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Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 22 discussion
  • Thanks for the info!

    I'm looking forward to seeing the explanation connecting Diablo, Rimuru, and the mask.

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    Read the Charges Against Ryan Routh, Suspect in Trump Shooting Attempt

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    Live Updates: Suspect Insulted Trump in Book, but Never Fired a Shot

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    Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 22 discussion
  • Is Elmesia (?), the elf monarch, the head of state of the Sorcerous Kingdom? If so, shouldn't it be Queendom? Also, besides the really short fights with Razen and some of the religious zealots, as well a Elmesia's wariness, I still don't have a good idea of Diablo's capabilities nor the reason why he's so interested in Rimuru. I recall Diablo was very interested in the mask Rimuru's body's previous owner used, but I fail to see what that has to do with Rimuru since he wasn't around yet.

  • Final Fantasy VI - 1994
  • It is Kefkaʼs Tower, according to “Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive, Volume 1” (2018). Dark Horse Books. Page 259 of 335. ISBN: 978-1-50670-644-3. OCLC: 1043915833.

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    Man Dies During River Trip in the Grand Canyon

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    Internet Archive Loses Court Appeal in Fight Over Online Lending Library
    www.nytimes.com Internet Archive Loses Court Appeal in Fight Over Online Lending Library

    The dispute started in the early days of the pandemic when the organization expanded access to a free online collection of books.

    Internet Archive Loses Court Appeal in Fight Over Online Lending Library

    Dated: 2024-09-04. Added: 2024-09-04.

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    Apalachee High School Shooting in Georgia Leaves 4 Dead: Live Updates
    www.nytimes.com Apalachee High School Shooting in Georgia Leaves 4 Dead: Live Updates

    The 14-year-old student accused of killing four people at his Georgia high school was questioned about online threats, which he denied having made, the F.B.I. said. In a news briefing, the authorities said the weapon used in the shooting was an “AR-platform-style weapon.”

    Apalachee High School Shooting in Georgia Leaves 4 Dead: Live Updates

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    I wish my new water bottle contained an infinite supply of ice cold drinking water.
  • Granted, but it is endless because it supplies itself with water from your blood.

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  • You know she's a competent teacher because she never loses her head.

  • Coming up with new names is hard
  • Utah: Monticello (Italian, but locally pronounced “monta sell-oh”)

  • Coming up with new names is hard
  • You're telling me there is no Walla Walla, England?

  • No más muro de pago en los artículos en español del New York Times
  • Yo estaba pensando por qué no había "Share full article links" en los artículos. Pensaba que era un síntoma de que mi cuenta estaba registrada en los EE.UU.

  • Add this to your next human's repertoire
  • Elves can live over a thousand years (one dark elf we know of is blessed by their evil deity and is over 5,000), but dwarves only about 2-400 years (I think?) and half lings about 100-150ish, humans standard 80.

    After reading The Age of Em (2016) by Robin Hanson, I wish there were stories about races that went the other way, lifespan-wise: extremely small people who lived only 1 year, even smaller people who lived only 1 month, some very extremely small but very powerful ones that lived only a day, etc. The idea is that artificial people (emulated people, or Ems) could have subjectively similar characteristics and experiences to the larger physical entities (e.g. humans, but perhaps even dwarves, elves, and etc., since theyʼre just emulated minds), but their artificial emulated substrate allows their minds to develop and age orders of magnitude faster; they also could solve certain problems orders of magnitude faster but practical limitations on delays between thought and physical interactions (your mind would waste away if you had to wait a whole subjective hour between each physical step during a walk with a standard 1.5 meter body) require their bodies to be very small.

    To ems that are smaller and faster, sunlight seems dimmer and shows more noticeable diffraction patterns. Magnets, waveguides, and electrostatic motors are less useful. Surface tension makes it harder to escape from water. Friction is more often an obstacle, lubrication is harder to achieve, and random thermal disruptions to the speed of objects become more noticeable. It becomes easier to dissipate excess body heat, but harder to insulate against nearby heat or cold (Haldane 1926; Drexler 1992).

    A crude calculation using a simple conservative nano-computer design suggests that a matching faster-em brain might plausibly fit inside an android body 256 times smaller and faster than an ordinary human body (Hanson 1995).

    Compared with ordinary humans, to a fast em with a small body the Earth seems much larger, and takes much longer to travel around. To a kilo-em, for example, the Earth’s surface area seems a million times larger, a subway ride that takes 15 minutes in real time takes 10 subjective days, an 8-hour plane ride takes a subjective year, and a 1-month flight to Mars takes a subjective century. Sending a radio signal to the planet Saturn and back takes a subjective 4 months. Even super-sonic missiles seem slow. However, over modest distances lasers and directed energy weapons continue to seem very fast to a kilo-em.

    Call them speedlings, or some variant of sprite, but I think its an interesting world-building concept.

  • How to draw Mickey -- er, I mean Doug [Super-Fun-Pak Comix]
  • Or authors could preëmptively declare their works to be in the public domain upon their death.

    I wish Creative Commons had a license like that. Something like CC PDD (Public-Domain-on-Death) which would activate upon the creator's death, allowing them and publishers to freely monetize their work while they're alive, but which would release the work into the public domain immediately after.

    It might even incentivize music and book publishers to get their artists health insurance. 😃

  • Deep thoughts.
  • PLATO: An automobile is craft with an internal combustion engine, crankshaft, and wheels.

    DIOGENES wheels in a HONDA GX630 PRESSURE WASHER

    DIOGENES: Behold! An automobile!

  • It must be a silent R
  • “Create a python script to count the number of r characters are present in the string strawberry.”

    The number of 'r' characters in 'strawberry' is: 2
    

  • The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell
  • Just take one of your… checks notes ten non-sick leave vacation days per year.

  • Or when water gets in your ear during the shower and when that water finally gets out. Same feeling
  • Is it the same superpower that lets you vibrate your inner ear? It feels like the same type of movement as shaking your eyes, chattering your jaw, or tapping the A button quickly for Mario Party.

  • Wishes
  • “That all life beyond this planet never existed, no matter how irrationally improbable that may be.”

  • Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken 3rd Season • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 - Episode 18 discussion
  • Luckily it's been so long since I've read this part that I can enjoy what happens since I've forgotten this arc.

  • US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
  • don’t let them slowly re-consolidate in the following 20 years

    I too remember how AT&T was broken up only for most of its Baby Bells to remerge back into Ma Bell.

    To prevent this for future breakups, I say the content and services sold by big tech should be made competitively compatible and interoperable via nullification of DRM laws; people buy music and movies and cloud storage; let them legally move their purchases to any competitor and big tech companies will break up naturally as local competitors emerge from people who dislike big tech for their own reasons. Monopolies cannot be trusted to lower prices for content and services. Legally nullifying DRM is like the FCC telling customers in 1968 that it was finally okay to ignore the “Bell equipment only” legal warning that had kept them locked into leasing their telephone sets for usurious amounts from AT&T for decades. A few years later, in 1982, AT&T was broken up. AT&T is almost a total monopoly again, but phones remain interoperable.

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    Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You (Published 2001; Subject: Wikipedia)
    www.nytimes.com Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You (Published 2001)

    Some 100 volunteers have been working since Jan to compile free encyclopedia on Wikipedia Web site; use relatively unknown and simple software tool called Wiki that enables site visitors to contribute entries and edit existing ones; peer pressure is encouraging volunteers to strive for objectivity; ...

    Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You (Published 2001)
    • Dated: 2001-09-20.
    • Added: 2024-08-08.
    • Note: Added for fun. This is the earliest article The New York Times website lists with the topic “Wikipedia”. For context, Wikipedia lists its own launch date as 2001-01-15.
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    U.S. et al. v. Google: Read the Ruling
    www.nytimes.com U.S. et al. v. Google: Read the Ruling

    Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, a federal judge ruled on Monday. The landmark decision strikes at the power of tech giants in the modern internet era and may fundamentally alter the way they do business.

    U.S. et al. v. Google: Read the Ruling
    • Dated: 2024-08-05.
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    • Related: https://sopuli.xyz/post/15600220 .
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    ‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case
    www.nytimes.com ‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case

    The ruling on Google’s search dominance was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet era in a case against a technology giant.

    ‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case

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    The Last Days of an Outback Town Where Every Breath Can Be Toxic (Published 2022)
    www.nytimes.com The Last Days of an Outback Town Where Every Breath Can Be Toxic (Published 2022)

    The town of Wittenoom, ruined by asbestos mining, will be wiped off the face of the earth. But first the government had to remove those who wanted to stay.

    The Last Days of an Outback Town Where Every Breath Can Be Toxic (Published 2022)

    Dated: 2022-09-29. Added: 2024-08-05. Inspired by an image from this Mastodon post.

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    [MISLEADING TITLE] Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4
    www.nytimes.com Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4

    According to Mr. Trump’s post on social media, the debate will take place in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state.

    Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4

    Dated: 2024-08-03. Added: 2024-08-03. Edit: Gift link added. Edit (2024-08-04): The New York Times altered the title from “Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4” to “Trump Proposes a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4” to “Trump Cancels a Debate With Harris on ABC News and Pitches One With Fox News Instead”, presumably because the original misleadingly implied agreement with and consent from Kamala Harris for the change in venue (ABC News to Fox News).

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    A New School Bridges Two Worlds (Published 1998)
    www.nytimes.com A New School Bridges Two Worlds (Published 1998)

    Native American Preparatory School in Rowe, NM, which serves gifted Indian students, most of whom grew up in poverty on reservations, will graduate its first class in June; has already drawn recruiters from more than 30 colleges, including Harvard and Cornell; school's curriculum includes American I...

    A New School Bridges Two Worlds (Published 1998)

    Dated: 1998-11-29. Added: 2024-08-03. Note: A bit of a historic interest of mine.

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    A Bid to Redefine Indian Education (Published 1995)

    Dated: 1995-11-27. Added: 2024-08-03. Note: A bit of a historic interest of mine. Covers the founding of Native American Preparatory School (1995/2002).

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    Indian Rootlessness (Published 1990)

    Dated: 1990-11-04. Added: 2024-08-03. Note: A bit of a historic interest of mine that I wanted to share.

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    Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Harris
    www.nytimes.com Live Updates: Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Harris

    President Biden wrote on social media that he was ending his campaign for re-election after intense pressure from within his own party. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him atop the Democratic ticket.

    Live Updates: Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Harris

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    Biden Drops Out of Race, Scrambling the Campaign for the White House
    www.nytimes.com Biden Drops Out of Race, Scrambling the Campaign for the White House

    The president’s withdrawal under pressure from fellow Democrats cleared the way for a new nominee to take on former President Donald J. Trump in the fall. He quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.

    Biden Drops Out of Race, Scrambling the Campaign for the White House

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    Live Updates: Flights and Businesses Are Struggling to Recover After Microsoft Windows Outage (CrowdStrike incident)
    www.nytimes.com Live Updates: Flights and Businesses Are Struggling to Recover After Microsoft Windows Outage

    Airlines, banks and broadcasters were among the companies around the world reporting disruptions, citing technical issues.

    Live Updates: Flights and Businesses Are Struggling to Recover After Microsoft Windows Outage

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    Live Election Updates: Trump ‘Safe’ After What Sounded Like Gunshots at Rally

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    I.R.S. Crackdown on Delinquent Millionaires Yields $1 Billion
    www.nytimes.com I.R.S. Crackdown on Delinquent Millionaires Yields $1 Billion

    The beefed-up enforcement is part of the agency’s modernization initiative aimed at improving customer service and catching wealthy tax evaders.

    I.R.S. Crackdown on Delinquent Millionaires Yields $1 Billion

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    Ray Kurzweil Still Says He Will Merge With A.I.
    www.nytimes.com Ray Kurzweil Still Says He Will Merge With A.I.

    Now 76, the inventor and futurist hopes to reach “the Singularity” and live indefinitely. His margin of error is shrinking.

    Ray Kurzweil Still Says He Will Merge With A.I.

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    Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Disks
    www.nytimes.com Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Disks

    One of the world’s most technologically advanced nations has held on to some of the most outmoded devices.

    Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Disks

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