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Alex White@apawhite.bsky.social |
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The algorithm was useful for once, here's an interesting video I just watched on the UK's recent troubles with not doing this properly: youtu.be/y6ADuQOXMmA
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When he uses the word 'business' I want to go full Inigo Montoya in him because I don't think he's ever done a single day of honest business in his life.
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Congratulations/so sorry that the ravages of time come for us all.
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I'm sure you've seen enough evenhanded material to know that in truth it's kinda irrelevant whether bombing Nagasaki resolved the conflict in the JPN council or not, because the Soviet march would have resolved it soon anyway. 200k dead civilians to prevent Soviet gains, not to win. Def. war crimes.
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Ah, so it's the perfect role for Wil Wheaton.
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Yeah, it's hard to make a good social media platform but this is definitely the kind of issue that will only grow as Bluesky succeeds, and unless the team wants to spend a lot more money on active moderation it just makes sense to let people defend themselves from this sort of harassment.
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You do realise that if you manage to get Trump elected again with this bullshit, they are literally going to murder you all, right? You managed to turn a Parkinson's research initiative into yet another (what are we up to, 300?) BS senility story about Biden while fascist Trump rambles incoherently.
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I was a fan of the idea that Wind Waker Link was trying to process almost-eldritch horrors like ReDeads through the eye of a brave but too-young kid, and bits like the Helmaroc King fight prep are still emphasised in badassery because he's a kid, but WW is almost always a miraculous exception IMO.
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I would sign up to whatever streaming service he wanted.
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Yeah, Biden almost explicitly acknowledged during the last election that he would have 3.5 years to get a successor set up, and then I don't think I EVER saw Harris get the publicity that he himself had when he was Obama's VP; & that's not even touching them constantly Lucying the progress football.
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I went over to the hellsite (mainly to enjoy UK progressives sort of finishing up the cheering over election results) and was stunned to see how many US progressives there are obsessing over Biden's fitness just when they need to close ranks. The civil war has been declared and they're not ready.
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Yeah, the fact that it goes "Oh yeah even in an ideal scenario, the awful people slaughter the nice folks and take power for a bit" is very grim and also shows the limitation, since the cheaters here limit themselves to the game instead of taking everything.
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I was going to go for the same quote. Such an all-star cast and performance, but nothing can quite match the delivery of that line.
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Muse's version of Feeling Good is always fun, but I have to give my personal recommendation to Infected Mushroom's cover of The Pretender: youtu.be/_oAutLYMOgk
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In earlier D&D versions good bows generally needed both unless they were magic elven ones. Your aiming skill was dex-based but there was a hard strength requirement. One of the many things arguably oversimplified in 5e (I could rant for ages about knowledge and performance checks in 5e.)
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Please take enough rest, we don't want you to injure your hand!
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Do you like aquariums, and if so which critter is your favourite to see in person?
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If she wanted to claim otherwise on the 1A thing that would be fine, but instead she derails the conversation instantly. I wonder if she's a bad people person or whether this was actually a success for her. Either way, mildly entertaining for me and now she's blocked. I hope you're doing okay!
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Jeez. She went completely wild in those replies. Starts off with rude ad hominems, tells anyone who tries to politely correct her that they're fools for falling for your programming/facade/grift (it shifts as people point out you're obviously a real person), claims she ISN'T anti-SW despite above...
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Even 'in a court of law,' the accused might be stuck in jail awaiting trial because although they're legally innocent, they could do real harm in the meantime if they're found guilty. Outside that process, nobody's going to wait potentially years if there's enough evidence for us already.
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They may have taken up a lot of your time over the years, but you seem to have raised three fantastic people.
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Oh that's fantastic news. I was worried that he would lose because he held onto Labour until the last minute and e.g. some postal votes were entered before people even knew he was standing as an independent.
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Yeah, and many Lib Dems give the impression of just being the 'nicer' elites. Still, Ed Davey did run for LD leader on a specific 'no working with the Tories' platform, and my MP Layla Moran was reelected again yesterday and she's Palestinian-British and pan, and pretty alright. Vs Starmer's crew..?
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Heat pumps get better than 100% coefficient of performance because they don't create heat, they move it around. It depends on your local situation whether your prices reflect reality, or whether fossil fuels continue to be subsidised and allowed to disguise their costs.
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Just like in the movie, the British have waited for an example from the Americans before we realised we had to boot out the planet-destroying monsters (Tories).
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If I can't figure out how to boil more water, about six days judging by the "three days without water" adage.
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All these loser 'journalists' don't seem to realise that Trump will only need one Der Sturmer if he retakes power and then they're going to be in the exact same place as all the other quislings. The math is sliiightly different for Israelis, but... do they really think Trump will fund the Iron Dome?
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And there's no maths, English or history classes at Hogwarts, so we should assume there aren't any in pre-Hogwarts either, and it's astonishing they even trust kids to be able to use textbooks. But, I suppose magical children are already the Elite so they're just born more capable than that...
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And that's before you get to the pages with atypical dimensions!
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I hate that they want to put 6G in cities when you can't even get a reliable 4G everywhere else.
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On a day where Hadestown's Why We Build The Wall seems particularly evocative, it's nice to switch over to Our Lady of the Underground instead.
youtu.be/RH3tSA3xFHA
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I can't believe you did your homework that one time.
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We all need a well-meaning but confused older relative to send us a bag of spoons.
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It helps that they read things other than Twitter and respect scientific research more than wishful thinking.
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And those six SCOTUS justices are clearly accomplices, so they're presumably fair game too. Presidents have drone-struck civilians for less.
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One day in November 1997 a family friend took his young daughter and her friends to see a new sci-fi film at the cinema for her birthday, and didn't pay much attention to the fact that it was rated R. That movie was Starship Troopers. The partygoers made it to the brain bug scene before they fled.
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The highest court in America is deleting and rewriting whatever laws don't sufficiently appease white supremacists and corporations because Biden didn't react to the reality of his term, and there's no obvious successor for this election because he isn't progressive, he just thinks Trump is uncouth.
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I'm sure the rest of Microsoft's executives are thrilled to hear that everything Microsoft have ever put online is free for everyone to use.
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She looks like she swallowed a baseball!
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The FDA let the USA jump from comically bad to world-leading in food safety, and then over the course of a century terrible people gnawed away at it like fucking Nidhogg.
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I'm in the UK but literally I have only once had COVID since the beginning, and that was this May when I went to a friend's wedding unmasked to avoid confrontation. Masking with an N95/FFP2 works.
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So many delightful dings and fire noises.
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So cool! Nice work finding a pose and angle for something like this that looks natural and expressive while looking good to the viewer.
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Did you ever see Lindsay Ellis' videos on the lawsuit debacles a few years back? It was SO delightfully messy. youtu.be/zhWWcWtAUoY
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Then he violently tries to railroad his friends into being controlled by the UN Security Council (AFTER the whole Hydra-in-SHIELD thing, when seemingly no regulations were put in place to prevent repeat capture of govt administrations by Nazis) because "we" can't go off half-cocked like that again.
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For when you want to try to assassinate Uma Thurman in a shack in the desert.
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Also, maybe make sure the dude with "Sleepy" as his main obstacle to overcome has a nap an hour or two beforehand and then a good coffee do he's performing better than average at the event.
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It's difficult to tell, since Biden decided primaries are for squares, but much like here in the UK the system seems to have been captured by boring conservatives at this point.
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Yeah, or since e.g. all our EM emissions fall off sharply over space, maybe advanced alien species just don't bother sending out signals for primitive species to receive and wait for new additions to the community that figure out dark energy pulse transmission or something like that.
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