9.7% of UK imports comes from America and 16.2% of UK exports goes to America. That’s not something you can turn off without a significant hurt.
Alas there are movements in the right direction such as the Tempest program but it’s (the defence planning) largely still a protectionist joke, to quote Kaja Kallas;
“I am surprised at how important the fish are, considering the security situation”
Fire Emblem Engage does a very funny thing with one character’s ending. If you give them the Pact Ring (which may or may not be romantic depending on the individual character), they live a ‘long life’ as a ‘blessing of the Divine Dragon’.
If you don’t, they die early from a persistent illness they’ve had since they were young.
So I guess if he was just a friend the main character said “eh, let him die”. Harsh.
Serge Hinott says: [Forsaken] Veldbarad! Ealdor vil veldbarad!
…What ever happened to “Gloinador Waldir ras gloinador”? Did they change the translation algorithm?
I agree, let’s start launching nukes immediately so the Tempest can grow from the fallout
[heavy guitar riffs play]
Maybe when they changed it from “gutterspeak” to “forsaken”
Why does English have so many words for wetlands? Swamp, marsh, fen, bog, mire…
As a Russian speaker, I find it confusing.
I’m gonna guess because like 70% of their country was or is marshland!
Like how some languages have multiple words for snow of different types.
They are all slightly different.
“A mire is distinguished from a swamp by its lack of a forest canopy (though some bogs may support limited tree or bush growth, mires are dominated by grass and mosses), and from a marsh by its water nutrients and distribution (marshes are characterized by nutrient-rich stagnant or slow-moving waters).”
For example
There were many different portal articles to go through;
I follow that, but I’m still surprised that these distinctions are so important as to warrant separate words! Russian makes do with basically just one word, adding qualifiers if necessary.
The torturous alienation of capitalist society in terminal decline where every part that makes and sustains human life is a commodity and said life is valued as nothing beyond a cog in The Economy.
A good start is to treat people like people.
It’s 4AM but I finished TLOU2!
So Smirky McFeet is finally(?) the forum banner art after half of the expansion is done.
well, we have 2 more expacs of her so…
nah she’s dying in midnight to make room for iridikron in TLT
source: I saw it in a dream
https://i.imgflip.com/9s2u0q.jpg
Fellas, is there anything more pathetic than ‘writing’ a children’s book completely through usage of AI, including illustrations for it, and asking 14 euros or more for it?
The answer is yes, by the way, because the publishers were also okay with it and published those instead of real books. Because a child won’t be able to tell the difference or why your owl has three legs!
Destroying a childs ability to interpret art at a young age is borderline evil I think
Eh, a lot of them will absolutely call out the three leg thing. From a surprisingly young age really. A fair few of that number will care deeply enough to bring it up for days after.
That nonsense flies because adults build a justification a lot of the time.
I don’t think it speaks well if a child will be bothered about it but an adult might throw a tantrum about why you cant just enjoy the ai slop, stop thinking critically stop doing that
I don’t know why adults who throw tantrums about it do that, but I agree it’s silly and makes them dumber than a child.
In the classroom this’ll become an accepted norm where we say “oh yes the owl does have three legs, that’s strange. They may want to catch three mice hehehehe”, at which point the child will probably ask a variant of what/how they’ll store/do with three mice, with the adult attempting to brush the childs bafflement under the carpet, often with time as an excuse to not engage ‘difficult’ topics.
I’m risking a rant but the classroom, in the UK at least, is under a heavy time factor. Things are fast, they start fast, they end suddenly and they move on quickly.
My phonics group, that I do allow to drift to ‘awkward’ topics on occasion, has a sharp and limited 40 minute window (in theory, it’s usually more like 20 because they arrive late as other factors snowball) and the -only- reason I can permit any drift at all is because I have a high speed group who do the work quickly and, to their credit, generally brilliantly. If I had a group that was slower or less capable, I’d have to end any devitation to other topics immediately.
Many of us would love to be able to sit down and engage with the children seriously about topics that aren’t maths, english and… maths and english. But if we do then we run out of time and then there’s discussions about children not progressing, school targets not being met etc. Granted that all affects the teacher more than myself, I have more room to drift into casual conversation that allows topics like AI, stiffling of creativity, social issues etc but even then it’s very limited.
(also laws that say we can’t say things that are obviously wrong are obviously wrong because we might upset a bigots feelings etc)
ANd of course I’m not responsible for the views of their parents who may love this slop, which counters any effort anyway so. Yeah.
I hate earth, can we go to mars.