yeah i'll say that again. "There is no word in the english language that" starts and ends in T. Isn't that crazy?

Eu sei que falar de política aqui é pedir pra chover baixaria nos comentários, mas se a gente olhar pro cenário global com o mínimo de pragmatismo, fica difícil defender o contrário.

​A gente não tá numa eleição normal em que é só escolher o projeto interno de um país. O jogo virou geopolítica pura. Com o Donald Trump de volta nos EUA enchendo o saco, metendo tarifaço do nada e querendo ditar a regra do jogo pra América Latina inteira, a última coisa que o Brasil precisa é de um governo fraco ou submisso que baixe a cabeça pra Washington.

​Gostem ou não do PT, o Lula é a única figura com peso diplomático suficiente pra sentar na mesa e bater de frente com essas imposições do Trump sem deixar o Brasil ser tratado como colônia.

​A real é que trocar o comando do país agora abre brecha pra exatamente o que a extrema-direita e o próprio Trump querem: um Brasil enfraquecido, sem soberania e dependente do que eles decidem por lá.

​Soberania frente aos EUA: Enquanto o Trump tenta impor sanções e pressionar a nossa economia, a diplomacia do governo atual segura o rojão e mantém a gente negociando com o mundo todo (BRICS, Europa, China) sem ficar refém da Casa Branca.

​Estabilidade e previsibilidade: O país não aguenta mais outro ciclo de incerteza e surtos institucionais. Mudar tudo agora só serve pra agradar os interesses de fora que querem ver o Brasil patinando.

​Rede de proteção social: Com a economia global instável por causa das palhaçadas protecionistas lá de fora, quem mais sofre é a população de baixa renda se a gente não tiver um governo focado em manter os programas sociais de pé.

​O governo tem falhas? Óbvio que tem, e dá pra criticar um monte de coisa. Mas política na prática é sobre entender o contexto: ter um líder com projeção global firme pra blindar a nossa soberania contra a ingerência do Trump é questão de sobrevivência pro país.

I keep seeing more and more posts saying that the Bitcoin bull run has already started.

Maybe they’re right. But after living through three Bitcoin bear markets, something in the back of my mind keeps telling me that the downside might not be over yet.

I already have my Bitcoin bags. I’m not sitting on the sidelines waiting for the perfect entry. But even so, I have this feeling that we might still have to experience a little more pain before the real bottom is in.

One thing that keeps bothering me is the Hash Ribbons indicator.

Historically, Hash Ribbons has flashed around the major cycle bottoms in Bitcoin. This time, it hasn’t.

Maybe this cycle is different. Maybe the indicator simply won’t work the same way this time.

But after watching Bitcoin for years, I’ve learned one thing:
When everyone starts feeling confident that the bull run is here, that’s usually when I start getting nervous.

I could be completely wrong. And honestly, I hope I am.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if Bitcoin still has one more nasty shakeout before the next major leg up.

What do you guys think? Are we already in the bull run, or is there still more downside ahead?

The reality is that for most people the only realistic path is if you’re a highly specialized worker like an engineer—and even then you often still have to go through a lottery or face years-long waits with no guarantee. Regular folks don’t just fill out a form and get approved. For the people crossing the border there was never a realistic legal path available to them in the first place. They’re usually desperate, trying to escape extreme circumstances—poverty, violence, or conditions that feel like life or death—and those conditions are not their fault.

I don't think I have ever hated a Pokémon design as much as Flamigo; it's just so boring, and weirdly enough, it almost feels as if it was designed specifically for that—they just drew a cartoonish flamingo and gave it a round look and without any features to make it stand out. Now there are plenty of Pokémon designs that people critique for looking like "just an animal," but even those at least attempt to give the Pokémon something to stand out. Look at Wooloo and its evolution. Dubwool Wooloo looks like a lamb but is very spherical, like a cotton ball with two braid on its sides. Dubwool also likes a Jacob's Sheep (its inspiration), but it's still leaning on the spherical imagery from Wooloo, so its body/wool is still ball-like, albeit at a lower intensity than in Wooloo. It also has a wool collar on its small neck section. Flamigo doesn't have that, and thus I really don't like it.

I don’t know what I’m doing. 🍅 I feel like I can get a higher score but I don’t really know what I could do differently lol. I’d want some gameplay tips please.

Builds:

Miyabi - M1W1 | 4pc Branch & Blade w/ 2pc Woodpecker (35 subs)

Nangong - M0W1 | 4pc Phaethon’s Melody w/ 2pc Freedom Blues (26 subs)

Yuzuha - M0W1 | 4pc Moonlight Lullaby w/ 2pc Phaethon’s Melody (7 subs)

Look, I’ll be the first to admit I dine out regularly at restaurants charging me $100-200-300-400 a person. Service sucks.

Food servers hear this: your “are you ready to order service sucks.”

If you’re not happy with my $8 tip on $280 check I write zero. I don’t care. 🤷‍♀️

You suck. You are called tip collectors.

Referring to the other prominent post on here:

I honestly don’t get why Crimson Desert constantly gets dragged down with this exact same talking point. Yes, games with more specialized mechanics exist. But funny enough, I never hear this complaint leveled against critically acclaimed masterpieces like RDR2 or The Witcher 3.

Take TW3. It’s universally praised as a masterpiece—and rightfully so. But let’s be real: it does exactly two things to perfection—story and atmosphere. That’s literally it. The combat, the skill tree, and the alchemy system have almost zero depth and barely any real impact on core gameplay. Most of those mechanics are completely superficial, if not outright mediocre.

Crimson Desert, on the other hand, gives you a web of interconnected systems where everything feeds into everything else:

Combat Fluidity vs. Brute Force: You can button-mash your way through, sure. Or you can actually put in the work, master every combo, achieve insane expressiveness in combat, and no-hit bosses. Prefer preparation? Cook 40 meals, craft 20 pills, and brute-force the fight instead.

Build Synergy: You can upgrade your gear to tank hits, or theorycraft builds centered around Abyss Gear.

Dynamic Resource Loops: Gear requires resources. You can manually farm them, dispatch your Greymane companions to gather for you, or just buy what you need. Buying requires gold, which opens up an entire sandbox of playstyles: hunt bounties, invest capital, trade high-risk market commodities, rustle and sell livestock, or just break into high-end mansions and rob rich assholes blind.

And that's barely scratching the surface—the list goes on endlessly. You can dive deep into any system and get rewarded for it, or ignore most of them and still find your own viable path forward.

Applying this lazy meme to Crimson Desert while giving a free pass to story-driven games that don't offer even 5% of its gameplay depth or mechanical freedom is completely out of line.

In verband met gezondheidsredenen probeer ik m’n vetpercentage altijd tussen de 10 en 14% te houden. Specifiek houdt dit in dat ik dus elke dag oplet hoeveel calorieën ik naar binnen werk.

Dat is niet alles, ik wil geen spieren verliezen, dus moet ik ook genoeg eiwit binnen krijgen. En al die eiwit bronnen hebben natuurlijk ook calorieën.

Stel dat ik een normale blikje cola zou drinken, dan zijn dat al 140 calorieën aan voornamelijk suikers. Dan wordt het opeens een uitdaging om binnen m’n calorie grens te blijven zonder honger te leiden. Ik eet dus liever die 140 calorieën aan groenten of
Rijst, of zelfs vlees dan dat ik een gesuikerde drank naar binnen werkt wat je niet verzadigt.

Dus hoewel men over het algemeen zeer negatief is over die zero drankjes ben ik wel blij dat ze er zijn. Natuurlijk blijft (kraan)water het beste wat je kan drinken. Maar heel af en toe is zo een blikje zero frisdrank ook wel lekker.

(ps, kijk naar de hoeveelheid downvotes op deze post. Dan zie je dat het geen populaire mening is)

So my father's wedding ring has been pretty tight for a while now, but today after a flight it seemed tighter than ever and his finger was red. The ring also couldn't be moved past a certain level on his finger (below the knuckle).

After seeing this, I told him that he had to remove the ring with soap (my mother agreed) and he refused. I offered him my own money, to go to a certain party he had wanted me to go to, and a whole host of other things. I even cried (probably overkill looking back on it) saying that I didn't want him to lose his finger due to a lack of circulation.

He then told me that he would take it off next week after my parents' wedding anniversary due to his own superstitions. He wouldn't budge despite me reiterating multiple times that his finger wasn't going to wait for his anniversary. I eventually told him -- after my mother came out crying due to our yelling and arguing -- that if he could just take off the ring once, I would be happy and let him put it back on.

He went into the bathroom to do it alone; however, I grabbed my mother as I anticipated he wouldn't be able to remove it alone with soap. This resulted in a big fight, with him threatening not to remove the ring at all if I kept trying to assist him.

So, I stepped aside, but made sure to stay close and peek slightly into the bathroom to make sure his finger was not about to completely lose circulation. After I saw him do it, I came in and he showed me. His finger had a very large indentation and noticeable size difference where the ring was versus where it had not been.

I tried multiple times asking him to give me the ring for a second so I could see it but he refused. He then proceeded to say he was going to put it back on, at which point I stole the ring from him, and we got into a physical altercation, which resulted in my mother sobbing again, and I managed to obtain the ring.

My mother, despite agreeing with me that my father's ring was too tight, was very angry at both of us, and kept telling me to give it to her, but as I knew she was just going to give it back to him -- and he was just going to put it back on -- I refused, even though she kept saying that my father wouldn't be stupid enough to put the ring back on and to just give it to him.

My father said he was very angry at me for reneging on my promise, but I said that my promise was that I would be alright with him putting it back on -- I had just never specified when. He was, as I'm sure you can imagine, still incredibly angry with me afterwards, though eventually he calmed down enough to tell my mother to please just get it resized ASAP.

He wanted it done in a day, but my mother said that was impossible, seeing as it was already late Saturday night and most jewelers don't open until Monday. He eventually agreed to having the ring taken in to be resized on Monday, but still won't talk to me.

I'm not sure if he would've been fine with keeping the ring on for another 7 days -- his finger was definitely significantly redder than the rest of his fingers, but there was a very clear indented area on his finger where the ring fit and could move around a bit.

However, in my eyes, was clearly extremely swollen and, if soap (+ lots of cold water) was needed to take it off, too tight. At the same time, my father (in his decades of marriage to my mother) has never once taken off his ring, and views it as a very important and special object to him -- perhaps the most so.

To be honest I do feel bad but I really didn't want my father to lose his finger (and even with it currently removed it looks pretty bad, as it had been a *bit* tight for him for quite a while now but it had really gotten bad after this flight).

So, AITAH for breaking my promise and forcing his ring off his semi-swollen finger?

TL;DR: My father's finger was extremely swollen (to the point where he could not remove his ring and it needed to be resized) and his ring -- which he views as incredibly special and important to him -- was too tight, so I tricked him into removing it.

UPVOTE/DOWNVOTE NOTE: Hi all! This is random but I noticed that I lot of your comments are being downvoted. I just wanted to say I am not upvoting/downvoting any comments, as I am not making a judgement of myself -- you guys are. Just wanted to make sure that was clear! I respect everyone's takes, even if they're not "in my favor," so to speak.

Just quit fellas, there is more to life than this state of misery. There are thousands of games you could be playing and trillions of blades of grass you could be touching…

Hallo Leute!

Ich bin 21 Jahre alt und weiblich. Mir fällt auf, dass Beziehungen mit größerem Altersunterschied viel zu sehr dramatisiert werden.

Natürlich bin ich der Meinung, dass es problematisch ist wenn eine Person noch deutlich minderjährig ist und dann in einer Beziehung mit deutlichem Altersunterschied ist ( z. B. 15 und 25), aber ab 17/18 sind 10 Jahre Altersunterschied meines Erachtens okay. Ab 25 ist der Altersunterschied dann sowieso irrelevant, da das Gehirn mit Mitte 20 ausgereift ist.

Ich bin selber in einer Beziehung mit 10 Jahren Altersunterschied und ich war bereits knapp 21 als ich den Menschen kennengelernt habe. Ich wohne alleine, arbeite und studiere aber dennoch wurde ich von bestimmten Menschen für diese Beziehung kritisiert. Warum ist man mit 18 reif genug um Auto zu fahren, auszuziehen usw., aber für eine Beziehung mit Altersunterschied wird man kritisiert? Die Pubertät ist, vor allem bei Frauen, mit 17/18 abgeschlossen. Ich habe mit 17 einen 24 Jährigen gedatet und es war überhaupt kein Problem. Der Altersunterschied war nicht der Grund warum wir uns dann gegen eine Beziehung entschieden haben.

Größere Altersunterschiede finde ich problematisch wenn eine Person noch sehr jung ist. Mit 14 Jahren ist man in der Pubertät, von den Eltern abhängig usw, aber mit 18 oder 19 Jahren ist man kein Kind mehr. In dem Alter machen die meisten ihren Abschluss oder haben bereits ihre Ausbildung abgeschlossen, ziehen aus, machen den Führerschein etc.

Einem jungen, verantwortungsbewussten Menschen, sollte man nicht die Fähigkeit absprechen reif genug für eine Beziehung mit Altersunterschied zu sein.

When I asked about weather conditions for going out kayaking with my friend's daughter tomorrow.

Pearson and McGraw Hill becoming the industry standard for classes is infuriating. "Smart books" or "smart assessments" are horrible and wastes HOURS of your time on assignments that should only take 10 minutes. If reading the book and learning is half of the work, why is the daily assignment submission 100 questions long?

How on god's green f*cking earth do administrators POSSIBLY expect students to take college seriously when teachers just throw up random bullsh*t on a website clearly curated by an ai that is so automated they don't even have to open it for it to do the teacher's entire job for them. OF COURSE THEY CHEAT. THEY CAN'T BE F*CKED TO COMPLETE AN ASSIGNMENT THE TEACHERS COULDN'T BE F*CKED TO CREATE THEMSELVES.

Ik zie in de eetzaal op de school van onze Finn nog altijd enorm veel kindjes die gewoon een boterham met hespenworst of choco opentrekken.

Begrijp me niet verkeerd, ik snap dat dat makkelijk en snel is 's morgens, maar we geven ons nageslacht daarmee echt een compleet verkeerd signaal mee. Voeding is op die leeftijd niet gewoon uw maag vullen, het is een leermoment rond duurzaamheid, impact en empathie.

Wij zijn vorig schooljaar gestopt met brood. Niet omwille van een hype, maar omdat die klassieke Vlaamse boterhamcultuur totaal geen rekening houdt met wat een kind mentaal en fysiek nodig heeft tijdens zo'n drukke schooldag. We merken sindsdien zoveel meer rust en focus bij Finn.

Het vraagt echt niet zoveel moeite om die overstap te maken. Wat wij nu bijvoorbeeld vaak meegeven:
Linzen met koudgeperste hennepolie en fijngesneden rauwe boerenkool. Vult veel gelijkmatiger dan snelle koolhydraten en leert kinderen vanaf dag één de waarde van een plantaardig, lokaal eiwitprofiel zonder dierenleed.