Stupid Noob Splinterlands Question:

How much power does it take to advance to Bronze II? I’m currently at 185 after having bought just a few cards. Also, what are some good reasonably priced cards to buy to increase that power number and aid in the advance through the Bronze levels?

Edit: Duh, I now see that I need to get my power to 1,000.

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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

New ATH renews faith in PlanB’s prediction of $98K BTC by December

Will Bitcoin Win When the Fed Stops Buying Bonds?

Brave to integrate with Solana blockchain on its privacy-enabled browser

Stay-at-home stocks are imploding as the world reopens

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Singapore halts free COVID treatment for people “unvaccinated by choice”

A sobering poll on the GOP’s embrace of coronavirus misinformation.

North Dakota Lawmaker Who Organized Anti-Vaccine Rally Gets Covid

Rep. Jeff Hoverson says he tested positive for COVID-19 and won't be attending a Monday, Nov. 8, rally against vaccine mandates that he helped plan.
The Republican lawmaker from Minot told The Forum that he tested positive on Friday, Nov. 5, and that he is taking ivermectin tablets prescribed for humans, which are designed to treat parasitic worms.

Germany’s likely government prepares new rules to handle rampant coronavirus

Politics:

Rep. Paul Gosar tweets photoshopped anime video showing him killing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden

AOC Slams Paul Gosar for Fantasy Clip of Him Killing Her

“While I was en route to Glasgow, a creepy member I work with who fundraises for Neo-Nazi groups shared a fantasy video of him killing me.”
“This dude is a just a collection of wet toothpicks anyway. White supremacy is for extremely fragile people & sad men like him, whose self concept relies on the myth that he was born superior because deep down he knows he couldn’t open a pickle jar or read a whole book by himself.”

House Select Committee Subpoenas 6 Trump Aides

Texas Abortion Law May Offer Roadmap to Ban Guns

As the Supreme Court weighs a ruling on Texas’ new abortion law after Monday’s oral arguments, an unlikely ally is throwing its weight behind the law’s opponents: gun rights advocates worried that Texas may have come up with a way for states to nullify constitutional rights with impunity.

Be careful what you ask for.

Donald Trump had four years to fix our "rigged" election system but didn't do it because he was too busy not building the wall, not repealing Obamacare, not fighting COVID-19, not bringing back manufacturing, and not making America great again.#StopTheSqueal

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) November 8, 2021

Capitol Rioter Seeks Asylum In Belarus

The Man Behind the Man Behind January 6: The story of Johnny McEntee—the “deputy president” who made the disastrous last days of the Trump administration possible

When Trump wasn’t happy with the answers he was getting from White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, McEntee set up a rogue legal team. This back-channel operation played a previously unknown role in the effort to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the vote. Just days before January 6, McEntee sent Pence’s office an absurd memo making the case that Pence would be following Thomas Jefferson’s example if he used his power to declare Trump the winner of the 2020 election.
More than anyone else in the White House, McEntee was Trump’s man through and through—a man who rose to power at precisely the moment when American democracy was falling apart.

Crisis brews in Bosnia as U.S., EU stand by

The Senate’s year-end to-do list is ‘going to be a train wreck’

Serendipity:

Missing teen rescued after using hand gesture from TikTok

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