I was sad when Yevgeny Prigozhin (leader of Wagner Group) was killed off, because if his coup was successful we could have seen less bloodshed and a sooner close of the war.

I think that might be a regional nickname for it - it does indeed form salts which are loosened from the inside of the brick/concrete (both have salts in) by water, and then transported to the outside by the same water.

Unironically a kind of smart use of AI - i can see some works from 1912 or earlier becoming too convoluted and wordy for people to understand in the future. Obviously it’s a very ironic one to try and translate because the psuedo-language is an intentional part of the book, and all readers need to actually push themselves, but yeah.

and challenging myself to do it in spanish since that’s the kind of thing that improves my language acquisition the most doesn’t help my volume of reading.

I do this too, i probably should have started with easy books like Dr Seuss or something though.

I don’t think the end of reading is here. That’s still one of my favourite things to do on the internet / on my mobile devices, and a lot of my favourite games are reading intensive ^{shoutout to the Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian which releases in 11 days}

I wonder if anyone actually has ever forced themselves to read a boring book outside of professional necessity. If we have a reading crisis then we have a crisis of sourcing reading material rather than anything else.

Coldplay studied this, learned from their mistakes and then mastered the art of claiming to be a christian band while simultaneously claiming to not be a christian band

Hell yes i’ve heard of Evanesence:

I get what you mean. Reddit Atheist is an archetype not a filing category. One can be Reddit Atheist without even making contact with a reddit

“I have removed the chocolate from the tree. Science doesn’t allow chocolate to grow on trees”

Anon science’d so hard he because a superstitious nutcase (many such cases). This is completely zealot brained.

Which is ironic cos no bonding gets done in that case

/> greentext about trying to woo a woman again

That’s what makes the world go round.

I’ve never met a “femcel” - as in a woman with poor social skills who stays inside and games a lot, perhaps lacking optimism about their romantic prospects and overall destiny - in my life so the whole concept did strike me as weird. Seeing the “femcel” subreddits, twitter pages and Instagram pages, all it reminded me of were the toxic girls from my hometown who essentially scared off new prospects by being so rude to them and CLEARLY chose their lifestyle very early on.

I therefore think femcel is a misnomer. I think generally women aren’t getting hung up on men in an incel-ly way - the ones that do skip straight to stalker serial killer lady - I think women are good at socialising and always have some sort of support system.

I guess it must be a talking point that the CCP or it’s supporters use to justify their activity in tibet - “we’re just spreading technology. You don’t want us to be there? Then you must be luddite regressives who HATE the Tibetans”

I can’t tell if it’s genocide denialism but that tweeter is obviously being damn rude to a whole continent of people

Kids be messing with the buttons

They would know all about lazy spoiled kids i’m sure

“Statisticians are the dentists of mathematics” like, they do a very specialised job that a generalist would struggle to perform correctly without their level of specialised training, where performing their duties inadequately or forgoiing their services can completely disrupt the function of various area of life/business?

Why would cities care about national or international companies? I’m confused.

[This is OP on a different account + device] Good question, I didn’t make it clear. So what I was thinking is, where I live,

1. The city council has large control over the economy, choosing where businesses can put up their store and monitoring which businesses take up office space in the city.

2. There’s definitely some MLM presence (my local subreddit provided examples and often has people saying “don’t work for this scam!”)

3. So… Does the city council just not care? Or are they perhaps less interventionist than I thought?

4. Lastly, with just how many there are, from the vibe I’m getting from people online complaining about them, surely some of them end up doing business for the city council. So the council ends up getting ripped off or having jobs done to a poor standard.

Thanks for your comment!

Ironically I’m probably not going to choose my favourite games because those are usually just very simple story based games, and can be just as enjoyable to read as a book instead.

The games which instead give the most fun-value and replayability:

1. Balatro (my go-to “I’m bored and don’t know what to do with myself” game.)
2. Stardew Valley. Super good, something is so satisfying in the art, animations and little gameplay loops. I replayed it to death earlier this year and now I’ll try not to think about it again until that time next year.
3. “The Sims Medieval” is one I keep on coming back to, so I’ll definitely add that.
4. Shattered Pixel Dungeon (don’t think this counts as a mod.) Super good replayability, I’ve been playing it intermittently for about 11 years now.
5. Anno 117. Gotta have some strategy games - I’m kind of boring in that I only do anno and not more complicated stuff like city skylines.
6. Fields of Mistria is a new farming sim that I have high hopes for.
7. Pentiment has a lot of replayability despite only being a linear story game.

That gives me enough time to add 8. Minecraft, which I don’t play anymore but it’s a great boredom buster, and 9. Life and Suffering of Sir Brante and 10. Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian - afforementioned visual novel stories which are also fine to enjoy in book form.