#achieving impossible

[groowhub]

"Unlock Your Full Potential: How Belief in Yourself Can Help You Achieve the Impossible"

This blog will explore why self-belief is the key to unlocking your potential and achieving the goals that once seemed impossible. "The only way to achieve the Impossible is to believe in yourself it is Possible.We often look at the biggest achievements in life and think, "That’s too hard, I could never do that." But what separates those who accomplish great things from those who don’t is…

[markscherz]

Just learned that tadpoles with injured tails sometimes regenerate them with extra legs

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So that's neat.

[suntails]

200 years

[love-me-love-my-weirdness]

“See the person not the disability”

NO! SEE MY DISABILITY! IT IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF MY LIFE THAT SHOULD BE ACKNOWLEDGED! OF ALL THE ABLEIST CRAP THIS IS THE WORST ONE!

[omegalerc]

i had a vision.

yeah anon u nailed it.. that’s lestappen

[cookiesonfire]

telling him to count how many hickies i give him then shoving my fingers into his mouth, playing with his tongue. when he's unable to count, teasing him with "aww am i making you feel so good and stupid that you forgot how to count? such a cute thing unable to do something so easy" shoving my fingers even deeper into his mouth bc his muffled sounds are music to my ears. using my other hand to pull his head back so i can give even more hickies and mark him as mine and only mine.

[quirinah]

ummmmmmm guys this dungeons looking a little dark here..........................ummmm..... hello??? guys??

[dandp]

When Dan applies the "cringe is dead/our old content has merit and was special even if it's hard to watch now" mentality that they've had in all the react videos to Hello Internet too...then I will know peace

[justacynicalromantic]

In early 2014, Ukraine was a neutral country, with a pro-Russian president, and with 70% of Ukraine's population against NATO membership. Yet Russia bluntly violated Ukraine's neutrality and annexed Crimea, then launched a covert invasion of Ukraine in the east.

Petro Poroshenko won the presidential election later in 2014 having promised a settlement with Russia, keeping a special status of the Russian language in Ukraine. He was initially sceptical regarding NATO accession, underlined Ukraine must rely on its own strength to provide security.

Did Putin meet Poroshenko halfway? Not at all. The regular Russian army entered the Ukrainian territory in mid-2014 to fight the Ukrainian troops, which led to the Minsk-1 agreement signed in September 2014.

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Few weeks later, Ukraine's parliament adopted a law that would guarantee the then Russia-controlled part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions additional economic, financial and cultural powers.

How did Putin react? Russia staged sham local elections in the occupied Donbas, and then sent the regular army again to Ukraine in early 2015, which led to the Minsk-2 agreement signed in February 2015.

Zelensky was even more sceptical regarding NATO accession. Asked about NATO, he once famously said he never pays anyone a visit if he has not been invited. He won the presidential election promising to compromise with Russia - to stop shooting, sit down with Putin and talk.

Did Putin meet Zelensky halfway? Not at all. He actually raised the stakes by issuing the Russian passports on the occupied territories of Ukraine even before Zelensky assumed the office, putting him in a difficult political position since the start.

Zelensky was ready to drop Ukraine's NATO bid in an exchange for the Russian troops withdrawing from Ukraine. The talks were held already before 2022. What did Putin do? He launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In the first weeks of the invasion, Zelensky was yet again ready to drop Ukraine's NATO bid. But he wanted to obtain international security guarantees. What did Putin do? He demanded that Russia must be consulted before any aid would be given to Ukraine in the event of aggression.

To sum up, Ukraine has consistently tried to reach a deal with Russia over the last decade, and was open to giving up on its NATO bid in exchange for the withdrawal of the Russian troops from Ukraine. Russia never reciprocated, never showed a good will, kept raising the stakes.

Both Poroshenko and Zelensky were initially sceptical regarding Ukraine's accession to NATO. Both wanted to get a deal with Putin. And Putin himself pushed both of them to seek NATO membership out of no other viable alternatives.

Up till now, Putin has shown absolutely no willingness to compromise with Ukraine. His war aims remain maximalist - subjugating Ukraine and changing its regime. He seeks Ukraine's partition, and will turn what is left of Ukraine into Russian protectorate.

Russia's imperial self-conception is that of Russian elites at large, and not just Vladimir Putin. The Russian leadership simply cannot reconcile with the existence of a sovereign Ukrainian statehood.

Therefore any sustainable Ukrainian-Russian compromise is currently not possible unless the Russian cost-benefit calculus changes. Only credible risk to the stability of the Russian regime would impact this calculus. The easiest way goes through defeating Russia in Ukraine.

[spineless-lobster]

WHY AREN’T WE HAVING SPACE SEX?!

[malfiora]

most Superman video games approach it all wrong. they try to imply that the player is OP but has to limit them to make the game challenging. no. a true Superman game should be the exact opposite.

it should be the easiest thing in the world to destroy everything, kill anyone. hell, you should be able to fly through the earth, explode the moon, fly fast enough to cause tidal waves, whatever you want.

because the real challenge will be to not do that.

the objectives of the game should be to fight thugs without hurtling them into space. to rescue a plane from crashing without causing a sonic boom. to catch a jumper from a bridge without breaking their neck.

a real Superman game would be an exercise in restraint.

[reverse-mermaid]

former gifted kids sound off in the comments lmao

[kuroananosanji]

Sanji’s dream is objectively the hardest to achieve in One Piece ☹️ Think about it he’s looking for an ocean that only exists in a fairytale. The others have dreams that require a lot of commitment and effort, but Sanji doesn’t even have an idea how he could find the All Blue, he just has to hope he’ll stumble upon it one day. Even the One Piece was proven to exist ☹️ No wonder he gave up on his dream at one point ☹️

[delightful-dorks]

I enjoy watching the key pose artists get more ambitious with how far they could push the Delightful Children the longer the show ran. I know in my heart it had to have been a bitch making sure they read well in every shot, plus the extra work that went into drawing five separate models for every frame they're in! It's like you can feel the team getting comfortable with making them more animated and expressive as time went on.

Same goes for the near-drift-compatible VA work of Summer, Diskin, and Baker-- going from the colder reads in earlier seasons to episodes like PARTY where you could legit mistake their acting for a single person. I really wish we had more style guide/bible/BTS model sheets of them that survived, because I think they would be the most interesting character to read posing notes on. I would also kill to have footage of the three VAs in the booth together doing takes, but I know I can't have it all

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

2023 and 2024 Monza winners proving Monza belongs to the dreamers <3

[yesterdayiwrote]

So... quick update on the Eurovision situation

The EBU decided that Israel can compete despite their country being under an active Genocide investigation by the ICJ. Their delegation have gone on to antagonise other contestants by filming them for their social media without permission and refusing to remove it when asked, harass journalists who have questioned if their inclusion is appropriate, and their commentators have made horrendous comments about the Irish contestant... all without sanction.

Meanwhile the Dutch contestant got into an undisclosed 'incident' with a female member of the production crew and they've referred it to the police and flat out disqualified him from the contest with less than 12 hours notice...

Which seems like a tremendous act of double standards at an event that is already marred by serious controversy. Obviously the second is not acceptable, but very difficult to understand how the first somehow... is?