Talaraine @ Talaraine @kbin.social

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Heck, I bought BG3 for an old D&D buddy of mine who didn't have much monies and have gotten nonstop enjoyment watching their complete addiction.

It might be the best gift I've ever given.

This. So much this.

I would surmise they're talking about a system to let us know where the worst effects are happening so people can prepare. This article says the fastest storms take 15-18 hours to arrive and most are slower. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/coronal-mass-ejections

For my part I started ordering baking extracts, which I was surprised number in the thousands now, and mix and match whatever flavor I want.

I celebrate wildly when anyone brings up the topic. Rude, yes, but it gets the point across.

You're right. When times got hard, the dog became dinner.

I raised all my own food for a few years and fully understand the horror of having to kill to eat. It's never pretty, despite all the arguments I can make about health of the herd, culling only the weak, and giving them the best lives they could hope for.

I find the vegan arguments weak, though too. Every day we are discovering new levels of feelings and intelligence in life and that goes down to plants, too. It's a harsh reality that in order to exist, you must make something else not exist... and unless we change something dramatically it's never going away.

All this is why I'm cautiously optimistic about lab grown meat. It could turn this whole thing on its head.

Mass Effect for sure. I miss my friends.... so I play every couple of years to say hi xD

Writing, specifically long prose. When there's a story that just has to be told and I feel it in the marrow of my bones I'll write and I'll love it.

If someone ever handed me a deadline, all joy would be lost. Some things just aren't meant to be a job for me and forcing the issue would only make me depressed and the writing abysmal.

They are asserting dominance. When in doubt, it's always that.

Halt and Catch Fire doesn't get into the nitty gritty enough to spoil whatever you're studying. It's a really entertaining look at that time period though. If you're gonna wait till after the final, wait because you really don't need this distraction.

Right on the money. Psychologically, the best defense is a good offense. Socially, it's not the best choice for building communities.

There's dozens of us. Widescreen means I've got more real estate on the sides

They're resigning their seat but not leaving the party, as I understand it. Makes no sense at all.

I agree, we need a 3rd party terribly right now. You guys have got the edge on us in that.

Sounds like you got it alright. They're resigning because they don't want to be associated with ultra right wing fascists, which opens up their seat for ultra right wing fascists.

Look, nobody accused Republicans of being intelligent.

Sugar is a primary source of food for the bacteria that make up plaque. If you feed the bacteria, they will grow. As you can't eliminate 100% of the sugar from your diet, teeth care is always going to be required. Less sugar, however, means, slower growth.

Also. Just like dogs have dental chews that help to clean their teeth, eating other non sugar foods can assist with controlling plaque. Vegetables in particular are helpful, but even something like chewing on beef jerky acts as a sort of scrub brush for the outside of the teeth.

NGL everytime I move I pack my Brother Laser like fine artwork

Unfortunately someone snuck someone from HP into Brother's executive chain. They're starting the fuckery now too.

Correct.

It's complex and I encourage you to do research as this is all from the hip and might not be accurate.

It goes back to World War 2 and the suffering the Jewish people endured. The countries involved decided to give Israel their historical lands as a place where they could self-determinate and be safe. The problem is that other people owned that land at the time and had little say... these same people are understandably upset with that decision and have been fighting for their own land inside Israel since then. So there's automatically two sides living in the same country wanting the other out.

Terrorism was really coming into its own during the first couple decades, and terrorism works best for those that don't have an organized military... so the Palestinians sided with them. Black September, the PLA, Hamas... one after another these groups caused a lot of damage, which meant Israel locked all of them into one tiny part of Israel for their own security. Gaza.

But Israel isn't a saint in all this. They keep expanding their settlements into claimed territory and rarely through any civil means. They treat the Palestinians as the enemy, even when not all of them are. Same sort of struggle the whole west is having at the moment. There's lots of politics at play in the Middle East, and those countries also don't want Palestinians to come into their countries because of the damage those terrorist groups have done to them too. I believe it was Jordan that was completely destabilized after taking in a bunch of Palestinian refugees.

Then Hamas attacked Israel and killed a ton of people, have innocent hostages, and have vowed to never ever stop. Israel is at a crossroads. They obviously have to wipe them out... same way America felt about Al'Qaeda. But Hamas is hiding in Gaza, right in the middle of population centers. What to do?

Israel announced to everyone in Gaza that they needed to move south, dropped fliers saying they were going to attack, all the things. Then they attacked. Now innocent Palestinians are getting killed because they either couldn't or wouldn't leave, and Israel isn't allowing humanitarian aid in.

It's a giant cluster, is what it is.

I'm pretty sure Israel is calling in all the favors for supporting our gallavant through the Middle East in the name of revenge.