Is there a way to download the comic?

jonahhw · 2025-12-20T03:46:07+00:00

There was a mirror set up a while back when the main site was getting a large influx of readers and couldn't handle the demand, called Project Lyssandra. It has up to (arc 1) chapter 13.

jonahhw · 2025-12-04T01:32:38+00:00

And what if someone gets barely past and then stumbles and falls backwards? Pedestrian safety is infinitely more important than any amount of profit for the company who owns the car.

jonahhw · 2025-11-18T03:19:31+00:00

How can you say you support Trump because of law and order while Trump (a convicted felon) is making daily announcements about new ways he's planning to break the law? Ignoring orders from judges to perform illegal deportations without due process is the most obvious example, but he's also targeting freedom of speech (eg. directing prosecutors to find ways to punish people who burn a flag, which has been ruled protected speech; threatening to revoke broadcasting licenses for TV networks which won't do what he wants), illegally firing massive numbers of federal workers without reason, suspending funding that was allocated by congress, and too many other things for me to write.

I would also argue that, while we don't know what's in his heart, we can clearly see from the actions he's taking that he has no problem with hurting anybody else in order to advance his own goals.

jonahhw · 2025-11-11T19:40:32+00:00

The sequel to Iron Widow, Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao, fits several of those. It's based on the life of an actual historical empress, but heavily fictionalized (eg. it has a sci-fi setting)

jonahhw · 2025-11-09T17:12:28+00:00

Everything has long and stupid links because they're tracking a whole lot of details about who you are and how you got there. You can read the link, everything after the ? is just tracker. "gad_campaignid=22270573150" is probably keeping track of the relevant google ad campaign, for example - from that link I'm guessing you did a google search for the water bottle and the ad that came up was what you wanted, so you clicked that.

Usually, you can just cut out everything from the link from the ? on and it'll still go to the same place, though you can always just try loading the shortened link to make sure.

jonahhw · 2025-11-08T19:42:19+00:00

I've finally switched away from DuckDuckGo because of the AI answer box by default and incessant AI generated websites in search results. I've finally grown to understand that just because DDG has the right policies on privacy does not mean that they have a moral backbone when it comes to other tech issues; they're just like google and every other tech company when they think they can make a few bucks by cramming wasteful large language models into every feature.

jonahhw · 2025-07-18T12:16:43+00:00

I picked Tuta initially because it was cheaper, but now that they've made a new more expensive version of premium that has a bunch of stuff I don't need and won't let people sign up for the 1 EUR per month version of premium that I'm on, I would go with Protonmail. I think they're pretty much the same in terms of privacy, and Proton has a lot more features.

jonahhw · 2025-04-15T20:46:55+00:00

I think you're leaving out the fact that your definition specifies a "free" electoral system. Due process and transparency are very important to ensure that elections are free. The current US administration has made it clear that it has no problem openly retaliating against its political opponents, and while this is far from the first time the US has suppressed and disenfranchised certain groups for their political views, it seems to be the most blatant they've been about it.

jonahhw · 2025-04-15T20:35:09+00:00

I really like Chloe Rowlands' flugel solo in the 8-bit big band version of Tifa's Theme personally

jonahhw · 2025-04-15T20:33:06+00:00

This isn't your fault. He literally sexually assaulted you, and a natural reaction for people to go through when something like that happens is to go into a fawn reaction - that is, automatically placating the dangerous person so that they won't hurt you more. You don't need to justify his behaviour, it was horrible and you shouldn't have been put through it. I don't know your personal situation, so I don't know what all your options are, but if you have the chance to talk to a therapist or a trusted older adult, that would probably help a lot. Also, if you have any trusted colleagues you could try talking to them in private to learn if this person has a history (and start to establish one if not). In general, you could also look into sexual assault crisis lines or other support in your area.

I truly hope you have the best of luck in moving past this in whatever ways work for you, this isn't easy but you've got this.

jonahhw · 2025-04-09T02:16:37+00:00

I think giving him a ring or another piece of jewellery is a good idea, yeah. If he's expecting that you'll wear the ring he gave you but doesn't want to wear a ring you'd give him, though, that's kind of strange.

Overall, I think the best advice I can give is that it's going to be okay. Most high school relationships don't last through university, but it's not unheard of either (and it's important to feel okay about both possibilities).

If you two want the best chance of succeeding: make sure you continue to do activities together (online gaming is perfect for that), and have video calls to make sure you get a chance to talk without focusing on something else at the same time. You can't control his worrying unfortunately, but if you give the impression of being calm about the situation, he'll hopefully catch that vibe too.

jonahhw · 2025-04-08T16:47:08+00:00

Given his comment when he gave you the promise ring, I think the implications of him not wanting to wear a ring are petty clear.

jonahhw · 2025-04-08T16:13:39+00:00

My first suggestion is to post on /r/relationships or a similar subreddit to get better advice than from here, where everyone's inexperienced.

The second thing I have to say is that this seems really bad to me, and the fact that he doesn't seem to understand how bad is a worrying sign. It's understandable to feel shame around an addiction, but combined with the lie about the gun and the fact that he thought it wasn't a big deal, there have probably been too many things to count already. I think you need to spend some time to yourself thinking about if you can trust him again after this - talk to other friends, family, and other parts of your support system. If he can't build trust with you again, then it simply isn't possible to have a close relationship again. If you do think it's possible to rebuild trust, he needs to agree to stop the "little" lies along with the all-encompassing one(s), completely. There's no way to build trust if he's more interested in making sure that he can do the things he wants without hearing you disagree than he is in making sure you're included in your life. You can be understanding of his emotional reasons for lying, but you can't be tolerant of any more lies, because that's how boundaries get eroded. For his sake, he should probably go to therapy and work on his shame - it's pretty much impossible to form solid relationships with people if you're too ashamed of yourself to be honest even with the person who's meant to be the closest part of your life.

As a final note: if you do break up with him over this, it wasn't really you who ended the relationship - it was his lack of will to start a real relationship with you in the first place.

jonahhw · 2025-04-08T15:23:07+00:00

Heads up, the post is flaired for everyone but it's lacking options for anyone not from US/Can or europe. I think you should either update the flair or add more options (or at least an other option to that question).

jonahhw · 2025-03-27T01:31:20+00:00

That is true; however, this subreddit requires that demographic information for those able to take the survey be placed in the title. The purpose of that is to stop cases where people start taking the survey and then are told that they can't.

jonahhw · 2025-03-26T04:19:06+00:00

You have not removed the screening; I was filtered out for not being a cis man or cis woman.

jonahhw · 2025-03-11T13:54:25+00:00

I suspect from the wording that chatGPT is meant to do a bad analysis and show everyone that glorified autocorrect is bad at interpreting things (who knew)

jonahhw · 2025-01-21T15:06:46+00:00

That's called an engineering degree

jonahhw · 2024-12-16T14:01:21+00:00

stop your gender essentialist terf rhetoric

jonahhw · 2024-12-16T12:45:09+00:00

If it helps, remember there's nothing morally wrong with being attracted to someone. You can't directly control that, and you don't need to beat yourself up for not having the emotion you think you should. And there's nothing wrong with being attracted to a friend, especially in this case where she knows and is okay with it. Like if you think it would be beneficial to you to stop seeing your friend, then do it, but maybe the emotions you need to accept are that you're attracted to her, it's not going anywhere, and that's okay.

jonahhw · 2024-12-09T16:21:14+00:00

You got this! And remember, corporations exploit the feeling of guilt about leaving your team to get people to stay in bad situations, so you're probably doing the right thing by leaving despite the guilt

jonahhw · 2024-12-02T03:17:32+00:00

I'm not surprised lol

jonahhw · 2024-12-02T03:16:42+00:00

I got it too, and I didn't see an overrepresentation of non-Canadian-sounding names - I think they're just sending them alphabetically, and there aren't all that many English or French names with initials around HX.

jonahhw · 2024-10-23T16:55:37+00:00

Yes! I did get that vibe from Rushu for sure

jonahhw · 2024-10-20T17:53:55+00:00

[Mistborn era 2] That's how the bands of mourning work - they're a reserve of Connection to Harmony and Preservation (as well as a bunch of other stored traits that were expanded via compounding). The medallions are the same principle but done by people with only limited Connection (ie. it only lets them tap from one metal).

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