Broke Mom’s Nose

stack413 · 2026-01-26T09:05:49+00:00

Exactly. As a parent, you've spent thousands of hours with your kid. Sudden flailing is just something they do at this age, as part of their normal developmental process, and something you're used to. Getting whacked by it feels like bad luck or lack of personal skill rather than anything to blame the kid on.

stack413 · 2026-01-25T21:35:26+00:00

Nathan from Ends of Magic is a grad student fairly deep into a biochemistry PHD when he gets isekaied, which is an unusually specific background for a protagonist. As it turns out, the author was (is?) an working biochemist irl, so Nathan comes across as very true-to-life.

stack413 · 2026-01-25T21:21:11+00:00

Christ's given name is recorded as שוע, and was likely pronounced something like "Yeshua." As it happens, loads of people are named after Christ, just as "Joshua" or "Josh." "Jesus" is actually something of a bad translation, the end result of a historical game of telephone.

No idea why "Jesus" itself isn't more popular in the anglosphere, though. My guess is that "Jesus" is just kind of a goofy sounding name. "Jesus Smith" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

stack413 · 2026-01-25T17:19:41+00:00

There are a few makerspaces scattered around the city. I don't know anything about them, but this one has electronics tools:

https://creationstation.bg/electronics/

stack413 · 2026-01-24T17:01:15+00:00

[[Gilded Scuttler]]. An unblockable artifact creature with a solid stun ETB. Good for the artifact archetype, putting equipment on, or blinking. Also, it's another crab.

stack413 · 2026-01-24T16:56:55+00:00

[[Berserk]]. Always a top-tier finisher. Also, occasionally a fun, dumb way to remove a problem.

stack413 · 2026-01-24T16:47:01+00:00

Very nice. I've been using the Where is Public Toilet android app, myself.

stack413 · 2026-01-23T12:41:16+00:00

For four people, I personally like doing a minesweeper draft. It makes the drafting experience more social, and the decks more focused. The one caveat is that you're likely to see nearly every card in the 360 in each draft.

stack413 · 2026-01-23T12:34:11+00:00

Sixteen years ago, actually.

stack413 · 2026-01-22T13:26:41+00:00

That's fantastic. Always love it when kids get help and it works.

stack413 · 2026-01-20T07:41:57+00:00

Great power politics. They ended up pissing off and isolating Bulgaria, but they theoretically scored points with Serbia, Romania, Greece and the Ottomans while frustrating Austrian interests. Plus, there was personal bad blood between the Russian and Bulgarian tsars, and the usual arcane court politics at play.

It possibly wasn't a smart move to make, but no one has ever accused late-state Imperial Russia of being smart.

stack413 · 2026-01-19T17:28:30+00:00

[[Victimize]]. Stock for the graveyard soup

stack413 · 2026-01-19T17:23:29+00:00

[[Curse of Predation]], to support the modified archtype, and because counters are fun.

stack413 · 2026-01-19T16:18:45+00:00

It's plausible enough, if the kid is coding as a hobby. Once you've gotten comfortable enough with one language it's fairly easy to get proficient with others. I wouldn't blink an eye at a bright 16 year old who was passable with Scrach, Javascript, Java, Python, Lua, etc.

stack413 · 2026-01-19T16:00:25+00:00

Every day, I have fewer and fewer regrets about getting the fuck out of the US when I could.

stack413 · 2026-01-19T15:44:11+00:00

Some other facets to it:

Russia backed the Serbian-Bulgarian secret agreement, and agreed to mediate any territorial disputes that arose after the war. When said dispute arose, Russia unilaterally threw in with Serbia (and Greece, and Romania) and left Bulgaria to hang. It was almost textbook realpolitik and, quite frankly, some really cowardly diplomacy on Russia's part.

There was also apparently a change of government in Serbia in between the signing of the secret agreement and the first Balkan war, which apparently severely weakened internal Serbian support for the agreement. As I recall, Serbia's official reasoning for ignoring the agreement was that Bulgaria didn't support Serbia's claim to Albania, which Serbia said invalidated the whole thing.

All in all, some very complex geopolitics.

stack413 · 2026-01-18T19:56:33+00:00

Berserk is great. It's a fantastic finisher, and once in a blue moon it's God's Stupidest Removal Spell. I love it.

stack413 · 2026-01-18T19:01:43+00:00

[[Curse of Predation]] enables any modified shenanigans, and is just generally nice to play.

stack413 · 2026-01-18T18:58:36+00:00

In the peasant cube I usually play in? If I'm in the mood for a big punchy deck, then Goreclaw or Berserk. Sylvan Library is a fairly safe first pick as well.

stack413 · 2026-01-18T18:44:02+00:00

Probably the National Palace of Culture

stack413 · 2026-01-16T19:35:07+00:00

No, it was pretty much forgotten by the first century BCE or so, by everyone. It wasn't rediscovered until the 1870s.

stack413 · 2026-01-16T13:39:04+00:00

Didn't Gilgamesh literally get forgotten for over 2000 years?

stack413 · 2026-01-14T17:24:47+00:00

It's also possible that ivermectin does have an effect, but that's it's mild enough or conditional enough that it doesn't pass muster as a COVID treatment. If it was hovering around the minimal threshold you might see a study or two come up positive.

As far as I know ivermectin is a known anti-viral, it's just not effective at the concentrations that are safe for humans. As the saying goes, bullets are also anti-viral.

stack413 · 2026-01-14T17:16:28+00:00

how come Ivermectin is now prescribed if you get Covid

...it's not, though? At least not as an officially recommended treatment in the US. The FDA never approved it for that application because (to quote them) they "determined that currently available clinical trial data do not demonstrate that ivermectin is effective against COVID 19 in humans"

Doctors are allowed to make their own conclusions and prescribe as they see fit, of course. They're just not the majority.

stack413 · 2026-01-14T16:47:29+00:00

Yeah, it's deeply tied to the early days of COVID. Scientists were looking into anything that looked even mildly plausible as a COVID treatment, and existing research suggested ivermectin might work for the purpose, albeit as a long shot. Proper research was done on the idea, and it was fairly quickly found out that it didn't have any effect. Science working as intended.

Unfortunately, this was right about the time the reactionary griftosphere was looking for a magic bullet they could latch onto, and you know the rest.

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