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(if this is how you found out I'm a card game freak I apologize but you're gonna be stuck with this for a while)

Damn 175k concurrent players? And it's 5 PM on the East Coast so I bet that's gonna at least stay constant if not go up

This is already 3x the original's all-time peak

(this is using the bundle price of $22.50 bc I think most people who are buying STS2 30 minutes after release already own the first game)

48k concurrent players in the first 30 minutes is nuts, that's a conservative estimate of over a million dollars in sales in half an hour

If you're in line for Slay the Spire 2, STAY IN LINE!

100% the multiplayer looks so fun and I'm so hype to try it

Sounds offal, where can I try it?

Vanderbilt Will Stop Providing Gender-Affirming Surgeries to Trans Adults The hospital cited “operational limitations” for the decision.

Horrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...

Lmao I didn't notice that you had changed your pfp and I was about to @ you with this 😂

And then there's *this* garbage 🫠

IDK but Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) has been a thing for years and it blows ass. Doing it right is pretty much the same amount of labor as just having a human translate from start to finish

AI translation is basically MTPE without the PE, which we already know makes it bad

Prometheus says “hot take” and Greek gods respond “no give that back.”

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

homoquartz Follow i've warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises. as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it's just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we're small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, "i'm not here to hurt you. here's something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we're on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i'm being light-hearted and non-threatening right now." small talk isn't to get to know a person. it's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it. the owl shit When I was a kid and would go hiking with my dad and sibling on vacation, every time we would pass another group, my dad would do the smile and nod and "hey". And then after we'd turned a corner, he would say more quietly, "I must make friendly social noises so they do not eat my young" and my sib and I would crack up laughing. Gotta remember that we're mammals under it all.

leveled up with this explanation, cos as an autistic person i pride myself on reacting appropriately to animals, to signal harmlessness, so why wouldn't i want to do this for human animals?

never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

I'm seeing people mostly suggesting vegetarian stuff so I'm assuming you're veggie but I can also rec some fish and chicken recipes if you're not. You mostly want to try and reduce saturated fat and increase fiber and protein, and chicken and fish are both good lean protein. Tempeh's great if veggie

I'm also trying to lower my cholesterol bc I've got Bad Genetics for it. I make a lot of stir-fries bc they're flexible and easy to make w/o added saturated fat. Tempeh is way denser in protein and fiber than most tofu, so it can be a good add. Quinoa mixed with or instead of rice is also good

There's been a lot of I AM DRAGGING MY ANCHOR recently but the past few days have felt very STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS

Closely related to the ROFLalo

Buffalol

God: also by the way you have to be able to remove the scale without tearing the fish's skin
Israelites, holding a bunch of eels: 😐

Greenland’s only Jew hears a familiar pattern in Trump’s annexation talk Paul Cohen, Greenland’s only Jew, explains how Jewish history shapes his response to Trump’s renewed talk of annexing the island.

incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story

(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)

Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants

What is happening today harkens back to the registration of the Issei, which was a precursor to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. They also harken back to the scapegoating of the Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans leading up to WWII.
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In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

yes hi I think you've found it, anyone want to help this person?

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

When we say that surveillance is a threat to the First Amendment because it makes it so easy for police to intimidate or enact retribution on someone based on their politics--this is exactly what we mean. This is state repression done via data collection.

פידלער אויפן ווענדיס

Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins