Heretek

Soaking wet: -3

The only recipe that calls for a single clove of garlic is the recipe for a single clove of garlic.

New electricity levy ‘not a tax’, Luxon says, as Hipkins chides ‘another kick’ for households The Government has short-listed possible proposals for a liquefied natural gas import facility.

How much solar or wind infrastructure could we build for $1B?

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

But the people listed in that column are just *key* employees. It only seems to list the executive leadership, directors, etc, not every phone operator or admin person.

But isn't that $2.5 mil specifically not going to the Directors? It's *other* wages, so doesn't that mean it's paying the employees?

I'm not trying to be difficult, I just don't see what this proves.

Compensation breakdown from the filing linked above.

Okay. This could just be because I'm not familiar with American tax filings, but I don't see where this claim that four people are getting millions is coming from. The only compensation I see is this, and that's not even $500k.

Source? Not that I don't believe you, but I wasn't aware of anything shady about Trans Lifeline, and a quick search only turns up some stuff from 2018 about the original founders, who are no longer there.

I would suggest transitioning to "not using generative AI, due to the environmental and social costs of the technology" but you do you.

Crossing L Street: destination mini-mart (source: Grok AI)

Tyson Foods, Lexington, Nebraska (source: Grok AI)

You used the CSA image generator for pictures in your article? That's a hard pass from me, pal.

I assume because it's expensive to pay people to work the phones on those days and they're funded by grassroots donations.

(Also that justification doesn't really fly, because even if you used your own work to be animates, the AI still had to steal the walk cycle, dynamic lighting, etc from somewhere)

A 3D sculptor I follow did one of those trends where they use AI to have the mini step off its base and walk around, saying it was okay because it was their model being used.

People got very annoyed when myself and others pointed out that this was still bad, even if you feed your own work into it.

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Talking about building a Dyson sphere is the same as talking about humanity colonising other star systems: it requires a complete lack of understanding of the scales involved.

I'm giving away TEN Collector Booster Boxes of Lorwyn Eclipsed!

I'm giving TEN PEOPLE each one box of Collector Boosters from Lorwyn as a thank you for donating to Trans Lifeline!

Just donate in multiples of $4.00 to @translifeline.org until Feb 7 at 10am PST!

Donate--> give.translifeline.org/tcc

Unemployment at 5.4% (including my good self, thanks to the cuts demanded of the public service) but Luxon has the gall to deliver a "state of the nation" about how well they're managing the economy.

Ceci n'est pas une watermark

Wow! This sucks!

I don't have 'Legion' to hand, but IIRC it mentions that the Astartes playing Alpharius (captain of the Terminators, I think?) gets the role because he's big enough to pass for the Primarch and resembles him closely. Which certainly implies that there are AL for whom that is *not* the case.

This is the crux of it, for me. The "lore" has always been whatever GW says it is. Otherwise these dickheads should be asking where the deoderant-stick tanks and human/Eldar hybrids went.

It's not 1984 come true when a company changes a piece of their IP.

Makes you look childish, though, like assuming someone voted third party. Or that they voted at all.

Why do you feel the need to do the "incomPETEnt" thing, anyway? You're on BlueSky, we all know he sucks.

Yes, that's the important thing, here.

As far as the battlemap goes, a dry-erase hex grid mat would probably do the job, too.

Small wins are still wins

Just published an essay on this

www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

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Vigil outside the US Embassy tomorrow in Pōneke.

ICE has no legitimate law enforcement goals.

Don't remind me about Conquest, I have a whole Old Dominion starter staring at me from the cabinet, waiting for paint!

In my defence, I couldn't resist "Undead Byzantine Empire" as a theme, even though I knew I there were about two other players locally and it wasn't a primary game for any of us 😅

I'll be better tomorrow (he won't)