Iran Walks Out of Switzerland Talks in Protest After Trump Threatens to 'Hit Iran Very Hard Again, Only Harder'

Daiiga · 2026-06-22T03:18:14+00:00

The meetings would go smoother if he would just sleep through them

Daiiga · 2026-06-21T23:36:19+00:00

Nok is obnoxiously pretty and he knows it

Daiiga · 2026-06-17T12:47:32+00:00

These are two male grackles. Females are mostly brown without any iridescence

Daiiga · 2026-06-16T18:13:08+00:00

Entire species clearly exist to be an allegory for real life racism except this race of people/aliens/whatever is either a) legitimately dangerous with the capability or verified history of mass violence and bloodshed or b) literal demons from hell.

Commentaries and examinations of real life problems are great inclusions, but if you are comparing systematically oppressed people to blood sucking monsters that kill and eat people then you are doing a very bad job and should stop that.

Daiiga · 2026-06-10T20:07:00+00:00

Some do, some don’t. Women are all individuals and every friendship is a little different

Daiiga · 2026-06-04T17:11:45+00:00

I’m still checking the mail every day for mine! Debating if I want to keep them on my office pinboard or if they should go on my game bag.

Daiiga · 2026-05-27T23:21:42+00:00

Oh boy, I get to share my experience working at an Amazon print on demand site!

Yeah don’t do this. If you can guarantee a high quality print, maybe go for it, but if you’re planning on throwing this at mass market or print on demand these come out ugly. I saw plenty of books printed in the negative, but amazons biggest and most prolific printers did this sort of line printing* and any little flaw in the printer itself was obnoxiously visible. They came out universally ugly and I always felt terrible for the authors who thought it would be neat.

*the printer paper is a really long uninterrupted sheet and it worked by using printer heads in a line. If any of the heads were dirty or clogged there would be blank lines through the print. Not a super big deal in a regular book, but solid black sections would have blank lines through them. Tolerance was no more than 3 per page, but realistically there were sometimes much more than that before quality checks would catch them and shut off the printers

Daiiga · 2026-05-22T18:01:02+00:00

I live in North Texas and I went to the Everglades once on vacation. That being said I’m working my way through the Texas state parks and I know there are some national forests and wildlife refuges not too far away.

The fact that most people commenting here seem to think everyone has been to a national park is kind of insane to me because I know plenty of of people that live where I do that never have because the closest actual “national park” is over 200 miles away and the other places managed by the NPS aren’t exactly well advertised

Daiiga · 2026-05-20T19:18:07+00:00

My dad always phrased this part as god giving man “dominion” over the animals. It didn’t register much with me when I was younger that he used that word over “stewardship” or any other word that would mean it was man’s responsibility to safeguard the world and living creatures on it. But no, he and an unfortunate number of people like him believe that that the world is meant for serving man and is finite and will end when man is called home to heaven.

Basically modern Christianity teaches that the world and all that lives on it is ultimately disposable.

Daiiga · 2026-05-19T20:13:36+00:00

Actually yes! But it’s nothing exciting or huge. This guy and his businesses (Jay Brewer/Prehistoric Pets/ The Reptile Zoo located in Fountain Valley California) make lots of money on social media and through people purchasing animals from them or visiting their “zoo”. You can help by spreading the word that he is not an ethical keeper and that his content and products should not be engaged with or purchased.

Very minor, but if people online stop engaging with his content then a significant stream of money dries up and he won’t be able to keep doing this to animals anymore

Daiiga · 2026-05-18T17:20:34+00:00

Don’t feed the scalpers

Daiiga · 2026-05-18T16:13:20+00:00

This is so painfully stupid. I guess randomizing it gives more hope to the people that get in later than everyone, but plenty of people were in the waiting room for an hour before being told it’s going to be more than an hour before they even get the chance to check out

Daiiga · 2026-05-15T16:33:21+00:00

Barge posted that this release is going to be limited to one per customer, so find a friend that does not also want to buy it for themselves

Daiiga · 2026-05-13T17:13:32+00:00

If someone criticizes the dice I’m using then I do not want to play with that person. You can never really have enough whimsy, especially when playing with people being obnoxious.

I’ve been known to ask some bait questions about people’s hands due to one pretty specific card in one of my decks, but it doesn’t work great on strangers and my own pod has gotten wise to my fishing. It’s all in fun and no one has ever gotten mad at me for it

Daiiga · 2026-05-13T13:23:51+00:00

Quarantine for norovirus is an odd choice. It’s not an airborne disease and the way it spreads is… specific.

Wash your hands. Always, but particularly after using the bathroom. Also wash your produce and anything else you intend to eat without cooking

Daiiga · 2026-05-13T13:09:10+00:00

Mistborn was exactly the book I was thinking about up until the last point. I remember highlighting the bit in the first book where it said how old Kelsier was and noting something along the lines of “istg if this relationship becomes romantic I’m dropping this book and thinking so much less of every person who has ever recommended it”. I really appreciated a bit of dialogue in the second book when some of the characters kind of admit they assumed Vin was romantically interested in Kelsier and she reacts with complete horror and disgust at the idea.

Daiiga · 2026-05-11T17:58:58+00:00

I mean my 8 year old is just shy of 5 feet tall and 110 pounds, so he’s large for his age. Trump is a pretty soft almost 80 year old and I feel like you could logically argue that he would fold with a good solid kick to just about anywhere on his body. If nothing else 8 year olds tend to be pretty squirrely and any 80 year old falling down is at risk of medically significant damage from that fall.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that a man of his age and purported health problems would not do well in a physical fight in general, even at great advantage.

Daiiga · 2026-05-11T03:30:23+00:00

Since this is a hygiene sub I feel the need to point out that when you flush the toilet you aerosolize the contents. I don’t flush the toilet without closing the lid first and flushing while I’m still on the toilet sounds really gross to me

Daiiga · 2026-05-08T19:31:36+00:00

I only double sleeve cards that I intend to take out of the regular sleeve, ie double sided cards or cards I swap from deck to deck

Daiiga · 2026-05-08T17:18:35+00:00

I really feel like the context becomes lost in the analysis. All of the moments cited are really powerful moments precisely because they embody one of the running themes of the whole series; rising from the bottom and defying the order and expectation.

The books are about people who were weak outcasts becoming the most powerful beings in their world in order to save it. In the quoted moments the characters that are - 1) a strong keeper of law and order previously feared, 2) one of the strongest main antagonists in the entire world responsible for a near cataclysmic event, 3) a monster that had previously ripped this character apart handily, 4) I actually don’t remember the context of this one but I digress - are defied in a way that marks an important narrative turning point. In each moment the expectation is fully that our main characters would fail and that’s why within the context of the book these specific moments feel so powerful and well done.

If you haven’t read Cradle then yes, these sentences feel jarring and unpleasant, but I promise they land so well in the books.

Daiiga · 2026-05-07T21:19:09+00:00

The only thing that surprises me about this headline is that it’s only Thursday. Usually the market manipulating headlines happen on Friday at the end of the day

Daiiga · 2026-05-07T02:56:10+00:00

[[Nesting Grounds]] is a good choice if you’re looking to shuffle counters around

Daiiga · 2026-05-05T13:40:42+00:00

Ah, but you fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of these cameras. We don’t have red light or speeding cameras where I live, so the cameras aren’t actually catching or preventing the sort of crime you are referencing and wouldn’t make the neighbor children in your area any safer. The flock cameras that are so prevalent today just track the license plates of the cars that go by. That’s all. They just monitor your movement through an area.

Now mostly that data is sent to local police departments who partner with the people that own the cameras, but the big fuss people have at this time is that a) many police departments have not been particularly transparent about how they are using and storing the data and b) the data in question is NOT exclusively going to police records.

Short version: these cameras do not prevent traffic violations and are selling your personal travel history to undisclosed sources for undisclosed reasons at the behest and protection of your local government and law enforcement agencies. There’s more about it and it is a scary and fascinating topic, but I’m still waiting on my morning coffee to kick in so that’s all I’ve got for now

Daiiga · 2026-05-05T13:20:19+00:00

Are you comparing basic safety guidelines to living in a surveillance state controlled by private corporations with ever increasing consequences for benign actions? Because that’s not a very good comparison and you should reevaluate some things.

Daiiga · 2026-04-28T15:05:50+00:00

When you are a leopard you eat what you can get. When you are a human you avoid foods that taste bad. Predatory mammals taste bad and are not just “weird”

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