Honestly, contract or not, that just means the forest folk don’t think this contract will benefit them any longer and that they now believe to be in a position of power to oppose you and your people. War is at your doorstep. You can whine about it or go smelt and cast some cold and pure iron already.

I think it outperforms both Mojeek and Qwant, so it’s my go to right now. Mojeek has a very small index and Qwant is slower. Haven’t tried Brave or Kagi yet.

Some alternatives:

• Duckduckgo (Bing with privacy)
• Qwant (Bing with privacy, but building their own index)
• Mojeek (pet favorite of the privacy community but small index, search often unsatisfying for me)
• Kagi (apparently really good but paid)

It is strong enough that it could probably kill humans in the water near the boat… Sooo

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I love that there are so many of these mini games. I usually just start playing them and figure the rules out as I go. So far, all I’ve tried were designed so elegantly that the rules came naturally as I played around. Such an amazing feat, designing a self-explanatory novel puzzle game!

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The funny thing is, these women probably still wear their hair in just that fashion.

Must be awesome to look at old photos of yourself or your partner and it’s this good!

It’s Lorna for me.

Wow, this is tough! They’re all beautiful but quite different. I like the expression of the lady on the right, her tits are cute and protrude a little. Her vulva, as much as it’s visible, also looks the most attractive of the trio. I love the full body shape of the one in the middle and think she has the best tits. The one on the left really sticks out with her height, though, kinda projecting a sexy seniority or authority (in a power dynamic kinda sense, not an age kinda sense). I’m tempted to go right because of her face or middle because of her full shape, but I think I’ll go left on this one.

Edit: corrected Freudian slip, I guess.

Money. Criminals and immoral people pay good money to show these ads. At least for Facebook, a court case regarding identity fraud has established that they knew quite well which ads were fishy, so they just charged those advertisers more. If I remember correctly, that amounted to about 10% of Facebook’s revenue. It will be a similar case for Google, I assume. Sketchy ads pay too well to remove all of them and laws make it so the platform is only liable if they don’t take it down after receiving notice of every single sketchy ad. Google, Facebook, and the others are all well near monopoly and built deep moats, so they don’t really have to fear losing customers, because there’s no simple alternative.

That might be a US thing, too, though. At least on the East Coast, “you can’t do that” and “you can’t legally do that” are used pretty synonymously, even if they’re really not.

Those hips don’t lie!

Unpopular take: I actually found it pretty good. All characters got their screen time and the main characters all got a resolution that felt satisfying to me. The action scenes were good. I even liked the revelation of what the upside down really is, though I would’ve preferred a slightly different version of that explanation.

Badlands conspiracy theorist!! Have you actually been there, huh?? I think not! The bad lands are a conspiracy to keep us all from wandering out!! Wake up sheeple!!1!

Parents of that kid paying for the 67th tooth: By God, what have we created?

Adding to this, and with a side note that this is not my field of expertise, my reading of a few articles from the “tsunami” of articles about male loneliness is that they don’t just focus on quantitative but also qualitative differences of social connections between men and women at large. There’s this hypothesis that close female friendships tend to be more intimate than close male friendships. This is also supported by anecdotal evidence I heard from trans-men, that the absence of love and caring in their new male-male friendships hit them like a truck after socially transitioning, compared to previous (perceived female-female /) egg-female friendships. So I don’t know whether self-reported data like number of close friends is a good metric, or if it would be more informative to ask “how many friends do you have for whom you know the names of their parents” or “how often did you talk to a friend about your feelings this month” or whatever. Again, this is all anecdotal, but this is a vibe I’m getting from other reports on this topic that I was missing in this article. Still, very good article with many valid points, particularly in the second half.

Wow, spooky. I may steal this as a cryptic clue for a private TTRPG campaign.

“owned”

1. Not that small,
2. A little on the slender side for my taste,
3. Still very pretty and highly attractive!

Mmh, smooth. Great skin. Everything to the right proportions. And I love the ever so slightly sly smile. Expressive face!

Hey, shooters gonna shoot their shots