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The oatmeal debacle!

This is a pretty good one to read through again. It's fast-paced, has a lot of pretty big and exciting events, and seriously examines some pretty dark moral arguments and behaviors in war.

I remember almost all of this book, this one is pretty great and pretty dark. I didn't remember Arnold Schwarzenegger though.

Child soldiers using biological warfare in a war they feel they must continue is pretty rough.

PSA

There was a comment a couple months ago now I think about people concerned that VPNs no longer worked in China.

I traveled in China for several weeks over the lunar new year last month and tested proton, Nord, astrill, and a few random small ones I found off the chinese-accessible internet via Baidu without a vpn, and all of them work fine with the exception of one rabbit one that stated it refused to work in China.

But if anyone had any lingering concerns about the viability of using a VPN in China, they all worked fine, and the three big ones I mentioned worked fine all day every day, the smaller ones disconnected after an hour or so and then you would have to reconnect.

But they all worked, even over the holidays when the government is supposed to crack down on VPNs.

Right now there's a party committee going on for a few days so vpns are supposed to be shut off, but my friend is using a VPN in China and sent me messages from Gmail, which is inaccessible in China without a VPN, to let me know that they're still working.

Corollary PSA, my tickets from NY to Hong Kong were 274 bucks last month one-way, so prices are pretty crazy low right now, or at least they were several weeks ago.

Actors not sweeping correctly when somebody broke a glass or somebody's ashes were spilled on the floor or something like that is infuriating hahha.

They're always having some serious conversation with heavy relationship complications, but whoever has the broom is literally tapping at the mess on the floor because they know that the production crew is going to clean it up for them after the shoot, so they, the ac-tors, don't have to actually sweep the mess into the dustbin.

I f****** hate that.

Was jerboa a single click reply to a post before this update?

Sorry I'm confused, the previous build layout was so intuitive and now I feel like there's an extra step because I have to click on the post icon on the right and then click on a reply button on the left after the post loads again to reply to a post.

Was it always like this and the reply button is now on the left side instead of the right?

Or was it a one click system previously?

A direct reply button is obviously more efficient and convenient for the user.

Thanks!

So cool. I love that off-angle phase 4

I remember this book fairly accurately, there's so much going on on it. So exciting. It's difficult to forget.

Dang Thanh Tam back in top form with a stunning illustration for the Vietnamese covers.

Not as action-packed as I've come you expect, but still so immersive. I remember the spider morph on tge original cover was so smoothly transitioned and seemed at odds with the disgusting morphing process described in the books.

This is also pretty smooth, but more organic and representative of how I imagine the morphing process.

I like how the front paw is clawing over the title block.

Comin' at ya!

A landmark case was won in 2021 ruling against the rights of a mining company to mine los cedros' cloud forest, a high altitude rainforest, because it would harm the biodiversity of the area.

All of the permits issued were canceled upon the ruling.

It's awesome.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/02/plan-to-mine-in-ecuador-forest-violate-rights-of-nature-court-rules-aoe

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, talking about anonymous tens of millions of dollars with an obvious conservative bias and the donors not being disclosed being funneled to American conservatives, particularly high level judges and politicians, referred to it as "the dark money monster and the tsunami of slime"