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I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting
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I think it's "Return to a life where you don't get internal organs in your hair?"
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I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting
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I think it's "Return to a life where you don't get internal organs in your hair?"
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Anon describes experience
One day I'm going to frame a coloured drawing I still have from year one. The following event is also still ingrained in my mind: We had to colour in a picture with several animals, one of which was a small spotted reptile in a puddle of water. Clearly a salamander.
The teacher crossed it out in red pen and screamed that I am old enough to know lizards are green and there is no such thing as a black and yellow animal on this earth.
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Plane crashes in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, killing all 61 aboard.
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It's a stall. When the plane is like that it's nearly impossible to maneuver because the control surfaces aren't exposed to airflow so they don't do anything. Your only hope is to somehow make it face the ground again and pull up in time.
As to how it got that way it usually happens when someone loses track of the horizon and tries to fly up.
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Why is everyone suggesting ventoy and stuff and no one is telling you to just reformat drives you no longer need? Or are they all live OSs in use? Am I missing something?
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Funniest sentence wins
Nooo the economy
(Stolen from another meme)
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Rowling Rule
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I haven't read harry potter for 20 years, got totally burned out before finishing the series and as you can imagine 14 year old me wasn't exactly very aware of trans issues but here's a few even my thick headed teenage brain found weird:
Bankers are basically jewish caricatures - short goblins with long noses that only care about money
Weird slavery message where Hermione is proven wrong for wanting to free the elves as a lot of them are happy with servitude
Every foreign character is a weird stereotype. I think there was even a Korean character with a chinese name like Chong? There was clearly no concern for portraying anything correctly, just a weak attempt to increase diversity with no effort I guess
There were also a few weird things adjacent to harry potter like how every major character is basically described as alabaster white and she later attempted to hide her bias by saying "I never explicitly said that X was white". Lady, you literally wrote that Hermione was a pale redhead in dozens if not hundreds of pages. I don't care if she's played by a 4 inch tall blue alien, just own up to it and stop gaslighting people.
Also, not a big deal but it always felt weird to me that even the nominally poor family lived a life of luxury. I could tell the person writing never truly knew hardship from the way she wrote the Weasleys. I can't say I have much experience myself but it felt strange how they kept saying a clearly upper middle class family was destitute and made fun of.
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A true cinephile
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Sometimes decades later I suddenly realise I was being flirted on in some random party circa 2004. I used to think exactly like you!
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Microsoft Can't Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.
I feel bad for saying this but I pay for onedrive because it was the best way to make a synchronised library of ebooks that I can use offline in my tablet.
Yes every other cloud storage solution was more expensive or outright didn't support it for some god forsaken reason. Some needed you to manually press a download button. Google Drive needs you to manually set every file to available offline and even then it won't work all the time.
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Protestation
The crusades were probably the time when christianity spread the least though. Just saying.
/historian hat off
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Walls of Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul, with diagram
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Lets you cover blind spots and attack enemies directly adjacent to the wall itself.
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The Extra Mile
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Eh going the extra mile is how I got so burned out I had to quit a job for the sake of my physical and mental health.
Did I get promoted? Hell no. Never did. The boss's wife sure did though.
Yes I'm aware you said balance but I just had to share why I'm currently trying not to care anymore. Note I said trying, I'm really terrible at not giving everything to every project I'm in.
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Ant smell
My weird "paranormal" quirk is knowing when someone is sick by smell. My nose is usually blocked up and I can barely smell flowers but for some reason I can just tell when someone is incubating some sickness that will make them bedridden the next day.
No idea how it works. I just smell "sick" - it's kind of this warm earthy ground smell. I can even smell it on myself sometimes and I'll know I need to take a day off tomorrow. My theory is I can smell something off in the skin temperature.
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EU Council Calls to Protect Culture in Video Games
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You want the EU to stop funding a shitload of games like they've done for decades? Weird take but ok?
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logical
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1/4 of a meter is not not a common measurement but 25 cm is. I think it's just a matter of whichever system you're used to, like discussing which language is better.
That being said, meters are just more precise, hence why american measurements are all defined by metric and then turned into feet, thumbs and dicklengths.
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UK to keep EU safety mark in post-Brexit climbdown
But are they keeping the 0 to 3 sad onions?
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What's the deal with Isreal vs. Palestine side taking in the West?
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You're right, but they do lead the Gaza strip.
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A Paradigm Shift in Social Policy: How Finland Conquered Homelessness
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They don't afaik unless you're a legal immigrant. If you're ilegal they will try to get you home.
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Athens turns orange, Helsinki goes white as Europe’s weather springs a surprise
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Helsinki yes, Finland no.
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Pidjiguiti Massacre (1959) On this day in 1959, the Pidjiguiti Massacre occurred when Portuguese police (PIDE) fired on striking dock workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing 50 people. The...
I'm Portuguese and never heard of this shit. And they say our education is woke, Jesus Christ.
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Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for war
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Yes. There are actual letters and memos from german leadership about poking the Austrians into making the situation in Serbia worse in hopes a tiping point would give them an excuse to take swathes of Russia and France in the coming conflict.
Bonus points: methods for the handling of jews and other undesirables in the occupied lands were already being talked about