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@monsterhunter45 @jmgwritten No, no. I need to hear from a literary critic what you meant, I can't trust your own words about your own reasoning. Probably a lot of hidden meanings in there, like "Communism is good actually".

@jmgwritten You are so profoundly wrong. Very specifically, every fantasy race I took from Europe, I set them up here as IMMIGRANT GROUPS. And note that all of them adapted in different ways. That was exactly American, by design, on purpose. And I say that as the dude who wrote it.

Dresden: American characters =\= "Americana". The fantasy aspects are all European MHI: super duper American characters, but again, tangled in European folklore A Connecticut Yankee in WHOSE court again? Never heard of the last one, so I'll take your word for it though

@Grummz Being single player I think is the great strength here. It's not "OMG I'm going to fall behind if I don't put in 3 hours a day" nonsense that everything has become.

Crimson Desert is entering a strong weekend with 206k players. Imagine how much more it would have been if Game Journalists hadn't tried to kill it. I have about 30 hours into Crimson Desert and it's probably one of my all time favs. Wish I had more time to play.

@DJSnM Huh, I'm a reasonably proficient space nerd and hadn't heard the term "sodium layer" before. @grok what is that?

This looks like it's a daytime shot, but, it's actually taken from the dark side of Earth, with the planet illuminated by moonlight. This lets faint details like the aurora, stars and the sodium layer show up without over exposing the planet.

@harukaawake Perfect usage, no notes

🇯🇵 I recently learnt the word "cringe" in English. When I think of this word, I think of our political party Reiwa Shinsengumi. They argue for more Islamic immigration, trans rights and everything else you'd expect. They currently have 1 seat in the government.

@kniborg @KirkLubimov It's the same sociopaths with more power!

@KirkLubimov Straight from Hayek's road to serfdom. If you want big gov b/c you don't like the sociopaths running big corporations, just wait until you centralize the power into a single source (gov), and discover who gravitates there and ends up on top.

This is the best part from Pierre Poilievre appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast; "Those who push a socialist ideology have a gross contradiction in their view of human nature. They say that human beings are wretched, self-interested, greedy when they’re in the private voluntary economy, but they’re angels when they’re in the governmental economy. They argue that the government should just control everything because then we have all these angels that will decide for us." 🎯

@conflict_desk @kniborg @KirkLubimov Whoosh so loud it almost took my head off.

@kniborg @KirkLubimov (1/2) Don’t fool yourself thinking government centralization is a moral corrective it’s a breeding ground for the very same traits you despised in corporations, just dressed in bureaucratic robes.

@combatmedic I'm an outlier that prefers Coke Zero over coffee in the morning.

愉快で充実した朝食論争を楽しんでいるのだが、アメリカ人は、朝はコーヒー派が多いらしい。今の所、炭酸飲料派は観測出来ていない。

@markusdd5 I appreciate you posting this, because the linked post's comments show me that Germans are fantastic shitposters.

Finds übrigens bis heute komödiantisch, dass sich Leute wegen "brENnenDeN E-AuToS" nicht mehr einkriegen, wo der Akku im Unterboden mit dicken Stahl- oder Titanverstärkungen geschützt wird, während sie zeitgleich 50l hochbrennbare Flüssigkeit in einem dünnwandigen Container an 3 oder 4 Blechstreifen hängend durch die Gegend fahren. Es war mir immer schon ein Rätsel warum das so eigentlich erlaubt ist. Neulich erst in Thüringen 3(!!!) Stunden im Stau gestanden weils einem LKW durch einen Gegenstand auf der Fahrbahn den einfach frei hängenden Tank aufgerissen hat und er so ne halbe Tonne Diesel auf Fahrbahn und in der Prärie verteilt hat. Die argumentativen Maßstäbe sind so hart verschoben es ist mal krass.

@PhotonEmpress Yet another advantage of a rapid launch cadence enabled by reusable hardware. People running Artemis don't get any practice beforehand!

I don't think there is anyone on the planet who has done more live rocket broadcasts than me. I literally have done *hundreds* of them over the last 18 years. And some of the largest launch broadcasts on the planet too! I say this not to brag, but to convey a level of expertise in launch broadcasts that I think few, if any, can beat. Ok, maybe brag a little 👸 I know a lot of people were not super happy with NASA's coverage, specifically at liftoff. But man, let me tell you... As someone who has done hundreds of these... IT IS FREAKING HARD! I have personally had bad liftoff sequences too. It happens. And it sucks. And I hated it when I did that. To me. And to you. It is hard to convey just how complex liftoff is during a broadcast. It is a moment in time where nearly every view is available, but very few are viable. You never truly know which ones will be viable either, so it's a guessing game and a bit of luck. You have to scan through to find the shots that work, but you only have *seconds* to do this. Seconds. I have learned over the years that a technical director (vision mixer) needs an A and B plan for liftoff. Generally engines -> pass through -> medium -> wide -> super wide -> track scope -> track spot for the A plan. The B plan is usually far easier with engines -> wide -> super wide -> track scope. The switcher control surface needs to be set up to execute these plans extremely quickly. And even if you do all of this, a gust of wind blowing smoke the wrong way can foil the best of plans. It. Is. Hard. I hear ya all, but let's cut NASA some slack here. They have amazing people working the launch. They have many people they need to support in their broadcast including the media, schools, NASA employees, government officials, and the public. It is like getting pulled in a billion different ways all at once. Was liftoff coverage epic? No. I mean, it just wasn't. Will they learn from this and make Artemis III better? I believe they will. I know the people working these things, and they are great. Don't let one launch paint a bad picture here. There is enough space for everyone. If you didn't like NASA's coverage, then @NASASpaceflight, @TLPN_Official, @Erdayastronaut, @SpaceflightNow and more had other, amazing options that may suit your tastes better. We live in a time where you have incredible options. It's awesome and exciting. Oh, and WE HAVE FOUR HUMANS GOING TO THE MOON RIGHT NOW! Lets be excited about that instead!

@pipitaqueens @iranidaturan Protests only work when the regime cares about you, or is afraid of you. Neither apply here, direct action I think will be necessary 😬 But also doesn't seem like it will happen.

@Rob4766 @iranidaturan Iranians have no weapons and get killed on mass if they protest.

It’s day 33 of the war, and my hometown is still being heavily bombed. Iranians are only now, with great difficulty, realizing that for all these years, they have essentially been living inside a massive military base the size of a country. They’re finally understanding why Iran, despite all its resources, has remained so poor: because all the money has been spent preparing the regime for its apocalyptic final war. None of this is defensive. It’s all offensive. After every strike, Israel posts reports in Persian explaining exactly what it has hit. The main reason for cutting off the internet is so that people won’t see or understand what’s really happening. Underground missile cities, bunkers built beneath residential neighborhoods, tunnels upon tunnels upon tunnels. It’s horrifying. This regime must go. #IranWar‌ #ThankYouTrump‌

@wylfcen Downside is no one new will see your posts then! Which is how I just recently started following.

@DocAtCDI It'll make "short" work of the job!

trying to put a new battery in my truck but its heavy and hard to reach so I made a battery puller today, can't wait to try it out tomorrow!

@5ducks5 Texas was its very own nation for a short period of time before joining the United States.

翻訳機能でテキサス州が大好きになった知人が「テキサスを満喫したい！今年の夏は1週間テキサスに行く！テキサスを全部回れる？」と言ってきたのでこの画像を送って「赤枠がテキサス州だ」と伝えてから返事がない。テキサスの人は良い機会なので見どころを端的に教えてほしい。広すぎる。

@Not_the_Bee They probably wanted to harvest his organs.

IMPORTANT: 193-year-old tortoise still alive after media reported him dead notthebee.com/article/import…

@TheBabylonBee Maybe @rookisaacman can call up @SenMullin

Elon Musk Launches Emergency Rescue Plumber To Repair Artemis’ Toilet buff.ly/RquPoBO

@mcahogarth @grok can we make a specific "moon mission" version of monitoring the situation GIF?

My new routine is wake up, feed creatures, then find out where the Artemis II astronauts are. I am surely not the only person who won't be able to stand down until they get back.... There needs to be a better 'monitoring the situation' gif😆

Robert is thirty-six years old. In 1247, this is not young. Robert knows this. His knees know this. His back has known this since approximately 1239. Robert lives in a village in Worcestershire with his wife Agnes, three surviving children, and two chickens he is not allowed to eat because the chickens produce eggs and the eggs matter more than the chickens. Today is a Tuesday in March. Robert will describe it as a Tuesday in March. The concept of a 'week' as a unit of leisure is not yet something Robert has access to. 5:00am - Up. Pottage on the fire. The pottage is oats, leeks, and some dried parsnip from the autumn store. There is a small piece of salted pork in it, approximately the size of Robert's thumb. It is mostly flavouring. Robert eats around it for as long as possible, then eats it, then thinks about it for the rest of the morning. 6:00am - Field. Robert works the lord's strip first, then his own. The ground is still cold. His boots have a hole. He has had the hole since October. He has packed it with rags. The rags are wet. They will remain wet until June. Robert is technically eating a plant-based diet. He is not doing this by choice. He is doing this because meat belongs to the lord, the deer belong to the king's forest, and the last man in this village who was caught with an unlicensed rabbit spent a period in the stocks that his family still doesn't fully discuss. 10:00am - Brief rest. Rye bread, hard. A small onion. Robert thinks about the pig that was slaughtered in November. He thinks about this often. The memory of fat is a specific and enduring thing when you don't have much of it. 1:00pm - Back to the field. Robert's average daily calorie intake is somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 calories, the majority from grain. He is doing agricultural labour that modern exercise scientists would classify as extremely high intensity. He is, measurably, running on insufficient fuel. He is aware of this in the way that you are aware of things that cannot be changed: completely, and without drama. 4:00pm - Home. Agnes has made more pottage. It is similar to this morning's pottage. Robert eats it. Robert's teeth hurt. They have hurt for two years. There is no dentist. There is a barber-surgeon in the market town seven miles away. Robert cannot afford the barber-surgeon and cannot take the day from the fields. His teeth continue to hurt. 7:00pm - Sleep. Robert will be awake again at five. He is thirty-six. He will probably not see forty. The leading cause of death for men in his position is a combination of infection, injury, and the slow arithmetic of malnutrition across a lifetime. Somewhere, eight hundred years from now, someone will describe Robert's diet as "ancestral," "plant-forward," and "aligned with the earth." Robert would have a great deal to say about this. Robert does not have the energy.

@Teksun64 @Sealder_SAN @second_saint @grok It's OK, I want him to have lots of friends too!

@Rob4766 @Sealder_SAN @second_saint @grok Same old story, summon the Grok, he gets more likes than you 😄

頑張ったんですがバーベキュー敗北です 途中でちょっと目を離してたら炭火がすっげぇ燃焼してたせいか火が通り過ぎちゃった……

@esrtweet @fromdusktildawn Also, can't ignore the massive fraud we are struggling with and which is massively enabled by bureaucrats that don't care when it's not their money.

@fromdusktildawn Every time we try more redistributionism, we get more poverty and social dysfunction. Which hits the poor the hardest.

アメリカ人に聞きたいんだけど、 アメリカの一人当たりGDPは日本の2.6倍もあるのに、 なんでそんなに生活が苦しい人が多いの？ 高所得の人がたくさんいるんだから、再分配を少し強化するだけで、貧しい人たちの生活はぐっと楽になると思うけど、なんで再分配を強化しないの？ ちなみに、再分配を強化するのは社会主義でも共産主義でもないよ。 それは修正資本主義。君たちの大好きな資本主義を、ほんのちょっと修正しただけのものだよ。