With the Equalizer rule set and 16 mana, life leech comes in handy:

It’s just anecdotal evidence of course, but I’ve recently found that a Dragon/Water combination when summoned by Delwyn Dragonscale can be very powerful. For example, a Dragon/Water versus Water Splinterlands battle.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Dormant Bitcoin wallet holding 321 BTC activated after eight years

Why Portfolio Managers Will Need to Look at Altcoins in 2022

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Too Early to Say Omicron Is ‘Mild’

Time and again throughout this pandemic, TV talking heads, politicians and many others have gotten tripped up on the simple and immutable fact that hospitalizations lag infection. It can take weeks for an infection to progress to the point where the patient needs to be hospitalized. Omicron burst onto the scene only four weeks ago. Not enough time has passed for us to have a firm grip on disease severity.
Again that’s because of math: When a variant spreads extremely rapidly, as omicron seems to do, it can send false signals of reassurance on disease severity.

France reports more than 100,000 COVID-19 infections for first time

Politics:

Putin to mull options if West refuses guarantees on Ukraine

Let me guess: pulling out of Crimea somehow did not make it onto the list for consideration as an option?

Biden may face midterm reckoning on Supreme Court reform

The Low-and-Slow Approach to Food Safety Reform Keeps Going Up in Smoke

Puerto Rico’s shattered power grid could become a ‘big experiment’ for Biden

Russian Citizens Are Now Being Prepped for Nuclear War

Just blatant psyop. When there turns out to be no nuclear war, Putin can be praised for avoiding a nuclear war. That wasn’t going to happen anyway.

Intel apologizes over its Xinjiang statement

Serendipity:

The key to Bhutan’s happiness

2021’s climate disasters revealed an east-west weather divide, with one side of the country too wet, the other dangerously dry

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