NotAFireDemon

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[cat-diagnosis]

Name: Little Beepo

Skill: Fucking Miserable

Quote: Please let me have some grease from the stovetop. I’ll cry if you don’t let me have some grease. I need it.

[fuckthisbjrdplease]

no grease for you, little beepo. im sorry, but its for your own good

[cat-diagnosis]

Little Beepo’s misery is increasing. Little Beepo’s misery is increasing. Little Beepo’s misery is increasing. Little Beepo’s misery is increasing.

[geopsych]

Late July at a foggy pond. I like this because along with crickets and a chipmunk you can hear a quiet black-billed cuckoo singing in the woods across the pond. Of the two cuckoos we get here, the black-billed is less common. The flowers in the foreground are joe pye weed.

[tsunflowers]

fascist societies obsessed with purity will always tear themselves apart as they aim for an ever narrower set of ideals. not only relevant in the fantastical world of witch hat atelier

[depsidase]

[ironlily-art]

How to instantly catch every archer's attention around the world.

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[txttletale]

genuinely desktop linux will never see mass adoption until some huge mega corporation or future socialist state produces a centralised out of the box version that comes packaged with physical devices. 99% of users do not want to do research on different forks and their strengths they want a box that turns on and shows them the button for the internet

[rowles6]

https://system76.com/

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops/

Yeah you can just buy a laptop, turn it on, pick a username+password, open firefox to browse the web, miss chrome, go to the app store, and install chrome and and steam and discord and such. No one tells you to do this because it saves you 59 dollars if you buy lenovo and 0 dollars if you buy system 76 and everyone in the linux community knows "spend 800 dollars on a computer you have to use a third party launcher to play fortnite and genshin on" is a very hard sell and we all want to save you money and make you impressed by watching a computer that windows made slow come back to life.

Also we think choice is good.

[txttletale]

another, albeit smaller reason desktop linux won't see mass adoption is that this is how its most vocal advocates love to engage with people

[whitetrsh-cryptid-deactivated20]

[hope-for-the-planet]

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered

These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction.

Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.

After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.

For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.

Just because something isn't fixed right away doesn't mean it won't ever be fixed. Just because the work is slow doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.

[jonksi]

[amiya-shirou]

Within the context of Arknights describing its empires in the same terms it describes its supernatural entities and how it extends the concept of assimilation from being digitalized into pure information by magical rocks to being absorbed into pseudo hive minds to plain old nationalisms, I believe the Bestial Sui is best read as a metaphorical mirror to the True Lung and the nation of Yan itself.

We always knew that Sui was yet another expression of the recurring theme of assimilation, a constant threat to the Twelve Proxies' individuality, who would all stop being themselves and lose their humanity the moment It awakened; the latest event went all in on the horror aspect of it and the fear of everything you are being consumed, like with the word "Sui" in red taking the place of the names of the siblings in Wang's vision and expanding over the pages as he was trying his hardest to delete it. The great focus each of the siblings had on culture and different forms of art and in general following their own passions and building their distinct identity for centuries is very similar to how artistic and greater meaning and personal goals are emphatized in the Iberia and Aegir storyline when it comes to resist being fully assimilated into the Seaborn.

But in First of a Thousand Autumns we learn two new things:

Sui sees itself not merely as the ruler of this land but also as a guide, intentioned to lead humanity in its journey to escape ruination and reach the next stage, which puts it in a similar category compared to a lot of the other self-centered yet idealistic antagonists in the game (from Priestess to the Witch King to the Church of the Deep and even fervent nationalists like the Emperor's Blade);

Sui would be empowered specifically by the personal strength the Proxies cultivated all this time.

Fundamentally this is just the mythological version of what the previous True Lung and the Gran Commandant talk about when they define Yan's expansion and growth not only as natural and necessary but even beneficial because as the greatest nation it's Great Yan's duty to lead everyone on this land to prosperity and it doesn't matter how many are sacrificed in the process as it's only natural that they would give their lives to fuel Yan. Is the way Sui treats its Proxies really all that different from how the True Lung treated them? If the nation reached this level of prosperity it's also thanks to everything the siblings did, all their efforts and the talents they cultivated and offered to it for a thousand years, and yet the True Lung was fully ready to just discard the twelve if it was for the sake of even greater prosperity than what they already had, because the idea of Yan as a whole matters more than any of its parts. Just like Sui, the empire doesn't care about who you are as a person; it will simply reap the fruits of your work for itself, discard you when you're no longer needed, and continue on its way, acting as if you never existed.

A major focus of the event is in regards to history, and in particular it puts heavy emphasis on never forgetting the sacrifices made to get where you are. Jie is seen as the single most dangerous proxy entirely because she doesn't allow the truth to be obfuscated; she isn't even using her power to alter history but just to make it so it can't be falsified, and that's enough to threaten the government's authority. It's all about never forgetting the people, the individuals sacrificed for Yan's advancements, no matter if they were necessary or not, and that's reflected in the proxies' fear of vanishing as if their existence was just Sui's dream. She's the one most resisting the assimilation of the yanese people into the singular force that is Yan, and similarly she's the one who - alongside Wang - most resisted the assimilation of the siblings. Both the citizens and the proxies are always at risk of having their existence and sacrifices erased.

Both Sui and Yan alike fear Jie growing in power and eventually stealing their absolute authority. When people start talking about Jie potentially becoming a threat superior even to the original Sui, the way that fear is expressed in the terms of how she would gain absolute power over the written word of Yan, to rule over the state; something not any different than what Yan was already trying to do. The closer she gets to being assimilated into Sui, the more she'd start using her powers to impose her will and authority over others rather than simply supporting them as she's been doing until now.

To become Sui is explicitly to become the ruler of Yan, at the cost of making that your entire identity; to reject it is to keep living as a human.

The way Wang describes Sui, its arrogance and loneliness, is it all that different from Blaze's criticism of the current True Lung in Such is the Joy of Our Reunion? Someone cast in the role of a supreme ruler, with no one to be its equal, who is not allowed to be wrong, to be themselves, to be human.

The crucial difference between the Proxies and their parent is that they walk among humanity and support them. Sui wasn't wrong for wanting humanity to reach the stars, it was wrong for thinking that it could only be done by ruling over them as a king. Sui mocks their way of life as "hiding their claws" (for as much as it may be motivated by necessity) because it can't understand living without imposing your will on others, as that's the only way someone born as a powerful ruler could interact with this land.

Both in regards to Sui and True Lung the story remarks that such a figure is not needed - whether it's an absolute god or an absolute emperor.

That's also why there's such emphasis on how just killing Sui would be useless because another proxy would take its place. It's the same as killing the emperor; someone else would simply become the True Lung. You can see that even as Wang became Sui: the old one would continue to torment him, to torment whoever sits on the throne and slowly turn them into it.

Wang has to completely remove Sui from the equation, to have it be consumed by the Originium for eternity; he had to make it so that the Sui could never again harm anyone and no one else could ever become it. Crucially, in doing so, he also removes the piece of the first Originium that is said to be the source of the True Lung's power and authority, the one that allowed him to replace Sui as the ruler of Yan.

...Which is kind of the high stakes mythological world-shattering version of Ch'en hoping The True Lung's daughter will be able to change this system altogether rather than simply take her father's place.

[notafiredemon]

Is there supposed to be a writing knife or something that spawns in TA-EX-8? The stamp doesn't seem to be getting the little fish guys to come out of the ground, and I don't know how else to deal with them

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Shout out to the phrase “I’m going to become the joker” for capturing a very specific and real emotion

[prokopetz]

Speaking of medieval history, it's fun how the popular accounts are all "the peasantry disliked nobles, but typically loved the King and attributed any harmful decisions to bad advisors", and then the rare examples of surviving testimony from actual peasants are like "I hope the King literally explodes".

[prokopetz]

Popular histories: Medieval peasants understood themselves as inhabiting a cosmic order in which the King was their divinely appointed superior.

Actual medieval peasant: God, please set the King and everyone who looks like him on fire, Amen.

[somniumquaesitor]

Chongyue: Doctor can you nag my brother for me he's locked up with his games and wont eat

[somniumquaesitor]

Chongyue: Doctor can you nag my brother for me he's locked up with his games and wont eat

[veryberryskye]

so anyways i

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do not skip my fucking dia

you’re pissing me o

WHAT IS YOUR PR

Fare thee well adventurer, I patiently await good tidings!