#$2.42

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Kaldra Compleat

Artist: Vincent Proce TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[fox-daddy]

FINALLY, got my hands on the update and ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

EXCUSE ME WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!

[toruro]

i miss you i love you

pls send me lots of vms abt your trip when you get home and are done resting 🫶

i love u more :c I AM SORRY 4 BEING SO ON AND OFF i haven’t had a minute to rest i will tell u EVERYTHING AOON

[nksistemas]

Explorando las Increíbles Novedades de Git 2.42

En este mundo de la tecnología nos encontramos en constante movimiento, y tenemos nuevas versiones de las herramientas más esenciales para el desarrollo de software. Recientemente, se ha dado a conocer la flamante Git 2.42, una versión que deslumbra con su innovación y mejoras significativas en varios aspectos clave. Desde los mapas de bits hasta los mecanismos avanzados, ¡esta versión tiene…

[boogietosomemarvin]

irl payed me 2.42€ to draw this

[dennisboobs]

i scanned all of the always sunny scripts i bought and put em in PDF form, go nuts

[everliving-everblaze]

Best Kotlc Quote: Match 2.42

Quote 1

“We good, Foster?”

- Stina Heks, Legacy, Chapter 8

Quote 2

“And you stay my brave little Moonlark, always.”

- Calla, Neverseen, Chapter 74

[goldenennina]

The Washburn Edition

Hello my friends!

Welcome to my Tumblr!

I am Golden Ennina, creator and curator of The Sims 3 Remastered: The Washburn Edition Mods List. I am an avid Sims 3 player who was sick and tired of my love/hate relationship with this game. As amazing, fun and engrossing as this game is, it is also a glitchy laggy mess that infuriated me to no end!

This mixture of love and frustration set me out on a mission to mod the hell out of my game, and create the Washburn Edition. This mods list fixes, updates and improves nearly every aspect of the game! I finished and published Version 4 of my mods list a year ago, and am currently working on Version 5, which takes the game to a whole new level!

The Washburn Edition also makes the game playable on lower end PC's!

Here are my laptops specs:

Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz 2.42 GHz

Installed RAM: 8.00 GB (7.70 GB usable)

System Type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Graphics Card: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics

I created a YouTube channel last month to chronical my progress on V5, and to share with you some of the things I have learned about the game. With time, I'll also be making build videos, and Let's Play: Washburn Edition videos!

Come and join me!

Golden Ennina's Sims 3 - YouTube

TS3 Washburn Version 4 Mods Master List.xlsx - Google Sheets

[ask-a-goldsmith]

In writing my last few posts, I have realized that there is quite a lot of basic(to me) knowledge required to understand most of this stuff. I've done my best to explain as I go, but I think this deserves its own post. So, here we go!

Junior Gemology 101

This post is mostly about diamonds! I am well aware it's called Junior Gemology, but 90% of what I deal with on a day-to-day basis is diamonds. Also, a lot of this applies to coloured stones too, so no need to repeat myself.

What is a diamond, actually?

Diamonds are carbon! That's all there is! Except for inclusions. And coloured diamonds. Those have little bits of other materials in them. And are also a topic for later. I digress. Like always.

Specifically, diamonds are carbon atoms bonded together covalently in a tetrahedral shape. Confusing enough yet? This means that each carbon atom is bonded to 4 other carbon atoms. It's ok if you don't get it, I spent about 3 hours trying to understand diamond structure before things started to make sense. This website has a 3D model of the tetrahedral structure seen in diamonds and is what I used to finally wrap my head around it. The important part is: diamonds are made of carbon atoms connected in a pattern. If the pattern was different, It wouldn't be a diamond! If the carbon was bonded in hexagonal rings, it would be graphite! Same atoms, veeeerrrryyy different result.

What makes diamonds so darn special?

I've told you what a diamond is - so why do people care about this very specific pattern of carbon? The answer is(mostly) that humanity LOVES shiny things, and diamonds are great at being shiny. Why have diamonds become THE shiny thing to have? A combination of some REALLY successful marketing campaigns and some of diamond's unique characteristics. These characteristics include things such as their hardness, brilliance, and fire. I went deeper into these characteristics and what they mean in terms of telling diamonds from other stones in this post, but I'll give you a quick run-down here.

Diamonds are very(and famously) hard. They're a 10 on the Mohs scale, and almost nothing is harder than them. This doesn't mean diamonds are impervious to damage - while they are very hard, diamonds can also be brittle, and a hard smack in the wrong place can chip, crack, or even shatter a diamond. Trust me, I know. I've broken a few by accident.

Brilliance and fire are what give diamonds their characteristic bling. Though they are classified as different things - brilliance being the bright white reflections of light and fire being the rainbow reflections - they're both caused by diamond's Refractive Index. Refractive index(RI) is the measurement of the speed at which light travels through different materials - for our purposes though, think of it as how much a ray of light bends when it moves from one material to another. Diamonds have an RI of 2.42, which causes high brilliance and a medium amount of fire. RI isn't super important for most people to know - it really only comes into the conversation when comparing diamonds to simulant materials.

What are the 4 Cs?

The 4 Cs are the meat and potatoes of diamond basics - Carat weight, Colour, Clarity, and Cut. These four terms are used to describe diamonds worldwide, each describing a different part of a diamond's look.

Carat weight is the weight of a diamond. Pretty self-explanatory. What's not clear is what a carat actually is - no, not a carrot. A carat. A carat is 0.2 grams. Therefore, a 5 carat diamond(good lord) would weigh 1 gram. With me? Why do we weigh diamonds in carats instead of grams like sane people? Because way back yonder, carob seeds were used as a counterweight to weigh diamonds, and language did what language does.

Image from loosegrowndiamond.com

Colour refers to - you guessed it - the colour of the diamond. There are two basic systems that GIA(The Gemological Institute Of America, and the accepted authority of these things in North America) use; the normal colour range and the coloured or fancy diamond range. The normal colour range is used for stones that are colourless, light yellow, or light brown. These are the most common colours of diamond, thus the "normal" colour range. These stones are graded alphabetically D-Z, with D being colourless and Z being quite noticeably yellow or brown. Normal range colour grades are sorted into 5 groups based on the general amount of colour; colourless(DEF), nearly colourless(GHIJ), Faint(KLM), Very Light(N-R), and light(S-Z).

Image from GIA article 4Cs Color

Stones that fall outside this range (stones that are too yellow or brown for the scale or show any colour other than yellow and brown) are graded using the fancy colour grades. Fancy colour grades are an entire thing, but generally pretty self-explanatory. The grade will include 1 or two colours(the more dominant of which goes last) and an intensity descriptor such as light, intense, fancy deep, etc. For example, a stone may be graded as a fancy greyish blue - this means that the stone has a middling amount of colour and is blue with a hint of grey. Easy peasy.

Clarity is how many inclusions are in a stone. Well, technically it's more complicated than that, accounting for placement and contrast and type of inclusion etc etc etc. Really, clarity is how many inclusions you see in a stone. Inclusions are things in the diamond that are not diamond, such as included crystals, or imperfections in the diamond itself, such as cracks(called feathers) or chips.

Clarity grades are, frankly, confusing as fuck. There are 11 grades, broken down into 6 grade groups. From highest to lowest, they are; Flawless, Internally Flawless, Very Very Slightly Included(VVS), Very Slightly Included(VS), Slightly Included(SI), and Included(I). VVS, VS, and SI are each broken into 2 grades - 1 and 2. I is broken down into 3 grades - 1, 2, and 3. The lower the number within a grade, the better the grade - a VS1 stone would be less visibly included than a VS2. You know what'll help? Visuals!!

Images from GIA D&DG Chapter 11. Credit to John Koivula/GIA

The diamond on the left is graded as a VVS2 - the red arrow points to the inclusion that gave it this grade. The diamond on the right is graded as an I2. No red arrows are required - this stone has many highly visible inclusions. If you want a little more info (and examples) of clarity grades, GIA has a lovely little tool that explains it quite well.

Cut refers to the shape of a diamond - specifically, the combination of shape(face-up outline) and cutting style(the arrangement of the facets). A classic round brilliant is what most people think of when they think of a diamond, but there are dozens of different cuts. When talking about cut grade, cut refers to how well executed the cut is. Are the proportions ideal? Is everything symmetrical? Is the polish well done? These determine the cut grade of the stone. Cut grades are as follows, best to worst; Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, and Poor.

What are the parts of a cut diamond?

Specifically, the parts of a round brilliant diamond. Round brilliant is the name of the most common cut of diamond. Think of a diamond. Is it round? That's almost definitely a round brilliant. Think I've said round brilliant enough? Round brilliant. Whew. Done with that now. This is best explained with diagrams.

The parts we're most interested in are the table, crown, girdle, and pavilion. The way those 3 parts are shaped and proportioned has a huge effect on the looks and value of a diamond.

Knowledge Check

Let's say you're looking at a 1.01 carat round brilliant diamond - it has a colour grade of F, a clarity grade of SI1, and an excellent cut grade. So, what does this mean to you?

Round brilliant is the cut of the diamond. It has a round outline and a brilliant cutting style. 1.01ct is a fairly large diamond - this one in particular is 6.42 mm in diameter (that's a quarter inch!). This stone is colourless - F is the lowest colour grade in the colourless range, but it is still classified as colourless. The diamond will either have one large or several small inclusions that are easy to see under 10x magnification, but hard or impossible to see while looking through the table of a stone with the naked eye(they may be visible through the pavilion with the naked eye). The diamond will be very well cut - the best cut grade possible, in fact! There will be no visible variation in the girdle outline, and all the facets will be well-placed and symmetrical.

It's up to you to decide if this stone matches your criteria - is SI1 a good enough cut grade for you? Is 1.01ct the right size? How "good" a stone is depends on what you want - there will always be bigger, clearer, more colourless diamonds on the market. What makes a stone "good" is if it's the right fit for you. Another stone may be better quality, but if it's out of your price range, then it's not a good stone for you.

In Conclusion

So, you made it this far! Congrats! Hopefully, I haven't bored you too much. We've really just scratched the surface - this was enough information to give you a good idea of what's going on and allow you to navigate the mysticisms of those strange numbers and letters you see associated with diamonds. All information was taken from the GIA Diamond Essentials 130 and Diamonds and Diamond Grading 230 courses and my 6ish years in the jewelry industry. If you have questions about specific pieces of information or want more resources, send me an ask! I will be delighted to answer.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

2005 Contemporary home in Reno, Nevada is one-of-a-kind. 3bds, 4 full, 2 half baths $4.495M.

The front door opens directly into the living room. Chairs are positioned in front of the wall of windows.

What you see when you enter. It's a rather long room and basically, b/c there's an open room behind it, the layout is meant to focus on the window.

The room that is open to the living room is a dining room. It also has the same window wall. It appears that the layout limits furniture placement to one wall.

The architectural details of an undulating loft wall is visible from the living room.

The open concept combination living room/kitchen is kind of small.

This looks more like an apt. or condo sized kitchen, rather than one in a $4.5M home.

Every room has a huge wall-size window. The bed in the primary bedroom is low to accommodate the height of the window. They may be out in the desert, but there could still be peeping toms.

The large bath has two windows. The one that the tub is in front has frosted glass on the bottom and the one in the shower is also partially frosted.

The 2 smaller bedrooms have normal windows.

There is a TV room/home theater.

Up in the loft the current owner has a game room with sports memorabilia on display.

Very large home gym has a window wall and a mural.

There's a huge playroom for the children.

Plus ample space for the car collection.

I don't know if this is real grass, b/c it's the desert. But, there's a yard. It would be nice if there was some sort of shelter from the sun.

The house looks like a beacon in the night b/c there are no street lights in the desert. The property measures 2.42 acres.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Library of Leng

Artist: Daniel Gelon TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[telomeke]

ONLY FRIENDS EPISODE 2 – TOP, MEW AND SHORTHAND FOR SEX

OK, since I haven't seen anyone post about this, I'm just gonna make some observations here.

At Ep.2 [3I4] 0.50 we see Top pulling Mew into the shower.

(above) Only Friends Ep.2 [3I4] 0.50

It's basically to allow Boston to make his naked escape unseen, but given that Top is also into Mew, did they or didn't they have sex in there?

The visuals tell us no:

(above) Only Friends Ep.2 [3I4] 1.17

The cacti in the first shot of the next scene (in Mew's home) may look phallic, but they're prickly and untouchable (just like Mew with regard to sex, all motives aside).

And then we see Top furiously manhandling the upturned leg of Mew's coffee table:

(above) Only Friends Ep.2 [3I4] 1.19

That phallic-looking shaft is obviously a stand-in for something else. 😂 And judging from Top's frustrated side-eye at Mew just after, it's clear his physical desires earlier weren't satisfied (and he seems to be working off his thwarted energies all by himself on the, um, wood):

(above) Only Friends Ep.2 [3I4] 1.24

But then Mew proceeds to tempt Top with a cookie between his lips. And the camera angle quite plainly shows us that Top is more than just a little interested, because there's a sudden appearance of wood again between his legs:

(above) Only Friends Ep.2 [3I4] 2.42

And then we see that maybe Mew is into it too, because there's more than one shaft pointing to the sky:

(above) Only Friends Ep.2 [3I4] 3.17

Jojo's really having fun with this one! 🤣

[deathlessathanasia]

„The Thebans, and those who by the Theban example will not touch sheep, give the following reason for their ordinance: they say that Heracles wanted very much to see Zeus and that Zeus did not want to be seen by him, but that finally, when Heracles prayed, Zeus contrived to show himself displaying the head and wearing the fleece of a ram which he had flayed and beheaded. It is from this that the Egyptian images of Zeus have a ram's head; and in this, the Egyptians are imitated by the Ammonians, who are colonists from Egypt and Ethiopia and speak a language compounded of the tongues of both countries. It was from this, I think, that the Ammonians got their name, too; for the Egyptians call Zeus “Amon”. The Thebans, then, consider rams sacred for this reason, and do not sacrifice them. But one day a year, at the festival of Zeus, they cut in pieces and flay a single ram and put the fleece on the image of Zeus, as in the story; then they bring an image of Heracles near it. Having done this, all that are at the temple mourn for the ram, and then bury it in a sacred coffin.” (Herodotos, Histories 2.42)

[lensman-arms-race]

Titan TV voice lines in episode 70

There are 3 lines, and 2 of them are fairly unintelligible! Here they all are in succession - can you hear something that I can't?

Under cut because spoilers innit

Around 1.47 (in the episode), said just before giving the boost to TSpeaker.

Sounds like 'du komm aup'. Is it even something in English? Context suggests it could be something like 'drink this up' (referring to the core energy transfer), but it doesn't sound enough like it. 'Doom comes up'? Bit of a stretch.

Around 2.42, said after TSpeaker needs a sitdown after going Crash Bandicoot mode.

Sounds a bit like 'take off', but it's more like 'take auf'. 'Take five' would make sense in context, but it doesn't sound quite like that.

(EDIT: Apparently the second one is 'ten out of ten', which means I cut the audio off too soon!)

Around 3.12, said to the freaky astro toilet.

This one is clearly "Who the fuck do you think you are?"!

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues — three-quarters of them haven't surrendered their firearms, according to data the Cook County sheriff will present Thursday.

Sheriff Tom Dart is seeking $10 million from state lawmakers to tackle what he calls in naming the report “A Firearm Regulation Crisis." The money would train and equip more door-knocking officers to retrieve or ensure the safe storage of weapons from those who have had their state Firearm Owners Identification cards rescinded.

The aim would be reducing the chance potentially volatile people would exhibit the type of violence seen when a shooter who wasn't allowed to own a firearm carried out a massacre at Henry Pratt Co. in a Chicago suburb.

Otherwise, the menace of revocations of FOID cards from noncompliant gun owners will spiral beyond law enforcement’s control, the Democratic sheriff told The Associated Press in releasing the report in advance. Dart scheduled a news conference Thursday morning to release his findings.

“I wish I was making this up. I wish I had someone pull my argument apart and say, ’You’re exaggerating. You’re being dramatic,'” the Dart told the AP in an interview Wednesday. “No. Do the math. At this rate, two years from now, we’re going to have 100,000 revoked FOID card owners, and there will be no contact with them to ensure they’ve had their guns properly dealt with.”

Legislation pending in Springfield would increase fees on weapons purchases to fuel enforcement, but just two weeks remain in the spring legislative session.

There are 2.42 million FOID card holders in Illinois. They are rescinded when a gun owner is convicted of a felony, is the subject of an order of protection, is dealing with other mental health or cognitive issues, or is deemed a “clear and present danger” to themselves or others by police, school administrators, or medical professionals. Notified gun owners are required to turn over their weapons for storage or transfer them to a trusted person possessing a FOID card, an action certified with the completion of a Firearm Disposition Record.

Too many don't. Historically, the approach was for local law enforcement to repeatedly send letters informing the recipient of the obligation to do so.

Dart's report found that of nearly 114,000 repealed FOID card holders, 74% — approximately 84,000 — have never accounted for surrendering weapons.

The issue came to a bloody, devastating head in February 2019 when a man dismissed from his job at the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora pulled and fired a gun he wasn’t allowed to have, killing five employees and wounding half-a-dozen others. The gunman bought the weapon in 2014 when a background check failed to identify a 1995 conviction for aggravated assault in Mississippi. When authorities became aware of it, they revoked the man’s FOID, but he never surrendered the weapon.

The same year, a DuPage County man whose FOID had been revoked for an aggravated battery charge but who had not turned over any weapons shot and killed his 18-month-old son, then himself, Dart's report notes.

Dart's efforts in the area predate the Aurora incident. He formed a unit in 2013 of eight officers trained to deal with tense environments, including those involving mental illnesses. His staff says the office has closed 9,200 cases, collected 4,000 FOID cards, taken 1,517 weapons for storage and allowed the safe transfer of several thousands of other weapons.

“It isn’t like trying to draw some type of conclusion and be a mind reader on who’s about to commit an offense,” Dart said. “We literally have the name and address of someone who has a gun and shouldn’t have it.”

Legislation signed in 2021 created a program for funding revocation enforcement teams. The Illinois State Police has granted local police departments — including Dart's and the Chicago city police — about $1 million a year.

Illinois State Police started tracking revocation enforcement in May 2019 and through 2022 reported bringing 4,300 people into compliance with the law.

Despite recent efforts, the backlog hasn't changed since state police reported it in the days following the Aurora disaster.

Dart has a sympathetic ear in the capital, and one particularly sensitive to the subject. Rep. Bob Morgan, a Democrat from the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, was marching with constituents in Highland Park's 2022 July 4th parade when a gunman opened fire, killing seven and wounding at least 30.

Morgan's proposal would increase the $2 fee on firearm purchases or transfers to $10, with $4 of that earmarked for the Illinois State Police's revocation enforcement fund. Morgan said the legislation has yet to be reviewed by the House task force on firearms.

Despite the steep increase in the transfer charge, Morgan said many states charge more than Illinois, from $15 in New Jersey to $25 in Nevada.

“We just have tens of thousands of these weapons that are floating out there from people who have had their FOID card legally and finally revoked,” Morgan said. “We need to do better.”

[mapsontheweb]

Number of Ukrainian refugees displaced in Europe in February 2023 per 1000 inhabitants.

by u/requiem_mn 

Used sources:

Number of refugees (For Serbia and Kosovo, used data from previous map)

Population of country (column UN estimate 2021)

Note that on inspiration map user used whatever was greater number from 2 columns Refugees recorded in a country... or Refugees registered for temporary protection... I too did the same.

Hopefully didn't make mistakes, numbers are:

Ukraine 135.86 Montenegro 54.08 Estonia 50.61 Czechia 46.70 Poland 40.81 Moldova 35.81 Lithuania 26.77 Latvia 24.48 Bulgaria 22.23 Slovakia 20.16 Russia 19.66 Cyprus 17.17 Ireland 15.09 Liechtenstein 13.73 Germany 12.65 Luxembourg 10.57 Austria 10.49 Switzerland 9.29 Finland 8.98 Norway 7.39 Georgia 6.84 Denmark 6.79 Iceland 6.05 Romania 5.95 Belgium 5.88 Portugal 5.64 Netherlands 5.13 Croatia 5.12 Sweden 4.85 Slovenia 4.19 Spain 3.53 Hungary 3.53 Malta 3.31 N Macedonia 3.08 Italy 2.87 United 2.42 Belarus 2.14 Greece 2.01 France 1.84 Turkey 1.13 Albania 0.94 Azerbaijan 0.48 Serbia 0.38 Armenia 0.18 Bosnia&Herz. 0.05 Kosovo 0.01