dig for more answers yourself with our BGodInspired Bible Tools! Be careful – each interaction is like a new treasure hunt… you can get lost for hours 🙂
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2024.06.07 16:13 YogaMamaRuns EX5 (Refurbished) vs. GT from Target

Hello,
I am currently awaiting the delivery of an Echelon EX5 (Refurbished) which I purchased from Amazon two weeks ago. However, it hasn't even shipped, and the delivery is rather nebulous. I suspect there are none in stock, and they are simply shipped when they come in and are refurbished. (If I were to purchase one today, the estimated shipping is June 26 - July 12.)
Meanwhile ... I am a teacher on summer break and there is a GT in my Target. Like, RIGHT THERE. I can just buy it.
Help.
Here is where I'm at. I currently own a cheapie Yosuda which is like five years old. I go through phases of using it more or less heavily, but I've always disliked it. I do use it with Peloton as well as just to ride while reading my Kindle or watching YouTube, and I have the Wahoo cadence sensor and a HR monitor to get the partial Peloton hack experience. However, I dislike the bike for various reasons, one of which is I need the handlebars to be closer - and this is the largest reason I've opted for the EX5 rather than the GT, as the handlebars are adjustable in distance as well as height.
I prefer the EX5 to the EX5s not just for price, but because I prefer to be free of a screen so I can use my iPad and upgrade when I need to. I don't love the idea of paying $$$ for a device with a screen, only to have the screen malfunction or become outdated. So, similarly, my fear is that the EX5 has digitally-controlled resistance. Are there issues with this resistance? Does it potentially break down? Would it perhaps be better to buy the GT becuase there are fewer potentially breaking parts?
Price is the same, btw. The GT at Target (-5% for red card, + sales tax) would be $616, and the EX5 Refurbished (+ sales tax) is exactly the same. However, I could have the GT today, rather than ... whenever.
Which would you choose?
For reference, I prefer the design of the GT, too. I don't love the red/black of the EX5. But I do love the handlebar adjustment, automatic resistance adjustment (with qdmyos-zwift app) and higher total resistance (according to TailHappyTV on YouTube).
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2024.06.07 16:09 Creamsicle50 This old schooler rigid racer finally going to front suspension

The short version: the first MTB I bought was back in 1992, a Trek 930 all steel, rigid, long reach 26" bike, which I took racing, and met with some success against guys with much better equipment. Life eventually got in the way, and I hung it up for many years. Fast forward to 2024, and I pulled it down and went single tracking again, and remembered how addictive and thrilling this is, so I finally bought the second MTB of my life: Trek XCaliber 8 27.5"(I'm short, so I have to ride a small, which does not have 29" wheels). I'm excited to finally have front suspension for my older bones.
What I'm looking for is advice from other old schoolers who made the transition from rigid to front suspension on actual trails. Yeah, yeah, I realize I'm very late to the party, and everyone else made this transition before end of last century. "Get off my lawn before I whack you with my cane", lol. But seriously, I wanna hear from guys/gals who've actually made the transition. The rigid riders will know that, without suspension, you have to let the bike float around under you when the going gets rough. That requires certain body/arm/wrist postures, so I'm guessing I will need to relearn new postures to manage where/how to put my weight on a bike, and letting the front suspension do its job.
TL;DR: back in the day, we were jumping a part of a trail, and there was a guy who tried it with his first suspension MTB, fell and broke his collarbone. He was so used to jumping with a rigid he didn't yet know how to preload a front suspension bike before the jump. It totally ruined his timing, and he blew the launch and the landing. This is the shit I will have to relearn, so I've already told myself to practice a bunch and re-figure out my timing for getting a little air and managing the root strewn single tracks I love so much. I've already noticed this new bike does not bunny hop effortlessly like my old one, which I chalk up to me needing to relearn how to do that with a front suspension. This will be my #1 re-learning priority.
PLUS everything has changed in MTB over 30 years! I know what you're thinking: No shit, Sherlock. The 20-something year old in the bike shop was laughing at me, but not in a mean way. I get it. He was amused as he explained my new tubeless tires don't need nearly as much air pressure as my clinchers. Snake bite punctures can't happen anymore? That still blows my mind.
And the handle bars are so freakin' wide(720mm compared to my old 584mm), and the stem is so damned short. I feel like the bike is in my chest. With my arms spread out so wide, I have very little flex in my arms to soak up bumps. I guess that's less of an issue with a front suspension, eh? I'm going to ride them as is for a while before deciding to shorten them up. Some of the single tracks around here are pretty narrow, and I really don't want to change my line just because the damn handlebars don't fit between the saplings. Get off my lawn.
I am thrilled with the new groupo: Hydraulic disc brakes, just one shift lever, no need to manage the chain angle, tubeless tires, and it's 1.5 lbs lighter. This thing ought to climb better than my old bike, and I love climbing. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the front suspension handles the stuff that my rigid rattles over. There are a few corners with roots and other shit than ruin the perfect line, and I'm hoping I can just plow through them. We'll see.
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2024.06.07 15:58 Wise_Anteater3904 The Truth Behind The Pro-Jared Reddit Accounts

The Truth Behind The Pro-Jared Reddit Accounts
What a person says and how they say it can help identify them. Linguistic Forensics is actually used to solve crimes. I’m not that smart but there are much more blatant signs which anyone can see such as repeated use of words or phrases, repeated misspellings, bad grammar, regularly used grammar & accidentally posting on wrong accounts.
It feels like there are many pro-Jared Redditors judging by the amount of accounts and posts/comments but actually it’s only a small group on Reddit. Some acting on Jared’s behalf, some just believing Jared is innocent, despite the obvious apologies for “alleged” molestation (at least) in his emails to the victim
I’ve focussed on the 2 main players. The first is Jared Leisek’s male cousin who is also a cousin of Jared’s victim, who I shall call Kilshaw81 after the name of the first Reddit Account I can attribute to him. Kilshaw81 is behind at least 13 Reddit accounts and responsible for over 600 posts and over 2400 comments.
This doesn’t include posts or comments made in Private Subs of which there are likely thousands more. He also has over 27k posts on his Twitter, as well as using his family's accounts, so studying his language is quite easy. He's one of those people who use unnecessarily long or complex words where simple ones will do, in order to appear to or feel smarter than those he argues with.
Here’s a list of all the accounts he has used plus there is at least 1 deleted account, but likely many more
https://preview.redd.it/abgvsgfji55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=626b62abe9a260583cc8eba688fc139a3d41bd95

The 2nd person I’m focussing on is KrimeyK77 who shares access to Reddit with her Son and both often use each other’s accounts. KrimeyK77 & Son also have access to at least 13 accounts, listed below plus at least 1 deleted account. They are responsible for over 100 posts and over 2,300 public comments but again does not included Private Locked Subs
https://preview.redd.it/l5wsgsjpi55d1.png?width=693&format=png&auto=webp&s=88e139bf4febc5059ce10be2d29088012ec9cdf8
The main Private Locked Sub they use is adventureswiRhpurpose which was averaging 2 posts per day & 26 comments per day when it was locked on May 1st 2023 but is still in regular use today. They also have locked subs under Jared’s victims name, krimeykyndie, Josh_Cantu and others.
I’ve highlighted the dates in yellow to show just how active they were. On April 5th 2023, they had 13 active accounts, all posting in defence of Jared. Note these are the 2 main players but there are other US, UK, Australia & New Zealand Redditors all with multiple accounts and THOUSANDS of posts too. How do I know Jared is behind it all? How else would you explain KrimeyK77 posting an image of Jared’s personal texts with Josh Cantu?
https://preview.redd.it/15f7xcy3j55d1.png?width=272&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8cc161345c79892d3a0a448a7e55096476b0f3f
How would they know to target Dave Yurkovich for ‘allegedly’ not returning the RV on time. What was allegedly missing from the RV. How would they know 4 tanks of air were allegedly used instead of 2? All of that could only have come from Jared. There is deliberate organised targeting.
Now to the proof!
I’m restricted in what I can show as I don’t want to give away everything. I am sure they will continue creating false accounts to push Jared’s narrative/orders. They’ve already started posting on 6 new accounts in 2024 so more are guaranteed.
DEFINATELY - Kilshaw81 constantly spells this incorrectly across multiple accounts
https://preview.redd.it/ybh26utoj55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b3d2632e46581929ec47049445b3a011bf6c995
https://preview.redd.it/6v7bm2luj55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b182e51cc7402f529e4f49d4c8560f1e8047547
https://preview.redd.it/qpkp3jevj55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0e34c242d495ae548fb80502968619dc6e6c123
https://preview.redd.it/kfw9b6jmj55d1.png?width=639&format=png&auto=webp&s=57ea6a5b85ab656f87813123c1b939461aaec362

SUPPOSIDE/LY - The most obvious misspelling and makes the mistake across 5 of his Reddit accounts. Sure, people do make mistakes, but all these pro-Jared accounts just happen to make the same one and none of them have spell-check?

https://preview.redd.it/4n3ezn22k55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=ac49dc8c09262b263aff2bbdf34b65f5a855ed69
https://preview.redd.it/8fs04215k55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=e6b2e5e19451e5f3481601efa601d91d9a632ac0
https://preview.redd.it/cgy63vg7k55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=382ada10e700eadc36c0795950be0e4a34be9b7d
https://preview.redd.it/d1891sx8k55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=1cd2585e727b86c1f3cc0155fbd2e25c4d435dfa
https://preview.redd.it/5vqlb28ak55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b6a94983813e5190c7487ee49fd091f671f8058
PERMENANT/LY - Another misspelling
https://preview.redd.it/q0w65lwdk55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=e1e36fdfce0b25dce314cf5093bdf25b56aa3fdc
https://preview.redd.it/en7r2e1fk55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=e93bc66b0be31a70803ea963a7b23319666d5a1a
https://preview.redd.it/9emq14qjk55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=491ad6ee41990ba1f541e87d02a9b136e7dd8d47
CON-JOB - As well as an error to include the hyphen, one of his common phrases
https://preview.redd.it/0p5yy8ntk55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=a32ae1a19a4299bd70771b1941781f506d26969f
https://preview.redd.it/bir2sr0wk55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=f6e48cfc63a9aa7ab94aa580cf2508554d72048a
Sometimes you just get caught posting on the wrong account and have to delete it and repost in the correct one a minute later
https://preview.redd.it/zusvpj67l55d1.png?width=692&format=png&auto=webp&s=2858423d1230fc82ab78dc1ad5106335109b3207
I have more but have reached the limit of attachments I can make on a Reddit account unfortunately

KrimeyK77 is a little less obvious but most of the connections I found were via Reddit, her other social media & legal docs.
Worked for same employer Posting about TSM & Naltrexone on the same day Relocating to/from the same area Same home town Same current profession Same financial issues Most obvious was using the same device which mistakenly wrote 'conant' instead of 'company' because of predictive text. Conant isn't a word, yet the same mistake occurred multiple times on 2 of her Reddit accounts and 2 of her Facebook accounts

For KrimeyK77 there’s only a few Reddit misspelling issues, some grammatical errors and a few common phrases, mostly insults. I’m hanging on to that info as I know she can’t help herself and will carry on. I’m wary to post anything from her other social media as it will likely get me banned. I am a regular poster but using this new account to try & avoid getting my old one banned as the Jared defenders are well known for reporting straight to the Admins. Feel free to investigate the accounts yourself.
I recommend using ~https://search.pullpush.io/~ Enter the account name under Username.
And check both Posts & Accounts under ‘Search For:’ as you will get different results
If you want to search particular Subreddits, most info will be found on:
adventureswithpurpose
adventureswirhpurpose (now locked but shows results pre-lock)
awp_former_associates
daveyurkovich
bogus_bans
josh_cantu (now locked but shows results pre-lock)
OfficialAWP
You can search for a specific word such as an uncommonly used word/phrase by using the 'search input' option
With Jared's next court case due in 2 months and his trial for child rape due in September expect Jared to use them to push more propaganda soon!
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2024.06.07 15:56 PrototypeMac Is there a map with trails marked that allow emtb

Looking to rent an emtb from July 8-12. Looking to do a lot of bike park, lost lake trials and any other free trail network I can find. Im super pumped. I will be renting so im curious if there's a map of bike trials that indicate if it allows emtb or not.
Also, I know top of the world don't do emtb. Any idea if that will be open by July 8th? Thanks
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2024.06.07 15:45 Rickard58 What it’s like debating the brick wall known as MAGA

MAGA: Everything was better under Trump.
Informed voter: Can you specify?
MAGA: People had jobs under Trump and actually wanted to work!
Informed voter: 15.6 million jobs have been added to the economy since Biden assumed office, there are more people in the labor force now than ever before and 17 million people have submitted small business startup applications. Trump also oversaw a net loss of nearly 3 million jobs.
MAGA: That’s cause of COVID!
Informed voter: Most of the job numbers are from the COVID recovery, but we recovered all of the lost jobs in June of 2022 and have since added 6.1 million more jobs than we had before the pandemic.
MAGA: So what? Before Covid, we saw 6.7 million jobs created under Trump. That’s more than Biden’s 6.1 million post-COVID jobs.
Informed voter: Trump inherited a thriving economy that had 76 straight months of job growth. Biden assumed office when the economy was down 9.5 million jobs. Trump had a 1.5 year head start if you’re trying to compare it that way. Under Biden, we’ve also seen higher job growth every year compared to Trump (7.3, 4.8 and 3.1 million vs 2.1, 2.7, 2 and -9.1 million.)
MAGA: Who cares. Unemployment was at record lows under Trump.
Informed voter: The unemployment rate has been even lower under Biden (3.4%) compared to Trump (3.5%). We’ve seen a period of the unemployment rate having been below 4% for 27 months straight under Biden compared to 13 months under Trump. The highest unemployment rate under Trump was 14.7% compared to 6.3% under Biden.
MAGA: Who cares. Black, Hispanic and woman unemployment rates were at record lows under Trump!
Informed voter: They’ve been lower under Biden (4.7% vs 5.3%, 3.9% vs 4%, 3.3% vs 3.4%.) Minority unemployment also hit record-highs under Trump (16.9%, 13%, 16.2%.)
MAGA: Who cares. Things were less expensive under Trump. Look at all the inflation under Biden!
Informed voter: So you excuse the 2020 job losses under Trump with COVID, but global inflation created by the global COVID recession is Biden’s fault?
MAGA: No! Covid spending did that. Biden blew up the deficit!
Informed voter: Trump signed $4 trillion in Covid stimulus into law while Biden signed $2 trillion. During the peak of the pandemic, the money supply increased 25% under Trump compared to 12% under Biden. Our national debt increased $8.4 trillion under Trump, a record one-term accumulation. The deficit also exploded under Trump to a record $3.1 trillion. So shouldn’t your spending beef be more with Trump? Fiscal and monetary spending had an effect on inflation, but the global supply chain crisis, corporate price gouging and Russia’s war in Ukraine were also major factors. Most of the fiscal spending under both administrations was necessary to keep businesses and people who didn’t have jobs afloat.
MAGA: Who cares. It’s still harder to afford things.
Informed voter: That is true, but inflation is now near normal levels and wage growth has been outpacing inflation for 13 months which is leading to people having more purchasing power again.
MAGA: Who cares. Gas was cheaper before Trump left office.
Informed voter: You mean it was cheaper in 2020, when a global pandemic occurred and many people weren’t driving on the road, gas companies were desperate for revenue and the cost of a barrel of oil even dipped below $0 at times?
MAGA: Who cares. Prices still went up because of Biden’s energy policies. He halted part of the Keystone pipeline!
Informed voter: Gas prices went up largely due to most of the globe cutting off Russian oil imports in response to Putin’s war in Ukraine. Do you want to empower Russia with 10’s of billions of dollars while they’re invading a sovereign country? There’s no evidence that the keystone pipeline would have reduced gas prices. It would have unfortunately invited the risk of environmental disaster.
MAGA: I don’t care what happens outside the U.S. and the climate change agenda is a hoax! The weather always changes. Anyways, we were energy dominant under Trump.
Informed voter: We’re actually more “energy dominant” under Biden. We’re producing more oil, natural gas and clean energy than at any point in U.S. history.
MAGA: Who cares. Under Trump, the stock market was hitting record-highs!
Informed voter: It’s also been hitting record-highs under Biden. It’s never been higher. The Dow, S&P 500, NASDAQ and 401ks are doing great. The Dow has topped 40,000, the NASDAQ has topped 17,000 and the S&P 500 is up 40% since Biden assumed office.
MAGA: Who cares. Trump brought back manufacturing jobs!
Informed voter: He actually oversaw a net loss of over 150,000 manufacturing jobs. We’ve seen nearly 800,000 manufacturing jobs created under the Biden administration. The Inflation Reduction Act and Chips and Science act he signed into law really helped boost manufacturing and bring a lot of those jobs back.
MAGA: Who cares. GDP growth was good under Trump.
Informed voter: It’s been even better under Biden. In 2021, GDP growth was nearly 6%, which is the highest growth year since the 1980’s. GDP growth was 3.2% in 2023 and the average GDP growth of Biden’s presidency is 3.4%, something Trump said he’d reach but didn’t (1.5% on average.) Under Biden, our GDP has increased $6.3 trillion compared to $2.9 trillion under Trump.
MAGA: Who cares. Trump gave us every-day Americans tax cuts!
Informed voter: The tax bill he signed made the tax cuts for corporations permanent while making the tax credits and cuts for low- and middle-income earners temporary. Starting in 2027, 83% of the benefits from that bill will only go to the top 1% of earners. It sounds like his main priority was making wealthy people wealthier.
MAGA: Who cares. Biden is old. He could die in office.
Informed voter: He is old. So is Trump. Trump is only 3.5 years younger and he’s obese. It’s more likely that Trump would die in office compared to Biden.
MAGA: Who cares. Biden defunded our military. It’s weak now unlike under Trump.
Informed voter: Defense spending is up $119 billion ($722 billion vs $841 billion) since Trump left office and active military and military reserve are virtually the same.
MAGA: Who cares. America was respected around the world when Trump was in office.
Informed voter: That’s incorrect on almost every metric. Our allies and most of the world are much happier and more confident in President Biden’s leadership as compared to Trump. Countries like Russia and North Korea are the only ones giving Trump higher approval marks.
MAGA: Who cares. There was peace in the Middle East under Trump.
Informed voter: There were active wars and conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen while he was president, totaling around 300,000 deaths. Under Trump, there were a record number of drone strikes and bombs dropped in the Middle East.
MAGA: Who cares. The Afghanistan withdrawal was a disaster. Americans died.
Informed voter: The withdrawal was messy. It was going to be shaky one way or another regardless of when we pulled out or who was president. We did sadly lose 13 service members during that event. Did you know 65 service members died in combat under Trump compared to 16 under Biden?
MAGA: Who cares. The border was secure under Trump!
Informed voter: 2 million illegal border crossings occurred under Trump. That doesn’t sound “secure”. I agree it has been worse under the Biden administration. If Trump wanted a secure border, why did he instruct Speaker Johnson to torpedo the bipartisan border security bill from the senate that Biden would have signed?
MAGA: Who cares? Crime is soaring out of control!
Informed voter: Violent crime, property crime and murder rates are all down compared to Trump’s last year in office. From 2020-2024, violent crime has decreased by 15%, property crime is down by 7% and murder rates are down 22%. Crime is actually near a 50-year-low.
MAGA: Fake stats from the Biden crime family! I want a law and order president, like Trump!
Informed voter: Biden has no criminal record. Trump is now a convicted felon having been found guilty by a jury on 34 felony counts. That doesn’t sound like a “law and order” president.
MAGA: Witch hunt! Sham trial! Corrupt judge! Biased jury! All coordinated by Biden and deep state! You know, I just like Trump. He makes the libs mad with his mean tweets. He’s smart, a godly man and look at how successful he is!
Informed voter: Do you want a leader who talks out of his ass at every turn representing America? Do you call being criminally charged 88 times, impeached twice, inciting an insurrection on the capital, relentlessly trying to overturn a fair election, filing 6 bankruptcies, paying $0 in federal income taxes for decades, being found liable for fraud, owing $500+ million in legal fees, lying over 30,000 times in office, 4,000 lawsuits, 3,700 conflicts of interest, sharing top-secret classified documents with foreign nationals, calling for the suspension of the constitution, literally saying you’ll be a dictator, bragging about sexual assault, being found liable for sexual abuse, being friends with Jeffrey Epstein, having multiple affairs, perving on underaged girls, being accused of sexual assault by 26 women, mocking the disabled, calling our veterans “losers” and “suckers” and saying Russia can do whatever the hell they want to NATO countries “smart”, “godly” and “successful”? I sure as hell don’t. It’s fine if you don’t care and are just voting for Trump because “vibes”. Just admit that, don’t make shit up and use false comparisons.
MAGA: Who cares. Fake news and fake statistics from the liberal media!!
———Sources———
Monthly job numbers: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
Manufacturing job numbers: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP
Trump’s final numbers: https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/
Labor force numbers: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CLF16OV
Small business numbers: https://www.sba.gov/article/2024/04/11/new-small-business-applications-soar-over-17-million-under-biden-harris-administration
Black unemployment rate data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006
Hispanic unemployment rate data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000009
Women unemployment rate data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000002
Real GDP growth by year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/188165/annual-gdp-growth-of-the-united-states-since-1990/
GDP numbers in dollars: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP
Fiscal year deficits: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-deficit/
Monthly wages vs inflation: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-inflation-us/
Monthly real wage growth: https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_real_average_hourly_earnings_yoy
Global inflation phenomenon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–2023_inflation
Money supply: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
2017 tax cut benefit distribution: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/14/does-trump-tax-cut-give-percent-benefits-top-one-percent/
Crude oil prices: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46336
Oil production: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrfpus2&f=m
General energy production: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/briefing/biden-oil-gas-production.html
Keystone nix didn’t affect gas prices: https://apnews.com/article/895299166310
Ukraine war effect of commodity prices: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2023/10/the-ukraine-wars-effects-on-us-commodity-prices/
Military reserve numbers: https://www.statista.com/statistics/232369/us-department-of-defense-reserve-personnel-numbers/
Troop fatalities under Trump and Biden: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-biden-troops-killed-soldier-deaths-record-1864956
FY2020 defense spending: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-415t#:~:text=Defense%20spending%20amounted%20to%20%24714,%24733%20billion%20in%20FY%202021.
FY2024 defense spending: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy24_ndaa_conference_executive_summary1.pdf
International image Biden vs Trump: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image-abroad-rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/
Active wars and conflicts 2017: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_in_2017
Active wars and conflicts 2018: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_in_2018
Active wars and conflicts 2019: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_in_2019
Active wars and conflicts 2020: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_in_2020
Drone strikes by year: https://airwars.org/research/how-do-the-forever-wars-look-under-president-biden/
Border crossings: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/02/11/trump-biden-immigration-border-compared/
Collapse of bipartisan border deal: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/29/trump-republicans-border-deal-senate-immigration
Crime data: https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-and-information/ucr
Trump guilty on 34 criminal charges: https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0
Dow Jones stock: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/.DJI:INDEXDJX?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRno6FjeeCAxX8m2oFHd6zAAwQ3ecFegQIFxAb&window=5Y
S&P 500 stock: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/.INX:INDEXSP?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv6p2ajeeCAxXhomoFHSODAg0Q3ecFegQIFRAb&window=5Y
NASDAQ stock: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/.IXIC:INDEXNASDAQ?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXhNWnjeeCAxXSlGoFHUqZCgsQ3ecFegQIFxAb&window=5Y
$454 million legal fee: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-hit-with-454-mln-judgment-new-york-fraud-case-2024-02-23/
$83 million legal fee: https://www.wsj.com/video/jury-orders-donald-trump-to-pay-e-jean-carroll-83-million-for-defamation/5DBE1E2A-D809-45A9-BCBD-A4EB4E9F0C0A
91 criminal charges against Trump: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/trump-charges-jan-6-classified-documents/
2 Trump impeachments: https://apnews.com/article/4d1d7ec837c3e942dcbfda962a6dd691
Trump incited an insurrection on the capital: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/01/1191493880/trump-january-6-charges-indictment-counts
Trump attempted to overturn 2020 election: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election
Trump paid $0 in federal income tax for several years: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/12/21/trump-paid-0-in-taxes-in-2020-heres-what-to-know-about-his-tax-returns/amp/
Trump filed for bankruptcy 6 times: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-first-presidential-debate/fact-check-has-trump-declared-bankruptcy-four-or-six-times/#
Trump found liable for fraud: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237
Trump found liable for sexual abuse: https://apnews.com/article/fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db
Trump made over 30,000 false or misleading statements in office: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/
Trump has been involved in over 4,000 lawsuits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump#:~:text=From%20the%201970s%20until%20he,over%20100%20business%20tax%20disputes.
Trump had over 3,700 conflicts of interest in office: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trump-legacy-corruption-3700-conflicts-interest/
Trump shared top-secret classified documents with foreign nationals: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/after-white-house-trump-allegedly-discussed-potentially-sensitive/story?id=103760456
Trump called for the suspension of the constitution: https://apnews.com/article/8e6e2f0a092135428c82c0cfa6598444
Trump said he will be a dictator for a day: https://apnews.com/article/f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
Trump bragging about sexual assault: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html
Trump was friends with Jeffrey Epstein: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-partied-together-then-an-oceanfront-palm-beach-mansion-came-between-them/2019/07/31/79f1d98c-aca0-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html
Trump had multiple affairs: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-melania-stormy-daniels-affairs-marriages-timeline-2018-3?amp
Trump perved on underaged girls: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/oct/12/donald-trump-miss-usa-pageant-dressing-rooms
Trump is accused of sexual assault by 26 women: https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12?amp
Trump has mocked the disabled: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checkewp/2016/08/02/donald-trumps-revisionist-history-of-mocking-a-disabled-reporte
Trump called our veterans “losers” and “suckers”: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
Trump said Russia can do whatever the hell they want to NATO countries: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/10/politics/trump-russia-nato/index.html
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Better Nate than Lever

The hallway had deep-settled dust diffusing the flashlights, spare a couple sets of bootprints, and a few lines where someone had been dragged on their heels.
Depths-damned officers can't count, the sergeant noted. Five sets of prints in, two sets out. Assuming she'd carried one of the wounded and dragged the other, that still left someone inside.
"Got a heat signature, third floor." Goshen really hadn't wanted to be found, it seemed. And so up the flights of small stairs they went in silence, rifles at the ready until they arrived at the threshold of the abandoned building's room.
"Clear the room, watch the corners, this piece of shit may have had helpers."
There was a faint sound. The kind that tugged at every woman's heart. A whimpering male cry. The Marines' rifles all wavered, flashlights in the dusty warehouse showing how unsettled they were. Worse when the translator kicked on: Help.
They fell into formation outside the door adjacent to the crime scene, and then flooded into the room, screaming orders. It was only a half second until they forgot all discipline, because all eyes fixated on the boy in the middle of the room, bound to a chair and barely conscious. Red blood spackled on the floor and dripped onto the boy's shirt.
"Shit." the rookie was frozen to the spot, unable to move.
"Tacs, get the medical crew up here. Kick that sick bitch Goshen out of the medievac to make room if you have to. We're not leaving him here until Penn decides to send another."
"One was already on its way, just in case."
"Well tell them to hurry. Link our comms to their pads so they know where we are."
The sergeant took point and crouched next to the boy, and he flinched back. Everything about this was wrong, and evil. At least there weren't any traps wired to him, and it bothered her that she'd even have to check. But a year's service in Delaware hadn't left her a fool, though it pained her to see him whimper when she touched him gently to check for wires. Just what did she do to him? From the bleeding and swelling, it seemed there was no shortage of them.
"All clear," she announced. "Tell the crew he's awake and alert, just in a lot of pain. Shelms, have you got painkillers?" Shelms tapped her bag, before the Sergeant cut in. "No, I mean stuff that'll work on a human, obviously!"
The pod medic shrugged helplessly.
"Alright, you're gonna be okay," she muttered.
"Help..." he was moaning the word in trade shil' now, over and over. Somehow, that just made it worse.
"Hey, hey, it's going to be alright," she tried to comfort him, though her next words were ones she knew he didn't want to hear. "We're gonna have to move you, though." She stood and unlocked the restraints. "I'm going to cut him free and get him ready for pickup. Hold him upright."
Visions of violent retribution echoed through her mind with every gentle step she took, and she didn't even know the boy's name. Such was the way of the galaxy.

Across the Stars

Natalie felt she must have drifted off, though she couldn't say for how long.
She whispered 'I love you,' but still felt a burning anxiety in her, a desperation building she'd never felt before.
Words alone wouldn't be enough to confess the confusing but powerful feelings stirring inside. She had to do more than talk, she had to act. Shuffling around on the bed, she pulled back just enough to give him a quick kiss on the forehead. He stirred slightly, before murmuring something softly, then tucked his face into the crook of her neck, hot breath from full pink lips making her want to squirm. Forcing herself to stay still just so he could rest was torture, but for him, she could endure, until at last the need passed.
She couldn't say how long they stayed like that, bound in intimacy, her mind empty but for a million fleeting thoughts that never fully materialized, and yet every second was blissful. Every worry was dashed against the impenetrable shield that was the bond shared between them, any intrusion guarded against by Morsh and that door, until at last he stirred and yawned, parched lips dragging over her shoulder and making her squirm.
Natalie reluctantly let go as he came up for air, blinking awake and looking up at her in momentary confusion before the weight of the world settled back on his shoulders, and his face turned focused.
"Hey," Natalie whispered, both hoping to interrupt, and also that he was done being worried. Her voice had come out an awkward rasp and she wished for just an instant that she could have stayed as cool as she'd felt just a moment before.
"Uh, hey," he managed back. "Sorry, I must have passed out."
Natalie just nodded, trying to swallow with a dry mouth.
"For how long?" He yawned, trying to sit up and separate. Natalie reluctantly let him go, and sat up straight in the bed, noting with some pride that he at least looked less exhausted.
"I don't know. Not long?"
"My head..." he muttered, gazing around the room at various things, then dragging a hand up to rub at a temple with a thumb. "It doesn't hurt as bad. I feel a lot better." A moment's silence passed between them. "You're real, right?"
She laughed. "Yes, we talked about this. Remember?" Only a heartbeat's pause was enough to send her worrying that he might not, before he nodded slightly, his forehead touching her shoulder again and making her ache to put his head back there. As it was, he seemed happy to be using her forearm as a pillow.
"Right. Sorry, just checking." Her mirth disappeared when his troubled expression deepened. "I suppose we have a lot to talk about, don't we?"   Here goes everything. "I'm so sorry for running away." She just belted the words out.
He blinked at her in surprise and the suspense hung. "It's okay," he managed. "I'm sorry, too. I mean, I think I'm sorry."
At least she wasn't the only one who hadn't prepared for what to actually say when the moment came.
Another awkward silence stretched time.
"How did you get the shirt?" Would Elias be upset at her answer? No, there was no time for lies. She had to tell him.
"I broke into your house. I'm sorry. Your parents said I could go inside, you see and-"
"-They're okay?" He interrupted.
At least she could offer him some good news. More tidbits flew out of her in rapid-fire.
"They left during the fighting, and they're up in Chester. When I found them, and didn't find you with them, I was afraid you had died in the fighting."
His eyes grew distant, and for a moment she worried he'd drifted off to sleep again despite his eyes still being wide open, until he sucked in a deep breath and shuffled in place and met her gaze again. "It was close." She hadn't quite seen him say anything that way before, but then again, what sort of things had he seen down there? It was bad enough watching it from orbit. Some veterans didn't come back as they were, she could just hope that Elias was still the same boy she fell in love with.
"It looked close," she commented.
"You were watching?"
"From the auxiliary bridge of the destroyer, until they started throwing orbitals."
He nodded mutely, the beginnings of facial hair tickling her arm. "I guess with the fire and dust... that must have obscured things for miles."
He didn't say anything else for a few seconds, and Natalie wasn't sure what she could even say. His eyes started sweeping the room and he squinted as he looked up at the light fixture. "There's no one here but us," she promised. "Noblewomen prize their privacy. The interior is *always *trying to find anything we do that's wrong."
"Sometimes for good reasons," he muttered darkly.
"Sometimes. But hey, sometimes those reasons aren't so bad, and end up saving your sausage." She hoped she'd gotten the saying right, but his confused expression told her she hadn't. Or maybe he just didn't know what she was talking about. "Remember how you told me what you thought we were doing wasn't that bad? And how there were some really, really big trees in the woods around your little fortress? Those were some of Mom's Special ones, I'm like, really sure. She was pretty unhappy about that, and looked like she was ready to start chewing on neosteel."
His bright eyes widened, and then he gave a slow nod. Natalie knew they were now both doomed if she was wrong about there being any devices in the room, but couldn't bring herself to care. She was too happy at seeing his expression, and at having gotten the human idiom correct. He focused a bit, and then shuffled around in the bed.
"The sentries did capture a civilian worker snooping around Camp Death. She wouldn't say why she was wandering around alone in the woods with really unusual equipment. We couldn't figure it out, and she wouldn't help us."
'Camp Death' had to be their name for the fortress that he'd been fighting from. "I overheard something about that. I guess Mom couldn't tell them where the worker disappeared without the soldiers investigating stumbling over her forbidden science project, and she couldn't exactly check it out herself. I mean, without sending Morsh or something, and that would have been a really big problem."
"Then that was a Near Miss."
"The contractor hit something?"
Elias's face turned into one of utter confusion. "No? She didn't? What are you talking about?"
"Wait, then what's a 'near miss'? Almost went unmarried? A nearby unmarried woman?"
A smile cracked through his exterior and he shuffled and strained up to situate himself upright, before putting a hand on the top of her head, playfully toying with her hair and then leaning in for a quick kiss on her cheek, right through the rogue strands of hair he'd pushed into rebellion from the loose bun. "What?" She asked, confused, only for him to start laughing. "I asked you if 'Nearly missed' meant 'almost missed, but didn't' but you said 'no' and now I don't-?" She tried to voice her confusion, except she had the distinct feeling he wasn't listening.
He kept on laughing until he ran out of breath, and then played with her hair again for another second. He sucked in a deep breath and rose slightly from the bed, as if admiring and evaluating his crude handiwork at having made her look ridiculously unkempt before lying back down, apparently satisfied with his efforts.
"You're so curious about those little idiosyncrasies in our language. No one else would know to put something like that into my head, and it isn't something I would have considered. Just, it's definitely you."
"Oh." It was a little upsetting that he hadn't believed her a moment ago, when she'd told him everything in front of him was all real. How long had he lived this way, telling everyone one thing, while privately holding onto his own suspicions? It had to be exhausting.
"Well, as opposed to what my mind would tell me is you, if I wasn't really here, you know?" She just stared. What was he talking about? "Okay. So, we're alone." He took a deep breath, his eyes flitting around the room one final time. "I'm sorry that I hid that I was Emperor from you."
"That's-" she wanted to say 'okay,' and wished for a moment instead of daydreaming she'd thought of something to say when this inevitably came up. "It is what it is."
"It is." He echoed, nodding along sagely.
At least that human saying made sense, even if it tended to lead to these awkward silences, where they ended up looking at each other.
Now what?
"Who else knows?" She blurted out. The selfish question that had sprung to mind was one that had burned at her since she'd fled home, and could no longer be contained.
"I can't tell you who without putting them and you in danger." He looked genuinely sad to say it, at least. "Well, except Larry. He knew, and he's gone." He seemed to grow quieter, as if he wasn't quite sure what to do. The suddenly vulnerable boy looked down at his hand, and then up at her, and his expression seemed lost. "I-"
She watched his bravado break apart, and he shuddered as his words failed him, like a power core that lost connection or a signal that cut out, he just stopped dead. She reached out to touch him, but the moment she did, he twitched.
"I'm sorry-" she backed off immediately, only to find him shaking his head slightly.
"It's okay. Thanks, even. It's just that, I can't even mourn, you know? There's always too much going on. I appreciate it, though. I see the temptation to sink into your arms again, and just let the world pass me by. Let everything fall where it may. I just can't, though."
She let the moment pass before remembering what they'd been talking about. "You shouldn't rush the recovery. You can take as long as you need."
He shook his head in disagreement, but didn't say 'why.' Even now, she felt locked on the outside. "We'll see, but I don't think I'm going to process that right now, mid-conversation," he smiled without joy, in that grim sort of way he always did.
"Well, then if you can't tell me who else knows, can you at least tell me who doesn't?" Just how many people knew before she did? Where did she fall in line?
"My parents, for one. I mean, wait, the shirt- did they see it?" Now he seemed anxious, flitting between different emotions like a boy unsure of what to wear for his Debut might try on outfits. He was probably just overwhelmed, unsure how to react.
"As far as I know they're still up somewhere in Chester. I don't think anyone else even knows where they are." She had weighed telling Amilita their whereabouts, but didn't want to complicate matters. "I thought it might have been evidence, so I brought it with me. Do you want them here?"
"No, I don't." He looked distant. "Frankly, my mother would try and make excuses, and my father...I don't know. It would stress the family, let's put it that way." He looked at her bag again, and then shook his head. "Good thinking," he complimented. "I was exhausted, not thinking clearly at all. I think I might have been concussed, or at least I was at the time."
"You're all better now, though?" She wanted to ask about how his eyes had sparked at the mention of the nearby rundown town, but decided it was less important and tucked a few of the rogue strands behind her ear.
He flexed a hand, and then pulled a forearm up from under the sheets and tried flexing his forearm. "I'm feeling better, at least. I don't know if I actually am a hundred-percent, though." He yawned and then began picking the sleep out of his eyes and flicking it into the sheet, then blinking until his eyes were fully wide, pushing away from the wonderful position he'd been in. She immediately missed the weight of his head and the warmth of his breath. "At least, I feel better. We'll see how that goes when I'm up and moving around. By the end of..." he trailed off as his mind wandered into more recent events. "Where's Goshen? What happened to her? And Nate?"
"Wait, 'Nate'? As in Nate from school? He was in the insurgency with you?"
"He was being interrogated. But like, if you're asking whether he was in the rebellion?" Elias shook his head slowly in a way that humans usually meant 'no,' but then shrugged. "I don't know? Maybe? We all worked to keep each others' identities secret from anyone outside their own cell. Remember Jordan?"
"No?"
"The kid you tackled at the track party."
"Oh! Yeah, him!"
"He was in it."
"He is?" Wait. "Was?"
Elias let the sentence hang meaningfully, before repeating: "Was."
"Oh. I'm sorry. I thought you two hated each other?"
He let out a heavy sigh, and his eyes went unfocused, before shaking his head, though he might've just been scratching an itch on his face with the pillow for all she knew. "There's time for all that later. We need to focus on what's happening right now."
"Right. Uh, for Nate...well, we passed another couple of medievacs, that were coming from here, so they probably brought them both here. I know the military likes to take care of their own, but...well, she's probably here, too, after how hard Amilita says she hit her."
"Then Goshen's here, at the hospital? I mean, I am in a hospital, right?" He glanced around, craning his neck and then turning it into a stretch.
"Why?"
"Natalie, the military knows. Or at least I think Goshen does. I was certain she was acting as part of a larger military operation, and she was leading some small unit to keep everything clandestine and under-wraps."
"What? Why would she do that? Wouldn't capturing Emperor be a big deal to her career?" Not to mention the reward, either.
"It would have been a huge scandal if it got out they got their asses kicked by a human boy. If I went to trial, especially as Elias Sampson, it would have been even messier after they pinned the medal to me. It'd implicate nobility, the military, the plans to put me forward...honestly, there's no shortage of interested parties that would be embarrassed if the story got out."
"I can't see Goshen agreeing to stay quiet, though. They have to have promised her something."
"Maybe they said they'd pave her way forward for a promotion in exchange for silence, and pay her out the reward anyway. Then they shoot her when she's done, just to make sure it doesn't get out."
"They'd really do that?" Did the dark world of power really flow that way, or had he seen too many holodramas? Maybe boys really were just better at drama, intrigue, and social plots, and that was how Emperor always stayed one step ahead of any effort to trap him.
"I mean it makes sense. If I die as Elias, I'd be just one more dead person. They might even blame the insurgency. But think about the outcome: Emperor stays dead, meaning Azraea didn't die for nothing. Goshen's losses are an embarrassment, but now she's not their problem to suffer anymore. So what worries me is that maybe they'll just try something more direct."
Whoever told Goshen might tell Amilita, and then what? Natalie didn't want to think for too long about that- except she found the flaw. "Wouldn't they tell Amilita?"
"Would she believe them? Whatever they said was enough for Goshen."
"If these people are real, they started on Goshen for a reason. Amilita probably wouldn't cooperate, she handed me a laspistol, after all."
"Oh, that's in my bag, too."
"Thank you," he said. "That may come in handy."
"But really, I don't think anyone told Goshen anything. Otherwise, wouldn't the interior have done it themselves?"
Elias paused, and then took a moment. "I suppose you make a good point. One I didn't consider. Why rely on Goshen at all? Goshen probably came up with it on her own. That's still a problem, though. She might still blab what she knows, or thinks she knows."
"No one is going to believe a boy-basher like Goshen. That's why she acted alone." He didn't seem convinced, but did let her keep going. "Nothing for us to worry about."
"No. You're missing the point." He seemed hellbent on making himself stressed out.
"What? Did I miss something?"
"Maybe Goshen doesn't have friends- or would-be-backstabbers in high places, but you're wrong to think that she's harmless. If Goshen goes to some kind of a tribunal or trial, and starts laying out whatever evidence led her to me, then other people might notice those same connections and arrive at the same conclusions. People who aren't crazy and discredited. I'm almost certain that if they start asking questions, my answers will not be good enough."
Natalie almost asked about the 'almost,' he'd left in, but she was raised better than to question a victim of boy-bashing.
"So far, she hasn't said anything to anyone else, right? That means there's still time for me-" he tried to push himself out of the bed, and instead let out a pained groan as he tried to shuffle past Natalie. "Jesus. I'm not sure what the ambulance techs and doctors did, but I'm still sore everywhere. Hold on." He clenched his teeth and threw the bedsheet back off, and tried to push himself over her and out of the bed again.
"Sit down!" Natalie urged, pushing him lightly. "Please," she added at the challenge he seemed to take her words as, until he finally seemed to think the better of continuing to strain himself. His eyes challenging her, he finally stopped trying to crawl his way past.
"Why?" He asked, cocking his head in that peculiar human way. "Look, Natalie, like I just explained- if I don't take out Goshen, then-" and she decided she'd finally had enough. There was a time for ladylike behavior, and there was a time for being forthright and blunt, as Elias so often was.
"Don't you know by now that you can count on me? You never call for help. Ever. I didn't know why *until I realized that you'd been left behind in Delaware by your own parents. You don't count on others, because you don't think help is ever coming. You don't think things will ever get better unless *you do something about it. You don't want to be let down, because of what it'll mean. That you're unloved, and unwanted. So you never give anyone the chance. I'm here to tell you though that it's okay. You don't have to keep fighting alone forever."
He seemed stunned by her outburst, for all of a second, and then closed his eyes. He didn't try to say anything for several seconds, and instead seemed to almost start gathering energy and momentum, as if fighting to contain something that wanted desperately to burst free from deep within. He was almost quaking as it broke through thresholds.
"Elias?"
Like the cap of a volcano rumbling until it blasted off with a thunderclap, he rounded on her, eyes shooting wide open as he couldn't hold it back anymore. "You know why I don't?" He finally snapped, his voice harsh as a whip. "Why do I, as Elias, never bother asking, and even turn people down even when they've offered to help me?"
The question was rhetorical, but Natalie wasn't going to just stand there and let herself be yelled at. She'd been through too much to put up with it. "I can guess!"
He hadn't expected that but his anger was unresolved. "Then... then go ahead! Guess!"
She took in a breath, forcing herself to calm down. "It's because even though your parents are here in Pennsylvania too, they're still not here." She expected to be slapped, and braced herself for a blow that never came.
He clenched his jaw in fury, and he finally jerked his head to the side, looking toward the window overlooking the city, one far larger and grander than Wilmington.
"I'm not wrong, am I?" She asked, breaking the sudden silence.
"You're not entirely wrong," he ground the words out, and she sensed all of that built up energy fizzling out. All those emotions wafting off him could still spark, but it could either blow up or just immolate him. So she kept quiet and watched him work through his words and defuse himself. "They're not here. I doubt they even know I'm here, to be fair. But even if I asked, what would they even do for me, right now? What could they even do?"
Natalie wasn't sure. Keep him company? Wasn't that normal to find comfort in? She'd been left to fend for herself, and she'd been scared to be left there alone, and that was just a bad flu or something. Before she could think to ask if their presence would at least be a comfort to him, he answered his own question.
"I think they'd stick around out of obligation, but there's nothing I'd ask them to do- hell, they'd just get in the way of our talking. But all that aside, I'd feel guilty for disrupting their lives for every moment they'd be here, anyway. They'd eventually leave, just further confirmation of what I already know." He shook his head.
"What do you mean?"
He stopped shaking his head to let it hang as he practically deflated from the depth of the sigh he let out. The last gasp of the tension he'd let burst out from underneath left him, until he looked almost hollow."If I ask my Father for something, he'll check first with my Mother before daring to follow through. Doesn't matter what it is, because I'm pretty sure now that she never wanted me to succeed at all, not unless it's in a way she approves of. She's practically doing it to make a point- no help until I shape up. She's been looking to punish me for not living up to whatever standard she imagines, and so the answer is almost always 'no'. In her eyes, I didn't turn out right somehow, even though when compared to Jacqueline I don't do half the things wrong that she- and yet- but then I- "
He started to choke off his sentences, then taking several deep, rasping breaths. She'd never seen Elias act this way. He was almost out of control of his emotions. The resentment, pain, and whatever else he had kept buried had finally bullied its way out and burst, until it threatened to run down from his eyes. It was ugly to see, but she still let him talk. At least when he had finally sparked on those emotions, it was just the dregs and wisps, rather than that initial outburst. Too small to become a conflagration, until his words came to a convulsing stop, like one of those primitive engines they used for their cars breaking down.
"Elias?" She wanted to give him a hug, and instead held his hand as if it was made of the thinnest, most delicate crystalline ice.
Slowly, his breathing steadied out.
"Sorry. Let's just not talk about her. I guess there's just no point in asking them for anything."
"But you can ask me. I'm not them."
He fixed her with a tired smile, one that she eventually understood as 'she just doesn't get it.' She hated seeing that face- and wanted to pry, wanted to dig until she did understand. "Thanks for saying so. Sorry I kind of blew up at you. Family  and trust are sore subjects for me at the moment."
The level of neglect was terrifying to Natalie. Her dad Brynmor had gone through his whole life being doted on by all his sisters, and later on by his many wives, even though with his business he earned more than all of them combined. A rarity, but none of it slowed his wives in their affection and impulse to protect and provide for him. The tendency went beyond something taught. So hearing all this felt wrong to her. This twisting in her gut at hearing this wasn't just another culture shock, it went beyond that.
"You know I'm not them, right?" She had to keep poking at the topic. She'd defused him slightly, even if he was worn out. Natalie needed him to know she was on his side more than she needed air.
He looked back from the window, slowly, and leaned back into the reclining bed.
"For the longest time, I just thought everything between people was transactional. I worried that if I didn't know what the other person was getting out of it, then I was either overlooking something, unknowingly putting myself in their debt, or else they were being stupid. Larry- that guy I just told you about? He told me that people who love each other help each other just because." That one of the members of the resistance had such a positive impact on him was strange to her. Everyone had wondered if the insurgency had turned Elias against her, or what terrible lessons they imparted on each other to take up arms and fight an unwinnable war. She'd never thought about what else they might talk about or discuss.
"Even with me?" Was all she could think to ask.
"Yes, even with you, I was always looking for what someone else wanted in return, and I'd try to find something else to pre-empt what I thought they wanted. Like the perfume thing, for help with the bike thing. And I'm sorry, I know you wouldn't have done anything like, too awful, but at the time that's really how I saw the world."
"You were free to say 'no'. I wasn't going to ask anything else if you did- except maybe more lessons on Earth cultures and history which we were already doing anyway. I really just wanted to get to know you better, and getting to talk more about Earth while we waited for the next grav-car to leave the base seemed really nice."
"And it was! I loved doing that with you, Natalie. But all the money I was making made me feel like I was just further in debt to you, so I started spending it quickly on things that I didn't have, but needed. Shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, skincare products, and clothing. Other things, too. Stuff like...well, you know, things I could use in the other part of my life."
Oh great, so I directly funded the rebellion. If he'd meant to make her feel better, he hadn't.
"After what Larry told me though, I started to let go of that feeling of nervousness I had around you and let you actually start helping me. Maybe at some point in my life or another it actually was 'smart' of me to reject the random offers of help from strangers and shil'vati I didn't know, but it was still weird to me that anyone would offer to do things for me that my own family wouldn't. And I guess I'm sorry I didn't trust you at first."
Some part of her heart melted at being told that he did trust her, now. At least, that's what she thought he was getting at. "I had thought it really weird, the way you'd decline, and then take the help- and then go right back to declining it. I gave you that ride home, remember? From the track party. And when you got hit with the car?"
"I always thought whenever anyone offered to help, it was only out of some social ritual. You know, when people ask how you're doing, they just want to hear 'okay,' and not actually get a real understanding of your situation. They ask if you need help, but they're not prepared to step in and actually help, and they're not actually going to. So you're supposed to just say 'no, I'm good, I'm fine,' and keep on doing whatever you were already doing and hope it works out."
"But you actually wanted someone to help?"
"Why wish for something that isn't real? Asking people for help would be answered with a 'no,' and people offering to help weren't actually willing to. So why bother wanting what will never come? It made me resourceful, but...yeah, hard to take you up on your offers. I was...yeah, I guess I was a bit scared." There was that hangup of boys here, to admit to being afraid, again.
"Scared of me?"
"No, just that if I ever actually asked, I'd just be showing you helplessness- and wouldn't be trusted to handle myself after that. I'd need a bodyguard, an escort. To you, to everyone, I was this boy who could handle himself, and that was neat to you all. Useful, maybe even. Who I was in your eyes mattered a lot to me- and I'm not used to caring what other people think of me. I mean, remember how I would walk down the hall with my nose in a book, and how I dressed and looked? I didn't care how weird I looked to other people. Suddenly, though, I cared a lot."
Natalie felt those words rattle around in her own soul. How often had she felt that way? Afraid, lost, but not even able to ask for help because of who she was? A noblewoman was supposed to be the one people looked to for help, and if she was lost then what good was she to anyone? Just being friendly hadn't worked, all the other girls at Braxis had turned competitive and guarded toward each other- and her. She felt stuck trying to piece things together herself until Masarie's unexpected call- and as much as she was helping Masarie with her vision, Masarie had also helped Natalie piece together what was really going on, and understand what she had to do.
"I can relate to that, at least a bit," she muttered.
"I kept having this thought: 'Maybe my Mother's right to try and punish me'. Good people don't do the kinds of things that I did. The concept of the soul, and whether mine was something other people could see and sense. Yet I also would do those things I did all over again, because they were the right things to do. The people who mattered to me and helped guide me were happy that I was doing them, and that I was leading. They valued me because of it, and so I couldn't just walk away. I often wondered about that, you know. If there was some other, more peaceful way that I'd missed to resolve things. Maybe telling Amilita or whoever about Ministriva's relative, trying to go to the police or interior, or security forces with what we had figured out. I could have gone streaking across the base and begged for help. But every time, it felt like I was leaving everything up to the chance that they'd understand and help me, rather than the certainty of taking action, and so I- I-"
Elias shook his head, slowly at first, then faster until Natalie couldn't stand to see the frantic motions and leaned forward, putting a hand on his face, feeling the warmth. He wavered, as if he'd made himself dizzy. She still stayed quiet, her hands still frozen where they'd raised to help. What did she even do in this situation?
"I'm sorry," she finally offered, hoping the words helped. "I still love you," she added.
"I know," he said sadly. "And I- I love you too. When you ran away I guess I felt like I didn't deserve what I'd had. Like I *was *as bad as everyone says. It doesn't help that when I did point out the mind-wiping, supposedly it's banned now. At least, in Delaware. It beats having to kill my own family to stop the practice. But that just kind of means that maybe all of it was unnecessary, and I just did it because I wanted to kill, like Vendetta." He looked so lost and afraid, she never imagined he carried these kinds of inner doubts.
Here was baring his soul, and all she could think to try was remembering a good time she'd shared with him. She had to come out and tell him the truth. "We don't think you're bad. At least, a lot of people don't. Remember the video game?" She tried on a smile for him. "Remember, you were playing- well, Emperor?" She chuckled.
He looked back to the window and she noticed he seemed suddenly very flushed and red in the face. "Not just 'bad.' I could have settled for that, but no, they think I'm some kind of a sex icon," he mumbled darkly. "They don't see me, or what I'm fighting for. So, really, what was it all for? I mean, I got everyone killed, and what do I have to show for it? A pile of bodies, but no real changes. Azraea will be replaced."
"They don't see you as Elias," she admitted. "But some of them at least understand that you're fighting for something more than yourself. You knew Myrrah, meaning you knew Masarie too, right?"
"She and I only really talked a couple times."
"Well, you certainly left an impression. She called me when I was alone in my room. I was...considering the revelation you were Emperor, and how I felt about all that." She barely managed to keep from calling it 'moping'. Moping was undignified, after all. "And you know what? She had a lot to say to me about you that was really interesting."
"Wait, does Masarie know?"
"No," Natalie laughed. "Nothing like that. We talked about what your goals- Emperor's goals had to be- I mean, you can't possibly hope to kill every Shil'vati. Not if you let her go, and I knew not if you had protected me, too. And you're aware, as Elias, of just how many planets we have, and how many people. So you're not really our enemy as a people, are you? And you're telling everyone what's going on here- and some of them are *listening. With Ministriva, with the mind-wiper, with *everything. And the conversation helped me to see what I had to do, and why you were doing it, and that's why I'm here now, you know? I'm here to tell you that it's okay that you're Emperor."
He was quiet for a few moments. He let out a sigh, shuddering, and then came out. "You're sure?" And then winced, almost as if he'd dashed his chances, giving her a second chance to reconsider.
"What, do you think I'm going to say 'actually, you know what, it's not okay'?" she laughed, hoping to raise his spirits. "It wasn't a small or easy choice. I mean, I'm not celebrating, you know? I don't approve of everything you've done. I just understand why you're Emperor, and what you're trying to do. And I guess I support it. Not just because I love you, but also because I see where you're coming from."
"You understand?" He asked dubiously. "Really?"
"I think I do. In a way that only someone who really knows both sides of you can. The books- you made such a big deal out of rescuing them. You showed me around the state with the omni-pad. What you said over dinner on the rooftop in D.C. with that fat creep, even though it was rude to our host- those were things that mattered to you, and are why you're doing this."
"You think it's about a museum? Or the Odyssey in particular? Or whether or not the books people read are old and dusty?"
"No! No no no, it's about human history, culture, and achievements. What I said was all part of that, but not even close to the entirety. Monuments. Statues. The language itself, and the things your people achieved before we came. There's so much more to it. You told me once: You have to have a past to understand yourself. You have to forge your own identity if you want to have a future. I think... I think you felt like all of it was being taken away. Twisted and warped, you know? To serve someone else. No past, so you don't understand yourselves, and you're more ready to believe whatever we tell you that you are. That way, when we say you're all sex addict boys who do..."
That topic was easy to discuss in her head when it wasn't in front of a boy. Of all the times to get flustered, afraid of what he'd think, or how he'd react. Now isn't the time to be flustered!
"...all the things that our imaginations say you can, you'll believe us. And then you'll be nothing more than that, because we trivialized everything else. Maybe that's convenient to some woman out there somewhere, but not me, and it certainly isn't who you are. You have to carve out your own future, your own life."
"We're meant to be more than what they imagine us to be."
"You are, and you can be. There are dead civilizations that we have discovered the ruins of as we've explored the galaxy, and added the names of their races and empires to our language to mean 'more advanced than we can understand.' We've since shot far past them technologically. If we found them now and added them to our dictionary, what would the word mean?" She shook her head. "I think in our paranoia and fear of you hurting yourself, we intervened, and we never should have, at least not the way we did and have been doing. And it's not too late to change the course. And if I can be a part of changing that course, then I will. I'll do anything."
A few moment's passed. She hoped she was right. She hoped against hope that he heard her, that he wouldn't just laugh at her and tell her she was stupid, and that he was some kind of madman, out to kill them all. No, even that she could live with, she decided. She'd hate herself, but would take it as a lesson.
She'd expected some kind of outpouring of relief, but instead he just seemed to be waiting for her to say something. "You want in, then? You don't think you'll have any regrets?" He seemed less defeated, at least. Some of his energy was back. That could only be a good thing, right?
"I don't think so?" Natalie asked. "If I do, that's just life isn't it?"
He shuffled slightly closer.
"Then where's Goshen?"
Special Thanks to Tumbleman, Miku, and CatsinTrenchcoats for helping with this. I hope the flow of action/details isn't too screwed up.

Chapter Summary:

Amilita and Morsh square off in the hallway. Elias gets comforted by Natalie
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2024.06.07 14:31 ParticularlyAvocado Legion of Super Heroes Reviewed: Every Episode

1. Man of Tomorrow - 3/5 (Standard pilot setup stuff. In terms of Clark's story, I found it interesting enough. I liked the scenes in Smallville, but once Clark was taken to the future, aside from the good scene of him exploring the Superman Museum, it pretty much becomes character introduction overload. As a result, no Legionnaire is very interesting on their own. Personality-wise, that is. Triplicate Girl's ability was pretty cool in action. And the Fatal Five are just exposition-dumped on us. These guys are the Legion's main baddies, why use them for the pilot so generically? And why exactly did Brainiac 5 retrieve Superman from a time where he wasn't even Superman if the whole reason was that they couldn't take on such ferocious villains?)
2. Timber Wolf - 3/5 (At its core I really dig the idea of this episode. Having the team fight a creature only to find out he's a victim of circumstance who ends up becoming a Legionnaire IS interesting. But they didn't really set Brin up as much of a character. And when they do reveal he is the creature, he doesn't boast much of a personality. There's an attempt here to flesh out Bouncing Boy and Brainiac 5 at least with their banter, but it mostly came off as awkward. Also, did Mar Londo really think all the creatures he had locked up and experimented on were going to obey his command on release?)
3. Legacy - 3/5 (Good gravy does Alexis ever have large freckles. Pepperoni slices. She was a pretty fun antagonist what with her amusingly petty reason for wanting to destroy the Legion. This episode trying to push the idea that the Legion are Superman's BFFs is a bit unearned though, since none of the Legionnaires still don't feel particularly fleshed out. Although this at least remedies that for Brainiac 5 with plenty of good bits. Notably how excited he is to just hang out with Superman. But also complimenting his "league" and calling him for pointless status reports? Starting to think he just recruited Superman because he's gay for him. Also LOL at how dramatically it plays Brainy getting his arm destroyed only to have him easily repair it in the next scene.)
4. Fear Factory - 2/5 (Pretty generic horror parody/face your fears episode. Bouncing Boy gets the bulk of attention here, but I liked the Superman and Brainiac 5 focus of the latter half more. Although I was disappointed by how simple Superman's fear was. Why is Saturn Girl's fear rollercoasters though? She can literally fly, there is NO danger in it for her.)
5. Champions - 3/5 (I was ready to be bored out of my mind when I realized this a sports episode. Then I was slightly more engaged with the Fatal Five attempting to assasinate the U.P. President. Phantom Girl got some time to shine, and I like her dynamic with Superman. Until it became a generic battle where the F5 are easily defeated again. On top of it still juggling the sport stuff throughout the entire episode. These two plots could have been separate episodes of their own. Yeah, a full Galactic Games episode would still suck, but at least this would've been better as a result. "Monkey face" was funny though.)
6. Phantoms - 3/5 (Superman releases a generic villain who is evil because... He's evil. And he hates Superman because... He hates Superman. Riveting stuff there guys, don't get me *too* hooked or anything. I was a bit curious to see where the stuff about Brainiac 5 having hidden kryptonite would go, but it's disposed of and he never even tells Superman about it, so THAT was for nothing. Also Drax directly references that he's mad about what Superman "will" do, which, what? How would have have any way of knowing this guy is the actual Superman from the past? I liked the Legion's use of teamwork to escape the Phantom Zone though, and I think the stuff with Phantom Girl being frustrated with Timber Wolf helping her was kinda fun. There's just too little of it.)
7. Child's Play - 2/5 (This episode pretty much boils down to an Impossible Man ripoff causing trouble. Since this is DC, I guess Mxyzptlk would be the more common comparison, but Zyx's pointy hat and bratty behavior is more reminiscent of Impossible Man. I wasn't into it. But I actually did like the scenes of Phantom Girl dealing with Zerox's bureaucracy. That was genuinely fun. But as usual with this show, if something is engaging, it's always only a small portion of the episode.)
8. Lightning Storm - 2/5 (First episode with a larger focus on being character driven, and they give it to Lightning Lad, the most boring Legionnaire so far. His rivarly with his brother wasn't very engaging in Champions, and it doesn't improve here. It's also a pretty stock "hero leaves his misfit team for a better one until he realizes his true place" story. Breath Boy's scene at the end was funny though.)
9. Brain Drain - 3/5 (With the setup, I was expecting this episode to be quite fun. The genius character becoming a dumbass has potential for good comedy. But the nonsense Brainiac 5 spews out in his Stupid State:tm: isn't very funny at all, just the most boring "LOLRANDOM" stuff you could ever think of. Which I suppose would be fine with the right delivery, but I don't think it's even delivered particularly funny. Timber Wolf playing a larger role is pretty cool given how neglected he has been since his introduction, but... Yeah, he still does not boast much of a personality.)
10. The Substitutes - 4/5 (Pretty good comedy episode. The focus on a team of "lame" heroes alone is funny, although I thought Infectious Lass and Chlorophyll Kid were a bit too unironically lame. The remaining three though, were very funny. Especially Stone Boy, he cracked me up in every scene he was in. Even funnier when the villain, Starfinger, is just as lame as the heroes. Although admittedly he has a pretty cool design. Basically, the episode was just funny. I also liked that Lightning Lad freaked out at the sight of Pete due to their previous interaction. Bouncing Boy being supportive of the Subsitutes due to relating to having lame powers is pretty sweet, but let's be honest, none of them besides Porcupine Pete could be put to much practical use. Then again I'm not sure how useful Matter Eater Lad can be, and he was literally accepted, so yeah.)
11. Chain of Command - 3/5 (Colossal Boy? Who is this? What happened to tryouts? It was literally LAST episode, surely they are not held THAT often. Anyway, for a fairly generic episode, given it's just about the team preventing a big storm, I thought it was good in how it utilized almost every Legionnaire evenly. Sure, that makes it lacking in character story, but it's a decent action episode. There IS the rivarly with Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy, but as per usual, I do not find whatever Lightning Lad is up to interesting. Also wow are they ever rapidly piling on new members. What is this, Legion of Super Heroes Unlimited? I was curious about Ferro Lad's face given his ominous statement. Too bad we will probably never see it.)
12/13. Sundown - 3/5 (As an epic finale, this is just pretty generic. There's a huge threat that's tough to beat, so they ask the villains for help, then they defeat it. Still weird how insignificantly this series uses the Fatal Five. You can also tell it's a finale because of the bloated cast. Which I get, you want to utilize all the main characters for something like this. But it also has a myriad of completely new randos who just randomly appear in this one with no explanation. Although that has been happening since The Subsitutes. I liked Shrinking Violet I guess. The Bouncing Boy leadership arc felt pretty hurriedly introduced last episode, so it's a bit weird just how much focus it is given here. But it was entertaining enough. The solo Superman stuff was OK, but I did really like it when he grabbed The Controller as he was about to smugly escape, only to threaten him and then TOSS him into his escape portal. Pretty badass moment. Ferro Lad's sacrifice is also pretty badass, themtically speaking, but I hope the writers realized it was never going to be very emotionally effective when he was literally introduced last episode.)
14/15. The Man from the Edge of Tomorrow - 4/5 (So this episode starts with Brainiac 5 having a gay Superman simulation. OK. Also, terrible haircut. He should grow it back. Lightning Lad on the other hand looks better with the new do. Anyway, this was pretty gritty compared to season 1. It has a literal apocalypse, the Legion HQ being destroyed and Triplicate Girl's 1/3rd dying. That's actually incredibly interesting conceptually, but it doesn't hit particularly hard because of what a nothing-character she was for all of season 1, save for the ending when she suddenly became a Bouncing Boy fangirl. This idea should have just been an entire episode, which would remedy that, instead of just having it play a small part in this already bloated one. But I think her connection with Bouncing Boy is pretty cute, so whatever. Speaking of bloated, here's Chameleon Boy. He's pretty much just Beast Boy, but I think the designs of his transformations are cool. However, he's literally just there. They need to quit spamming new characters before they've even fleshed out the initial roster, especially if they aren't even going to give the new ones ceremonious introductions. He's still cooler than Lightning Lad or Timber Wolf though, so if he wants to take their spotlight, be my guest. But I liked Superman X, Matter Eater Lad eating the Eye of Ekron was funny, and the second half with all the heroes and villains fighting in a prison was cool, so ultimately, good episode)
16. Cry Wolf - 3/5 (They sure took their sweet time to expand on Timber Wolf. I wouldn't say it's very interesting, but battling his inner demons is more of a personality than literal nothing, so props for doing the bare minimum. I liked that Phantom Girl was on his side though, since it kind of ties into their interactions in Phantoms. I'm rolling my eyes that they're trying to play Chameleon Boy up as one of his greatest friends though. He literally introduced last episode! Why is Superman X involved in this case though? He's here to take down Imperiex, it is his obsession. Surely he would consider an irrelevant criminal charge of a random Legionnaire a waste of time.)
17. Chained Lightning - 4/5 (For yet another episode about the Lightning Bros, this was surprisingly engaging. Obviously adding a little sister with a tragic backstory is an easy way to tug at the heartstrings, but it also made their rivarly a little more complex than "me hero, you villain, we rivals, grrr!". And Mekt switching sides to help save their sister was cute, so I guess this was worth his previous snoozefest episodes. Lightning Lad losing his arm sure was a thing that happened though. It's just played off like nothing but an upgrade. This is JUST like with Brainiac 5 in season 1.)
18. The Karate Kid - 4/5 (ANOTHER Legion tryout? Sure, just pile on the characters. Nemesis Kid being acceped with open arms but Karate Kid ostracized is pretty absurd. Sure, Nemesis' ability has advantages, but it's very situation-specific. What's he gonna do against villains whos powers are just brute strength, or technology, not some innate ability you can take away? Or threats that are not villains? He'd be just as screwed as Karate Kid. And yet he claims Karate Kid "lacks the powers to defend himself" because he wasn't able to run away from a bomb, which Nemesis Kid was only able to do because he had a flight ring, which is NOT relevant to his power? Give Karate Kid one and he'd be more capable than you, bud. This episode makes pretty good use of Chameleon Boy. It's more of a proper introduction to him. I liked him and Karate Kid as a brief duo. Anyway how would Superman, who's not even from this time, know where an underground fighting tournament is taking place?)
19. Who Am I? - 3/5 (Everything here is at least mildly interesting conceptually, but it fumbles around too much to be engaging. First Chameleon Boy is gonna be an undercover spy. Fun, I like Cham! Then he's gonna be made to think he's Persuader, which kind of ruins the fun of seeing HIM as a spy, but whatever. Then the real Persuader instantly escapes which drums interest back since seeing both have an identity crisis about it would be fun! But no, the Legion retrieves Cham and then it's just about turning him back to normal. And THEN it's about some nothing-villain being a spy disguised as Superman... Yeah. I did enjoy the reveal when he realized he wasn't Superman, but at the end of the day, he was too much of a nothing-character.)
20. Unnatural Alliances - 3/5 (The logistics of K3NT's plan is incredibly convoluted. After Superman X was believed to have failed, their next move was to send back an android in time to assasinate a kid who would grow up to invent the technology Imperiex uses for his armor. What? For starters, if they sent the android back a decade later, the whole moral qualms of harming a kid could've been avoided. But that aside, why couldn't they just send it back to assasinate Imperiex as a child, or change literally ANYTHING else that caused him to become a supervillain? Just free him from slavery. Superman X and Imperiex teaming up was still neat, so whatever.)
21. Message in a Bottle - 3/5 (There's an entire Kryptonian city intact and home to two million? So much for Superman being the last son of Krypton. And you're telling me in his entire lifetime, despite regularly shrinking himself to enter the city, he never discovered a way to unshrink it? Sure, okay. That aside, Superman and Brainiac 5 arguing was pretty interesting, particularly because of their "connected" past I.E. Brainiac and Krypton and all that. Also, fun cameo from the original Brainiac. Corey Burton. Shrinking Violet being HUGE was a pretty funny bit.)
22. In the Beginning - 3/5 (Legion origin episode. Sure, it's fun. I liked seeing the young original trio first meet and such. It's cute. But ultimately it's a bit awkwardly placed in the middle of this Imperiex arc, and I found it unnecessary to have the plot tie into the present. It would have probably been more enjoyable as a full flashback episode, particularly if we got to see how the other original members from s1 first joined. I liked the ending where it tied the Legion oath from the past into the present though.)
23. Trials - 3/5 (Well, for a Zyx episode, it was better than the first attempt. Superman X having to deal with his bratty nonsense is pretty amusing. Those trials were the breeziest challenges in the world, though. Give a monster its eggs, solve a riddle, and run out of a room. Although the third one was supposedly about teamwork, which makes no sense. What if someone goes it alone? Not to mention the only reason it required teamwork was because they took too long to just exit the room. If they were faster, they'd easily walk out without Superman X needing to hold the door.)
24. In Your Dreams - 3/5 (Lightling Lad doesn't trust Dream Girl because she used to...scam people with fake fortunes? Criminals have reformed into heroes for worse offenses than that. Anyway, I didn't care for the batch of characters used here, I mean Star Boy can barely be called one, but it had noticably good action. Especially the scene of the team flying away from a flood of lava, and trying to capture Dream Girl.)
25/26. Dark Victory - 4/5 (Imperiex wants to recruit Brainiac 5 now? Random. Superman X did hint that he had a dark history or whatever in his debut, but it was never acknowledged as something Imperiex desires, so it's a bit awkwardly introduced. Anyway, Imperiex being swiftly killed halfway through despite being built up as the big baddie of the season was pretty funny. Not that that's a bad thing, since Brainiac 5 going nuts is more interesting than some generic evil guy wanting to destroy the universe. Although most of it is still just Brainiac 5 generically wanting to "digitize" the universe, but that was still fun. Especially for the stuff with Brainiac 1.0 inside his head. The shot of Brainy strung up by his own wires was some body horror stuff. Yikes. Did he become human by overriding Brainiac 1.0's data though? What? Aside from that, I suppose the scene with Triplicate Girl's third self coming back was nice, but that was a pretty rushed nothing-arc. It should have been its own episode.)
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