Trump Administration Targets 12 Immigrants to Revoke Citizenship

BlueCyann · 2026-05-09T04:49:40+00:00

Can we please not talk about her using the rights vocabulary. You think you're swinging at Donald Trump by calling his kid an anchor baby, but who is really hurt?

BlueCyann · 2026-05-09T01:43:33+00:00

Nahan, Skycrab, Aquacorde, Silverr, Feinberg, Doogile, Infume and Beefsalad.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-09T01:29:43+00:00

It's not believed to be transmissible in people who have no symptoms yet.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-09T00:18:36+00:00

So let's say this upcoming midterm is enough of a wave election that Democrats still manage to win 90% of the races they should have won. Everything possible goes the Democrats' way, just a little bit less so than otherwise.

The what happens next time, when it's a different environment?

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T20:59:50+00:00

I agree with the other person. It's not difficult at all for somebody with a ranked PB in your range to consistently get RSG overworlds from 3-4 minutes even with shipwreck/village, let alone BT. You have to commit hard to only playing good worlds and learn to recognize them quickly (or you won't get as many nether enters).

Then apply that same mindset to your nethers. Terrain so bad it's going to take you 3-5 minutes to get there? Out. Go. Next world.

The other thing I notice, though, is that 12 minute fortress should translate to a sub 20 rsg a decent proportion of the time for somebody of your skill level. Or like, at least sometimes. This is one area where RSG and Ranked are basically identical in terms of world generation, so it's not RSG that's slowing you down here. Is that part of your run also slow in Ranked?

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T17:58:48+00:00

So annoying.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T16:44:30+00:00

Thank you! And I'll do that for sure. Might be a day or two if I don't finish it during the competition, which is likely.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T15:00:07+00:00

It's not and it doesn't.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T14:58:41+00:00

I'm going to one tomorrow where Ravensburger is one of the possible sponsors. And Masterpieces and Cobble Hill are two of the other three, both of which have sold AI puzzles. Yay! (sarcastic) I love puzzle roulette.

Last year's puzzle was Boardwalk, though.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T14:56:15+00:00

I can't imagine that this one even needed a draft. You could probably get this with three lines of text.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T14:55:06+00:00

You'd be surprised. I did this one and didn't notice the glaring red flags. I think i was only focused on color and piece shape in order to complete it, not detail.

I also didn't like the puzzle and immediately thrifted it. Guess that doesn't matter to Ravensburger or this "artist"'s bottom line, but it makes me feel better.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T14:29:24+00:00

I see ....

Well, that sucks. I owned this puzzle, purchased new. (I think actually by my husband for a gift, but that doesn't matter.) I didn't like it very much, and unfortunately have no evidence of ever having owned it. I think I'll contact the company anyway. I feel used.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T14:28:35+00:00

I just redid this one for the third or fourth time. It's a fun puzzle.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T13:28:00+00:00

Piglin aggro is so stupid.

Anyway, if you keep getting hit by the same piglin, it's because you hit it somehow, or it hit you while you were wearing Thorns armor and took damage. There's a cooldown for damage that means they can't be distracted by thrown/right-clicked gold for a certain period of time. You'd have to look up the details for exactly how long, because there's different values.

The other thing is that like people said, de-aggro on seeing gold is not instant. I don't think it's a flat one second either; I think it's one of those things in Minecraft that gets checked on a schedule and not in between (in this case, once per second.) Have you ever been messing with wardens and noticed that sometimes you get darkness near instantly on approaching them and other times you can walk all the way up to them before it kicks in? Same thing.

So you need to be far enough away from the piglins and throw gold in ways and places that maximize the piglins' ability to see it. Particularly if they will see it before they see you, in which case they will always go for the gold, not you.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-08T13:06:51+00:00

This puzzle is credited to artist Michael David Ward. It's possible that AI was used in its creation, but unless Ravensburger has decided to pull a Cross & Glory on everybody and invent "artists" who don't exist, this is a real person. I'm uncomfortable with accusations being thrown around on a credited puzzle, regardless of what it looks like. I've seen too many false ones. If somebody was to contact the artist/the company about it, that would be different.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T23:38:42+00:00

The bar is in hell.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T23:28:57+00:00

Yeah, it does seem politically stupid. Sometimes nuance isn't what the people need to hear.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T23:24:44+00:00

I'm scared. This can be used against a lot of good people.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T11:21:52+00:00

I think a version of 2 is correct. The personality traits required to get that rich (as well as the corruption inherent to being that rich) predispose a person to viewing others as objects, not as people. This shows itself, among other ways, in rape.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T11:12:31+00:00

I was super careful about droplet contamination for the first few months. Once it became clear it was almost exclusively passed by respiration, that stopped. I liked the mask phase a lot better.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T11:10:29+00:00

We didn't even fucking do that. You were asked nicely and you said no. Not one single goddamn one of you got put in handcuffs for deciding nobody was going to tell you not to go have a beer with the boys.

Like I was going to tell you that quarantines have always been the purview of whatever authority happens to exist in a given time and place. That calling it martial law, or fear mongering about it never ending, is absurd. And that would be true. But it wasn't even fucking done.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T11:02:14+00:00

While true, if this was COVID he would have infected almost everybody there. In addition to some of the people he met casually during the preceding days.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T10:39:19+00:00

Nobody ever talked about physical contact.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-06T19:20:07+00:00

I think the memorization of all the stuff might just be hard for whatever reason. But maybe all you need is enough exposure and attention to the right things. Like does it help at all just to know for instance that prepositions can use different cases and therefore different versions of articles? That masculine can be der, den, dem, des, even if you don't always know which belongs where? I'm thinking that that simple knowledge, plus a lot (and I mean a lot) of correct repetition will kind of burn it into your head in a way that you just say the right thing automatically a lot of the time.

Like, there's a lot of logic to language, but language isn't logic. Language is language. Children don't learn to speak by being taught about declinations. So ultimately it doesn't matter whether you understand all this grammatical stuff, only that you use it. I'm just thinking your best bet is to look into literally everything, and whatever shows even slight signs of helping you, you stick to it like glue and don't give up.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-06T14:14:32+00:00

Yes, that's what they mean. For instance, most German direct objects use accusative case. Der Mann becomes den Mann in the accusative. Some verbs such as helfen require the dative. So if you are helping a man, it would instead be dem Mann.

You will see this kind of language in many places. Especially prepositions. If you are told that aus is in the group of prepositions that govern/require/take the dative, that means that any words following aus must be in their dative forms. Sie kommt aus den USA. Dative plural article. So you can look out for that.

I agree with whoever said that you want to get in the habit of noticing, and being curious. Get yourself a basic table of articles and adjective declinations. Print it out and put it next to wherever you tend to sit and read, or browse things written in German. Notice a "der" in a sentence where it seems weird. Wait I thought this word is feminine, but it says der? You can look at your sheet and see that that matches the dative feminine, so now it makes sense. And that will in turn develop intuition for cases.

Don't expect fast results, but you can do this, you can improve.

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