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Characters must make choices.

Characters should often make bad choices before they make good choices.

Character choices should drive the vast majority of the plot. Characters reacting to having random stuff thrown at them is far less interesting than characters reacting to the stuff they've thrown after it's ricocheted around and comes bouncing back toward them.

If a character refuses to make a choice, there better be consequences for that too, and you better have a damn clear way of showing those consequences to the reader and the character.

“That’s funny” said the child “because 2+4=6 and two pounds and four pounds is six pounds. It’s like the same as math!”

“What happens if you add 6+1?”

“SEVEN”

“What if we put one pound of mangos on the scale?” <mangos added>

“IT’S THE SAME!!”

“OK, what’s 7-4?”

“Three?”

“What if we take the four pound watermelon off the scale?” <watermelon removed>

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reduce what you can

Reuse everything still in working order

Recirculate what you don’t need by sharing or selling onward

Refurbish what’s fallen out of good condition so it lasts longer

Repair what’s broken altogether

Repurpose what can’t serve its original function

Recycle what is unsuitable for repurposing

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

Incorrect Ace Attorney pt. 11

KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026

In Paper Mario: The Origami King, a plot event in Shangri-Spa is Bowser Jr.'s colors disappearing after taking a bath in the Spring of Jungle Mist. When he emerges from the spring, Kamek says a blank text bubble, whereupon he humorously explains that the shock made the color drain from his typeface.

However, while the speech bubble appears blank, it actually has text in it, which is merely set to 0% transparency - "You're bleached!". As such, it cannot actually be seen in-game under any circumstances, and requires extracting the data from the game's files to view. Interestingly, this text has been translated into all languages the game is available in, and cannot be seen in any of them. The table provides the text and a rough translation of all the language versions.

Source: Scrooge200

@little-theatre-fairy

Pretty much the same way a parent should handle offline situations that may be upsetting or hurtful to a child - which largely boils down to a combination of situational awareness for prevention, teaching the kid to get an authority figure involved to help put a stop to whatever is happening, and helping your kid learn to process any big feelings about it afterwards. Heavy emphasis on the last part because we have a lot of adults these days who never learned that.

And call me crazy, but it's also a parent's job to evaluate outside environments and decide whether or not they are safe for their children to be in - and if the answer is 'no' then it is the parent's job to remove their child from that environment. When I was a kid, that looked like "no, you're not going to a sleepover at Susie's house because her older brother is a fucking creep or her mom likes to drink and drive or her dad doesn't understand why you can't show a seven year old a graphic R rated movie and none of those people are safe for you to be around, much less on your own." Now it might be "no, because Timmy's parents don't pay any attention to what's happening online in their house." You're actually allowed to tell your kid no. They'll live. If they're upset about it, that's okay. It's good for them to learn how to deal with emotions like that too.

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

"Where Linnaeus “revolutionised” the world of taxonomy, was in his ‘great gift… of standardization’ (Naumann 2006, 80). He created the binomial system of nomenclature that is still used in the natural sciences today, where each species is given a two-part name in Latin and/or Greek form [...] These distinctions were made not just on skin colour but on temperament and “humour”, too. Linnaeus also went so far as to include the further subspecies ‘Ferus’ (for, I kid you not, feral children) and ‘Monstrosus’, denoting ‘mythical people with strange morphologies’ (DeSalle & Tattersall 2018). Clearly, he was getting a little carried away. [...] In the art versus science debate, Anthropology is largely considered more on the “art” side, whereas taxonomy – based on principles of biology – is considered a science. Yet relegating humans into four racial subspecies – as well as two completely “mythological” subspecies – was clearly not based on any “real” science. We now know, genetically speaking, that there is only one species of human, and that remains Homo sapiens" (Taylor 3-6).

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Historical figures can make significant contributions to their field and still be racist. These classifications were used to VALIDATE conquering, slavery, and ethnic cleansing.