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Cake for everyone.

And because it's underrated, everyone gets a pear cake if I'm allowed to choose.

No, Elon always had a X fetish, for decades now.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

It also messes with your enamel brushing after eating.

And another english word learned.

Also, nature failed us. Why are our teeth such a pityful mess?

Ivynn posted...

You wanna swallow all that bacteria?

Eh... Probably? I'm no clean room anyways.

I mean, the first thing I do in the morning is drinking some water anyways, and I'm honestly afraid to google how much salvia you "drink" during a night.

Because he wanted to ban this elonJet person, right?

NoxObscuras posted...

That is actually the correct way. You're supposed to brush away the bacteria that built up over night.

I always grew up thinking that you brush after breakfast because you clean your teeth after eating

I mean, I don't think that the bacteria in your mouth that built up over the night will become problematic if you breakfast first, and brush the theeth 15 minutes later, so I don't see the actual benefit of the "right" way.

First of all, welp, this posting took longer to write than expected.

Fenriswolf posted...

PROVE that the organizers are behind the fliers, that they specifically endorsed the Israeli massacres, and not just some randoms handing them out. It's obvious that you haven't been to a single protest in you life. Plenty of people with rival agendas show up to them all the time.

... Yeah, okay, I will go through it again step by step. Be aware that this is only about the specific legal situation in Austria, Vienna.

It was an flyer, shared on social media to promote the protest.

If you want to protest here, you have to inform the police two to three days apart. (depending on where, if a street has to be closed off it's three days).

This includes:

• Who is official legal spokesperson for that
• Where
• When
• How many expected.

That's it. All done. Nothing else needed. The police doesn't even have to allow it. If they don't answer you in time, you are good to go, they actually need a reason to ban it. People don't request a demonstration, they announce it.

But then the official flyer made the round. The one with the Hamas propaganda. Okay, maybe it's fake. So, we should "PROVE that the organizers are behind the fliers [...] , and not just some randoms handing them out"

So what did the police?

They asked the legal spokes person, who registered the protest. They didn't deny it and refused to change it. So the police went and banned the protest for that day.

Is that enough for you? Again, this was before the protest actually happend.

So did you find out who made the cheers? The main organizers? Or some people who showed up specifically to cause trouble? Unsurprisingly you're also deluded enough to call for BLM protests to be banned because some extremists participated.

Sorry, I don't have the data, that's the work of the police and they don't share these details.

Honestly, I think there is a huge gap what "banning protests" is supposed to imply:

Btw, the legal punishment for not abiding the demonstrations law is a 720 fine in the worst case.

The worst that did happen on this banned demonstration? The demonstration wasn't allowed to move at all, and circled in place. Mostly because there was another, pro-Israel protest ~500m away from it.

First, the police told them to go away, because the protest wasn't allowed. I would like to check the exact timeline between "first warning" and "surround them" but I think there was around half an hour for that. Maybe I can find this detail too.

The official police statistics:

• The identity of 304 persons was confirmed.
• One person got sued for a crime
• 292 persons for misdemeanor according to the protest laws (since it was banned,
• 11 other people for other misdemeanor

EDIT: To be clear: Not a single one got arrested, as far as I can tell.

And no, you don't have to be afraid to be gunned down by the police here. Again, this isn't the US, so don't project your US problem that you have with protests and the police on EU, thanks. We are a country with only 9 million people, but we had 14 deadly police shootings in Austria total (justified, unjustified, unclear, whatever), since 2008.

The Middle East is a big place and the Israel/Palestine conflict is not the only one that's happening. The Belgian shootings technically also qualify as "linked to the Middle East", even though per evidence the gunman was mostly influenced by ISIL ideology than Hamas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brussels_shooting

And I think it's naive to assume that the whole political situation and tension isn't affecting the situation negativly at all.

Again, I'm tired of this. Every single fking christmas market has to be secured with heavy barriers, because we have to be aware of some crazy madmen getting a truck and crushing into it. Because it happend before. And this is a new development.

You may say that the danger is only miniscule compared to your US troubles, but seriously, why do we even have to think about this terror bullshit? Monday was just a fucking football game, Belgium vs. Sweden, UEFA qualifier.

It was supposed to be a party (not that I watched it. Austria had a game at the same time. We are even in same qualifier group).

No sig-user

Fenriswolf posted...

You haven't answered my question. PROVE that the Palestinian ambassador is the main organizer of the protests

They are different persons, so why does it matter? The organizer putting stuff on the flyer. The ambassador was asked during an interview, and agreed with them.

Doesn't change that the stuff was on the flyer, and this is the reason why one of the protests was banned here.

The Hamas propaganda was on the flyer, created by the organizers.

and every one of the participants actively cheered for the massacres of Israelis.

I never claimed that everyone was actively cheering, but there WERE cheers (mostly on that first banned demonstration). But again, this wasn't the actual reason why it was banned. The ban was already active before that.

You already falsely claimed that Palestine protesters were behind the terrorist incidents.

Wtf. Talk this out with the french police.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/teacher-killed-knife-attack-school-northern-france-bfm-tv-2023-10-13/

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said France was now on its highest state of alert and that the Arras attack bore a link to events in the Middle East, where Israel is conducting a military offensive to root out Hamas fighters after their deadly rampage.

But now you will say that the events in the middle easts have nothing to do with the events in france anyways, and how banning the protests wont change anything anyways.

Well, that's actually true. It doesn't even prevent these protests from happening.

Fenriswolf posted...

So post evidence that the Palestinian ambassador is behind the entire protest. Oh wait you can't.

Prove that the entire body of protesters are celebrating the initial massacres against Israelis. Oh wait you can't.

I never claimed this at all.

But when the organizers of these protests are doing it in public, of course the protest has to be banned.

What do you expect?

The people are setting up some protest with terror propaganda, and everyone should say "wait, not everyone who will join this protest actually supports them, so lets just do them their thing"?

If the organizers are not able to follow the most simple rules, then the protest and everyone who wanted to join it is in bad luck. Simple as that.

But that's no big issue, because they can simply schedule another one at another day. What they did. The same people, the same organizers.

Or they come and protest anyways. What they also did.

Fenriswolf posted...

Of course Hamas is the only party that ever criticized Israel *rolls eyes*

PROVE that the entire body of protesters are uncritical of Hamas and they were directly funded by them. Oh wait you cant.

The organizers are the legal party responsible for the protest.

The organiszers are using media from a forbidden terror organisation for their protest and stand by it.

We don't need to prove that the whole protest is supporting hamas when the organizers of the protest (their official, legal, spokepersons) already are before the protest even started.

If you are not satisfied with this, there is nothing, not a single law, preventing people to organise a protest on your own.

Btw, the legal punishment for not abiding the demonstrations law is a 720 fine in the worst case.

Seriously, the legal person responsible for the organisation of this protest, was literally using Hamas propaganda.

And not some random angry person we found on a street, but the "current Palestinian ambassador to Austria and permanent observer to the United Nations in Vienna" was saying that the hamas are not an terror organisation. And that their pictures of the Hamas, breaking through the fence on October 7th, resulting in the killing of hundreds civilans was "purely symbolic".

Why the fuck are they using images from the biggest and latest terror attack as their public symbol to promote their protest?

Seriously, WHY?

How can you still act like that this is absolutly irrelevant?

Fenriswolf posted...

Oh, so claiming that Israel is oppressing Palestinians are just Hamas propaganda?

No, I'm saying that the organisator of the protestors are USING Hamas propaganda.

And that's a fact.

They used the images Hamas produced prior to their raid, at least the pro-palestinian organisers in Austria.

Salah Abdel-Shafi, "the current Palestinian ambassador to Austria and permanent observer to the United Nations in Vienna" ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah_Abdel-Shafi ) was on TV saying that Hamas are no terror organisation in their eyes, and that the use of this image was purely symbolic.

But the Hamas are declared a terror organisation by law, and are handled as such.

LMAO. You're the one with the BS claims that pro-Palestine protests need to be shut down because there are individuals sending terrorist threats. The burden of proof is upon you to prove that the terrorist incidents are specifically linked to the Palestine protesters.

Yes, the french police is linking the attack on that teacher with the current conflict.

And yes, the demonstration in my city, last week, had them chanting for violence. Later demonstrations at my place were calmer (they even distributed flyers what they were NOT allowed to say) but this isn't true for many other demonstrations.

The right of free speech and the right of demonstrations have limits when it is about violance and terror. We don't want fucking hamas propaganda here.

We don't need more fucking terror attacks in Europe. I'm sick of it. Not in France, not in Belgium, not in Germany, and not in the city center of Vienna I'm regulary passing by like in November 2020.

Every fucking event has to be on high alert by now, and every single market needs barriers to make sure that no truck can crash into it.

But because people here can't differ between the US and EU, the whole of Europe and I are of course facists.

Seriously.

Revisited posted...

Yeah this was already uncovered like 10 years ago that pokemon stadium 2 cheats. The AI cheats and explicitly bases its attacks on your moves. It was all over the forums

That's a different issue and definitly bullshit.

wackyteen posted...

>save state
>Use Counter
>Opponent crits, fainting me
>reload
>Same scenario, same result
>reload
>use Destiny Bond
>No opponent crit

Went back and tried Counter several times, all crits.

I've seen plenty RNG before but never something like this.

Also, unless its just a NSO thing to prevent save state abuse, the RNG knows confusion and move outcomes multiple turns ahead

If the RNG can't neither be predicted nor manipulated by the user at will, it's no bullshit but working as it should.

Doe posted...

Alright, looks like a tag/ignore and move on situation. There's no way you're posting in good faith.

Could you at least TRY to see it from an european point of view, when we had 3 people killed by islamistic terrorists?

I know that the US has quite a different situation. I know about the 70 year old who killed a 6 year old child in pure islamophobia.

But the situation in Europe and the situation in the US is far from similar.

Fenriswolf posted...

Of course protests won't stay peaceful when cops forcibly break them up

What do you say about the protests using literal HAMAS propaganda created prior to their raid killing hundreds?

Because this shit happend before police even became active.

Prove it's caused by Palestine supporters, and not outside agitators trying to cause havoc. The Belgium shooter is already discovered to be someone with prior grudges against Sweden.

Oh, come on.

If you want to claim this to be the work of "outside agitators" you should show something that could hint at that. Especially when the known organisators are already using the propaganda.

Just saying "it wasn't us, it was the others" doesn't work just because you want it to work. That's a lesson the Jan 6th truthers also have to learn.

Using your logic, US cops should've banned all BLM protests because they were opportunists like the Boogaloo Boys who use it to engage in violence and arson?

Yes

If riots leads to violence and arson, the police has to step in between. Especially since the violence and arson is aimed at innocents.

Fenriswolf posted...

Antisemites in pro-Palestine protests are routinely condemned, with right wing chuds even demanding that the entire left apologize for them. The same standards are almost never applied to extremists calling for Palestinian genocide in pro-Israel rallies. Hell, even far right US politicians like Marco Rubio are endorsing them.

Oh, so banning peaceful protest and prevent Europe's sizeable Muslim population (which are largely law-abiding) and other Palestine supporters from venting their frustrations would totally make the problem go away right? The Belgian shooter specifically mentioned that he was angered by the Swedish Quran burnings earlier this year and identifies with ISIL, which itself is an enemy of both Hamas and Hezbollah.

1)

Don't ignore the other half of my post that was about these so called peaceful protests.

There was another example of not actually peaceful protest in Berlin.

2)

List is growing.

6 airports in france evacuated, because of threats. "Multiple bomb threats against schools" but my newspaper doesn't share any details about that.

Attempted arson attack in germany with molotov cocktails.

Dalthine posted...

On NA servers it's not bad. Unless you like playing at 3 am or so, and even then it's probably not as bad as the OCE problems.

If you like to play at normal human hours like the afternoon or evening, you'll be fine.

It might be a little worse with the Alliance Roulette changes and people avoiding it, but I can't imagine it's debilitating.

Also, I don't think that the "player boycott" of random alliance raid will stick that long.

In the worst case it will take until the next relic upgrade is available, but as soon this is done they will hunt for these tomestones like always.

And again, I have not noticed any increase foe the roulette waiting times at all, but I don't do it every day myself.

Error1355 posted...

This doesn't bode well for whenever I get to this part of the story. @_@

Edit: Or is NA servers not as bad?

Definitly not as bad.

Someone posted the census site earlier, and it's an oceania problem.

ZaruenKosai posted...

here is some VIDEO Evidence that would counter those saying it cant be israel and it has to be a failed HAMAS rocket.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/17ag02q/israel_doesnt_stop_lying_here_the_full_video_they/

I only posted the this because of the other video posted that people think clears Israel of any possibility that it was them.

To the left there is a small explosion and then the big one. The small one probably a rocket, the second one likely Israeli missle.

The only thing you see on this video is a HAMAS rocket, how can you get to the conclusion that the explosion is likely an Israelin missle exploding nearly at the same time?

spikethedevil posted...

Tons of E numbers in food/food being mostly artificial.

E numbers are literally an european thing to make stuff easier to translate.

And E numbers are mostly about chemicals, but not necessarily artifical.

Even citric acid has the E number of E 330.

Just because there is an E number, it doesn't mean it's unhealthy or bad.

It's just to make the ingretientlist more compressed and easier to research stuff, because it's definitly easier for me to enter E 214 into google, instead of "4-Hydroxybenzoesureethylester" on my german product.

James_xeno posted...

Looking at the evidence it think it's probably a safe bet to make. At the very least it is highly improbable that this was an intentional (targeted) attack by anyone, and especially no IDF air strike etc. Given the video of the rocket breaking up over the area just before the explosion (complete with another much smaller explosion near by just seconds before the big one) and the nature of the damage to the hospital, well it's parking lot to be more specific. Little to no high explosive evidence, all fire and fire explosion damage. This seems like a tragic case of the misfire of a rocket.

I do tend to believe the final (or at least actual) death toll is going to be far lower than some of the numbers floating around. The crowd would have to have been so dense as to risk a crush, just at the right spot to kill those kinds of numbers.

This is not high explosive damage:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/4/1/AADhijAAE8nJ.jpg

Those cars aren't even banged up, just burned.

Here in Video form:

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1714535687070916987

And here, again, the thread by GeoConfirm:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1714390254935851272.html

That's not something you can simply explain with "IDF is lying anyways".

"The doors on public bathrooms have a gap on each side so they're not completely private. I find that weird."

What? Central European here, We have gaps at the floor of public restrooms too.

Like, yeah, if someone would put his head on public restroom floor (and risks a cruel death by a half dozen diseases yet undiscovered) he could look a bit into the next cabine

King Bacon is dead, long live King Sausage!

Also, Yum to Basil.

Video of the damage:

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1714535687070916987

TheNextLink posted...

Bro got 40 followers. lmfao, probably using old footage from some other attack

Collat posted...

We can still sympathize with the innocent Israeli lives lost at the music festival without supporting their shitty government.

TheNextLink posted...

Definitely won't be coming from a no avatar having, 40 follower flunk twitter account, that's for sure.

And what about the GeoConfirmed thread?

Uta posted...

Only Admins can handle Suspensions.

Thanks!

Karovorak posted...

DToast sitting behind a huge desk, and SBAllen and Error walking in every hour with a huge stack of suspended accounts waiting for the admin decision.

You heard it, this is canon now.

Can Lead Moderators also put people into purgatory, or only admins?

Because now I'm imagining DToast sitting behind a huge desk, and SBAllen and Error walking in every hour with a huge stack of suspended accounts waiting for the admin decision.

A completly destroyed hospital with 500 death isn't something a single "misguided" missle is supposed to do.

Curious if they will try to talk themselfes out of this, or simply ignore it.

But it's literally the top news of every media I just checked.

I'm a bit out of the loop.

Who is against Jordan right now?

The reps who still have at least traces of a spine, the MAGAs, or both?

New. I really dont like the old color.

But yeah, I also have to agree that the new sink is a mistake.

cuttin_in_farm posted...

CE being constantly pessimistic and assuming worst case scenario intentions and implications never gets old.

I mean, it's not that extrem.

Right now only 9 votes (15%) are at "He's wrong".

I mean, it's both.

There is defenitly too much unnecessary suffering because of bad things and too much unnecessary whining because of incovenient things.

The problem is to draw an legit line.

Nooooo.

Wait, is this ring actually candy?

It reminds me of some candy ring I once saw as a child.

Karovorak posted...

Since last Friday, in France they had:

* A teacher killed by an islamist, connected to the conflict in the middle east
* The terror alert put on it's highest level
* A bomb threat at the louvre
* A bomb threat at versailles
* a bomb threat at the school where the killed teacher worked.

And today we can add another bomb threat at Versailles to that list.

Dalthine posted...

I know. I'm saying that it might have the opposite effect for now. I've seen people say they just won't do alliance roulette anymore because the possible "bad" raids aren't worth the rewards.

It's anecdotal of course. I don't know for sure if it's having that effect.

I have not done enough raids to say for sure, but I don't think there was any increase in waiting time.

But I definitly see more raids outside of the crystal tower stuff. There will always be a crystal tower bias because of the main story quest, and being the lowest raid available to all, but it's definitly better at EU/Light by now.

Solar_Crimson posted...

As much freedom as Stable Diffusion has especially when run locally, it's a bit hard to go back to it after seeing just how powerful DALL-E 3 is and how it can handle more complex prompts. It's just a shame that right now the technology is in the hands of corporations that want to stay out of the tiniest bit of hot water imaginable.

Hopefully soon, the tech that runs DALL-E 3 will be available to be run on consumer hardware.

That's why I can recommend Leonardo AI online too.

They are based on stable diffusion too, but they seem to have some crazy pre- and postprocessor on top of it.

You need to register your mail adress even for the free version, but I'm pretty satisfied with the features there, especially if I want to create something with a higher resolution than my machine can create.

If it's about web AI images I can recommend Leonardo AI.

Especially if you think about going premium.

That was my go to service before I simply installed stable infusion on my PC.

Dalthine posted...

You might also be a victim of alliance raid queue changes that hit in patch 6.5. They changed the way it works a couple weeks ago, which means people might be avoiding the roulette or deliberately going at lower levels that exclude the Lv80 raids.

No no no, the change was actually to reduce the possibility to avoid these raids.

People removed their equipment to lower their item level so they got pushed into world of darkness raids for sure. That's not possible anymore.

Sure, it's still possible to avoid higher raids, but now you need to choose a lower level class and don't get the level 90 rewards anymore.

evilpresident posted...

Confirmed to have died, though the source is in Dutch. Haven't found an English one yet.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/10/17/liveblog-aanslag-brussel/

Thanks, I already found the news of him dying in my "own" german newspaper too.

Well, technically they still talk about him being a "suspect", but with the weapon found on him I dare to say "fair enough".

I have no problem talking to others, be them men or women.

I have do this daily during my job anyways, talking with customers, holding meetings, trainings, and so on.

But I have really really really big issues with closing some gap.

I have no issue with talking to friends, customers or coworkers at all. I also have no issue talking with people online, be them random party mates, or some people in the same guild.

But I'm somewhat unable to go further on my own. Talking to strangers and find the right pace to get even closer? That's some problem for me.

And that includes stuff like "just talk to a woman in a bar".

evilpresident posted...

They shot the terrorist in a bar this morning, heard it on the radio.

I just read that he got arrested, but if you are from Belgium I would trust your source more.

Just master pivot table magic and you should be fine.

VLOOKUP is also important of course, but not that complicated and impressive.

Also, I'm not sure, but I would expect that it could be helpful if you take a look beyond the excel.

I would assume that this data comes from some datalink table from some database, so maybe some SQL basics may also help you.

I'm not asking you to learn to manage multidimensional OLAP cubes on a DB server, but if you can drop some SQL keywords in there without looking confused it definitly can't hurt.

Kradek posted...

I can be more sympathetic to them for disallowing pro-Hamas protests, but pro-Palestinian protests? That's just feeing the right-wing narrative that Palestinian = Hamas, even though the people overwhelmingly reject them and Hamas hasn't allowed for a new election since they won in like 2006.

The pro-palestinian demonstration we had last wednesday, had a picture of the Hamas paraglider used to raid the rave concert.

The Pro-Palestinian demonstration we had last friday, had a picture of the bulldozer of the hamas breaking through the fence right before the raid to the raid concert.

Their speaker said in a TV interview "the Hamas is no terror organisation in our eyes" and "this is purely symbolic". And even THIS demonstration wasn't banned, because we held our right to protest that highly. But sometimes they cross a line that can't be ignored.

Just because they call themselfes pro-Palestina it doesn't mean they are not pro-Hamas, and it's hard to deny this when they literally use propaganda made by the Hamas.

Fenriswolf posted...

You don't even know what that word means.

Whataboutism is if I suggest it's okay for pro-Palestine protesters to engage in antisemitism because pro-Israel protesters engaged in Islamophobia. Pointing out the relevant double standards ie pro-Palestine protesters are generalised by the media and politicians as antisemites because of a few idiots, a standard that is not similarly applied to pro-Israel protesters calling for genocide against Palestinians, is not whataboutism.

You literally said "But Zionist protesters calling for genocide against Palestinians are okay?"

Again: Don't compare your situation in the US with the situation in Europe. Because we don't have zionist protesters calling for a genocide, but we have the Islamists on the other side doing it.

Since last Friday, in France they had:

• A teacher killed by an islamist, connected to the conflict in the middle east
• The terror alert put on it's highest level
• A bomb threat at the louvre
• A bomb threat at versailles
• a bomb threat at the school where the killed teacher worked.

Yesterday evening, a Islamist killed two swedisch football fans in Brussels, and is still on the run.

In Berlin, some people are drawing the fucking yellow star on jewish people homes as they did during the 3rd reich.

We have a very big problem with islamistic extremists here, and no problem with zionist extremists all.

But people in this topic don't give a fuck about this, and prefer to call France facists, dumb, islamophobic, and even demand that even Pro-Hamas protests should be allowed.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


To be fair, the interesting part is the discussion itself.

This case doesn't even have to be real, and we still see all these different takes.

On one hand, we have "sounds fake though, no way this happend", and then we have the others who basically say "yeah, thats normal and how it should be".

Not only reddit, CE is doing the same too:

Reddit says that the guy had a 3.96 GPA and made 2nd place in a international(!) contest with his team.

CE here "But the guy who did sports and got 3.5+ was still working harder"

Eab1990 posted...

Next week gonna be busy.

Maybe I should stick for it a while longer.

Just got a new phone and tried it out for a few days, bad damn is the beginning hard to get into.

I either blast through on full auto without knowing whats happening, or get wrecked by some other content without knowing whats happening.

And then I collect stuff I dont know what to do with.

SayHeyyShohei posted...

Elon Musk replied

Thanks to Elon I can't see replies anyways.

"Stanley [...] led his team to the 2nd place in MIT Battlecode's global high school devision"

"But why no sport or music?"

lol

Rika_Furude posted...

i activated every language. This server is Ravana I think which is an oceanic server

Yeah, I just checked, and it seems like Ravana is part of the only Oceanic server pool for Australia / New Zealand.

Honestly, at this point I would recommend to simply ask the server community itself. You wont be the only one with this problem, so maybe the other players already did some solution on their own (like, doing these ally raids mostly at a specific day or time).