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Within our new house, so different from the series of drab, dismal locales we’d inhabited prior to my father’s new vocation, shadows dissolved in the floodlights that seemingly shined from all angles. Therein, flights of fancy often seized me, as if I was beholden to celestial stagecraft, and performing daily routines for invisible overseers as they learned how to be human. I slept with the lights on and only ventured outdoors when the sun shone, so as to bathe in the vibrancy of a neighborhood that always seemed freshly washed.    “If only your mom had lived to see this,” my father oft pronounced, at mealtimes. “Both of us well fed now…even pudgy. Our house clean as can be. ...

Within our new house, so different from the series of drab, dismal locales we’d inhabited prior to my father’s new vocation, shadows dissolved in the floodlights that seemingly shined from all angles. Therein, flights of fancy often seized me, as if I was beholden to celestial stagecraft, and performing daily routines for invisible overseers as they learned how to be human. I slept with the lights on and only ventured outdoors when the sun shone, so as to bathe in the vibrancy of a neighborhood that always seemed freshly washed.    “If only your mom had lived to see this,” my father oft pronounced, at mealtimes. “Both of us well fed now…even pudgy. Our house clean as can be. ...

Within our new house, so different from the series of drab, dismal locales we’d inhabited prior to my father’s new vocation, shadows dissolved in the floodlights that seemingly shined from all angles. Therein, flights of fancy often seized me, as if I was beholden to celestial stagecraft, and performing daily routines for invisible overseers as they learned how to be human. I slept with the lights on and only ventured outdoors when the sun shone, so as to bathe in the vibrancy of a neighborhood that always seemed freshly washed.    “If only your mom had lived to see this,” my father oft pronounced, at mealtimes. “Both of us well fed now…even pudgy. Our house clean as can be. ...

Full story at - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OtSjbFUYkpdF1u0rcX9WD2lbbDq1DGFjvBoOn_k2biU/edit?usp=sharing Battling LLMs to Make the FSM "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time..." — Thomas Jefferson "I didn't expect it to be refreshed by arguing with a toaster." — Rachel Seeley, 2026 The Weight of 250 Years There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes to a person who can see something clearly that the world around them cannot—or will not—see. “Raddical” Rachel Rose Seeley knew that loneliness. She had thought about the farmer in Ohio. He farmed the same eighty acres his great-grandfather had broken with a plow in 1865. He ...

My transition from healer to tank has progressed smoothly. My block list has grown to 66 as I’ve pruned the undeserving from my sight. However, I’ve noticed something disturbing. The quality of the funny green men has diminished. Each one is worse than the last until, finally, I learn the truth of the matter. As I look in the group finder for my next funny green man, a chill runs down my spine. There’s no one there. It must be a bug, so I refresh. Yet still, no green men. In fact, there are a dozen tanks waiting for the green men. I refresh in a panic. For three agonizing minutes, I wait. Finally, a green man arrives. All is right in the world. But I’m greeted with a messag...

Hey everyone, I wanted to share one of the reasons I started this sub. I was looking for a simple tool to track how much my old appliances were actually costing me, but every "Energy Calc" I found was either a mess of banner ads or wanted a monthly subscription just to save my history. So, I built my own: **Energy Cost Calculator**. **What makes it different:** * **📸 Scan & Calculate:** Instead of typing numbers, you can just point your camera at an EU Energy Label. I implemented OCR technology to automatically pull the kWh/year or Watts. * **🔐 100% Private & Offline:** No accounts, no logins, and no tracking. Your data stays on your phone. It doesn...

In the early 1980’s, my first memories started to take hold and still hold on to me.  They developed as we lived in Revere, Massachusetts, a tired beach town that was also rundown just about everywhere else.  Paint peeling from triple-deckers, neon Budweiser signs in the windows of the bars, and just about every junkbox car you could name filled the streets.  It was small enough for everyone to know your business, but still big enough to find trouble everywhere. My first memories (4 years old) are of our coffee table. The top of the coffee table always caught my attention; there always seemed to be sugar stuck between the edge of the glass top and the wood frame.  I remember scraping...

(I've posted this to other main subs, and you guys were sort of an afterthought. I'm sorry, especially after the fact that when I play vanguard I usually play that good captain) Ultron (the anchor for the team up), using his advanced mind, materials, and the Ultron virus, improves his teammates technology to better exterminate other organics. The Winter Soldier: Ultron is impressed by the futuristic cyborg arm, but he knows it can be better. He improves it behind Bucky's back to better kill, and remove some of the healing burden he carries. Now The Winter Soldier's ultimate does extra damage, and heals any teammates caught in the ultimate for 50% of the damage dealt. R...

Ultron (the anchor for the team up), using his advanced mind, materials, and the Ultron virus, improves his teammates technology to better exterminate other organics. The Winter Soldier: Ultron is impressed by the futuristic cyborg arm, but he knows it can be better. He improves it behind Bucky's back to better kill, and remove some of the healing burden he carries. Now The Winter Soldier's ultimate does extra damage, and heals any teammates caught in the ultimate for 50% of the damage dealt. Rocket Raccoon: While it amuses Ultron to think a small, insignificant rodent can create such impressive tech, he knows he can do more than the raccoon. Ultron makes blueprints for an impro...

For instance, does a star schema actually reduce redundancy in comparison to putting everything in a flat table? Instead of the fact table containing dimension descriptions, it will just contain IDs with the primary key of the dimension table, the dimension table being the table which gives the ID-description mapping for that specific dimension. In other words, a star schema simply replaces the strings with IDs in a fact table. Adding to the fact that you now store the ID-string mapping in a seperate dimension table, you are actually using more storage, not less storage. This leads me to believe that the purpose of database normalization is not to "reduce redundancy" or to use sto...

Ultron (the anchor for the team up), using his advanced mind, materials, and the Ultron virus, improves his teammates technology to better exterminate other organics. The Winter Soldier: Ultron is impressed by the futuristic cyborg arm, but he knows it can be better. He improves it behind Bucky's back to better kill, and remove some of the healing burden he carries. Now The Winter Soldier's ultimate does extra damage, and heals any teammates caught in the ultimate for 50% of the damage dealt. Rocket Raccoon: While it amuses Ultron to think a small, insignificant rodent can create such impressive tech, he knows he can do more than the raccoon. Ultron makes blueprints for an impro...

Ultron (the anchor for the team up), using his advanced mind, materials, and the Ultron virus, improves his teammates technology to better exterminate other organics. The Winter Soldier: Ultron is impressed by the futuristic cyborg arm, but he knows it can be better. He improves it behind Bucky's back to better kill, and remove some of the healing burden he carries. Now The Winter Soldier's ultimate does extra damage, and heals any teammates caught in the ultimate for 50% of the damage dealt. Rocket Raccoon: While it amuses Ultron to think a small, insignificant rodent can create such impressive tech, he knows he can do more than the raccoon. Ultron makes blueprints for an impro...

Is it normal for Costco to do this to their chicken and/or any other meat? I purchased this chicken on 02/16. Pretty much every tag was wonky. I didn't pay much attention at the store, otherwise I wouldn't have even purchased it at that time. But when I got home, the tag fell right off while I was sorting my chicken in the sink. Picture is pretty much self explanatory. The original tag says "sell by 02/16. NET WT/LB 9.22. Price $27.57" which was the day I picked it up 🙄 Covered up by a second tag that said "sell by 02/21. NET WT/LB 8.99. Price $26.88" 🤔 I was pretty ****** at the fact that they just covered chicken that had a sell date day of with a new st...

I've spent the last 1.5 years trying to get my kid excited about boardgames with mixed success. There's a lot of mixed info online where it feels like people ask for recs for kids games and then basically get every game recommended since every game works with SOME kid and there's not a ton of info about what didn't work and why. i thought i'd walk through my experience, outline the good and bad, what worked what didn't. This is my tale: ------------------- The first 3 games were gifts from family members [Flashfind](https://www.amazon.com/Nene-Toys-FlashFind-Fast-Paced-Educational/dp/B0CZS5HBQ2). A tiny game where you roll 3 dice which specify animal+color+pa...

Banana stem waste, usually discarded after harvest, is being converted into a sustainable textile called banana fiber fabric—sometimes marketed as “vegan leather” or “poor man’s silk.” It transforms agricultural residue into durable, breathable, and 100% biodegradable fabric, offering a low-impact alternative to cotton. *Process Overview*: After harvesting bananas, the pseudostem is collected and selected for quality. Fibers are extracted manually or mechanically, then washed and sun-dried. The dried fibers are spun into yarn, woven or knitted into fabric, and finished through dyeing, blending, or softening treatments. *Key Benefits* * Utilizes agricultural waste, reducing met...

Ultron (the anchor for the team up), using his advanced mind, materials, and the Ultron virus, improves his teammates technology to better exterminate other organics. The Winter Soldier: Ultron is impressed by the futuristic cyborg arm, but he knows it can be better. He improves it behind Bucky's back to better kill, and remove some of the healing burden he carries. Now The Winter Soldier's ultimate does extra damage, and heals any teammates caught in the ultimate for 50% of the damage dealt. Rocket Raccoon: While it amuses Ultron to think a small, insignificant rodent can create such impressive tech, he knows he can do more than the raccoon. Ultron makes blueprints for an impro...

The core mechanics of the game are genuinely so fun to play, and I've had a nice time just skating around, hitting spots, and interacting with other players. If the developers treated it like a full-price release instead of freeplay revenueslop, it could genuinely be a masterpiece and make them a ton of money. They could take it down for a year to polish out the mechanics and models, add details to the world, make the player characters less freakish looking, and replaced the brainrot store with something engaging and rewarding, and implement some of the free feedback the community has given. I would pay full-price and probably stick around for a long time, but instead I haven't pai...

Ultron (the anchor for the team up), using his advanced mind, materials, and the Ultron virus, improves his teammates technology to better exterminate other organics. The Winter Soldier: Ultron is impressed by the futuristic cyborg arm, but he knows it can be better. He improves it behind Bucky's back to better kill, and remove some of the healing burden he carries. Now The Winter Soldier's ultimate does extra damage, and heals any teammates caught in the ultimate for 50% of the damage dealt. Rocket Raccoon: While it amuses Ultron to think a small, insignificant rodent can create such impressive tech, he knows he can do more than the raccoon. Ultron makes blueprints for an impro...

Amitha closed her eyes and breathed her last few breaths of fresh air. She ***** this part. Her head was already throbbing from the night before, when she had over-indulged on poppy at the feast. Trapping herself in a stitched-together metal coffin had not helped, and lowering her visor was the final nail to be hammered in. She reached her hand up to do it, but she hesitated. She *always* ***** this part. It was the last moment to back out, the last moment to avoid the coming pain and struggle altogether. She could simply walk away. The Manderlys might **** her for it, but what did that matter to her? Like as not, she’d never see them again.  *It was just a spar*. Her hesitation was a fa...