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Punitive reprisals to… The open declaration of war Hamas made today?

Who in their right mind expects a country to supply power to the country that literally just attacked them?

No this is what happens when terrorists overwhelm a border crossing and stsrt indiscriminately murdering civilians, then carry their mutilated bodies around as literal flags as they celebrate the murder in the street

I disagree with this take. I live in NOVA. What happened in the last gubernatorial race was that the democrats ran the worst campaign I have ever seen. It was so bad that democratic turnout wasn’t high enough to beat the Republicans. That’s it.

If they democrats had run a halfway competent campaign then they would have handily won.

My fiancee and I both got artificial sapphires in our engagement rings.

Real ones were nearly double the price.

You wouldn’t know they’re lab grown. They look great.

Appendices to LOTR*

They legally cannot use the silmarillion

Hard disagree here. I’m a rabid wheel of time fan who has read the books at least 6 times.

Ir would be downright impossible to “stick to the source” for book one (or really, any if them) and have it be good on film. It just wouldn’t work on film, there is too much going on. The story would feel like it drags and is being forcefully stretched out, because the book is rather repetitive. That repetition works in a book because you are getting to read the characters inner thoughts, and in paper it adds tension that, for example, Rand and Mat are unsure whether the next place they stay will be full of dark friends.

But after the third time they get chased out by dark friends a TV audience would be like “OK they did this already get on with it.” Repetition on TV gets boring FAST.

And the magic system is all kinds of messy in the books. They’re diving into it a bit more now, but it’s still got Tobe simplified for screen. You can’t convey characters thoughts on screen, which basically neuters the whole system. The book is VERY exposition heavy, and that gets boring real quick on screen. Look at the LOTR theatrical VS extended editions. There is a reason that Bilbo talking about Hobbits at the beginning got cut. I like that scene, but it also is too much exposition to drop on the viewer right after the intro, which is also exposition. EOTW is like half exposition, and most of the books are at least a third exposition. That all has to get cut or reworked to be actually fun to watch without being super preachy. It’s

Listen to Brandon Sanderson talking about the adaptation of Mistborm he has been working in for ages now. He has said that he had to make big, fundamental changes to the characters and story to make it work on film. He said his first draft was closest to the book, and that it was quite bad.

The biggest fuckup season 1 of the show did was not including the prologue. Idk why they cut it, it’s such a good intro. Besides that, I thought they did alright. Season two has been much better so far, and has shown that they really do understand the core of this story and all of the characters in it.

The racism is so blatant. Idk how this isn’t a civil rights lawsuit already, the whole situation is utterly ridiculous.

Sim Park

Idk if anyone else ever even heard of it, it was a late 90s Sim game where you built a wildlife park.

I agree 100%. I set up a home server after reddit fell, and unfortunately I’ve been having to use reddit to ask a lot of my questions. The communities for the stuff I need to ask here on Lemmy just don’t exist, and on reddit they do, and you’ll get responses pretty quickly.

For any kind of programming questions reddit has been far better than lemmy simply because it is significantly more populated.

My dude you clearly don’t understand even a little bit of what leftists mean when we say that private property shouldn’t be allowed.

Heres a hint: we aren’t talking about your house and the stuff in it. Go read a book.

The rest of your comment is pretty spot on though, this is an insane post with even more insane suggestions

Are you seriously suggesting that this person soumd deliberately sabatoge a towns economy,after almost certainly having to lie to get elected in the first place, against the best interests of its inhabitants, just to personally enrich themselves?

Id be on board if you had said he should pass an ordinance banning Airbnb, that would be one thing, but you’re suggesting he should make the whole town inhospitable to tourists and crush their economy so he can buy himself a house then fuck off

The FCC is still to my knowledge taking public comments about data caps:

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests

May be worth people here commenting about how they are ridiculous

100% with you on Joplin, I use it all the time. I love it. I haven’t yet found anything I like more.

I tried Obsidian recently and was turned off because the notes aren’t encrypted in place like with Joplin. To me that’s just a really nice privacy feature that I don’t like the idea of sacrificing, especially not to a not open source project.

No, earth has 4 corner simultaneous 4 day TIME CUBE

I just keep hitting issues with the damn AIO, I got past this and now it’s stuck in maintenance mode. Who the fuck thought this was in a release ready state? I swear I’ve never had this much issue with ANY other docker container- and the documentation doesn’t help at all. I’m at a loss here, i’m super frustrated with this.

I also just don’t want to have different apps for literally everything I do. That sounds REALLY annoying. Having one application that I use for making, editing, and reading PDFs isn’t really asking that much IMO. It’s just like asking for an application to read, edit, and make text files. They might notve exactly the same task, but they’re certainly related enough that having them all in one place is perfectly reasonable.

But like, using LaTeX as a replacement for microsoft word is NOT really useful advice for the vast majority of people who use Word. I don’t need ANY of the special things LaTeX does, and I’ve been using Word all my life to do the basic stuff I need it for.

I get where people here are coming from, but the whole point of this thread is talking about proprietary software which is better for the average use case than open source stuff, and I think the point still stands that MSOffice products absolutely fit that bill. Yes, open source or free alternatives exist, but they aren’t nearly as good, feature-full, and easy to learn and use as the open source alternatives.

The fact that we’re here arguing whether LaTeX is a viable alternative to Word and Power Point kinda proves that MSOffice is the best for this IMO, because LaTeX isn’t exactly easy to pick up and use and is really intended for industries that need extremely complex formatting on their presentations and papers.