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NHK World has a special program on Russia noting that while Putin’s approval rating is high it is a passive high - that if the war starts to impact the population negatively in a major way it will collapse. According to the professor they had on at their current rate of spending, the dwindling labor force and inflation it can break as early as the end of the year. This may be why he’s pushing Trump to get Zelensky to ‘TAKE THE DEAL’.

According to Trump he's sitting with Zelensky today. I hope Zelensky doesn't take the deal. Dictators like Trump and Putin only understand personal consequences. Call out their bluff.

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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don��t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

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Purrformeownce art

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Manifesting 🙏

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You're a hero with a weird name: "Anything for $20." You gain the ability to do anything, as long as you're offered $20. Everyone takes it as a joke, until one day there's a cataclysm, and someone offers you $20 to end it.

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Oh and by the way Spider isn’t a traitor for saving his father’s life, he isn’t responsible for Neteyam’s death nor should he have died in his place.

The way some people go to absurd lenghts to blame children for acts of war instead of blaming the objectively horrible people actually responsible for the war is beyond me. Also why the hell do you want to see an innocent kid die so much?

(And no, it wasn’t Lo'ak’s fault either. The only people responsible for Neteyam’s death are the humans that brought the war to him and pulled the trigger that killed him. The only ones who should ever be blamed are the RDA/Quaritch/Lyle, not innocent kids)

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PSA

This is The Adjuster (Robin Hoodie, Guy That Shot the CEO, etc.):

And this is Luigi Mangione:

And yes, they are both super cool and hot as fuck but remember, they are two different people. The Adjuster has not been found and Luigi was never involved in the shooting.

Do not talk about them as if they are the same person and do not further spread the idea that Luigi is guilty.

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i keep meeting transfems whose personalities are like, gaping wounds. girls who've been stomped on over and over until they start thinking they're uniquely evil and they deserve it. people shouldn't be allowed to treat us like this.

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Discord has added generative AI features to servers.

Here are THREE THINGS you need to do today.

1️⃣ YOUR SERVER

Go into server settings -> roles -> Default permissions

Search for "external apps" and disable it

2️⃣ YOUR FEEDBACK

Access Discord support -> https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Go into Help & Support > Feedback/New Feature Request

Denounce generative AI and request the feature be removed. Bring up privacy concerns for yourself, your data, and for minors.

You will get an automatic reply to this request- PLEASE REPLY TO THE EMAIL TO PUSH IT TO THE TEAM or else it will get discarded.

3️⃣ ON MOBILE

Access your app store

Leave a 1 star review and publicly denounce generative AI and Discord's use of it

Reblog this to spread the word, I'm tired of the enshittification of the things I use in my day to day life.

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I shouldn't have to make this my pinned post

DON'T TAG PEOPLE IN REPLIES IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE POST. THAT'S SPAM AND AGAINST TOS.

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This has been a PSA.

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whatever man, you're a fake creator. you're not playing spore, you're playing something else entirely

i made this anon in spore [2008]

next time show your face

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My mom was involved in fixing every program in her company so a crash wouldn't happen. Can confirm, the were working on it for the majority of the 90s.

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Trump's Press Secretary is trying to be sneaky by saying Elon Musk oversees DOGE and gives press conferences about DOGE activities but he is not the administrator of DOGE.

Because being the administrator of an executive agency opens you up to being questioned by FOIA requests and legal subpoenas and fall under standards of ethics. And being a "consultant to the president" regarding DOGE does not. It's entirely transparent and dumb.

It reminds me of the scene in Orange is the New Black after the prison goes private and the new corporate executive is trying to weasel out of admitting that he's the warden.

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uk people, sign and share

non uk people, share but don't sign

terfs, get in the bin and stay there