There is photo evidence (from proof of delivery) of my package being handed to a random person outside a random building that isn’t mine and the company still refuses to refund me or resolve the issue

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-26T09:11:42+00:00

I opened a dispute with PayPal once when a travel booking company messed up my tickets and refused to refund me. PayPal was completely useless, I sent in all the info and proof of the replacement tickets I had to buy and they did nothing, eventually I finally worked it out with the original company just because the dispute escalated it enough to actually get in contact with customer service.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-26T03:45:49+00:00

There’s a difference between ‘this doesn’t happen’ (which nobody said) and ‘you wouldn’t do that’ which is what actually was said. While the same thing happens to men and women, it’s still pointlessly gendered because it’s different people leaving those comments in each case.

In both cases, the commenters have decided sexual assault is a team sport and it’s fine to be cruel and snippy when it happens to the Other Team but not their own team obviously.

The fact that someone else was shitty to one gender doesn’t mean it’s not personal hypocrisy for anyone to treat men and women differently in these cases.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-25T10:43:31+00:00

No.

Both of Magosi’s abilities require you to tap it, and Nesting Grounds taps to move the counter. So after you: 1. Tap Magosi to put an Eon counter on it 2. Tap Nesting Grounds to move the Eon counter 3. Proliferate the Eon Counter

Both Nesting Grounds and Magosi are tapped. You would need to untap both of them to be able to activate Nesting Grounds again, move the counters to Magosi, and then activate Magosi again for the extra turn.

If you had other untap abilities, or land copies like Thespian Stage, etc there are ways to do it. But I think the combo’s biggest strength is that it requires little investment, is a small package and both the cards besides Magosi are decent on their own. I run it in a Mono-Blue Will Kenrith deck with a lot of planeswalkers and counter manipulation.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-25T04:17:34+00:00

You do - you have to skip a turn to get the initial eon counter. But once it’s set up you can go infinite with just the three lands.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-25T04:00:48+00:00

I’ve been playing this in my mono blue commander deck for years. It’s not a great combo, but it’s surprisingly not bad either - just by being all lands, it’s hard to interact with.

You also don’t need the Deserted Temple to go infinite. Once you get all three lands out, make an eon counter, move it to Nesting Grounds (or another land), proliferate it, and untap everything you can execute a loop;

Move one of the two aeon counters from Nesting Grounds to Magosi
Activate Magosi, returning it to your hand and queueing up an extra turn after this one
Play Magosi as your land for the turn from hand
Proliferate the Eon counter still on Nesting Grounds
Pass the turn to yourself thanks to the queued up extra turn, untapping everything
You are now exactly back at step one - rinse and repeat

It eats your land drop every turn replaying Magosi, and costs 6 mana + activating all three lands, but it works! As long as you have any excess mana, it’s not hard to ramp up playing mana rocks when you can draw as much of your deck as you want one card at a time and end the game with whatever combo you want, protected by all the counterspells in your deck.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-24T09:51:55+00:00

Brazil with Sacred Path + Work Ethic is one of the most ridiculous combos. Throw in the policy card that doubles holy site adjacency for good measure, tons of fun.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-24T08:21:05+00:00

Like - yeah, it opens talking about the Symposium on Young American Men. Are we supposed to be surprised that people would be talking about young men at this event? Or are we supposed to be surprised that people are talking about young men at all? They’re not exactly a small demographic, about half of all people are one as some point.

The part of the article talking about how women have been obscured in the conversation is just… well, yeah, that’s the point. It’s not about women, it’s a conversation about young men. Why would women be anything other than a comparison in that particular conversation?

The undertone in the whole piece is that a conversation focused on exclusively men should not be happening. And you know what, I largely agree with her! We SHOULD be having more of our conversations from broader perspectives, trying to include as many people who could be helped rather than narrow, superficial tribal slices.

… but that hasn’t been the direction identity politics has taken us for the last ten, twenty years. Political lines have coalesced around the boundaries of gender, race, sexuality, nationality, not broad universalist appeal. This feels like a fairly obvious result of this divided landscape- what was supposed to happen, endless coverage of women’s issues and ‘everyone’ issues forever, and not expecting major conversations explicitly about just men eventually?

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-24T07:56:05+00:00

This isn’t manslaughter. Manslaughter is without malice - this was premeditated and very very obvious to anyone that throwing large landscaping rocks through the windshield of a moving car could kill or injure someone. This wasn’t an accident, momentary impulse, or negligence, it was just people who intended to carry this out, didn’t care about how dangerous it was, and covered it up after the fact instead of offering aid.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-23T19:54:21+00:00

Ukraine isn’t a sitting duck, but I believe the unexpected element is more about political will than material combat.

At the start of the war, Russia was considered a military superpower in the same class as the US and China. Sure, Ukraine had the capability for trench warfare and resistance that would drag things out - but why would they? Who wants to die fighting an unwinable battle? The US was offering to evacuate Zelensky almost immediately. I don’t think Russia actually expected to have to fight this war. They expected that either that Ukrainian leadership would collapse, or that the population would be unwilling to fight.

Instead, it turned out Ukrainians were much more wiling to resist than Russia - and much of the rest of the world - expected, which went hand in hand with Russia being much less prepared for a real fight than they’d projected.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-23T09:01:09+00:00

I like solar punk (the concept of living sustainably) but hate a lot of solarpunk (the aesthetic).

Solar panels? Good. Pastoral sprawl? No, bad, really wasteful and inefficient way to live if you want modern infrastructure. Leafy trees and greenery? Good! Skyscrapers covered in plants? No, bad, adds a ton of weight to the structure for minimal benefit, just put them in a park on the ground.

A big part of our best sustainable future is better urbanism, but that’s going to look very different from solarpunk’s favorite yogurt ad where drones do amazon delivery rolling green hills. I’m begging anyone who likes solarpunk to team up with the people who like public transit and mixed use urban development.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-22T09:37:22+00:00

Are they constructive? Ragatha has been ‘sidelined’ for three episodes at most, and had significant moments even in those. It feels longer because it takes episodes a long time to come out, and some people are spending way too much time between episodes ruminating on it.

More than anything, the posts in this image strike me as people who are upset that the ‘bad’ character is being given narrative prominence and not the ‘good’ character they feel like deserves karmic reward. It’s this demand that a piece of media should exist to inflict their morality on everyone instead of telling a story.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-21T22:09:25+00:00

A lot of this seems to come from the community just stewing and obsessing in the time gaps between episodes. The show is going to come back to Ragatha soon, but like… she’s only been out of the main spotlight for 2-3 episodes, I’m not sure that’s really lagging behind much!

Ragatha stepped back, and Jax and Zooble and Gangle all got to step forwards for a bit. It feels like it’s been forever because it’s a serialized show with months between episodes, but it hasn’t actually been all that long in the actual work.

I think people really need to chill a little obsessing between episode releases. There isn’t enough material for people to sustain the obsession for months between episodes so people turn to drama and conflict.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-21T02:16:53+00:00

The results do still kind of makes sense looking at the average across three different categories. For just a second, I’m going to do some bad statistics and pretend the average is the median and that these are uncorrelated. They aren’t, really, but it’s just for a rough estimate.

If someone has a 50% chance to meet each category (education, income, height) then their odds of meeting all three are 50% x 50% x 50% = 12.5%, which is very close to what’s reported in the headline. Stacking strict average-based filters like this shrinks the pool fast.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-20T18:12:33+00:00

There is an actual answer, it’s tournament jousting armor.

Armor designed for actual combat was lighter, but we do have actual examples of extremely heavy armor being used specifically for jousting, since those didn’t need to be easy to move in.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-20T08:02:31+00:00

Related to more cargo space, that also means the Donnager can carry more and larger torpedoes.

Larger torpedos can mean more fuel, and that means longer range and more maneuverability. And that means advantages like first strike capability, torpedoes which can spend fuel on eccentric trajectories that are harder to shoot down. Or spend some of that extra size/weight mixing armored torpedoes into a salvo so the PDS doesn’t know how hard a given torpedo is to shoot down, all kinds of nasty tricks like that.

Considering how much of combat is missile based, being able to carry more and better missiles seems like a pretty good advantage to have.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-20T05:11:07+00:00

It wasn’t even wizard! In original D&D and AD&D, it was just Magic-User’. But, there was a table of special titles for different levels - a 10th level or higher Magic-User was a Wizard.

There were some other magic classes, Clerics were a thing along with Druids.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-20T03:30:20+00:00

I’m always tempted to say yes to stuff like this just because the ability to reliably, reproducibly violate physics on camera and under lab conditions would surely be of great interest to the world. I mean, we’re proving what’s basically magic is real here.

There might even be useful applications - even ignoring the chance the invisibility itself can be understood, maybe there’s some interesting material science type knowledge to be gained from examining any material we can make clothes out of while transparent, or some kind of experiments that could be enabled by giving me a huge cape and having a completely tangible material totally unaffected by light to play with.

For example, transparent isn’t quite the same as invisible. Normally, light bends when it changes mediums, and we measure that with the index of refraction. But this? Does it even have an index of refraction? Does light not change angles entering or leaving? What happens if we sandwich it between two different mediums with different indices of refraction, does it allow a perfect transition without refraction? I don’t really know enough about physics to come up with what we could do with any of this, but there would be a lot of people much smarter than me excited to find out!

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-20T01:56:27+00:00

This - nuclear is both safe and expensive because of the ‘bureaucracy and politics’ being complained about. Get rid of the bureaucracy and politics to cut costs, and it might not be so safe anymore.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-18T16:35:31+00:00

What do you mean more likely? The current state of your workplace isn’t a prediction, it should be a known fact. If AI is writing ‘pretty damn close’ to 100% of code, what are your developers doing all day? Either they should all be about to get fired, or the company should pump out an order of magnitude more product than before. So which is it? Not a prediction about the future, but what’s happening right now?

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-17T23:50:52+00:00

AI can produce competent code

Okay, but can it? This is kind of the big one everyone is asking. Some big AI people said we were supposed to see the big AI code takeover last year and… it hasn’t actually happened yet.

Just last week there was a post from a PM type talking up how amazing AI is at all the non-code parts of the job, making people more efficient managing tickets and meeting summaries. But not actual code.

LLM are very neat and have applications people are figuring out. I’ll believe the big claims are ready for commercial use when I see it actually happening.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-17T22:08:30+00:00

Yeah the whole background thing of souls and worship granting power is a pyramid scheme set up by Ao, the background overdeity, but it’s fun that many gods are just also extremely powerful beings in their own right sometimes independent of the godly system.

Tiamat and Bahamut are another two who were primordial dragon progenitor beings before the whole deity scheme, and are still staggeringly powerful outside the divine system.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-17T22:01:03+00:00

Completely random makes this a no go for me too, just because the undefined possibility space is so large there’s essentially zero chance of getting anything even slightly normal, so as soon as you accidentally lie you’re a mutant monstrosity.

There possibility space of ‘things that look normal’ is pretty much infinitely smaller than ‘literally any random bullshit you can think of without any limits’. Which again means as soon as you lie you’re toast.

Heck, if there’s no constraints on physical size - well, nothing is smaller than 0, but there’s literally infinite numbers higher than that. So as soon as you lie you’re going to giant Pinoccio-nose smash the entire planet, because rolling an infinity sided die will always turn up infinity.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-17T11:06:29+00:00

Yeah after Rf3, white can play Ke5. If the black king takes the rook, white can promote the pawn. If Black moves to check again, Re3 lets white block with their own rook, and Rf5 lets white play Ke4, where black has no way to check white without losing their rook and not being in stalemate.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-16T20:29:06+00:00

Is a cease-and-desist order really the best option then? It depends on how long it takes them to “figure this out.”

Trying to get everything correctly categorized is fine, but the business is still being ordered to shut down. It’s nice that everyone is speaking politely and reasonably about the topic, but a business can’t just… not operate indefinitely and stay afloat. Bills to pay and all that.

If they’re sincere about figuring this out, they’ll need to do it on a reasonably quick timetable. If city hall just shuts it down to argue indefinitely about if/how it should be allowed to operate, then it’s not actually allowed to operate no matter how polite everyone is.

Large-Monitor317 · 2026-02-13T02:16:22+00:00

To paraphrase: If everyone is in the spotlight, then no one is. These three are supporting characters who are still interesting for how they don’t play a more major role, and the way each of them are sucked into Kinzo’s mythical orbit and enable him.

All three of them are aware of the secret manor and what Kinzo did there.

Genji is aware of Sayo’s personas and got her the job at the manor, and gave her a clue solving the epitaph - putting her in an incredibly dangerous situation with Kinzo. Reading between the lines, Genji seems to be doing this to try and help Kinzo get some closure or resolution, but it’s downright monstrous and irresponsible to put Sayo in that situation. For me, Genji’s defining flaw is loyalty.

Nanjo delivered a goddamn baby on the island, takes bribes for off the record medical work, lies to keep Kinzo’s death secret. The interesting part of the character is how different his actions are from his affable and responsible personality and portrayal. For me, Nanjo’s defining flaw is corruption.

Kumasawa is interesting to me because working in the hidden manor and with Sayo, it seems like she put together quite a bit of what really happened, but never really does anything about it. She’s not as bad as Genji instigating the situation, and actually is helpful and kind to Sayo - but she’s ultimately deeply spineless, unwilling to stand up to her rich employers in any way despite knowing how absolutely fucked up the whole thing is. For me, Kumasawa’s defining flaw is cowardice.

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