#trusts

[niroke]

An excerpt from the CNN article reporting on it is listed below.

After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote in Monday’s opinion. “It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.”

The decision by the US District Court for the District of Columbia is a stunning rebuke of Google’s oldest and most important business. The company has spent tens of billions of dollars on exclusive contracts to secure a dominant position as the world’s default search provider on smartphones and web browsers.

Those contracts have given it the scale to block out would-be rivals such as Microsoft’s Bing and DuckDuckGo, the US government alleged in a historic antitrust lawsuit filed during the Trump administration.

Now, said Mehta, that powerful position has led to anticompetitive behavior that must be stopped.

Specifically, Google’s exclusive deals with Apple and other key players in the mobile ecosystem were anticompetitive, Mehta said. Google has also charged high prices in search advertising that reflect its monopoly power in search, he added.

[autumnslance]

Level 100 Trust Glamours for Thancred, Urianger, and Krile.

I had to level Aeryn's boys first, and it's Krile's backstory expac.

Team 2 will be G'raha and the LB Thieves as I still need to level Aeryn's Healer job.

[livinglifeagainblog]

Verse of the Day: Isaiah 26:3

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.

[wiirocku]

Proverbs 28:26 (NKJV) - He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.

[thecarlinecanopy]

Usually, when something weird happens in Duty Support/Trusts, I can understand the reason why it happened. An NPC stood in AOE? When AOEs aren't scripted, they dodge the first AOE, but aren't programmed to handle if a second is placed on them or where they're dodging to. Healer died in a boss fight? Either I was pointing the boss in a way the NPC tank wouldn't have and therefore the healer was taking damage from attacks meant for me, or they stopped to heal and were targeted for an AOE and they dodged too late.

However, recently while fighting Dohn Mheg's final boss, I watched Alphinaud dodge out of the way of the slime their transformation was spewing, stand in the safe spot for a second, and then run back into the wave of sludge, spamming Galvanize to heal through the damage he was taking. I haven't the slightest idea what he was trying to achieve there, but it was amusing to watch nevertheless.

[pangur-and-grim]

.......I fucked up so bad.

I've been teaching Belphie not to jump on Pangur, cause she's old and arthritic and doesn't like it. and as part of my "training", I've been giving him a treat every times he stops his evil actions and trots over to me.

I thought I was training him to come when called. in actuality, I've been training him to bite Pangur. so now he'll jump on her, chew her ear, and then make bird-of-prey eye contact with me from across the room. and the worst thing is I'VE ALSO BEEN GIVING PANGUR A TREAT EACH TIME (so she doesn't feel left out). which means that she'll whimper pathetically from Belphie biting her, and then also make intense eye contact with me, because she's been conditioned to expect treats afterward.

I have accidentally made the most fucked up dynamic possible with both of these cats.

[mossbone]

"I have depression." - character who has been through extensive therapy.

"I feel dead inside all the time and nothing helps!" - character who does like, regular introspective thinking and is aware of the concept of mental health.

"Leave me the fuck alone I'll be fine once I get over my stupid shit." - repressed character.

"It's fine I'm just having an Empty Time. What? Yeah, empty times, you know, when everything is like bzzzzzz in your brain and you don't shower for two weeks. Why, what do you call it?" - ooooughhh now we're talkin

[jamjoob]

Bewitched

[blurds]

This blog has been telling you not to trust pelicans for over a decade and this is why

[autumnslance]

Vanaspati Catgirl

With a few substitutions, but she's kitted out entirely in the level 85 gear. So where does that leave her, since pausing MSQ at the end of the quest to unlock it for Trust runs? Well, uh...

That exp boost for the Scions sure is something...

C'oretta can probably not farm the other instances quite so much. And is in a good spot to begin the Role Quests...

[ao3commentoftheday]

memes are fun and relatable and all that, but don't let them discourage you. all of that stuff that doesn't make it into the final product is part of how the final product gets made

[wiirocku]

Psalm 28:7 (ESV) - The LORD is my strength and my shield;    in Him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults,    and with my song I give thanks to Him.

[thecarlinecanopy]

Duty Support/Trust NPCs When I'm Playing Sage: We are all well-oiled machines, dodging perfectly or at least getting hit predictably. We know this dungeon better than you do. Our programming is impeccable.

Duty Support/Trust NPCs When I'm Playing Astrologian: We will stand in every AOE and divide your attention among us so that you cannot save us all. We've never been programmed to handle this dungeon. The tank has moved the boss at a weird angle and the DPS aren't programmed to handle that.

[fedorah-the-explorah]

"oh wow i thought this fandom was dead" you ignorant slut no fandom is ever truly dead. there will always always always be at least three mentally unwell freaks on the internet irrelevant-posting about their little blorbo(s) who have not been relevant for fifty years. this is the way of the world and they are stronger than you will ever be you FOOL

[danlous]

Ignoring the real possibility he intentionally let himself be caught from the little we know so far Luigi Mangione's case is a fascinating combination of astonishing brilliance and confusing stupidity. This young man plans and executes his assassination and escape with such a meticulous care and calmness that it's suspected that he's a professional hitman. He comes up with Riddler-sque moves like writing his manifesto poetically on the bullets and leaving his backpack behind full of Monopoly money. He carefully wears a mask to avoid being identified but removes it because a woman who was checking him into the hostel was flirting with him and wanted to see his smile. He still manages to escape the most surveilled city in the country in the midst of ongoing national manhunt only to get caught in the middle of bumfuck nowhere Pennsylvania while eating at the McDonalds. Because for some reason he had the same clothes and mask as in New York and was carrying the same gun and suppressor. And when the cops detained him he showed them the same fake id he used in New York. And oh yeah he's a frat bro gym rat who has a masters degree in computer science from Penn but reads stupid self-help books about being on the grind and is 'anti-woke' while being bisexual suffering from anxiety and wanting to end oppressive capitalism. Not even god himself could invent a person like this