#program approach

[pia-duo]

Wonder what she's yapping about

[slutforpringles]

Somebody might want to send the definition of "segregation" to Sophia Floersch, because if she thinks the FIA setting up opportunities and programs to incentivise and encourage women to join a heavily male dominated sport is "segregation" then she very clearly has no idea what it means.

[blondebrainpowered]

Land of the Lost intro, 1974 - 1976

[essektheylyss]

I think Orym is a fascinating character in a way that is often underappreciated, because he is fundamentally a soldier, he was trained as a soldier, and that's... not a bad thing? It has no moral indication, and certainly doesn't imply that Orym is going dark. In fact, in the current circumstances, Orym acting as a soldier is very important and may actually get them through this in one piece.

I do feel that this aspect of his character is frequently approached in the fandom as an afterthought or even swept under the rug, or flat out viewed as a flaw to be overcome (especially given the overall landscape of military conflict in the real world), but being a trained soldier is not inherently indicative of specific morality or ideology. I think it's a judgment that also gets levied against paladins, because, much like any organized forces in fantasy are equated with modern militaries, fantasy worship is equated with Christianity (sometimes in the guise of 'organized religion' with all of its problematic connotations). It's incredibly black and white, and it doesn't fundamentally make sense in much of Exandria, but in this case especially.

You cannot fundamentally map the Tempest Blades onto any real life military, because the task of the Tempest, and Ashari culture as a whole, is protection against both extraplanar threats and also the malicious or misguided intentions of those on the Material Plane trying to fuck with the elemental planes. This is distinctly different even in universe from, for instance, Caleb, who was trained as an assassin in the name of nationalism, or Yasha, who was trained to be a leader in the name of tribalism.

And these two threats that the Ashari are tasked with resisting are both frequent, credible, and existential! Failing at this task is liable to have major sweeping repercussions for the rest of Exandria! It is highly probable that a soldier with Orym's training is expected to need to make incredibly difficult decisions in defense of the common good at more than one point in their life—decisions that would make every person who laughs at the premise of the trolley problem shit their pants.

And crucially, Orym wants his friends to get out of this. He has in fact already promised his entire life to ensure that they do, because he also fundamentally needs them to be able to do what they came for, without hesitation, because the singular mandate that he has devoted himself to is protecting the Material Realm from extraplanar threats, and regardless of the fact that the rest of them do not have the same training, that is also the task that the Hells have chosen.

If Nana Morri can get the Hells out in one piece, regardless of what choices they make, then their personal risk doesn't matter. I imagine that Orym isn't going to tell them that, because given the scope of the threat, there's not necessarily a guarantee that Morri can make that happen, so the rest of the Hells have to make the choice themselves to take the risk and trust that the others have their backs. And in the end, if Orym has to live with that no matter which way fate plays out, he will. He's already had plenty of practice.

They're at war, and that's how soldiers operate. Because when they're behind enemy lines, it's the only way missions get completed and they have a chance of making it back alive.

[lonestarflight]

Images of an early sample sent to a Lego reviewer of Space Shuttle Enterprise and the 747 SCA that is set to release on May 15th.

[kaiasky]

its not net zero information if u clearly fuckin know a new thing at the end!! net zero information meme is when the original post was untrue and so the only fact you've learned is 'it is not true that [untrue thing]', which is a useless thing to know (especially if you already knew the true thing)

if posts go back and forth and at the end u have a good idea what's going on, better than what you'd know from any post individually, that's not a time for 'net zero info'. u learned! we all learned! yippee

[bandsandwristbands]

Maaaaawaaybe Gaalee first kiss? S'il te plaaaaît?

There are an infinite amount of ways I picture their first kiss but in every one Lee asks politely and Gaara is extremely autistic (but thrilled) about it

Also I imagine they have the sort of relationship that slowly blurs into romantic before either of them realize it so exactly when they kiss for the first time is hard to pin point in my brain as well lol

And they're both freaks who kiss with their eyes open bcuz theyre obsessed with each other

[vvelegrin]

cannot emphasize enough how much 'from impossible to difficult to unfamiliar to familiar to easy to automatic', as a mantra, has positively contributed to my current quality of life

[dingodad]

if you believe dirk and equius have a lot of parallels and can't be separated from each other, you also have to accept that this means ultimate dirk programmed rosebot to fall in love with him the same way equius did with aradiabot. he already programmed dirkbot and lil hal to fall in love with jake so we know it's possible.

i don't think i have to accept that because i don't think Rose being "in love with him" is something that is even near to Dirk's mind? I mean we could probably go even further back here and talk about whether Aradia being "in love" was truly even something Equius gave a fuck about; I won't start that conversation again right now, but that's basically the point. their plans have nothing to do with love and everything to do with power. did Equius and Dirk both use control over women's bodies as means to manipulate them? obviously they did, I'm not in denial of Dirk's abuse of power over his daughter at all; but it seems completely non sequitur to suggest that one of these things somehow makes the other necessarily true

[bearotonin-international]

i want you to know that when i was a kid i was really into polar animals so my mom got me a polar bear stuffed animal that came with a documentary and when i watched it and learned that polar bears eat seals instead of being friends with them i cried and my mom decided i wasn’t allowed to watch that movie again

we're sorry for that sad experience learning that this silly goober

is also a lethal beast

[opens-up-4-nobody]

This is me promising to become a Wikipedia editor for the explicit purpose of studying from my comprehensive exams lol

[the-seventh-hound]

( tw for below content consider it goes more in depth into programming …. )

Ugghhh … I hate dysphoria soo much . Wdym I don ‘ t have HC - DID ? Wdym we don ‘ t have Callback / Epsilon / Spin / Narco / Omega / Shutdown / Iota / Gamma / Theta / Zeta programming …. Wdym we don ‘ t have a script to follow …. Wdym we don ‘ t have a handler … wdym nobody is forcing us to split and push non programmed alters into dormancy … wdym nobody is manipulating us mentally so we ‘ re dependent on them … what the fuck man …. I would make such a good theta , zeta & callback programmed alter this is so unfair … not even that I think it would help us function better as a system …. We ‘ re so messy and disorganized and no one serves a purpose ….. it would be so much easier if we were made to have purpose by someone else … I ‘ ve tried doing it before by myself but I was only able to make a spin, delta ( by accident) and shutdown alters ….

I ‘ m honestly tempted to try and start shaping headspace in a manner best to be scripted … it ‘ s always been difficult for it to maintain it ‘ s shape and letting nothing else clog it up could be easier for any possible handler relationships I get into … tips for doing such is appreciated . As in things like what type of headspace would be easiest to mold with a script ? ( we ‘ re a DID system already …. I have the most control insys w shaping how the structures look & if I drain myself I can change the appearance as a whole … )

[moastudiess]

03.29.2025~ Some of it's pretty, some of it's ugly. Many a computer graphics lecture and algorithm's videos later I've learned to find peace in finishing my assignments early. Such is the conundrum of pushing off things till later, because the peace is something I've unfortunately learned to create for myself regardless of the presence of pressing matters

[lonestarflight]

Space Shuttle Enterprise and the 747 SCA landing at the Edwards Air Force Base following the third Manned Captive test flight.

Date: July 26, 1977

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[zakiyah]

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