The complicity of the local police after the numerous reports about the killer were shrugged off. It leaves your ears ringing

It’s genuinely nuts what happened to him. Such a horrible, prolonged, targeted attack.

fair enough, didn’t mean to shame anyone in particular – the whole getup just seemed a bit off to me

At first I had the same double-take. I still think it’s AI, but at least this one is somewhat consistent

Yes, I often run in nothing but a jogging bra and a white coat and shorts over my leggings. Totally

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Teacher, I just voided myself in public, are we having fun?

She returns as swiftly as she departed, and swoops seamlessly under his arm to take measurements.

Sensing danger, the adventurer reaches for his hilt and draws out his dagger.

The Granny, mouth full of sewing pins, deftly and graciously accepts with a “thank you” and uses it to cut some of the material near the back for a better fit. She sheaves it quickly back into his hilt, and slaps a cup of tea into his still outstretched hand.

“There you go, dearie” she says, patting his bottom.

why is her hand so tiny in the second one

Oh for sure – in the context of Tsar Alexander, he likely grew up being told from birth that it was his divine right to rule, whilst at the same time he wanted to be in with the trendy European crowd promoting democracy. I can totally see how someone might have these two halves of themselves that they cannot totally reconcile .

Musk, I believe, truly does care what people think of him. There was a time in the early 2010s when he had a trendy wife, was promoting open source specs for E-cars, and was doing as much as he could to signal to progressives that he was their man.

Only once it became clear that he could not live the consequence-free rich-man lifestyle with all of its abusive horrors and still be revered by the progressives, is when he ran like a crying infant to the skirts of its mother towards the conservatives. He ultimately wishes to be loved and respected by the in-crowd, doesn’t matter what they stand for.

Reminds me of Castlereigh trying to deal with Tsar Alexandar I at the The Congress of Vienna (1814)

https://youtu.be/QtOXq9SwarQ?t=1061

It’s difficult to characterize Tsar Alexander, because it seems that most of his mental energy was caught up in creating narratives about what kind of person he was, and not so much on what he did or how he behaved. Alexander had 8 or 10 of these narratives going through his head at the same time, and wasn’t particularly bothered when they contradicted each other.

Alexander considered himself a true “Enlightenment Monarch,” and told anybody who would listen that he believed in a limited, constitutional monarchy, and wanted Russia to have elections, and a parliament, and independent courts. At the same time, he ruled Russia as a tyrannical dictator, which was justified in his mind because he believed that he was God’s chosen instrument on Earth. These two thoughts are not compatible.

But Alexander did not see a contradiction. He would simply switch between these two modes of thought depending on who he was talking to and how he felt that day.

Alexander believed himself to be the most honourable man in Europe, a man who revered ritual, and tradition, and justice. Simultaneously, he believed that God made him Emperor of Russia for a reason, and if he needed to go back on his word and use brute force to implement his will, that was all part of God’s plan.

These contradictory beliefs made Alexander impossible to deal with. His positions came off as utterly random, and they could change at any time depending on his mood.

My my tiefling is just a short human with thin features and slightly greyish skin.

If beastboy and raven had a kid, basically.

It makes you sad, doesn’t it?

Whilst she makes a real and serious point, if she belabors it by dressing it up as something official, then she weakens whatever authenticity she has with the people that see it.

Making it as ad-hoc and sloppy as possible, genuinely sells the idea that it was done on the spot, without AI fakery, and leaves it open to debate on whether or not this is an official position of the Democrats.

I hear you, but I think the way she did it was absolutely perfect all things in consideration

wait what, source please

I think once I introduced the fabled birdsword in my campaign, I unleashed a Pandora’s box of expectation that I simply could not live up to

It can be, though I’d urge anyone to go for balanced sources and recognize the biases of the URLs that frequently pop up

Just like in science, you delegate your trust to experts in their field as reputable sources of information, since you yourself are not an expert

Your only responsibility is to locate such sources, rare though they may be. Always look at the URL of a news source, and if it’s not one you recognize, ignore the headline.

Look at this guy pretending he hasn’t seen two homeless people racing each other down a ramp in old bathtubs.

Let people enjoy things, sheesh