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At least Russia has find useful purpose for all that natural gas they don't deliver Germany via Nord stream 1. Picture shows about 30 m high flame from Nord stream 1's compressor station in Russian Karelia, picture is taken from Finland about 20 km away of the compressor station. 30 m flame means about 100 MW power, so they have burn about 10k euros worth gas per hour for past week

Hopefully everyone gets well soon!

In Grandfather Nurgle's eyes, they are all beautiful

Welcome to North America. Blessed be the slave that learns to love the lash.

32, so only one more day. It also varies between unions and collective labour agreements. The best case would be to work for the state that has a collective agreement with the ST union, then you'd have 35 vacation days from when you turn 40. If I, as a postnord worker, were to join the ST union (I'm in a union called SEKO right now) I'd still only have 25 vacation days though, even though ST covers postnord workers, but they have a different collective agreement with postnord than other state agencies. It's a bit convoluted You don't get vacation days around holidays, you're just off work, and depending on what kind of employment you have it's either paid or not. So you'd have 32 vacation days, and holidays you'd generally be off work. So the typical whatever christian holiday stuff you're generally off work, then we have midsummer, and the national day, june 6th.

I 'care' about small amount of people in my life independent on color of their skin. And anyone saying anything else about themself is layer in my eyes. Mind you there might be saints in our word and I applaud to them but I am not and by knowing a bit about myself I often project it on other people. I know its not great but I learned that I am not perfect and I am not trying to be. I don't have problem admitting it. I for example don't give flying F about whatever is going on in south america. I just don't as it does not affect my sphere of existence. I don't want anything bad happen to anyone but I can care only about those I affect by my own actions. But I don't have capacity to care about 6 billion people.

people care about things which affects them, what a new concept.

Pfff.... at 40, you're barely an adult yet

twice-baked taters is a good start. am original from the midwest so we got family who has no doubt found a way to add gravy and deep fry... probable add a pickle o' some sort as well. not a criticism. am personal a proponent o' the Cheese and Meat school o' cooking. every meal leaving our kitchen needs promote cheese and/or meat with both being the ideal plating solution. bread and sweets is swell and all, and am understanding vegetables and fruits have nutritional value or some such. that said, from our pov, most o' those other "foods" is platforms or vehicles for cheese and/or meat. ... gonna admit we also require garlic. is a handful o' garlic-free recipes in our regular rotation, but those is outliers. HA! Good Fun!

Thanks for the feedback! Fixed! Note that the changes to vendor inventories/starting gear (probably) won't take effect during the ongoing s4 playthrough. Download -> s4.tar.gz Sounds good, I reduced the starting gold to 50k & per-match gold to 20k. You can experiment with the values if you want, look inside the globalscripts folder: starting gold -> line 22 in s4_post_character_creation.globalscriptbundle challenge gold -> line 37 in s4_challenge_rewards.globalscriptbundle Yeah, the vendor inventories are really bloated. Splitting each category of items between vendors would make the item lists more condensed (when filtering on a specific category at least), but I'm afraid it would also make it harder to know exactly which vendor to go to for which item. ____ Edit: thinking about it some more, I do like this idea. Domenga could get all rings and capes or something, as long as those categories are collected in one place the player will know where to go. ____ There's also the option of using Engari. He's not unlocked as a vendor until after 4 encounters, which I felt was a bit much and decided not to give him anything. But maybe he could be used after all? Agh, missed those. I added 1 copy of each to Winge in the latest version above. They aren't stackable so adding more than one of each would bloat the inventories even further. I'll probably make them regenerate in the vendors inventories in the future, so that you can buy several of them (although one at a time) while keeping the bloat down.

Russia lied?! Again?? This can't be!

Be careful, you may have caught another disease that will be a third plague to go with the rona and the monkeypox.

My parents decided that it's time to catch the 'rona. They're both fine outside of regular flu symptoms. I've been feeling a little tired, but otherwise I'm fine, in spite of having had close contact. Third time (that I know of, at least) I'm directly exposed due to coworkers and family. Antigen test came back negative, so not sure. Might be tired from something else, but it sure feels a little like I'm a little under the weather.

Well means you can take as much time off as you want, as long as you get it approved suitably in advance, and don't take too much as they'll hold that against you when you go over an amount your manager or someone above deems appropriate for workers to take off Recruiter telling me that was a selling point made me laugh.

Unlimited paid time off, i.e. no set amount of vacation days.

They have, as far as I know. https://www.wired.com/story/gaming-industry-unites-russia/

I can understand starting a war over a hottie like Helen of Troy. But not over some old hag.

self-lawyering all too often results in self-harm and we highly recommend avoiding such conjecture. regardless, the school board released a single statement to the public stating that teachers got first amendment freedoms which need be observed but the board were nevertheless suspending the teacher and investigating him 'cause o' his reported presence at the Capitol on january 6. turns out the teacher were never at the Capitol-- just some douchey twitter nonsense posted while he were in DC for the stop the steal rally... posts which seemed to advocate insurrection . school board does investigation which clears the teacher o' any actionable malfeasance and tells him he should return to work. teacher's complaint is two-fold: 1) he wants a public apology to clear his name. 2)the board were wrong to public release info regarding their investigation o' the teacher's january 6 activities. 'ccording to teacher, as a member o' the teacher union collective bargaining agreement provisions, the board were precluded from discussing the matter o' his investigation until he had been provided a process to defend himself. having not read the agreement, we cannot say what is the school board duties. however, as the matter o' the teacher's january 6 activities were a matter o' public interest thanks in large part due to the teacher's questionable social media practices, the rules for board behaviour is likely not as cut-and-dry as teacher's lawyer might claim. whatever beef the teacher has with the board is largely a contract issue related to his collective bargaining agreement. media pundits latched onto a rando story and skewed the narrative a bit so that it fits whatever is their chosen point o' view, but is less substance to the story than one might assume based on reports from cnn or fox or wherever. HA! Good Fun!

Some would suggest that it is good to care about the lives of black people, too. You may have heard slogans to that effect, recently. Most of that doesn't really seem to actually be remotely relevant to what I was actually saying. I'll just highlight this one bit, though. "But if malaria became mainstream in the US I can guarantee you the US media would highlight this" Here's what I'm saying: not just the US media, but also the Australian media, the UK media, etc. As I believe you've already noted, monkeypox has been observed in Africa since the 70s. When the current monkeypox 'outbreak' occurred, it was already all over Nigeria. Then it got to the UK, and suddenly news sources in the USA and Australia (not just the UK) cared enough to report on it. If Australian and US media don't care about diseases that are all over Africa, they don't really have much additional incentive to care about diseases that have hopped the ditch over to Europe. Except, of course, that the UK is a wealthier country, with white, English speaking people in it. Maybe it wouldn't hurt our media to also care when it's Africa being ravaged by disease. "So in summary the suggestion that monkeypox is a racist name is uninformed and ignores the history of this disease and how its spreading throughout the world" Cool. I wasn't talking about that, though.

Looks like they may have used the RX9 munition. CIA Used Flying Knife Missile to Kill Ayman al-Zawahiri (gizmodo.com)

Those are counted separately.

damn those evil hwities caring about other white people!

Sigh. I bet they didn't take Bernouilli/ fluid dynamics into account. Obviously Geonosis has increased atmospheric pressure and density, so it's more like falling through water than air and the descent is significantly slowed. Indeed, this is clearly the case if one observes carefully- consider, Geonosians can fly on Geonosis when they would never be able to on earth and Padmé clearly hits the [whatever Anakin is riding] at relatively low velocity. There simply is no other explanation. Well, besides George Lucas not caring about physics, which is clearly ridiculous given the respect he gives to scientific consistency otherwise like making sure there's no sound in a vacuum and that lasers are light constant and cannot be seen unless they're hitting something. At least one other planet also clearly has very high atmospheric density in Star Wars, and it's far better known than Geonosis- Tatooine. We see Watto flying there with his diddly wee wings, so it must be an absolute pea souper in terms of density.

I wish they'd get outraged over Malaria then. At least Monkeypox is low infectivity and has a vaccine already (bonus, since it's the smallpox one we'll get to see antivaxxers' heads explode if it's brought back). It's still 200 million cases and 700k deaths from Malaria each and every year, but it's barely mentioned.

Padme's crotch can survive more than 14000 newtons of force (force, not "The Force") Some geeky person looked up Natalie Portman's weight (53.5kg, yes this all scientific stuff, hence metric!), calculated the height of the pillar and according to lore, the planets gravity is 90% of Earths... so 8.82 meter per second. Normal human bones gets destroyed when exposed to 4000 Newtons

you can also use ctrl+shift+v for plain text paste

There's alot of earthquakes around Fagradalsflall and Mt. Keilir in iceland, some around the town of Grindavik aswell, so it's looking like there might be an eruption soon. So I'm going to be keeping my eye on a popout livestream all day

Yep, not a big deal, although I am sure squad Mako was just Cortez by himself. Despite myself, the in mission dialogue did get a laugh out me - the drone bothering even the enemies with its prattling on. I can see why people like this DLC for the fanservice.

When I moved to New Zealand in 2003, my new workplace had just increased the annual leave from 3 weeks to 4 weeks. Still a "cut" compared to the 5 weeks of annual leave I was used to in Denmark. Of course, since I left my old country, they increased that to 6 weeks (depending on workplace). Never mind that I don't have kids and could get 9 weeks of parental leave (as a guy!). They are also experimenting in some municipalities with 4 day work weeks, increasing the daily hours a bit to meet the 35 hour work week target...

I don't think this forum software is *that* sophisticated. My work around is to paste it into notepad first, then cut and paste it from there into a forum post. Notepad has very little formatting options supported

I don't think Ms. NO FUN ALLOWED would approve of metal.

Through the Ashes It got a lot easier once I properly equipped my characters, especially the tank. In the last map I eventually stopped using potions and scrolls. And I fought against everyone I could find. I did play on normal, though. I would try it again with a different approach and on a harder difficulty, but I decided to start the main campaign. I'm gonna play as a metal oread cleric of Iomedae. I disabled GOG updates and I have the installer for the current version on backup, so the EE shouldn't be a problem. Edit: I was trying to avoid resting, not sure what the consequences were. Also, I ended with a significant amount of money. I could probably have bought better items and plenty of healing potions.

0.14.0 Public Test - 3805 to 3811 Changes Stones of Toughness and Rocks of Fashion now show damaged states when you are busting them with a hammer. Fixed Payback base attacks sometimes not triggering. Fixed crash that could occur when viewing the Accessibility tab in German. Pets can no longer drown. Lowering cook times a bit in the Cookery. Icons updated for Pet Tombstones, Glue Masher, and Cookery. Untamed Gnats no longer can carry stacks of Grub items while flying around. Clients can now crouch after exiting a turret they entered while on a ladder. Cookery now cooks all items at the same time and cooks faster. You can now exit Turrets using the Interact button (E on Keyboard default, X on Controller default). Pet Gnats will actually stay at the Pet House when deposited instead of continuing to follow the player. Broodmother boss music removed from the final Haze lab encounter. Smithing Station UI properly updates after upgrading a weapon or armor. Apple core chunk locations are properly synced on clients. Upgrade Nuggets added in the bird bath.

Monkeypox. It's like chickenpox, only racist. Because it has monkeys in the name? Apparently.

R-click "paste as plain text" takes care of a lot of the wonkyness.

More about the Olenivka penal colony available at various sources. (sorry for the colour, but I am unable to remove it from the copypasta of the source material) “Open-source intelligence (OSINT) analyst Oliver Alexander published an examination of satellite imagery from July 27 showing open graves at the Olenivka prison, noting that July 29 satellite imagery appears to show that the same graves have been covered. Investigative journalism group Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins stated that lower resolution satellite imagery indicates ground disturbances after July 18 and prior to July 21, suggesting that the Russians may have planned the incident in advance.” https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-31

Give me some of that Europe.

Haha! No, not yet, I've got him in numbers, easily, but that damn pike is going to be hard to beat I for some reason, probably a difference in how we bait the hook with the worms, keep getting many fishies, quickly, but I don't get any of the big ones. Oh, and I have 17 more vacation days that I can use

Whoa! Since I turned 18 Ive never had five weeks off in a row. Did you wind up beating your friend in the fishing competition?

So I went back to work after 5 weeks of vacation, a breeze of a day with just 5 hours overtime Great start

There was a single Mega Lotto winner in IL, and it wasnt me. One of my buddies was going to the store to buy tickets so I gave him $4 to pick me up two ticket and not a single number was right on either ticket. On the bright side, I promised him 10% if one of my tickets won, so I dont have to cut him a check for ~75M.

US has assessed HIMARS were not used in Olenivka prison. Full article on it published by Politico. They were used against military echelon moving to Kherson though. 40 wagons full of ammunition, military vehicles and military personnel were hit.

i'm still trying to carve out some time to more properly put it through its paces, but a few quick thoughts blunderbuss doesn't appear to be in the initial set of superb gear? i double and triple checked but i don't think i saw one what about turning down the initial gold and the per-match gold rewards? to make purchasing stuff a bit more strategic decision what do you think about splitting up the accessories between different merchants? there's just so many, it feels like it takes a while to find items to buy through the long list and if they were subdivided somehow that'd help. simlar thing with weapons - maybe split 1h and 2h weapons betwen different merchants to make it easier to find through them? though i had less problem here because it feels like there are a lot fewer weapons to go through what about a few non-unique items? i was trying to find gloves of accuracy, for example. i ended up settling for the unique gloves of the dungeon warden, but that wouldn't suffice if i wanted more than one character with them. same thing with other non-unique accessories.

Problem is, new GTA gameplay will just be the exact same thing we have seen for 20 years now. Hell even RDR2 has GTA-style mission flow .... So the only thing that a new GTA would have for it would be the bits of story. Rest is just going to be the same pew-pew missions as always.

@Amentep @Fionavar move to Grounded tech support please, nobody's going to read it in here.

Yeah I'm gonna pass on that. I'm just not going to use Aloth or wizards. Such a really bad concept. Now I end up with friendly fire AOE spells that I'd never of picked given the chance being used by Aloth as he's set to auto-attack.

Unless it changed, they're permanent. Now instead of swapping spells around grimoires, you swap grimoires themselves. I very much agree, I do not like this either. I'm possibly not even going to make a single wizard playthrough just because of that