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  • [Discussion] HOTD S03E07 "The Dragon in Winter"

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  • Honestly I would interpret the visions as "these are the reasons why you're not gonna get that chicken farm, Helaena":

    1. The baby will be a boy and Rhaenyra will be forced to at least take it away, like Alicent said
    2. The throne needs to be destroyed
    3. Avoiding her fate would lead to the destruction of the world by the White Walkers

  • Introverts will do anything but ask for help

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  • It's not even about efficiency. I suspect that this is easier on her back, because she doesn't have to keep pace with someone who doesn't coordinate with her and who makes sudden, unexpected moves that cause her to wrench her back. As someone who has lifted a lot of heavy things in his life, I always find it easier and less painful to move something on my own whenever possible.

  • Life After I Turned 30 [Sarah's Scribbles]

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  • I think the number thirty is being blamed, not because your life is actually "over" when you turn thirty, but because that TENDS to be roughly the age most people start having kids, and having kids certainly DOES cause major changes in lifestyle.

  • Life After I Turned 30 [Sarah's Scribbles]

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  • You should get that taken care of. An occasional twinge now and then is normal, but constant pain? In your thirties? That ain't standard. In your forties, I could believe - although it still wouldn't be standard. But your back should still be in relatively good nick in your thirties, unless you lift heavy things for a living. In your thirties a backache should be nothing a good night's sleep, a nice stretch, and a long leisurely walk can't fix.

    Unless... you DO lift with your knees, right? When you need to lift something? And keep your back straight and chin up while doing so? People don't constantly say to do that just for shits and giggles - it's universally good advice.

  • What was the best generation of consoles in your opinion?

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  • 8th Gen was the last good one, and therefore the best one.

  • xkcd #3279: Main Span

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  • Good ol' geostationary moon.

  • Jucika goes to evening school

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  • She's not standing up in her seat though as she blocks our view of the seat and is therefore beside it (or in front of it from our perspective). If she's walking beside the desks that implies she's the teacher (or professor if she's teaching adults an advanced subject).

    Her eye-rolling in the first panel suggests that she's fed up with whatever nonsense the man is saying. My guess is that he's proving to be a poor student for whatever reason.

    In the second panel I assume she's invited him back to her place that evening for some "extra tutoring" and in the third panel he comes to realize (to his disappointment) that she wasn't speaking euphemistically.

    My guess is that the difficulty in translating the title is due to some obscure local idiom for "Jucika's extra tutoring gig" or "Jucika's evening class side-hustle".

  • [Discussion] HOTD S03E06 "Faceless Men"

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  • We've had two Rhaenys Targaryens:

    1. Sister-wife of the Conqueror, rider of Meraxes
    2. The Queen that Never Was, rider of Meleys

    Two Rhaena Targaryens:

    1. Sister of Jaehaerys I, rider of Dreamfyre, first Targaryen woman to be rejected for her sex and passed over for her brother, mentioned by Alys as having stayed in Harrenhal
    2. Sister of Baela, rider of Sheepstealer

    Two Baelor Targaryens:

    1. Baelor the Blessed, who had the Great Sept built
    2. Baelor Breakspear, the Hammer

    Two Baelon Targaryens:

    1. Father of Viserys I and Daemon
    2. Son of Viserys I, "the Heir for a Day"

    Two Aerys Targaryens:

    1. Brother of Baelor Breakspear and Maekar, mentioned in passing in AKOTSK
    2. The Mad King

    Two Jaeharys Targaryens:

    1. The Conciliator, rider of Vermithor
    2. Son of Aegon II, beheaded by Blood and Cheese

    Two Viserys Targaryens:

    1. Viserys I, the Peaceful, rider of Balerion (briefly)
    2. Daemon and Rhaenyra's youngest son, last seen heading for Pentos

    It's pretty true to life, as historically, children have usually been named after family members.

  • [Discussion] HOTD S03E06 "Faceless Men"

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  • So with the "Daeron the Daring" name drop this episode, the screen franchise now has three Daeron Targaryens:

    1. Daeron the Daring Targaryen
    2. Daeron II Targaryen, AKA Daeron the Good
    3. Daeron the Drunken Targaryen

    Obviously it's nowhere near the number of Aegon Targaryens that have been mentioned so far...

    1. Aegon I Targaryen, AKA Aegon the ConqueroR
    2. Aegon II Targaryen, AKA Aegon the Elder
    3. Aegon the Younger Targaryen
    4. Aegon the Unlikely Targaryen AKA Egg
    5. Aegon Targaryen (son of Elia Martell)
    6. Aegon the White Wolf Targaryen AKA Jon Snow

    ...but it does seem to be the second-most common name in the screen franchise so far. I wonder will we ever hear Daeron the Young Dragon mentioned. It can really only happen in AKOTSK, I suppose.

    EDIT: Oh, wait, I forgot that it's actually a tie for second with "Brandon Stark":

    1. Brandon the Builder Stark
    2. Brandon Stark (brother of Ned Stark)
    3. Brandon the Broken Stark

  • take their money and arrest those responsible

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  • Just do what you can, when you can. It's all any of us can do.

  • take their money and arrest those responsible

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  • Whoever said "instead"?

  • take their money and arrest those responsible

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  • That's even more of a reason to focus on buyers rather than sellers.

  • take their money and arrest those responsible

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  • Because I don't trust anybody who tells me things I wanna hear like "you bear no responsibility; it's somebody else's fault".

    Oil companies couldn't sell if nobody was buying. The idea that the world can be fixed and I won't need to sacrifice a thing is a little too good to be true. Sure, maybe others will need to make more changes than me, and I'm certainly not gonna let them off the hook, but I'm not gonna let myself off the hook either, and anyone who tells me I can is selling me something.

  • take their money and arrest those responsible

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  • Most of the factories that manufacture the stuff you use are driven by fossil fuels. The food you eat is most likely grown using fertilizer that was made using natural gas. Unless you live in the forest and eat nuts and berries, you use fossil fuels.

  • take their money and arrest those responsible

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  • "Spoiler alert: it's not you"

    proceeds to display a chart of companies who sell a fuel we all use

  • DS9 in a nutshell

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  • They ARE an exploration and science corp in peacetime.

  • DS9 in a nutshell

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  • DS9 is probably the best-written Star Trek show, but what worries me is how many of its fans think that Sisko's war crimes are "badass" and that his worldview should be emulated. Many DS9 fans seem to think that the show's shades of grey renders the Roddenberry vision on display in TOS and TNG invalid - dismissing it with "it's easy to be a saint in paradise".

    There are a lot of things to criticize with Discovery, but what it absolutely nailed was the Lorca twist. Lorca arguing about how rules are made to be broken, sometimes you gotta commit a war crime or two, and "context is for kings", was a perfect summation of the mindset of these kinds of Trek fans. So when it was revealed that he was actually from the universe where humanity had given in to this mentality and thus failed to create the Federation, that was the perfect "sci-fi twist" that Star Trek excels in.

    I enjoy DS9, but not uncritically.

  • Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year

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  • Too late. I've already switched to Linux Mint and am never going back.

  • Well, we obviously have to put a stop to that.

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  • Also "writing characters named Miles"

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Tango @piefed.ca

    Star Trek seems to forget sometimes that other continents exist

  • A Song Of Ice And Fire @lemmy.world
    Tango @piefed.ca

    Don't forget Ser Alfred Broome suggested that Daemon should usurp his wife's throne