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Ahh, thanks! My knowledge of the region isn’t great, I just remembered that story off hand - and of course, that’s the story as told by the British colonial administration too

It definitely is

I think part of the problem is the volume of it that is just completely uninteresting. You absolutely can do cool stuff with, I agree. It just seems like most people aren’t. In the same way that Duchamp managed to do something pretty cool with Fountain, but I would not give the slightest hint of a damn about a collection of other readymade art made in the same quantity and with the same thought as AI outputs

I kind of like the argument that Ecuador’s Chimborazo is the tallest on the basis that it’s the farthest point of Earth from the centre of the Earth

Funnily enough, the man it was named after was against calling it that. It came about because the Tibetans and Nepalis on either side of the mountain used different names for it (Qomolangma and Sagarmatha respectively), so British surveyors concluded that there was no accepted name to put on a map and they would simply give it a new one. In English. George Everest, the prior top British surveyor in India, objected on the grounds that his name couldn’t be written easily in Hindi, but the Royal Geographic Society ignored him and the used it anyway

Right, but my point is OP is criticising the community or its mods for not wanting to interact with everyone and then not wanting to interact with everyone themselves

I personally think blocking and banning is fine in sensible amounts. Sometimes someone is just making your experience worse and bringing nothing to the table for you. I’m interested to hear OP’s thoughts on what looks a bit hypocritical to me

Vegans are a relative minority group that a lot of people like to antagonise. That’s not to say you were doing that, I haven’t looked at what you got banned over. Just that a lot of people do go out of their way to try to annoy vegans, and because there are relatively few vegans those people can quickly drown out any attempt to discuss, like, vegan recipes and such

Isn’t blocking them essentially you banning them from your posts and comments? Why is that different?

It’s useless, yes, but your body didn’t evolve to account for pouring a bunch of heated water over yourself

“Kaiser, the radio beacons are lit! Austria-Hungary calls for aid!”

Cool photo and a beautiful landscape. An impressive bit of colourisation work too, it looks very natural

They’ve added to the post that slack tide is “something else entirely”. If they mean the point when the height of the tide is halfway between low and high tides, which is how I understood it, that should be one of the fastest-moving moments. As opposed to slack tide, which is when it’s not moving at all.

This is even more bullshit than the fact that rules-as-written you can’t smite with your bare fists in 5E

Although I suppose at least in the tabletop version we can ignore that rule

That’s when the tide isn’t going in or out, which is more likely to be closer to the high and low tides

And they intentionally shake the gameplay up with each installment. I’m glad they do. Otherwise there’s little point in doing a new one

To be fair, if someone listens to the six best known songs by a band and only likes one of them, it’s no surprise they wouldn’t bother digging into the catalogue further

Oh, I’m not disagreeing with you by any means. I just thought it was kinda funny that they had the direction of the invasiveness of that particular animal backwards

For Civ 6, I’d say winning each victory once. Try to do it with different civs each time too. You can set your goal as winning a game on the highest difficulty if you want, but personally I don’t find that to be as interesting as the shift in gameplay necessary to win the different victories without just militarily crushing everyone else.

North American grey squirrels are an invasive species… in Europe. They seem to be able to outcompete the native red squirrels here

There’s a delightful little red squirrel sanctuary near me run by a couple who I would guess to be in the boomer generation. The wife fell ill and wound up almost permanently bedridden, so they moved to a house that would be easier for her and which also had some attached land they could use. The husband turned it into ideal squirrel territory and set up feeders by the window so that the squirrels would come visit his wife while she was stuck in bed

I chose Amazon and a bag design as the example specifically because it’s a real story (although not a rucksack, I misremembered that part)