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So the banner ad didn’t scale down for the mobile browser and it took me multiple minutes to realize that this stock photo of people in business suits was not, in fact, an illustration of what oathbreaker paladins in service to an evil power are supposed to look like

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Nakba Day 2024

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How to spot signs and symptoms of Breast Cancer 

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Latest comic: No, bad!

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another funny thing about trade during the Edo period outside of Nagasaki is that in addition to the Matsumae clan in modern southern Hokkaido being permitted to trade with Ainu the other ‘gates’ to Japan were the Satsuma clan being permitted to trade with the Ryukyus which the Satsuma had conquered and made vassals and the island of Tsushima being permitted to trade with Korea. The establishment of the Tsushima-Korea trade happened in the early Edo period and after an initial exchange of envoys and Japanese envoys reassuring the Joseon that the Tokugawa were different from the Toyotomi who had invaded Korea and were responsible for overthrowing them and the Korean king was like “Ok, but we’ll still need an apology for all that shit if you want trade to happen”. Ieyasu Tokugawa was fine with Tsushima trading with Korea but the lord who ruled Tsushima knew that there would be no way Ieyasu would send something as humbling as an apology to a foreign ruler especially if he felt his hands were clean of the whole Korean invasion. So what the happened is the lord of Tsushima forged an apology letter from Ieyasu including faking his seal and sent it to the Joseon court. The Joseon court found it acceptable and sent a letter addressed to Ieyasu saying trade will be permitted to resume. Because the Joseon letter was based on the assumption that Ieyasu apologized and also because the style of it clearly looked like it was in response to a letter Ieyasu never actually sent the lord of Tsushima put away the real letter and forged yet another letter this time an edited version of the letter from the Joseon removing any mention of an apology and making it sound like it was part of a brand new correspondence rather than a response to an earlier letter. The Tokugawa fell for this ruse as well and Tsushima was able to engage in trade with Korea after the ruling courts were tricked into thinking they had come to a mutual agreement because the lord of Tsushima had essentially been faking the back and forth exchange with forged letters

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sobbing and crying at the woman who stole a meth addicted kitten from her dealer and then she and the kitten got clean together

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Guy dies and finds himself standing in front of Satan. 

He says, "Oh no, am I..."

Satan says, "Yes, you are. But it's not as bad as you think. Let me give you the tour."

Guy looks around and sees that they are in a grassy field with rolling hills, chirping birds, bunny rabbits hopping around, for as far as the eye can see.

They start walking. Satan points to the right and says, "Over there is the sports center. There are three arenas, an Olympic sized pool, tennis courts, an 18 hole PGA approved golf course, and more. You can watch or participate in any one, any time you want."

Satan continues. "On the left is the theater district. Every movie and and Broadway show ever produced can be enjoyed there 24 hours a day."

Then he points ahead. "The marina is down there, where any sized craft from a dinghy to an aircraft carrier, fully crewed, is available for you."

As they proceed, they pass a fenced off area filled with molten lava all the way to the horizon. In it are hundreds of millions of people, drowning and screaming in agony.

Guy says, "See, now that's what I expected Hell to be like."

Satan replies, "Nah, we just keep that for the Christians. They seem to like it for some reason."

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Being polyam is FR like “I’m not aro/ace but I believe in their beliefs”

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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3d printed start gate

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i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

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btw since it just occurred to me to go check for this kind of money the government could outright buy the equivalent of a year and a half of Australian nickel production and have enough spare change left over to give all the dudes working the nickel places a hell of a redundancy package… so like just as an idea of the scale of the ride we are being taken on here.

(Price per ton via LME, production rough value via Wikipedia, extremely ballpark approximation by very tired me I’m not showing the working cause that pre-supposes i have stuff to show beyond doing a currency conversion and multiplying the price by the production)

Welcome to Australian politics where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.

As an aside if bhp was just planning on closing the nickel mine and smelter then one would suspect that purchasing it outright might be a somewhat cheaper option for the government, after all if these minerals are of critical importance then allowing access to be dictated by private industry particularly a company with a history of closing large facilities in Australia in favour of offshore operations is clearly a shit idea.

The absolute gall of the LNP trotting out “billions for billionaires” as if it hasn’t been the keystone of their every economic policy for longer than i’ve been alive but hey scoring points of the party in power for doing what you would have done anyway is a time honoured tradition for the fuckwits that occupy our political class.

(This isn’t even in the vicinity of the most pointlessly stupidly awful thing in this budget but fuck it this one doesn’t make me want to vomit so here you go)

#auspol

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Welcome to Australian politics where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.

As an aside if bhp was just planning on closing the nickel mine and smelter then one would suspect that purchasing it outright might be a somewhat cheaper option for the government, after all if these minerals are of critical importance then allowing access to be dictated by private industry particularly a company with a history of closing large facilities in Australia in favour of offshore operations is clearly a shit idea.

The absolute gall of the LNP trotting out “billions for billionaires” as if it hasn’t been the keystone of their every economic policy for longer than i’ve been alive but hey scoring points of the party in power for doing what you would have done anyway is a time honoured tradition for the fuckwits that occupy our political class.

(This isn’t even in the vicinity of the most pointlessly stupidly awful thing in this budget but fuck it this one doesn’t make me want to vomit so here you go)

#auspol