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Sunya release and Crimson Desert is out. Today is a good day. #Sunya

@dbs_10_10 Honestly?

what pokémon will always be on your team if it’s in the pokédex for that game?

@MizukiAlola Kanto and Johto are peak. Hoenn and Sinnoh are awesome. Everything else is ass

Pokemon starter tier list but I’m actually honest this time:

@JesseCohenInv Everyone on Polymarket is a degen gambler by default

This is highly unusual. A suspicious account on Polymarket placed a $100,000 bet predicting a US attack on Iran tonight. It pays out $4 million if it hits. Government insider trading or just a degen gambler?

@StygianAdara @PatrickHeizer The whole point of the game is exploring and levelling pokemon. Group EXP share is the thing that's detracting from the game. It'd be like if mining in Runescape levelled up 5 other unrelated skills at the same time. It just makes the game feel less rewarding and unearned.

@PatrickHeizer The item that you get in the later half of the game, you mean? The one that you put onto a singular Mon? I get if you don't LIKE the change, I do, but I don't see how you can view it as detracting from the game when all it does is eliminate mindless grinding for levels or candy.

Group Exp Share is the single worst change in modern Pokemon and your brain is beyond cooked if you think otherwise.

@linkkling EXP share for the whole team is basically easy mode and playing the game without it is simply just more rewarding. However I think a good middle ground is just having EXP share as an item like the old games so you can choose 1 other pokemon to share, not the whole team.

i don't think i've ever gotten a good explanation of how to play pokemon without the exp share... like i know it involves switch training and rearranging your team all the time and farming exp from chanseys but i just don't get why people prefer that. it's so inconvenient

@Peston Maddening that he just gets to resign and likely won't have any meaningful justice brought against him. He will still get to spend the rest of his days living a life of comfort that most of us can only dream of. He should get jail time AND have all financial benefits taken away

The casualness with which Peter Mandelson as business secretary forwarded confidential and price sensitive government information to the late paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is jaw dropping. In two of the instances we know about, these were analyses written for the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, by two of his most trusted advisers, Nick Butler - who worked in 10 Downing Street - and Shriti Vadera, who held multiple ministerial roles. Both were assessing for the PM in 2009 what action the government and Bank of England needed to make to curb the continuing economic damage from the global financial crisis. Their assessments and recommendations would have been highly valuable to any bank or credit institution. Butler, for example, in 2009 was recommending government “asset sales of even £20bn” to “relieve the debt burden, reduce borrowing costs and provide some funds for new investment”. Against a backdrop where the PM and chancellor Alistair Darling were under pressure to pre-empt the austerity that would later be adopted by Osborne and Cameron, this was significant. Butler also said such a commitment to privatisations would prevent Labour going into the coming election threatening tax rises. He then revealed to the PM that: “This is important because there are still some companies - mostly in the financial area but also highly mobile companies such as [the pharmaceutical giant] GSK which are investigating the possibility and costs of moving out of the UK. Tax for them is the critical issue.” Butler today told me: “I am wondering what else was sent on [by Mandelson] from me or from anyone else in or around No 10. Peter was copied in on anything of relevance to business…There was an internal culture of trust and confidentiality even when people disagreed. Peter broke that. “[His forwarding of emails] is a complete betrayal of trust. I agree with Gordon Brown that there must be a full enquiry into all messages sent to Epstein in this period. This can’t be the only one. Peter should do the honourable thing and resign from the Lords”. As for the email written by Vadera to “John Pond” in August 2009 (which I understand was her pseudonym for Brown) -  also forwarded to Epstein by Mandelson - it is an extraordinary insight into important disputes between the Treasury, the Bank of England and business department, about whether banks were providing adequate credit to medium size and big businesses. Written in capital letters to help the PM, whose eyesight was poor, it says of the then governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King: “MERVYN KING IS OFF THE PAGE. HE IS WINDING PEOPLE UP ABOUT BANKS NOT LENDING WITH NO EVIDENCE AND HAS BEEN DESTABILISING THE SYSTEM BY TALKING ABOUT BANKS NEEDING MORE CAPITAL.” It also says of the Chancellor Alistair Darling, “AD INSTRUCTED PAUL [MYNERS] TO THREATEN BANKS WITH OFT INVESTIGATION. THIS IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, NOT JUST BECAUSE IT DESTABILISES THE LLOYDS MERGER WHICH THE OFT ARE DYING TO UNPICK. BUT BECAUSE WE ARE ACTUALLY ASKING BANKS TO INCREASE THEIR MARKET SHARE BY LENDING MORE TO MAKE UP FOR SMALL AND FOREIGN BANKS. AND THEN WE THREATEN THEM WITH OFT [INVESTIFATION] WHICH WILL INVESTIGATE THEIR MARKET SHARE. IT WAS BEYOND SILLY.” It is astonishing that such sharp divisions at the heart of government were shared with Epstein, whose business was to a large extent built on trading such confidential information with Wall Street institutions as well as trafficking and abusing children. Mandelson did not respond to requests to comment.

I'm genuinely confused, how has @realDonaldTrump not been arrested after all the #EpsteinFiles releases with his name all over them? Are we just not punishing pedophilia (and from the looks of it - murder) anymore?

@TheGreenParty Common sense party. This is what labour SHOULD be about

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Anybody else have visceral nostalgia for these looney tunes qubix that came with packets of walkers crisps back in the late 1990s? geekygorevan.co.uk/walkers-qubix-…

Has to be satire at this point. Whoever is running the simulation is REALLY leaning into the irony this season

@strangertearss Hate to be that guy but unless the giant rock was also a part of the hive mind, Will wouldn't have been able to do any of this

@kenwheeler So you don't want a groundbreaking vibe-coded app that generates to-do lists and tells you what time sunrise is?

it’s just this constant ai virtue signaling. these fucking stupid proclamations that are being re-parroted, bloviating about absolutely nothing. and in the rare case anyone actually shares the slop they incarnated, it’s the dumbest fucking thing you’ve ever seen.

@yoemsri @ohmypy Why do I need to know that when I can just create an agent who is an expert on using the tools effectively?

@ohmypy You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you do need to know how to use AI tools effectively.

AI advocates seem to be the only kind of technology advocates who feel this imminent urge to constantly criticize developers for not being excited enough about their tech. This whole "devote your life to AI right now, or you'll be out of a job soon" narrative is false. You don't have to be a world-class algorithm expert to write good software. You don't have to be a Linux expert to use containers. And you don't have to spend all your time now trying to become an expert in chasing ever-changing AI tech. As the industry adopts AI practices, you'll naturally absorb just the right amount of them. You are going to be fine.

My feed is literally just filled with posts about vibe coding, people circle jerking themselves about making millions through app development (apps that nobody wants or asked for btw), and FOMO posts about people being left behind because they're not one of the ones vibe coding.

@mikefletcher_ @EricRWeinstein This is like when the Avengers were disbanded right before the events of Infinity War. Arguably this is the time now more than ever for the US to be united with Europe against Russia and China, the west is in a weak position right now and it's very worrying.

My biggest concern isn't nukes and land grabs, it's the US dollar losing its might as the world reserve. If alliances are being disrupted and enemies are realising the US isn't willing to protect its vested interests, then there's a real risk in both scenarios that parties stop relying heavily on the dollar. Which is America's most powerful weapon. The US has always had a global jurisdiction when it comes to protecting its intetests. The US alliances have always cooperated with those interests, but I'm not so sure if this will be the case going forward, and given NATOs weakened position, I don't think they'll be able to protect them either. A consequence of this may be that countries start overstepping their mark, further land grabs and new and accelerated nuclear programs will almost become inevitable, and irreversible. I think this is the best outcome for Russia and China to be honest. Instead of radically driving a wedge between the US and its allies, a more diplomatic approach could have been taken by the US renegotating its commitments diplomatically.

Given how the U.S. is behaving in a manner that other nations find unexpected, I am assuming that this administration's instantiation of "America First" is going to ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation well beyond where it is now. Perhaps that will turn out to be wrong, but it seems quite likely to me. May I get a read from my most enthusiastic "America First" friends: do you expect this? If so, is this troubling to you? Do you think I am incorrect that if the U.S. pulls back from historical agreements and commitments that nuclear proliferation will result as the world's policeman retires or goes on an indefinite donut break? Am I not getting what is going on? I'm guessing I am going to hear a lot of rationalizations like "It was gonna happen anyway so we might as well give up the ghost and get on with whatever comes next." or "Trump has a plan for this." or "Nukes don't matter anymore." or "They wouldn't dare under Trump." etc. It would be great *not* to have those braindead bot-level conversations. We can all do rationalizations in our sleep without help...myself included. I'm curious as to whether those viewing this situation with unconflicted enthusiasm at least share a general sketch of a long-term plan for a multi-polar world with say 50+ nuclear nations, or believes there is a plan to stop that from happening as the U.S. disentangles from the world. I have no clue, as I have heard no such plan or even much discussion of this issue. Thanks in advance. 🙏

We're cooked. It's over