The idea that a loss of potential was somehow worse than a loss of achievement and knowledge was something she had never been able to wrap her brain around.
Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
"Have you come seeking blame, Mr. Kovacs?"
"Among other things."
"How disappointing."
"You expected something else?"
"No," Kadmin said with another smile. "Expectation is our first mistake. I meant, how disappointing for you."
never felt so tired in my life. i just ended a relationship for good bc of how toxic the guy was being. i know it’s going to be hard, but i’m not going to take him back, that’s for sure. freedom
Are the Trump indictments election interference? asked someone whose question I will take in good faith against my better judgment.
The American presidential election (November 5, 2024) is more than a year away. There is more than a whole year for these four (4) trials to occur. If candidates want to start campaigning (and have already been campaigning) year(s) in advance, that is not the American judicial system's problem. Do not let anyone tell you that "I DECLARE CAMPAIGN SO YOU CAN'T TOUCH ME" is how this works.
I welcome criminal charges of actual substance for any candidate of any party. If you have dozens of pages of carefully documented charges against any/all Democrats, please have a DA call a grand jury whenever you would like. Political parties are not sports teams to me. Justice can do what it gotta do, whether it's convenient or not.
If someone doesn't want to get pulled up on racketeering charges (RICO), they maybe shouldn’t have racketeered. Or falsified business records, or mishandled documents to the tune of 31 charges under the Espionage Act, or incited an insurrection, the latter of which, I don't know about you, but which I personally watched on TV, live, for several hours, including coverage of the Trump rally that sent crowds marching over to the Capitol. We have heard the Georgia phone call that is part of the fourth indictment. We have seen pictures of classified documents piled in a random Mar-a-Lago bathroom. I am confident that these are not frivolous accusations.
District Attorney Fani Willis was careful to state that there should be a presumption of innocence (a standard American judicial doctrine). That said, I consider (as one example), this fourth indictment to be “charges of actual substance” because she delivered a 96-page document describing the racketeering (which, ironically, WAS ITSELF ELECTION INTERFERENCE):
u/code_archaeologist:
The math on this is easy.
For a jury to find a person guilty on a RICO charge in Georgia the prosecutor has to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that they engaged in two incidents that predicated the overarching conspiracy.
The RICO charge lists 161 predicating incidents.
So Fani Willis has 161 shots at each defendant, and only has to hit twice.
(I like to read r/politics.)
Fani Willis has 161 predicating incidents of conspiracy to work with. I am pretty confident that, while a defendant is innocent until proven guilty in the American justice system, these charges have some weight and deserve to be heard in court.
tl;dr if you don't want to campaign under a legal cloud, don't do crimes.
Also try not to publicly intimidate witnesses. And prosecutors. And judges.
If anyone reading this truly wondered if the substance or timing of these proceedings are warranted, sincerely, I hope laying it out like this helped.
we made it to the beach y’all. i’m having an ok time so far. we just had dinner, dk how we’ll feel tomorrow—hope i’ll be able to poo. brody is doing well. he’s getting used to the area. i just want to make the best memories for him. 🥲 we will probably have a better day tomorrow
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11. Turning Red
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19. On the Count of Three
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22. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
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24. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
25. Holy Spider
26. Aftersun
27. The Fabelmans
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29. Decision to Leave
30. The Whale
31. All Quiet on the Western Front
32. Brian and Charles
33. Piggy
34. Saint Omer
35. Thirteen Lives
36. Men
37. The Fallout
38. Resurrection
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40. The Black Phone
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42. Nope
43. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
44. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
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47. Happening
48. A Love Song
49. The Outfit
50. The Innocents
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52. BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
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54. Three Thousand Years of Longing
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69. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
70. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
71. Nitram
72. Speak No Evil
73. Run Sweetheart Run
74. She Said
75. White Noise
76. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
77. V/H/S/99
78. The Wonder
79. Women Talking
80. Hatching
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84. Hustle
85. Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers
86. Dual
87. God’s Country
88. Emancipation
89. Vengeance
90. Fire of Love
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93. The Valet
94. Hellraiser
95. Christmas Bloody Christmas
96. Significant Other
97. Cha Cha Real Smooth
98. Lucy and Desi
99. Not Okay
100. A Christmas Story Christmas
101. Blonde
102. Deadstream
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104. The Bad Guys
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109. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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111. Beast
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140. Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
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Scapegoating is alive and well and blinds us to the uncomfortable truth that the world is vastly more complex than we can probably ever understand, with the result that some disasters terrify us by appearing to be spontaneous, inevitable, and ultimately inexplicable.
Alright, this has been something I’ve wanted to talk about for a while now because it is a huge reason why I ship Elucien. I think many people don’t realize how similar they are to each other, which might be driving many people away from the idea of Elucien being a thing in the future. And I know a lot of people dismiss or deny these similarities too. So I want to point them out and talk about them! And some of these may be a little bit of a stretch but a lot of them I feel are pretty significant and intensional on SJM’s part.
Love for parties and socializing
They are both social people. They are seen to enjoy parties, enjoy being in crowds.
Tamlin made Lucien emissary because of how social he is. He has many friends and allies across Prythian, he enjoys the parties and social aspects of court.
Page 161 of ACOTAR:
“I claimed Lucien as my own—-named him emissary, since he’d already made many friends across the courts and had always been good at talking to people, while I…can find it difficult.”
Page 32 of ACOMAF:
[Tamlin] assured me that he hated the gatherings as much as I did, and that Lucien was the only one who really enjoyed himself.
Elain also enjoys parties and socializing, we see it the most often in ACOTAR:
Page 256 of ACOTAR:
“The socialite season, which ended a few weeks ago, apparently, full of parties and balls and luncheons and gossip, gossip, gossip. Elain had told me all about it at dinner the night before, hardly noticing that it was an effort for me to get down my food.”
She plans the ball Papa Archeron throws in Feyre’s honor and at that ball, we see how social she is and how much she enjoys it.
Page 268 of ACOTAR:
But I tried to smile, if only for Elain, who flitted about the room, personally greeting each guest and dancing with all their important sons.
After the sisters are changed into Fae we lose sight of that side of Elain but in ACOFAS, Nesta points it out to Feyre when they are having a fight about Elain, that their sister used to love crowds and parties, she didn’t always hate being in crowds like Feyre claims.
Traveling
Traveling is one of their interests. As I said before, Lucien has many friends across Prythian, he has traveled a lot during his youth and as the emissary of Spring.
Page 160 of ACOTAR:
“…so he spent his youth doing everything a High Lord’s son probably shouldn’t: wandering the courts, making friends with sons of other High Lords…”
And Elain has talked about her interest in traveling.
Page 256 of ACOTAR:
“’These bulbs came all the way from the tulip fields of the Continent. Father praised that next spring he’ll take me to see them.’”
Dismissed by the people around them, especially growing up
They are dismissed by the people around them. When they were growing up, they were not wanted or needed by their families. They weren’t really taken seriously.
Lucien explains that he wasn’t wanted or needed during his youth:
Page 106 of ACOWAR:
“As the youngest of seven sons, I wasn’t particularly wanted or needed. Perhaps it was a good thing. I was able to study for longer than my brother allowed by brothers…I could train for as long as I liked. I learned what I could of the land from its people. Learned about the people, too.”
and Feyre explains in Sliver Flames that their mother treated Elain “as barely more than a doll to dress up”. Their mother saw little to no potential in Elain:
Page 130 of ACOSF:
“I mean, it was always that way with us, and our mother. She only had an interest in Nesta. She ignored me, and saw Elain as barely more than a doll to dress up.”
I don’t think their childhood was the same, Beron and Lucien’s brothers were a lot more harsh to him, and Nesta said that Elain never received the same abuse that Nesta did from their grandmother. But I find it interesting how Lucien says perhaps it was a good thing he wasn’t wanted or needed. Lucien wasn’t held to a high standard as his brothers were, he wasn’t used for politics as much as they were. He was and still is underestimated. And I think all of this applies to Elain too, not only with mother Archeron and their grandmother but also in general, with her sisters and the IC.
Good relationship with one of their parents
They are the favorite child of one of their parents. LoA loved Lucien the most because he was her son from Helion:
Page 456 of ACOWAR:
“The Lady of Autumn’s favorite son—not only from Lucien’s goodness. But because he was the child she’d dreamed of having…with the male she undoubtedly loved.”
And Elain was loved the most by Papa Archeron I think, she was his princess, she was the only one who treated him kindly:
Page 17 of ACOTAR:
“He was smiling mildly at his beloved Elain, the only one of us who bothered to really speak to him at all.”
Clinging on to their old lovers
And this similarity is probably the most important imo: they are stuck in the past clinging to their old lovers that they lost.
Lucien is often thinking of Jesminda to the point where he is stuck on her; when he is in front of his mate alone for the first time, he compares her to Jesminda, who has been dead for centuries. He has had plenty of lovers before but Jesminda is a huge part of his heart.
Page 249 of ACOWAR:
“But there she was.
His mate.
She was nothing like Jesminda.”
I think his guilt influences his thoughts but he cannot get over her and the life that he was going to have with her. He expected to marry her, he thought they were mates, and when he is in front of his true mate he has feelings of passion and attraction but he is disheartened because Elain is not Jesminda. He can’t stand to be in the room with her.
Page 250 of ACOWAR:
“But he couldn’t breathe as she faced him fully.
She was the most beautiful females he’d ever seen.
Betrayal, queasy and oily, slid through his veins.
He’d said the same to Jesminda once.”
And Elain is stuck on Grayson. She was expecting to marry him, she thought he loved her and all of that falls apart because she got her fae mate.
Page 498 of ACOWAR:
‘I don’t care what his name is, you are his mate.’
‘It means nothing. I don’t care who decided it or why they did—‘
‘you belong to him.’
‘I belong to no one, but my heart belongs to you.’
Grayson‘s face hardened. ‘I don’t want it.’
He would’ve been better off hitting her, that’s how deep the hurt in her eyes went.
She wishes to be human still and having a mate is the most fae thing you can have and this is disheartening to her and she avoids Lucien because of this.
Page 167 of ACOFAS:
“‘He doesn’t know me.’
‘You don’t give him the chance to even try to do so.’
“‘I don’t want a mate. I don’t want a male.’
She wanted a human man.”
This is super super significant to me and it is going to be a conflict when we get Elain’s book.
Relationship with violence
I think they both avoid violence, maybe even hate it, but they understand that it is necessary. They tend to be more diplomatic, especially with their loved ones and allies, but they will tear their enemies to shreds.
Page 282 of ACOTAR:
“Lucien told [Amarantha] to go back to the shithole she’d crawled out of.”
Page 653 of ACOWAR:
“Elain stepped out of a shadow behind him, and rammed Truth-teller to the hilt through the back of the king’s neck as she snarled in his ear, ‘don’t you touch my sister.’”
Aspects of their personalities
Their personalities are pretty different but they have some key similarities that I think stick out:
Can be reserved and also bold
They can be both reserved and bold. We see Lucien being courteous in ACOWAR when first arriving in the NC but he obviously did not trust the IC. Holds back his frustration and sadness with Elain. He avoids talking in conversations but you know he’s definitely thinking. And Elain is very much like that too, and her boldness is starting to grow more which we can see in ACOSF.
Encourages people to have an attitude with them
With Lucien’s boldness and Elain’s newfound boldness, they encourage people to have an attitude with them to kindle a better relationship.
Page 92 of ACOTAR:
“Do you ever stop being such a prick?” I (Feyre) snapped back.
Dead—really, truly, I should have been dead for that.
But Lucien grinned at me. “Much better.”
Page 597 of ACOSF:
“‘Oh, fuck you,” Nesta snapped, and then choked.
Elain blinked. Nesta blinked back, horror lurching through her.
And then Elain burst out laughing…’You never said such a thing to me! I think that’s a good sign, isn’t it?’”
These two parts are so similar to me!
Good, loyal people
Lucien is very much a rake and can be a bit of a snarky asshole, but he can be a gentleman. He is loyal, generous, and overall a goodhearted person. We see this when he helps Feyre UTM, at the Cauldron with Elain. When he and Feyre first arrive in the NC in ACOWAR, he is wary and curt at first but he is polite, courteous and respectful after.
And so many people talk about Elain’s goodness. Feyre admires that she still has these traits after everything which is this quote, Nesta talks about it in ACOSF, so do the IC.
Page 258 of ACOTAR:
“I marveled at it, actually—that those years of poverty hadn’t stripped away that light from Elain. Perhaps buried a bit, but she was generous, loving, and kind—a woman I found myself proud to know, to call sister.”
Their innate goodness despite everything they've both been through is something they have in common.
I think to end this, I have to talk about what these similarities mean, and my biases are coming in as a person who loves Elucien, but I think these similarities are set up for a reason. They are similar in a lot of ways and the differences they have will cause conflict and spark and chemistry that SJM loves to write in her romances. There has been a lot set up for them. Lucien travels often while Elain does not, Lucien has met Papa Archeron and admires him. I didn’t mention this before but both of them have so much symbolism with light which is super significant. And as I mentioned, conflict. Conflict is important in SJMs romances, she said in this interview in 2020 that a love interest needs to have conflict and a spark. The issues they both have with clinging on to their old lovers and avoiding each other are going to be brought up, why wouldn’t it? Lucien is a male that is rakish and loves banter and SJM loves that in a love interest, so I think there is a huge potential of him bringing out Elain’s boldness once they start being comfortable in each other’s presence. And we have already seen it before but Elain can bring out the gentleman who shows his love.
You don’t have to like Elucien, you don’t have to see any chemistry, but their story isn’t over yet, and whether we get them as a couple or not, these similarities are going to be important, the conflict they have will be explored. And I’m very excited.
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A male Wikipedia editor reversed my edit, and I can't fight back or else risk being banned. I changed the men's-only list of French football players (titled List of France international footballers) to say List of France men's international footballers. This should be uncontroversial.
The women's page is called List of France women's international footballers.
The views the men's page got in the past 20 days, while it was titled as if it was a gender-neutral list, List of France international footballers: 175 views, 161 views, 180 views, 214 views, 220 views, 186 views, 198 views, 216 views, 220 views, 177 views, 168 views, 207 views, 228 views, 218 views, 192 views, 351 views, 378 views, 318 views, 266 views, 165 views, (then here is where I changed the name to List of France men's international footballers) 74 views.
Wikipedia purposely lies to trick people into believing List of France international footballers will be all the major footballers in France, when it is men only. The pattern in page views shows crystal clearly people are NOT searching for the men's content. When the page is properly labeled to point out it's about men's sports players, it gets FEWER VIEWS.
The worst part isn't just male Wikipedia editors deliberately lying to you. This is men in every station since the beginning of media. They have always been falsely hyping up men's sports and brushing aisde women's sports.
Not to mention this same male editor erased 2 hours and 15 minutes of my work adding a minor amount of information (linking and checking all the dates took me forever lol) to the page Football in France, because adding some short info about women threatens the men's status as the primary importance of the Football in France article. That was literally his reason for deleting. Wikipedia straight up erases information if it's about the oh so unimportant female sex.
Found by a metal detectorist near Lanchester, Co. Durham, this is the first complete Roman Fleet Diploma to be discovered in the country and reveals the identity of one of Britain's first named sailors.
In the Roman Empire, there were citizens and non-citizens. Being a citizen gave you social and legal advantages. These included the right to own property, not pay some taxes and the right to have a lawful marriage. Most people in Britain at this time were not citizens. One way to become a citizen was to serve in the Roman army for 25 years, or the navy for 26 years. A diploma was the document that proved you had completed military service and could call yourself a Roman citizen.
The Lanchester Diploma was issued by the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161 CE) to Veluotigernus, a Briton from Lanchester, County Durham, in around 150 CE. To earn his diploma, Veluotigernus had served in Classis Germanica, the Roman navy in Germany. We know his unit was based around Cologne, and that their main duties at this time were patrolling and logistics rather than combat.
It is unusual to be able to identify a local person from this period by name. Veluotigernus' British name ended with '-tigernus', which means 'king or 'master' This suggests that Veluotigernus was from a high-status local family. When he was honourably discharged from the navy, his name, according to the diploma became Titus Aelius Veluotigernus - illustrating that he, like many others, had embraced Roman culture. He is the second oldest known sailor in the country, and one of the few Britons we know to have served in the German fleet.
The diploma is made of a copper alloy. It consisted of two inscribed rectangular bronze plates,like pages in a book. The inside pages contained the complete text, whilst the outside had a shortened version, along with a list of seven witnesses. Each diploma was checked and then sealed to create a single document. It is very unusual to find a complete diploma.
Most diplomas were broken up, and the pieces passed to the recipient's children, allowing each of them to claim Roman citizenship. It is unclear what prompted Veluotigernus to bury the diploma rather than distributing the pieces amongst his close family.
Worth the prolonged wait. "New" content of Solène from Paris, France. Second "fresh" content since her flood of videos ended in July. From YouTube. Great to see her smoking in an up-to-date clip!
WELCOME BACK TO
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DEAR | GREAT TO
SEE YOU AGAIN !
Solène was named by our network as the 2023 SF Newcomer of The Year. She is lovely. Might not be a passionate smoker; might not be an "outstanding" smoker. But smoking cigarettes is a habit for her. She is addicted. Solène understands how smoking enhances how sexy and beautiful she looks (as though she needed any assistance in that regard)! "Bonjour, mademoiselle!"
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