You can of course plan the big lines of the campaign, but the more precise you get and far ahead of the present, the more you will either lose or railroad to not lose. Both suck
People complain about the mercer effect but I think his take on this is the best approach
Not all the balls to the walls set producing and stuff, but how he keeps important encounters ready in his back pocket should things turn back in that direction
There have been two encounters now where Matt said if the players had gone about them differently, they would have become next campaign antagonists.
I think it’s time we all realize, the teen slang is as awkward as the teen hormones and acne, and once they’re out of it they’ll either pear down to any language Innovations that actually work or become forever 16 party animals
I’m planning to try and build an offset hex grid city
Basically there’s one hex pattern for car traffic, and an offset hex pattern that’s for pedestrians and cyclists, and where there’s any intersections between the two, the car traffic gets raised to give pedestrian traffic an underpass.
Also every car intersection is a roundabout, and I’m considering doing alternating one way lanes with every pair being bracketed by transit only lanes.
Way I see it the addresses would be kinda like how NYC is organized, one parallel has roads, one has lanes, one has boulevards, and then on the pedestrian side you have street, alley, and row.
Doesn’t just save number space, it’ll also give you an idea of the best way to get to that address since street/alley/and row addresses won’t have curbside parking, because pedestrian route.
It doesn’t make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn’t designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you’re going to leak your actual IP address....
An expansionist ethnostate instigating violence to the east while already at war in the west all in the name of ethnostatist genocide and displacement of the local populations.
The Israeli government has to understand how hard it is to not make the fucking comparison by now right?
Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn't increased. But the perception of a crime wave still colors U.S. politics.
Probably not since crimes of desperation are on the fall, leaving the really gruesome heinous shit for “if it bleeds it leads” publishers to jump all over.
You might notice coverage of political violence and hate crimes have been on the rise, this ain’t because of a journalistic inclination to cover the problems of society, it’s because violent crime has fallen enough that hate crimes and political violence are a sizeable chunk of what’s left to report on for red journalists.
Probably, the operative word in the headline is former
If they’re conducting themselves professionally I don’t see any issues aside from any possible debts to society yet to be paid, which could frankly just as well be covered by them providing a professional education for the next generation.
Because the conditions applied always seem to be revolving around removing undesirables within Canada. This example makes people fear that Canadian hospital workers will begin pressuring drug addict patients to kill themselves, or even darker, signing them up for euthanasia without their knowing or consent.
The U.S. State Department will be arranging chartered flights for American citizens who are currently in Israel, the White House announced Thursday....
Why the Canary Islands though? Those are about as opposite a direction from Spain as you could go without just turning around and marching into the Sahara
Leading the revolution from the $3,500 custom-built gaming rig their white upper middle class parents bought them, and while pursuing a degree that 99.99% of the working class would never end up in a job requiring it.
A majority of Americans support higher pay for auto workers who are on strike against Detroit’s Big Three carmakers, although approval of the workers’ other demands is more mixed, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research....
Autoworkers I think have their own advantage in the form of the decades of media narrative about the rust belt and offshoring of auto-manifacturing jobs
Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn - who are the good guys and who are the bad guys....
Nah, Hamas are religious fanatics but the Israeli govt are Nationalist fanatics, they lean more on the ethnic identity of judaism than the religious identity. Might not seem like a big difference but apparently Israel’s founders almost fought a civil war over this so probably worth remembering lol
I know this is a really vague question, but it’s been on my mind A LOT lately. I’m specifically asking about people fighting on behalf of a group that is subject to oppression of some kind. 3 years ago, with all of the protests in America that included violence majorly against property and minorly against people but were...
Depends on what kind of mass violence you’re thinking of.
The degree to which you can control its extent, direction, and collateral damage is the degree to which you can justify it.
An organized millitary march to capture vital infrastructure and establish defensible positions in preparation for retaliation and most likely war, quite easily justified.
An unhinged hate fueled massacre and mass raping to the point of literally smashing open panic room vaults to drag out more victims to murder and rape, well at least Lemmygrad and Hexbear will still have your back!
A startup called PimEyes allows anyone to identify a stranger within seconds with just a photo of the person's face. The technology has alarmed privacy advocates worldwide.
Being able to purge unwanted use of your image and info is nice, and to a lesser extent so would being able to call up a nametag for people you’ve met before, because introvert name recollection is the great killer of our society
Amid the sixth mass extinction, frogs, salamanders, and caecilians remain the most threatened group of vertebrates on Earth. Over 40 percent of amphibian species are now threatened, the latest global assessment has found....
High school students’ scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according to the nonprofit organization that administers the test....
Relatives of U.S. citizens feared to have been taken hostage by Hamas urged the Biden administration Tuesday to help free their loved ones, saying they had yet to receive “formal communication” from the White House....
What do they want here? Iran has demonstrated that trying to mount an invasion to liberate hostages by force from Islamists does not end well.
The only way they’re getting “more” is if they make peace with losing their loved ones in exchange for pushing an invasion of Gaza to round up as many Hamas leaders as can be grabbed to give them the hostage treatment in revenge.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday defended her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic, citing statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings, while awaiting a crucial court ruling on a signature effort to suspend...
Bodies of Israeli residents and Palestinian attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after Hamas launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel....
Worth noting the EU probably didn’t “make” them illegal.
The US requires a substance to be proven dangerous to be banned from use in food substances, the EU requires it to be proven safe to be allowed for use in food substances.
Not to mention inventing an alphabet depending on where and when you go to. Or you could go with ConstantScript if you feel like being a gigantic troll.
Abugida might be workable if you reform it so that vowel markers can only appear above or below the modified consonant.
No it’s just that Jews have gotten prickly about anyone criticizing Israel because of how much trouble anti-zionism has had banishing anti-semitism from trying to infiltrate.
It’s only changed because the Neonazis have absorbed enough evangelicals to decide they like the jews having Israel now because battle of Armageddon and “I know revelations says it is impossible to know when the rapture will happen but I’m gonna try and make it happen anyways like an absolute dumbass!”
Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah and raising concerns that more outbreaks could follow....
Is this the kind of bird flu that can spread to people? Because whoa man is farm country not ready for a deadly flu to start working it’s way through at the moment.
Harvard University’s president spoke out Tuesday amid national backlash over a student group’s statement that condemned Israel amid it’s ongoing conflict with Hamas, emphasizing the group does not speak for the entire school....
Probably why the student org’s sense of tact is evidently so fucked up
Buncha rich kids who’ve never experienced social consequences for saying something controversial before.
Like yeah Israel certainly hasn’t helped itself in preventing the conditions that lead to mass outbreaks of violence, but there’s an infinite number of ways to say that more tactfully immediately after a civilian massacre.
All the sense and ability to read the room of someone peddling the line about America funding the taliban right after 9/11
Not a super good comparison since that’s a misconception based on mot understanding that multiple groups went under the title of Mujahedeen and the one the US directly supported went on to become the northern alliance government, not the pashto irredentist taliban, meanwhile Israel actually did do the shit someone would typically point to while making this kind of accusation, but the point about the overall tone deafness of such an accusation still stands.
Thanksgiving should really be pushed to the Friday, why Lincoln went with the damned Thursday of that week I simply cannot comprehend, and why Nixon’s Monday Holiday schtick didn’t affect it too I especially don’t understand
Utah became the latest state Tuesday to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits....
I dunno, if they get a ruling here with a big enough splash this might actually spread to them too.
It’ll all depend on if they can establish a solid enough case centered around the addictive nature of the content presentation algorithm, and getting it banned in favor of something like chronological content ordering.
In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of “bird-friendly” building measures....
Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord (www.theguardian.com)
Steve Schwarzman of the Blackstone group said staff want to work from home so they can save money...
Don't do too much, or you will waste time and efforts (ttrpg.network)
You can of course plan the big lines of the campaign, but the more precise you get and far ahead of the present, the more you will either lose or railroad to not lose. Both suck
Rule(d) (lemmy.world)
Consistency (lemmy.world)
Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ (www.gamesradar.com)
PSA: Don't torrent over TOR (tor.stackexchange.com)
It doesn’t make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn’t designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you’re going to leak your actual IP address....
Palestinians under attack as settler violence surges in the West Bank (www.bbc.com)
Palestinian families say they have been intimidated and displaced in the wake of Hamas's attack on Israel.
Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice? (www.latimes.com)
Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn't increased. But the perception of a crime wave still colors U.S. politics.
Former jihadists found working in Swedish schools (www.euractiv.com)
‘Forever chemical’ bans face hard truth: Many can’t be replaced (www.japantimes.co.jp)
As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of 'forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute.
Pro-Palestinian creators use secret spellings, code words to evade social media algorithms (www.washingtonpost.com)
From deploying “terrier” emojis to referring to “P*les+in1ans,” creators are changing up their language to evade Big Tech’s content rules.
The European countries with no progress on young peoples' wellbeing (www.euronews.com)
Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For People Addicted to Drugs (www.vice.com)
Too horny?
I just had to turn down a prancing Wyll. I tried to let him down easy, but he wasn’t getting the hint....
Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon (www.reuters.com)
State Department announces plan to fly Americans out of Israel (abcnews.go.com)
The U.S. State Department will be arranging chartered flights for American citizens who are currently in Israel, the White House announced Thursday....
Surge in migrant boats to Spain’s Canary Islands stretches resources thin (english.elpais.com)
Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml
Hello World,...
More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, an AP-NORC poll shows (apnews.com)
A majority of Americans support higher pay for auto workers who are on strike against Detroit’s Big Three carmakers, although approval of the workers’ other demands is more mixed, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research....
Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson (www.bbc.com)
Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn - who are the good guys and who are the bad guys....
Martials don't even get anything from a 5th level multiclass into another martial class (ttrpg.network)
At what point is violence on a large scale justified?
I know this is a really vague question, but it’s been on my mind A LOT lately. I’m specifically asking about people fighting on behalf of a group that is subject to oppression of some kind. 3 years ago, with all of the protests in America that included violence majorly against property and minorly against people but were...
Pressure mounts for Turkey and Hungary to ratify Swedish Nato bid – Europe live (www.theguardian.com)
Brussels sounds alarm about EU's rapidly ageing population (www.euronews.com)
'Too dangerous:' Why even Google was afraid to release this technology (www.npr.org)
A startup called PimEyes allows anyone to identify a stranger within seconds with just a photo of the person's face. The technology has alarmed privacy advocates worldwide.
A Shocking Number of Amphibian Species Are Vanishing, Scientists Warn (www.sciencealert.com)
Amid the sixth mass extinction, frogs, salamanders, and caecilians remain the most threatened group of vertebrates on Earth. Over 40 percent of amphibian species are now threatened, the latest global assessment has found....
ACT test scores for US students drop to new 30-year low (apnews.com)
High school students’ scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according to the nonprofit organization that administers the test....
Families of U.S. citizens held hostage by Hamas urge the Biden administration to 'do more' and plead for information (www.nbcnews.com)
Relatives of U.S. citizens feared to have been taken hostage by Hamas urged the Biden administration Tuesday to help free their loved ones, saying they had yet to receive “formal communication” from the White House....
New Mexico governor defends approach to attempted gun restrictions, emergency order on gun violence (apnews.com)
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday defended her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic, citing statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings, while awaiting a crucial court ruling on a signature effort to suspend...
I'm still angry about this. They ever give a reason? (startrek.website)
Okay. Those are all good reasons but “It was the 70s and he wasn’t white” is definitely my favorite.
Children found ‘butchered’ in Israeli kibbutz, IDF says, as horror of Hamas’ attacks near border begins to emerge (www.cnn.com)
Bodies of Israeli residents and Palestinian attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after Hamas launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel....
California becomes the first state to ban four chemicals in food, including red dye No. 3 (www.nbcnews.com)
The food and drink additives, which have been linked to health issues, could be removed from products nationwide as a result of the new law....
incredible (lemmy.world)
Mia Khalifa fired from Playboy for her pro-Hamas posts after the Israel attack (www.businesstoday.in)
Deadly bird flu reappears in US commercial poultry flocks in Utah and South Dakota (apnews.com)
Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah and raising concerns that more outbreaks could follow....
Harvard head says students don’t speak for school after widely condemned Hamas-Israel statement (thehill.com)
Harvard University’s president spoke out Tuesday amid national backlash over a student group’s statement that condemned Israel amid it’s ongoing conflict with Hamas, emphasizing the group does not speak for the entire school....
Amazon Workers Gear Up for Black Friday Strike (gizmodo.com)
Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits (apnews.com)
Utah became the latest state Tuesday to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits....
More than 1,000 birds killed in one night after hitting the same Chicago building (www.cnn.com)
In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of “bird-friendly” building measures....