Lester

The us or them mentality is beyond ridiculous when applied to a 5 year old child.

"Okay, but why?"

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

I need to farm promotion mats now, *sigh

Concept art of Laevatain from Endfield

Last possible pull before the banner rotated through and I managed to luck out 20 before Pity and got Laevatain!

Endfield gods be praised

#endfield

As my friend Ard mentioned here, I am actually Chinese Canadian and I have tried those flavours! I'll say the hotpot one is too heavy on the salt for me, and the salted duck egg is a very close good facsimilie on salty duck egg, but at least in Canada it's too expensive, like 6 bucks for a bag.

These are my 'cheap chip' go tos!

Hah I'm actually Canadian and have grown up eating all dressed chips. I like them just fine but don't go out of my way to get them

I like the way you think!

Oh trust me I'm finishing the bag!

I do love salt and vinegar it's true, but those chips hurt me haha

Also a very solid flavour. I think it's the sour cream tang that I want to go with the salt really!

I'm convinced that a sign of getting old is how I keep buying new and fancy potato chip flavours, getting 1/3rd of the way through the bag and realizing I actually just want sour cream and onion.

Right? Someone give me a studio job so I can support another gacha habit.

U.S., Russia agree to re-establish military-to-military dialogue following Ukraine talks | CBC News The U.S. and Russia has agreed to re-establish high-level military dialogue for the first time in more than four years in another sign of warming relations between the two countries since U.S. Preside...

It is a little wild to see this article from CBC on the exact same day the START agreement between Russia and the US against weapons proliferation expired.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Rich and powerful people quite literally believed they'd get away with it through a playbook of disinformation, narrative control, media outlet ownership, political interference, and more.

And every time we close our eyes to the realities of survivor stories, we are proving them right.

Far beyond 'sex slaves' and 'sex trafficking' which are already demonstrably bad. But the sheer enormity of what the elites quite literally got away with is an evil that can barely be comprehended.

The systemic coverup for their evils and how they enabled that

It's something we need to reckon with

I've been browsing a reddit thread where people are discussing the 'worst files they've found', and some of the conclusions drawn are absolutely horrifying. And those brave posters/observers are the ones recording file numbers and links.

I get that there's a large segment of the population waiting to hear the 'results' of the Epstein files, such as they are, limited in release as they have been.

But I urge you to go and read some of it yourself. Like really read them.

A legend for true

I need this

Man started a fight with a high school girl and a bunch of teenagers defended her, and proceeded to beat the stuffing out of him.

Rightly.

My deepest condolences to you and your family, friend.

I hope wherever she is, she can see the effect of what she taught me and how I'm a professional writer now too. Chasing dreams and creating worlds at a keyboard because she gave me gentle first steps forward into being inspired.

Yes! Knute is her son!

I actually read it twice in that span (following Dandin and Mariel first and then later reading through Joseph's story).
She was so impressed I read it in a week that she gave me Mossflower and Redwall next.

Rest in Peace Mrs. Rokne.

When she decided not to read it anymore, she leant it to me because I was enraptured.

I spent the rest of the week and the weekend right after, plowing through the entire book, something like 350 pages.

She used to read to my class for a half hour every day, a variety of books. One day, she read to us Brian Jacques' Bellmaker. The class did not like it, or more accurately the class couldn't really follow along and fell asleep here and there, but I loved the book.

I have just learned that my Grade 3 teacher, Mrs. Rokne has passed away. She was extremely beloved in my elementary and personally, she is basically entirely responsible for my love of fantasy books.

This is beyond infuriating and demonstrates how everyone should really consider their exit strats away from SAAS systems...

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

"my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind."

YEAH NO SHIT.

Even academics can be really really fucking stupid.

#noAI

www.nature.com/articles/d41...