in Skull and Bones‚ upon unlocking the medium ships‚ you’ll gain access to all weapon slots‚ meaning you’ll have to make some pretty tough decisions. Here are the best weapons for each slot. Naturally‚ each weapon has upgraded variants‚ so try to have the best possible upgrade for the weapons that you assign to your ship. I’ll simply be going over the class of weapons that you’ll want. Loadout Overview This loadout has been curated to be the best as it not only allows you to seriously get the jump on opponents‚ but it also keeps punishing them with Flooding damage‚ allowing any battle of attrition to go your way. I believe the best offence in Skull and Bones is one you’ve started long before the enemy has‚ so this loadout will allow you to not only get the jump on your foes‚ but also punish them for not predicting your arrival. Best Broadside Weapon in Skull and Bones Basilisks or Culverns Your Broadside weapons are the ones you’...

Infinite Craft features a truly staggering number of combinations and creations for players to discover. Ranging from Metal to Peter Griffin‚ there’s a seemingly never-ending set of discoveries to make. Electricity is involved in several of those crafting recipes‚ but making Electricity in the first place is harder than it sounds. Infinite Craft Electricity Recipe Screenshot: PC Invasion Thankfully‚ the process of creating Electricity in Infinite Craft is fairly straightforward and only requires a few combinations. To make Electricity‚ you need to combine a Windmill and a Storm. The image above shows the tree of combinations that lead to Electricity‚ but you can also see the exact steps to follow below. How to Make a Storm in Infinite Craft To create a Storm in Infinite Craft‚ follow these steps. Fire + Water = Steam Steam + Steam = Cloud Cloud + Cloud = Rail Rain + Wind = Storm How to Make a Windmill in Infinite Craft To create a Windmill in In...

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Families across the country are struggling with the high cost of gas‚ groceries‚ and rent. Now they can add one more financial hardship to the list: the cost of college. The Biden administration is doing everything it can to make college more expensive. President Joe Biden’s various schemes to cancel student loan debt are burdening working taxpayers who could not—or chose not to—go to college by forcing them to pay someone else’s loan. The “forgiveness” proposals are a boon to wealthy universities and graduate students‚ perhaps some of the most privileged people on the planet. Student loan cancellation has understandably drawn the ire of working Americans who are already struggling with inflation and are now being insulted and financially burdened with a bill for someone else’s gender studies degree. But a forthcoming change to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)—set in motion in late 2020 as a priority of then-Sen. Lamar Alexander‚ R-Tenn.—will hit families sooner. It’s a discrete change to something known as the “expected family contribution‚” which could balloon the price of college for families with more than one child. Starting next year (applications for the 2024-25 academic year)‚ families with more than one child in college could face significantly higher costs than in previous years. The expected family contribution dictates the size of Pell Grants for eligible students‚ is used to determine institutional aid and is the guideline for other subsidies a student might receive to offset the cost of college‚ such as subsidized student loans and work-study programs. Access to these subsidies is determined in part through the expected family contribution section of the FAFSA and is calculated as the difference between a student’s anticipated cost of attendance (tuition‚ living expenses‚ etc.) and what his family is likely to be able to contribute to help pay that cost. Notably‚ as Wellesley College’s Phillip Levine explains‚ the current expected family contribution formula “is reduced proportionally to the number of that student’s siblings who are enrolled in college.” But the new Student Affordability Index‚ as the expected family contribution will now be known‚ eliminates that sibling discount for families. In other words‚ if‚ based on the current expected family contribution‚ a family was estimated to be able to contribute $10‚000 per year to their child’s tuition‚ their expected contribution would be reduced to $5‚000 if that student also had a sibling in college at the same time—which makes sense. As any parent (or third grader who can add and subtract) knows‚ having to pay two college tuitions simultaneously likely means families have less to contribute to each individual child’s college costs. The Wall Street Journal reported on data calculated by the Brookings Institution‚ which found that “a family with $150‚000 in income with two children in college would see eligibility for aid at private colleges fall $12‚600 in a year.” The Journal continues: Iowa College Aid‚ a state agency‚ simulated the impact of this change on a dependent student from a family of four with $60‚000 in income and a farm net worth of $1 million. Under the new formula‚ the amount they would be expected to pay for the child’s college would increase to $41‚056 from $7‚626. As the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney put it‚ “The new system basically tells the second child‚ ‘Sorry‚ Bud.’” To compound the problem‚ the Biden administration’s rollout of the new FAFSA form has been a complete disaster. As higher education scholar Preston Cooper notes‚ the Department of Education was three months behind schedule with the launch‚ introduced an accounting error that undercounted the cost of student aid by $2 billion‚ and made the form available for as short as 30 minutes per day‚ during which time “students reported constant glitches and lockouts.” Cooper reports that‚ as a result‚ just 16% of high school seniors had submitted their FAFSA by January‚ compared with the roughly 40% that is typical. A combination of bad policies in recent years now means Americans are being forced to pay off other people’s student loans while getting hit at the same time with a forthcoming large-family penalty. And colleges rub salt in the wound through a leftist monoculture that mocks the very idea of strong nuclear families‚ branding the two-parents-married family as perpetrators of “white heteropatriarchal family supremacy.” It’s long past time for Congress to cut off the open spigot of federal aid to higher education. Recent moves go in the opposite direction‚ further burdening already overburdened taxpaying families. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post Change to Financial Aid Formula Would Hurt Families With 2 Students in College at Same Time appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Never call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” They are every bit as liberal and biased as their fans in the liberal media. Recently‚ they announced they had published their 1‚000th “fact-check” of former President Donald Trump. “American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump’s disregard for factual accuracy‚” they proclaimed. “Ever since he descended the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015‚ we have encountered a fire hose of claims.” In those 1‚000 checks‚ PolitiFact tagged Trump on their “Truth-O-Meter” as “Mostly False‚” “False” or “Pants on Fire” in 757 of them (75.7%). Trump was found “True” or “Mostly True” in only 121 checks (12.1%). Former President Barack Obama is currently in second in the “fact-check” count with 603. PolitiFact was founded in 2007‚ when Obama was running for president. Donald Trump was a real estate developer until 2015. But look at the difference in “Truth” ratings. Almost half of Obama’s checks were “True” or “Mostly True”—289 of them (48%). Only 143 (or 25%) were “Mostly False” or worse. Obama has been rated “Pants on Fire” nine times. Trump’s been found flammable 185 times. Hillary Rodham Clinton came in third with 301 checks. She has an even better “True” side percentage—148 out of 301 (49.1%). Only 83 (26.5%) landed on the “False” side‚ and only nine “Pants on Fire” warnings. President Joe Biden is fourth with 286 checks. He hasn’t been blessed with the magic that the other two top Democrats have. Since 2007‚ he was on the “True” side on 80 occasions (33.2%) and on the “False” side in 121 articles (42.3%). He has only seven “Pants on Fire” ratings over more than 16 years‚ and just one as president. Trump has drawn seven “Pants on Fire” ratings since last June. So‚ it was comical when Molly Olmstead at the leftist website Slate.com celebrated the Trump 1‚000 by wondering how a team “so diligently committed to the cause of fighting misinformation with data and passionless expertise‚ how it feels to operate in a world where objective truth seems to matter so little.” Objective? Passionless? That’s not what the numbers say. The numbers strongly suggest “selection bias.” PolitiFact senior correspondent Louis Jacobson deserves a “Mostly False” for claiming: “We’re not trying to push any kind of agenda. We just want to provide people who are open-minded enough with information that we think can be helpful for understanding politics.” When pressed‚ Jacobson will say their Truth-O-Meter isn’t like a scientific instrument. It runs on human opinion. He told the Texas Standard‚ “We do check things that we find significant‚ notable‚ interesting to us.” On that scale‚ Trump’s almost four times more “interesting” than Biden. The conservatives and Republicans are far more “interesting” than Democrats. Biden can say the Republicans are “Jim Crow 2.0″ segregationists‚ and PolitiFact naps. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas can pronounce “the border is secure‚” and it’s crickets. MSNBC host Ali Velshi can say Trump and the Republicans “want to let fewer brown people in‚” and they want immigration to be “the most painful process possible.” Free pass! Nothing “notable” in these statements. But when Elon Musk speculates Biden’s border strategy is to “get as many illegals in the country as possible” and “legalize them to create a permanent majority‚” he gets flagged as “False.” PolitiFact’s archives easily undermine their claims that they’re just here to help give citizens the “information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.” It’s more like they dole out the information Democrats need to stay in charge of the government. COPYRIGHT 2024 TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY LLC Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post PolitiFact Celebrates ‘Fact-Checking’ Trump 1‚000 Times; Obama‚ Biden Not So Much appeared first on The Daily Signal.

San Francisco wants federal taxpayers to help cover the more than $423 million it spent housing approximately 5‚000 homeless people in hotels and other “non-congregate” facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The total cost per homeless person housed by San Francisco during the pandemic was $84‚600‚ according to data reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco city officials had expected the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse the city $190 million for housing homeless people during COVID-19‚ however‚ due to a rule change‚ the city could be on the hook for the spending. San Francisco and other cities across California housed the homeless in hotels during the pandemic to aid with social distancing and reduce COVID-19 transmission. FEMA said in October 2023 that it would not reimburse local governments for many hotel stays that lasted more than 20 days between June 2021 and May 2023‚ the San Francisco Chronicle reported. City officials say FEMA’s move not to reimburse some hotel stays longer than 20 days “pose[s] a significant potential risk” to San Francisco’s budget. San Francisco Mayor London Breed‚ a Democrat‚ said the city’s budget deficit could reach $1 billion by the 2028 fiscal year‚ according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Some city officials have called FEMA’s policy change unfair. San Francisco City Controller Ben Rosenfield characterized FEMA’s actions as an “impermissible retroactive law” and claimed that the agency never mentioned its 20-day limit during the pandemic‚ the San Francisco Chronicle reported. “As the pandemic continued to evolve and health regulations per [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidance changed‚ FEMA adjusted its policies to meet CDC guidance‚” a FEMA spokesperson told the Daily Caller New Foundation. “FEMA is committed to working with each impacted jurisdiction on all requests for federal funding to maximize reimbursement for the appropriate life saving measures they implemented to protect their citizens from COVID-19‚ while also ensuring the appropriate oversight of federal funds‚” the spokesperson continued. San Francisco officials are prepared to fight for federal reimbursements. “We intend to explore every option available to appeal any claims denied by FEMA Region 9 that we believe to be eligible for reimbursement‚ based on the guidance in effect at the time‚” Rosenfield said. Regardless of whether San Francisco succeeds in making FEMA reimburse its hotel spending‚ taxpayers will foot the bill. City taxpayers will be on the hook if San Francisco pays and federal taxpayers will be if FEMA does. San Francisco managed to clear out homeless encampments in some of its neighborhoods ahead of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to the city in November. San Francisco is not the only city racking up large bills putting homeless people in hotels. Los Angeles mulled spending $250 million on acquiring a luxury hotel‚ as well as eight motels‚ to house the homeless in May 2023. Other Democrat-run cities across the country‚ like Chicago and New York‚ are facing budgetary strain due to the ongoing migrant crisis and have also appealed to the federal government for financial assistance. The San Francisco Mayor and Controller’s offices did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post San Francisco Spent Massive Amount of Taxpayer Dollars to House Homeless During Pandemic appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties‚ subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Australia’s authorities are once again putting pressure on social media‚ X this time‚ threatening that the company will face big fines and “big trouble” in general – unless “mis- and dis-” information is censored. And‚ it is Australia’s new laws‚ when they come into force this year‚ that will represent the legal grounds for such actions. The fines would run up to $3 million or 2 percent of annual turnover for “voluntary code of conduct” violations‚ and $7.8 million or 5 percent of annual turnover in case of lack of compliance with the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) “standards.” This transpires from an article published by the Financial Review‚ citing Communications Minister Michelle Rowland‚ while the motive behind her last crusade is described as “a litany of issues” now allegedly plaguing X. Rowland went all over the place to accuse X of “not doing enough” – from Taylor Swift deep fakes‚ to what’s likely a key point of contention – the platform’s decision to reinstate some 6‚000 accounts of users previously banned by Twitter. The thinking here seems to be that if the threat is made ahead of time‚ X will “align” better with Australia’s politics and agree to once again plunge itself into mass censorship. The laws Rowland mentioned were drafted in 2023 with the aim of giving broader powers to the Australian Communications and Media Authority‚ specifically “to combat mis- and disinformation online‚” the article said. The upcoming legislation seeks to produce two effects – the tech industry subjecting itself to a formally voluntary code of conduct‚ and after this “carrot” comes the stick in the shape of the ACMA’s new powers‚ fines and punishment‚ if ACMA’s unhappy with how the code is adhered to. Rowland added that X at this time “isn’t even covered by a voluntary industry code.” The reason is that X was removed from the code after it stopped the practice of flagging content running against (Twitter’s) “civic integrity policy.” Elsewhere in Australia’s media scene‚ some are asking why the country’s government “hates Elon Musk.” “It is about $300 million that Musk owes the Australian government so far‚” wondered Sky News host James Macpherson. And by “owes” – he meant‚ the fines Australia has tried collecting from X even before the latest threats. The post Australia’s Communications Minister Threatens X With “Big Trouble” if It Doesn’t Censor “Misinformation” appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties‚ subscribe to Reclaim The Net. As our workplaces continue to integrate with digital technology‚ employee privacy might be at a higher risk than ever before. Significant American corporations‚ like Walmart‚ Delta Air Lines‚ T-Mobile‚ Chevron‚ and Starbucks‚ have reportedly enlisted the services of the Ohio-based tech startup‚ Aware. This firm uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze employee communications through popular apps such as Slack‚ Microsoft Teams‚ and Zoom. The invasion of worker privacy happening is no longer mere conjecture. Known insights about a company’s staff that were previously gained through annual or twice-per-year surveys have been replaced by ongoing monitoring of employee messages via AI. Jeff Schumann‚ co-founder and CEO of Aware‚ claimed to CNBC‚ the purpose is to help businesses “understand the risk within their communications.” He suggests companies gain an understanding of employee sentiment towards any new corporate initiatives or marketing campaigns in real-time. The AI models developed by Aware are designed to scrutinize text and interpret images‚ supposedly identifying potential issues such as bullying‚ harassment‚ discrimination‚ or even general “toxicity.” However‚ the company’s surveillance does not stop there. The analytics tool also monitors the overall mood of the workforce. Although this all seems disconcertingly intrusive‚ Schumann alleges that the tool is incapable of singling out individual employees. However‚ there is an exception. The eDiscovery tool‚ separate from the primary analytics tool‚ will reveal private information under extreme circumstances predetermined by the company. The use of these surveillance tools has reportedly been adopted by brands beyond the United States‚ including European companies such as Nestle and AstraZeneca. Approximately 80% of Aware’s operation involves aiding firms in governance risk and compliance‚ according to Schumann. The post AI Is Inflaming Workplace Surveillance appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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