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@SandyofCthulhu Countless US restaurants serve Sysco/US Foods/Performance foods "products". McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell does this same for their franchises. It's all totally prepped, treated and processed "food" before it ever gets into a kitchen. It's a product, not nutrition! Be safe!

A young woman I knew once told me about the time her former boyfriend took her to a Thai place. She'd never been, and he loved Thai food. As she sat down, she told the waitress she had a peanut allergy, and what would be safe to eat. The waitress did her job right. She thought a bit and said, "Frankly, you can't eat anything here. They chop peanuts in the kitchen, and make things with peanut sauce, and there would be a risk of contamination with everything except canned soda." My friend thanked her. My friend said to her boyfriend, "I can't eat here. We have to go somewhere else." He said, "No, I really want Thai food, and you can probably eat something. It's not that dangerous." At this point, my friend stood and broke up with him on the spot. He cared more about getting some pad thai than her life so he was over. I was so proud of her when she told me this. Anyway, she did it right - she didn't complain that they needed to sterilize and deep clean the entire kitchen for her. She just politely left to find a place safer for her. That's how to do it. You don't walk into a tonkatsu restaurant and complain that you eat kosher or halal and why can't they change their menu?

@TheEdVerse @JoshKellemen Not to be pedantic, but pedantically, Aristotle disagrees. chat.deepseek.com/share/or5pe23i…

Department of Belated Realmslore Replies Again: Josh Kellemen @JoshKellemen asked: Has there ever been a prominent philosopher in the realms that has argued an platonic/Aristotelian/thomist position that given the existence of "good" as an externally real thing/idea/concept, it..

@memeslich (2/2) In 3rd and later, one can have a feat or class skill for duelists or special warrior types that allows but prevents spamming the "called shot".

@memeslich It's good, cinematic and fun. But implementing it in a way that does not cause play-sludge complexity! Perhaps only warriors with multiple attacks can sacrifice Xtra attks to try (without penalties)? Also: Backstab/sneak/stealth can sacrifice all xtra damage for it? (1/)

Should players be allowed to target specific body parts in Dungeons & Dragons?

I know I keep retweeting all these posts about Reich's paper but it is confusing and hard to understand, so different explanations of what he's saying are useful, imo.

@TheDeafTribe @colingorrie

@colingorrie The silent P in bathing avoids splashing

Noam Chomsky once called English spelling "a near optimal system." You might think he was being ironic. Far from it. The silent 'b' in "bomb" reappears in "bombard." The silent 'n' in "hymn" is pronounced once again in "hymnal." The silent 'g' in "sign" comes back in "signal." English spelling keeps these words looking like the family they are, even when pronunciation pulls them apart. The past tense ending "-ed" is pronounced three different ways (-t in "jumped," -d in "played," and -ed in "painted"), but spelled the same every time. One spelling, one meaning: something happened in the past. English spelling is full of inconsistencies and silent letter because it’s not simply encoding how words sound. If English spelling were aiming to represent sound alone, it would indeed be a total failure. But that's not the kind of system English has. It encodes words' meaning and history as well.

@DanDavisWrites I loved this video, and I love my dogs. So they don't like eating dogs? They just need to suck it up.

This is my most hated video: Judging by how upset some people get about this subject, few would make it as a bronze age warrior. If you can't bash your beloved dog over the head and eat its flesh with your bros, how you gonna raid an enemy camp and steal their cattle and women?

@CuriosityonX Telescope stabilization skills +100

The reason people think this is because this photo gets shared around so much as "real / accurate bronze age armour" and everyone thinks this is what it actually looked like.

@xmuse_ All I see are flamers and dudes touching tips.

POV: you went back in time. Puy du Fou in France is one of the most unique theme parks. Founded in 1978, repeatedly voted best theme park in the world, with epic shows: Viking invasions, Roman gladiator battles, medieval tournaments, and French Renaissance stories.

Dangerous hiking route: Three Gorges Dragon Ridge, China

Human population density around the world. 📽: Tyler Morgan-Wall

@OldWorldHermit So 1st edition ink drawing > 45 years of waaayy better paid artists? Sigh.

Look how they massacred my boy... #dnd #ttrpg

@YoDanno Half-elf mogging the plumb-line.

Do you remember your first D&D character? What was it, and how long did he/she survive? 🖼️David C Sutherland III

@wylfcen "Ercnan-stones"? How did he smauggle that into "Silmarils"?

When J. R. R. Tolkien died, he left behind a bunch of scrawlings about his lore in Old English. This is the opening to the Annals of Beleriand, a timeline of some events of the Silmarillian in the style of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle↓

@RRR0BYN Skeletor disagrees.

Fags did this. Buccal fat removal plus a bob will age even the most beautiful woman on earth by 10 years instantly. Stop taking beauty advice from gays!

@gamergater38 @KeanuPereira1 @RRR0BYN

@KeanuPereira1 @RRR0BYN Nobody gives a shit. Seethe harder

@AeresChronicles Tom Shippey vigorously documents that Tolkien defends both interpretations of evil "manicheean(dualist) vs. Boethian(privation)) throughout LoTR, and Shippey spends many pages arguing it's both and: evil in itself and evil as privation. Shippey is considered a leading scholar.

Tolkien himself did not believe this. As an apostolic fellow he believed that evil was the privation of good and was not ontological. Failure to resist corruption does not mean you are morally gray. Being redeemed from wickedness does not mean you are morally gray. Struggling with ethical choices does not mean you are morally gray. Character nuance is not morally gray.

European place names containing Celtic *brigantī-, *brigiōn- reddit.com/user/Can_sen_d…

@FoecCisalpi @nrken19 Is this cognate with Germanic berg/burg

@nrken19 As usual, Cisalpine Gaul was neglected, despite the hundreds of Celtic toponyms. I’ve mapped many of them. Here are the ones ultimately derived from "brig"(Hills)mapcustomizer.com/map/brigbregbr… Still nowaday, in our native languages, “bricc” means hill.