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For generations? Then where did the new teachers come from? A student never graduated and became a teacher? The teachers were recruited from a separate population? Why?

Every student in the Academy is a member of the same secret society/club. This was unknown by teachers for many generations of students, until the Academy was attacked by an overwhelming force. The teachers yelled for immediate evacuation as the students silently rolled their eyes and sleeves.

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Also, horseflies. You get to choose if you wanna be sweaty and headachy, but safe, or feel marginally cooler but more exposed to the flies. In the evening the horseflies get replaced with mosquitoes.

"Dear earthlings, prepare to be my slave!" Announced the alien. "You will have to work 3 entire days from Monday to Wednesday, you will only get A5 wagyu steak for meals, and if that isn't cruel enough you'll have to work 2 entire torturing hours of picking strawberries every single work day!"

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Have you... ever... picked strawberries? I was forced to at 15, and to this day I remember that being the most tedious job imaginable. Crouch, look through the bushes for strawberries, find one, realise a bird has taken a peck out of it, so can't touch it because salmonella, have to get it out of the bush. Find some more, notice they're already moldy. Find three good ones, pick. Get up, take a few steps, crouch. Your pay is 1 € / kg picked, and only top quality berries count.

"Dear earthlings, prepare to be my slave!" Announced the alien. "You will have to work 3 entire days from Monday to Wednesday, you will only get A5 wagyu steak for meals, and if that isn't cruel enough you'll have to work 2 entire torturing hours of picking strawberries every single work day!"

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x'D

shoutout to whoever stole my amazon package containing nothing but a single pair of shoelaces.

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This is, without a doubt, the only correct opinion.

no dragon age romance will ever compare to zevran arainai. he's bisexual. he was raised in a murder assassin torture cult after being raised in a brothel. he has a bunch of tattoos and even knows how to give them. he tries to murder you when you first meet him and then poses sexily afterwards. he says he's skilled at lockpicking and then never manages to pick a single lock in the entire game. he murdered his last lover after falsely believing that she betrayed the crows. he regularly slept with his marks before killing them to give them one last good night alive. when you ask him to have sex with you he says one liners like "arghhh pirate zevran reporting for duty!" he gets upset and broody when he realizes that he's in love with you after you ask him for more in your relationship. he proposes to you with an earring from a dead guy before he even tells you that he loves you. he's the only companion to almost completely stay with you after origins (besides the dlcs and parts of da2, he presumably stays with you the rest of your lives). if you die, he never gets into a relationship or has sex with anyone ever again. he constantly talks about you when he's away from you (da2). he calls the sword of the dead king of ferelden "sexy" and says that he "must have it". he's a devout andrastian. he loves being an assassin and doesn't feel bad about murdering people. you can have a threesome with him and a woman he used to sleep with and helped save from her abusive husband. he's slept with countless people and you're the first person that he's ever actually loved. he spends the rest of his life when he's not with you devoted to terrorizing the organization that abused him as a child (and adult) and killing of its leaders. when you tell him that you love him, he says that "he knows." he's blonde. and he's perfect in every way possible.

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Rahjin, no, that's a terrible idea...!

*Oblivion gate opening sound*

....oh for Mara's sake

Did You Know: Rajhin is the most successful thief in Elsweyr history? One notable example of his accomplishments in larceny includes stealing the Amulet of Kings from Alessia herself.

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For now UBlock seems to work for me, but reblogging this in case I need it later.

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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I... don't have one? I think?

fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.

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Oh look, it's my dad's approach to infrastructure maintenance.

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I'll just... leave this here... for no one specific at all

vampire sucking blood from the inner thigh can be something so erotic and more vampire media needs to get on this train

look at this post with your eyes if you agree

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Oh, actually, this sounds lovely. I used to live playing GW2... hmmm...

Daggerheart released their card making tool and that means: Making all of Guild Wars 2 playable for TTRPG! At first glance, daggerheart seems easy to create for but since you need to put all of the info on a small card, it's actually kind of challenging! Also, the mechanics being simplified means that you can't make complicated mechanics either. So here's my first try for the ancestries!

Please tell me if you have any thoughts on the cards and whether it's balanced. If it's not balanced, please suggest how I can improve! :)

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Can confirm, this is 100% a biologist thing.

Dude has a death wish

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I like the dreaminess of 1 and the clarity of 2, but 3 and 4 feel more like... candyland or something? A bit much?

Which of these four images do you prefer the most?

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Nasa, coming to a town near you.

Hopefully not from the orbit.

i sure hope it is

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Indeed. Even my Samsung keyboard is trying to offer me AI. You know, in case I want to say something but have nothing to communicate.

No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-

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you know it really isnt immoral, if you do it right, to raise cows and sheep for meat. so. well. i think there should be a story about, vampires who have a town of humans that they keep well-maintained, so long as the humans donate their blood once a month, like vampire blood farm stuff

but instead of antagonistic everyone's like. no he's a nice man you leave the count alone. he keeps us safe and cared for and he just needs a lil snack now and then, it dont hurt anyone. like a cow that loves the farmer and the farmer that loves the cow, even with both knowing one will end up on the other's table. because its like. its like. cows just have such pretty eyes, you know? they love you so much. i think it should be like that

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That's just being an empire for you. They've all done this one way or another, usually even to cultures they colonised. They couldn't possibly have anything to learn from them, because they beat them, right?

Empires come, empires go. People remain.

that post that's like. "americans sincerely trying to argue that they're UNIQUELY incapable of learning things about other countries and cultures is still a form of american exceptionalism." I think about that a lot.