Dragon Jumper is a beast (25 mana, Fog of War and Up Close & Personal rule sets).

I’ve been wondering about what effects the upcoming rule changes might have on Splinterlands strategies. It’s quite likely that using Gold Foil cards (I currently own only 13 of them) in battles will become increasingly optimal. But beyond that, what else?

Resource Credits on Hive:

@edicted has several times discussed the (currently understated) value of Resource Credits and @dalz recently wondered about a tool for tracking RC costs. I’ve got a bit of anecdotal evidence that RC costs are on a tear, based on my claimings of Account Creation Tokens. I try to claim them fairly consistently but I do sometimes hit 100%. A while back (a year or so ago?), whenever it hit 100% I was usually able to claim six or sometimes even seven ACT’s at a time. Yesterday, I was a bit short of having enough RC’s to claim three of them, was only able to nab two. Even though I have more vests than a year ago. This suggests that the value of Resource Credits has been steadily increasing.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Biden invokes Defense Production Act to boost baby formula manufacturing to ease shortage

Now things are getting serious: Germany beer bottle shortage: Industry warns of ‘tense’ situation

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

CDC urges people to mask where COVID is spiking

Pfizer Documents Show Vaccine Is Highly Effective, Contrary to Social Media Posts

Politics:

Finland and Sweden want to join NATO but Turkey is effectively blackballing them with dead-on-arrival demands. This suggests that NATO’s system of consensus for admitting new members is a mistake and that having a supermajority voting process could be a better idea. And does NATO have procedures for ejecting members? It may have made sense to have Turkey as a member to help contain the USSR, but does it make as much sense in the 21st century? Turkey’s only just barely a democracy; maybe that’s just not good enough anymore.

Doctors in Alabama Already Turn Away Miscarrying Patients. This Will Be Our New Normal Across the Country.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "The greatest choice a woman can make is becoming a mother."

So… it IS a choice.

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) May 17, 2022

The State Behind Roe’s Likely Demise Also Does the Least for New Parents in Need

When it comes to reproductive care, Mississippi has a dual distinction. The state spawned the law that likely will lead to the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade. It is also unique among Deep South states for doing the least to provide health care coverage to low-income people who have given birth.

This is how democracy dies.

German ex-leader Schroeder loses privileges over Russia ties

Putin Ally Eyes Decimated Ukrainian City for ‘Resort Business’

Hey kids, let’s go to Mariupol Funland!

Russia claims it’s using new laser weapons against Ukraine

Russian Soldier Pleads Guilty to War Crime

A 21-year-old Russian tank-unit officer pleaded guilty to shooting an unarmed civilian in Ukraine’s first war-crimes trial since Russia’s invasion of the country.

MyPillow Guy Gets Indicted MAGA Clerk In Even More Trouble

Colorado Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a hardline Trumper who’s been indicted over an election systems data leak that surfaced at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s “Cyber Symposium,” is facing yet another ethics investigation — and she has her buddy Lindell to thank for that.

Australia election: How climate is making Australia more unliveable

U.S. accuses casino tycoon Wynn of acting as Chinese agent

Russia Purging Some Senior Commanders

China’s Internet Censors Try a New Trick: Revealing Users’ Locations

Can You Even Call Deadly Heat ‘Extreme’ Anymore?

For a few years, I’ve startled people by pointing out that over half of all of the emissions from the burning of fossil fuels that have ever been produced in the history of humanity have been produced in the past 30 years — since Al Gore published his first book on warming; since the U.N. established its climate-change body, the I.P.C.C.; since the premiere of ‘Friends.’
But it is perhaps even more astonishing to consider just how fast the temperature is rising. As recently as 2015, the 10-year average of global temperatures showed, according to the I.P.C.C., warming of 0.87 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average. Just five years later, it had jumped to 1.09 — 25 percent higher in half a decade.

Trump uses Pennsylvania primary to continue effort to undermine electoral system.

Serendipity:

”Flash droughts” are Midwest’s next big climate threat

The Birth of the Egghead Paperback

Yet another reason to not live in Florida.

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