thinking today about Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of Rome's wealthiest (and most notoriously predatory) landowners, who decided to increase his military prestige by waging war on Persia, got his shit rocked at the Battle of Carrhae and reputedly died by having molten gold poured down his throat
Ok, hear me out:
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Is there a better indication that Generative AI simply doesn't work by rule than the fact that it can't generate a map from memory?
IT'S LINES THAT DO NOT MOVE AND HAVE A LITERAL COORDINATE SYSTEM!
A BINARY BOT COULD DO THIS!
If we have to do the dance of pretending like any of the positive civic value is going to be preserved by the time any Lansdowne project hits the finish line, let's not also spit on the actual unique selling points of the area. No one's amped about a Whole Foods in the Glebe or overpriced condos.
On top of all of that is the continual and relentless sexism that treats women's hockey as less or unimportant than men's.
We know there's a big difference in the money involved vs the NHL but most of the investments that would benefit the Charge would be useful and not break the bank.
The team pretty consistently sells most of the seats or sells them out and the game day experience is really good.
I'm not saying it would be a mortal lock that it makes sense to have a bigger arena - but this is just another of the thousand ways city council just dgaf about the people of Ottawa.
Hate this both from a business pov & convenience/enjoyment pov - really frustrated about the complete lack of involvement of a pro team in the arena they were supposed to play in.
Outside of all of that, the obvious disrespect to fans & the team itself reckoning the Charge could just deal sucks.
The irony of GCs keeping spreading extreme moral panic about how everywhere you look there might be trannies hidden among the populace, either passing well or in the closet.
And then they go to trans safe spaces to do actual stalker/predator shit and brag about how they bravely infiltrated those.
A Steam review for Promise Mascot Agency. A highlighted portion reads, "Whoever did Michi absolutely killed it with the whole "stoic yakuza" vibe." The full thing reads: "They did an amazing job creating a fully realized island to explore. It feels like a real place, with it's own folk mythology and legends, buried secrets, beautiful landscapes, and tons of interesting people and quests to find. Driving around Kaso-Machi you really get the feeling of being on a cursed island off the coast of Japan; the whole area just has so much character to experience. Gameplay is great and always leaves you with something that you want to do next to the point that you can put hours into the game almost without even realizing it. Graphics have a fun kind of Ps2 feeling to them that suits the tone, writing is great (character moments especially) and voice acting is great. Whoever did Michi absolutely killed it with the whole "stoic yakuza" vibe."
Who's gonna tell 'em
Alysa Liu on Eileen Gu, via The New York Times "I think people are hypocritical for shaming her for representing China ... Y'all would have told her to go back to China. Now that they're back in China, you're mad."
Absolutely. Fucking. Perfect.
I don't think anyone's surprised but this is kinda why I said that Blizzard's supposed 'independence' they promised after the merger was fatuous. There was always going to be a hulking, nasty 'if' attached to that.
'Overwatch' director Jeff Kaplan left Blizzard after they told him him 1,000 staff would be fired if the game didn't make a specific amount of money
"It was the biggest 'fuck you' moment I've had ... I believed I would never work anywhere besides Blizzard ... and I was like 'we're done here'"
this fanfic shit is easy
#residentevil #chrisker
HAW HAW
VERY PUNNY
To find macro fox, obviously
"๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ฉ๐๐
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Canada will survive the brief moment of honesty."
screenshot of press release from four nations with their logos: Tlaโamin Nation; Homalco Nation; K'รณmoks Nation; Klahoose Nation. March 11, 2026 Chiefs from four First Nations communities are urging the public to please approach Aaron Gunn with no caution whatsoever. He is completely harmless, though momentarily unsettled by the alarming possibility that someone might acknowledge the land before a meeting. Yesterday on social media, the MP appeared to crash out and demand to speak to the manager of land acknowledgements, a position that observers confirm does not exist. Chiefs whose territories make up the riding had two words for the MP - Chillax, Bud. Land acknowledgements have never seized private property, cancelled a mortgage, repossessed a pickup truck, or altered a single title deed anywhere in Canada. They are simply people recognizing the history of the place where they are standing. No one is going anywhere. Canada will survive the brief moment of honesty. Until then, Chiefs across the region continue to reassure the public that land acknowledgements have not, to date, resulted in any land back. Hegus John Hackett, Tlaโamin Nation Chief Darren Blaney, Homalco Nation Chief Nicole Rempel, K'รณmoks Nation Chief Kevin Peacey, Klahoose Nation
Posted by the Tlaโamin Nation on Facebook. This is epic.
๐ ๐ฃ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐
๐๐ค๐๐๐ก ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐ง๐๐๐จ๐จ๐ช๐ง๐ ๐ผ๐๐ง๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐ช๐ฃ๐ฃ: โ๐พ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ญ, ๐๐ช๐.โ
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you donโt need AI to generate weird looking planes. if youโre used to western planes just start looking at soviet planes. have you ever wondered what a concorde might look like if it had canards.
Howah!!
And it's crazy that Iran keeps scoring direct hits on US and Israeli bases, with no reported casualties (until 10 days later, when it's - oh yeah... btw we evacuated 30 people to Landstuhl to have their legs chopped off - or to be put in a padded room for life because their brain is jello).
This level of propaganda and censorship in this war isn't normal. Iran is apparently an open book by comparrison. Stub a toe, it's in the casualty reports. Yet there are 50 pics of grieving families in Israel, and 13 reported dead (and many more journalists reported harassed, warned, etc).
the last gasp of broadcast tv being the Sheldon Cooper Extended Universe is somehow extremely on point in some way I am too exasperated to enumerate at this time
Real sense of scale, knowing how big Xyria is๐
A 3 colour risograph print using blue, yellow and fluorescent pink ink featuring a raccoon. It is walking across some grass covered in flowers, dragging a grocery back which is spilling out food. We see the words TORONTO in bright yellow letters above the critter.
Quick little 3 colour risograph I printed today - I will be hiding these around a park in Toronto tomorrow for Art & Found Day!
*used too many negatives. I want more people using their words and not borrowing from the nazi lexicon
The words you use do and will affect your thinking. I implore you to reject the framing of a group of people who consider compassion a perverse and evil way to keep them from continuing the most heinous of actions.
It's a nitpick for sure but I wish fewer people were willing to discuss important issues without using fascist framework. I don't wanna hear what you think is 'degenerate,' don't talk about regular expressions of support and humanity 'virtue signaling'
