My bet is that he was an active supplier. We already know that Virginia Giuffre landed in Epstein’s clutches via Trump; She was “recruited” by Maxwell for a “massage” gig while working on one of Trump’s properties. My bet is that Trump and Epstein had a running deal where Trump would use his properties to give girls a taste of how the wealthy lived, then call Maxwell in to snag them.

Cat owners should learn the Feline Grimace Scale. It’s a way for vets to get a rough measure of how much pain a cat is in:

I mention this because the kitten on the right would probably score a 3 or a 4, which is right on the threshold for when a vet would consider administering painkillers and/or looking into the causes more closely. Certain shampoos can be extremely harmful to cats. Since cats lick themselves clean, they’ll ingest anything you put on their fur. Including shampoos or hair products. And there are countless examples of cats going into organ failure, seizing, vomiting/shitting all over the house, etc after being bathed with harmful “pet safe” products… Just because the product is safe for their skin doesn’t mean it’s safe for them to ingest.

Also, oddly enough, this obviously AI article was one of the top results when I searched for shampoo toxicity in cats. I’m only linking it because the article is a fucking wild read, which only gets wilder as the AI hallucinates more and more.

AFAIK, the source maps are only actually requested/downloaded when the user opens the dev tools. There’s no reason to have them automatically download for every visitor. The enable/disable simply toggles whether or not the request is accepted when the user opens the dev tools.

So if my understanding is correct, keeping it enabled wouldn’t really impact server load, unless lots of users are constantly using the dev tools.

That’s the problem with the separation of powers… The executive branch is supposed to be the one that enforces the laws… The judicial branch has very little power to actually enforce their rulings. And Trump is the head of the executive branch.

You don’t typically shoot up meth or cocaine. Coke is usually snorted, meth is usually snorted or smoked, crack is usually smoked. Heroin is the only one that is typically shot up.

You can shoot up meth and coke, but it’s not the go-to method since it’s harder (and needles can be difficult to source). It’s usually only used by the hardest users, because they’ve become too tolerant for other methods to get them high.

We actually know that documents were photocopied, because many of the documents he had were obviously photocopied. Classified documents have a colored border that goes all the way to the edge of the paper:

But the vast majority of photocopiers can’t print to the edge of the paper, (it requires specialized printers which aren’t commercially viable except in specialized print shops), which means photocopies of classified documents don’t have that solid colored edge. Photocopies have a thin white edge where the non-printable area is. And many of his documents had that white edge, which meant they were photocopies and the originals were missing.

iOS automatically detects certain key words/phrases, and does animations. Or you can just hold down the Send button to trigger it (and a variety of other effects) manually. This person went out of their way to intentionally trigger the confetti with the “I think we should see other people” message, by holding Send and then selecting the confetti option.

So first off, this isn’t actually the ad described in the article. Which means this has happened more than once.

But even with the ad you linked, I went into it thinking “eh, how bad can it be?” It’s worse than I could have imagined. It’s like they went out of their way to make the worst “train wreck in slow motion” political ad possible.

I read it as “go into the presidential bunker” because the demo’ed section of the White House sat on top of the bunker entrance. I was like “well yeah, the ballroom thing is just a ploy to renovate the bunker before Trump needs to use it…”

Yeah, I was expecting some sort of accidental “Oops they saw my basketball shorts when I stood up” type of scenario. Instead, we straight up had Barry Wood greeting us.

Also broke kids. Historically, the military has been one of the only reliable ways to escape the cycle of generational poverty and/or gangs. The government has a vested interest in keeping poor people poor, because impoverished areas are prime recruiting grounds.

Yeah, it’s the same reason dog whistles are so popular with Nazis. In order for a fringe group to grow and gain new members, the people inclined to follow it need to feel like there is tacit support.

My buddy calls Metroidvania games “corner scratchers” because so many devs have habits of hiding the best loot behind breakable walls that look exactly the same as regular walls.

Yup, shotguns would literally be the only weapon anyone used. In World War 2, Germany tried to sue America for war crimes, because American trench guns were too effective. Germany was getting devastated in the trenches, purely because a few dudes with shotguns could mow down an entire platoon once they made it into the enemy trenches.

I usually end up running zigzags, just to keep myself entertained while the NPC slowly plods along. But yeah, rubber banding (NPC gets slower as they get farther away, then speeds up as you get closer) should be in every game dev’s arsenal.

Practice your CQC and the Skull encounters quickly become a joke. The only ones you need to worry about are the snipers, and that’s basically just like when you fought Quiet.

Yeah, the game is designed in a way where your first encounter with a Reaper is probably going to be when you’re in a Seamoth. And you probably won’t have the electric shock module to shake the reaper off. It’s the best combo of “let the player potentially escape the attack” and “make the player feel completely powerless to fight back.” It’s also a great reminder that there is always a bigger fish, because the player usually feels pretty confident with cruising around after they build their first Seamoth.

”It had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong”

This is even worse if you take the Renegade action, which tries to stop him from going up the tower to launch the cure. Shepard whips out a heavy pistol and shoots him as he’s getting into the elevator. He dies before ever being able to trigger the launch. But Shepard doesn’t just whip out any pistol. Shepard doesn’t even whip out the pistol you currently have equipped. No, that wouldn’t have enough symbolism…

Shepard specifically uses the M-6 Carnifex Hand Cannon. If you think back to when you first met him on Omega, he was the one who originally gave Shepard that gun.

The funny part is that this mission is actually laughably easy… If you follow via the road. Following by driving directly on the tracks, (which is what everyone does), throws off his aim, and you’ll almost always fail. But if you drive next to the train (on the road that parallels the tracks), he’ll hit every single shot and you’ll breeze through the mission.

Exactly. The first amendment isn’t there to protect the speech that people like. And protests aren’t effective if you can just ignore them. The entire point of protesting is to be a problem that is big enough and loud enough that the lawmakers can’t just ignore it.