Not unprecedented, but still very strange, doesn’t make sense to me either.

From the article:

North Carolina is one of a handful of states that allow jilted spouses to sue for “alienation of affection” to seek damages from a third party responsible for the breakup of their marriage.

It’s very weird to me that some states let spouses sue a third party for their partner’s infidelity. Sinema is clearly a morally bankrupt asshole, but this guy cheated on his wife.

I think they suck story-wise, and are quite lazy with the overall plots, but they’re gorgeous and innovative, and have surprisingly good acting for the shit those people must have to go through, so I’ll continue watching and rewatching them even though I still think they suck. The visuals and world-building are what keep me coming back. It’s a very weird franchise, but it makes sense that people have such a love/hate relationship.

Get rid of the human characters and make it all about Pandora and it’d be pure gold IMO.

It’s been so long, but I remember loving the Black Widow and the…Interceptor? Getting myself in the perfect position to just absolutely wreck the other side felt so good, especially when stealthed in the Widow. Again I’m having trouble recalling specifics, but I remember the matchmaking being incredibly solid which is why the game was so consistently good. Sometimes things were lopsided, but more often than not it was was good balanced fun, while still being challenging.

Yess! I put a huge number of hours into this game. It had such satisfying mechanics. Haven’t thought about it in a long time, but one of my favorites.

Same. If I find myself spacing out at my desk and don’t have anything scheduled, I’ll hop over to the couch and lay down for 15 or 20 minutes. Even if I don’t fully fall asleep, letting myself drift puts me in a much more productive mindset when I go back to my desk.

Though I don’t worry about making up for that time, since I assume everybody else has their own little remote work cheats to get through the day.

It’s oddly gratifying when users consistently live up to the custom red flag tags I’ve assigned them…

Seconding this. Japanese cinema has this style figured out. A great recent example is Perfect Days. It’s a gorgeous slice of life film with a small but excellent cast. The main character is played by Yakusho Koji (a pretty famous Japanese actor) and he barely has any lines. There’s very little dialogue in the whole film, but it tells a tight and coherent story.

Yeah, he’s a bigot. Everything he says, the way he snidely talks about underrepresented groups, the disrespect he shows his own family, all done with a glib goading smile that begs for outrage.

I’m not sure why the author felt the need to sanitize Trump’s antisemitism at the same time as illustrating Vance’s, especially when he pretty much describes them the same way. Vanity driven by fear of turning away supporters vs. political cravenness for fear of losing the base. Don’t see much difference when it comes out as hatred for minorities.

Trump has always struggled to denounce anti-Semitism, whether asked to comment on Kanye West or the tiki-torch carriers in Charlottesville. But that always seemed a product of his vanity; he couldn’t stand to speak ill of acolytes. Vance’s refusal or inability to denounce anti-Semitism is more craven—and therefore more disturbing. He’s clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid.

It’s a summary of multiple articles, and doesn’t explain how it wrote the summary. Breaks the community rules (rule 1) for sure, but also just a very confusing way to post multiple articles at once. Just pick one source, and post that directly.

Edit: I looked into it. It’s slop:

Kagi News reads public RSS feeds of thousands of (community-curated) world-wide news sources and utilizes AI to distill them into one perfect daily briefing.

Those wings are awesome. To echo some other comments, your style has noticeably evolved and gotten really cool. I love this one: the framing, the color scheme, the angles, those badass wings. I can totally still see the unique style that oozes from your other simpler drawings, but with all this extra detail it’s even better.

The average utility bill for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers increased by about 67% over the last five years. (source)

I can vouch. My PG&E bills in 2020 averaged around $70 a month, now they’re regularly over $170. No change in my consumption habits. If I’m mathing correctly, that’s more than a 100% increase for me.

Not Safe For Work is a warning so if you’re browsing at work you know not to click on a link that might embarrass you if people are looking over your shoulder. It’s not about nakedness per se, but is more about what’s acceptable to look at in front of others in a professional setting.

I hope you wanted a serious answer…

I get what you’re saying, and I accept that reality for most of us here who already understand these things. But blaming consumers for corporate surveillance is not a good way to get corporations to stop surveilling consumers.

People, especially young people who are still learning what it means to be a person living in a society, deserve a second chance, and sometimes a third. This whole thing is disgusting, and as the grandchild of holocaust survivors I really struggle to not let these displays of bigotry completely ruin me, but your idea is also pretty upsetting.

People can and do change their beliefs, especially at the age these offenders are. I thought some pretty nasty things in high school that make me look back in shame. But I’m not that person anymore. I grew up, like most humans do. These students deserve to be punished, but that punishment needs to be serious education about why what they did was so awful. Putting them on a blacklist doesn’t help anyone, but it would help their hatred fester.

Heh logs.

You fixed my crappy morning, much appreciated.

Yeah, for real. Let’s hope the Majestic Imperious High Court deigns to grace us with any explanation. They love their emergency docket…

Murdering a murderer for committing murder will never make sense to me.

Good on her for standing her ground. I’m a huge fan of her work and loved seeing her in Star Wars, but nobody should work for less than their worth. She’s not an A-list star, and actors like her may have a huge following, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily rich beyond measure. This actually exposes a pretty serious problem in entertainment. People have families and bills, and even being a famous actor doesn’t mean you’re dripping in diamonds—despite most of the general public assuming that’s the case.

Fuck off, war criminal.

He has spent decades deliberately undermining—through murder, rape, and starvation—the possibility of a Palestinian state, and says there can’t be a Palestinian state. Sure, makes sense.

He has also spent decades propping up Hamas so he has a hateable enemy to fight, and says his one goal of this genocide is to eliminate Hamas. Sure, makes sense.