Interesting bit for you, Narcissus is also the name for the lily: for it looks down at its reflection in the water, and indeed the mythology states that Narcissus became the lilies by being entranced by his own reflection and taking root at the border of the pond, but this might not make sense to a lot of modern audiences because sometime in the last century humans cultivated lilies to face upwards, colloquially referred to as stargazers.

Also, the scientific name for Water Lily which floats on the pond water is Nymphaeales.

Which one of the non-cities is paying a billion dollars to build a bridge rn?

AI is bad for all industries. It just regurgitates jumbled up words and phrases. At best it’s a liability which produces sub-human level of work with no regard for morality or consequences, and at worst it will send your company into bankruptcy and ruin your reputation for as long as you live.

There are three valid use cases for AI with few drawbacks:

1. Misinforming a large number of people on social media

2. Flooding online places with slop in order to prevent people from seeing real information, such as covering up political or financial scandals

3. Making funny AI Cover Songs by Quagmire, Peridot, and/or Squidward

For everything else, you will lose more than you gain.

What do you mean “we sometimes need it” ?

“Captain Sparrow, who is robbing me and what are they taking while you’re here beguiling me?”

Oh no! Anyways…

The only downside I see to this is that fewer airlines means more monopoly and less consumer control over prices and services.

Reports from Iran suggest that a citizen named Hesam Alaeeddin, son of the founder of Alaeddin Mall in Tehran

Lmao

Good to see some cracks forming like this. Divides between the elite and the security forces are always a sign that regime change is coming.

Bumped up kicks.

As much as the orange asshole is burning bridges, trusting China or Russia with no deterrent is the apex of stupidity.

Idk how many times they need to expand their border before people realize they want to kill everyone and take everyone’s land.

You’re right, the USA can only import from this list of countries it has not tariffed:

1. /sarcasm

Jokes aside, India would certainly be smart to keep their biggest adversary, China, weak both economically and militarily.

Did you know that Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo?

Human owners are the ones who find out which is exactly what the phrase is meant to caution against.

I mean that’s literally a line from IBM’s 1979 training manual:

A computer can never be held accountable

Therefore a computer must never make a management decision

What?

You do this every time, dude. The pure irony of you trying to make people feel bad over basic commentary, while asking if they think it’s bad to enjoy it, you just drive down engagement with the art.

I mean, yeah, kind of. I didn’t downvote it or anything, but if I had to rate it on a star system then 1 / 10.

Imagine drawing a character with their defining features stripped away, completely unnecessarily and not as part of a “what if” of sorts, and expecting fans to react positively. Imagine cyberpunk Sumo E. Honda weighs like 140 lbs because the future cured weightloss or some shit.

Chun Li does not skip leg day. That’s not Chun Li.

Chun Li is a character from a popular fighting arcade game series originating in the 1980s and still sees installments to this day.

This is Chun Li in SF5:

This is Chun Li in SF2:

Admittedly, the waist is quite thin in SF2 as well, but the legs and by extension the posterior thickness could be said to be her trademark and character defining characteristics. Honestly, the girl in the image in the post looks like somebody who only works out once a week.

Cobalt is easy to obtain outside of China but the issue is the Samarium. It can be obtained from Acid Cracking a mineral called Monazite which was once historically mined in South Carolina until a massive reserve was discovered in india, and it actually has a higher yield per weight than the Chinese Bastnäsite which can also be found in a couple of places in Africa.

The problem is even if the USA could source from other places than China in theory, the actual infrastructure to do so is not currently in place, and furthermore the Trump admin’s capability in securing a deal for the future is practically nonexistent.

Sometimes economists don’t/can’t factor in changes in production starting from near 0. Kind of like, any economist before the space program would have said a moon landing was 100% economically unfeasible.

I’m not sure what exactly the refining of cobalt to weapons grade is, but DR Congo exported 200,800 Tons of Cobalt in 2024 which is over 100x as much as China.

EDIT: Ah, I see, the Samarium is the problem not the Cobalt lmao

Looks like Monazite is a good source for it with extensive reserves in India, Brazil, and South Carolina, and as an added bonus it can be used to harvest Thorium.

Huuuuuuuh?