Medieval realistic role playing

“Realistic” is used very favorably in this case… I get what you mean: Henry’s story feels plausible enough to suck you in and I don’t mean this as a critique. But it is in no way realistic: Henry starts as a smiths son and is pretty useless at everything but he becomes a proficient fighter in the story and as far as I remember pretty influential. This is extremely unrealistic for his timeline because social mobility in the late middle ages was very much on existent.

Uhm, I actually did that just recently. Earlier this year my current employer decided to close my department until end of year so I had to start looking for a new job but without a very strict deadline. I applied for a job but didn’t think I’d be invited for an interview. I DID get invited, went to the interview with the attitude “Ah, let’s see, I don’t think, they’ll hire me, but it is a fun learning experience”. They didn’t hire me but gave me the feedback that I was a good candidate overall but it showed that I wasn’t prepared at all and that I should apply later this year because they would open more positions. They did open more positions, I applied again, did a Hospitation, prepared properly and actually got the job in the end.

That’s why I created local backups of my Audible library.

https://getlibation.com/

Wow thanks for the write-up, that sounds wonderful!

Since my kids don’t speak English it’s kinda difficult to find media on the high seas that they understand, but maybe I have to dig a little deeper to find a good source.

Would you mind elaborating on this topic?

My three-year-old loves Bluey and I don’t know where she first came into contact with the character: We don’t have Disney+ and never watched a single episode but for some reason when she went to the clothes store with my wife she recognized a shirt with Bluey and since then got some new favorite shirts, socks and a plushy… I think it’s a funny phenomenon but unfortunately I haven’t gotten around to educate myself about Bluey.

Um? I assume your comment was made tongue-in-cheek but seriously: Being pregnant (and raising the kid afterwards) is by far the most expensive contraceptive.

There are many very good series with more serious tone or complex story telling in this thread so I try to suggest two completely different series:

New Amsterdam is, on the first glance, a pretty standard hospital show but has a lot of social commentary and a diverse cast of very lovable characters with overarching storylines and lots of character development. Often it’s kinda cliché but it manages to leave me bawling my eyes out almost every episode.

Virgin River is a romantic story about the inhabitants of a small town in Northern California. It’s also often pretty cliché but has a nice rhythm of “exposing the characters to a problem” -> “drama!” -> “cliffhanger” - > “resolution”.

Like… Probably every 2 to 5 year old in the western hemisphere?

Yeah it’s not bad for young and healthy people who can stay inside, be relatively inactive, drink enough, etc…

As always climate change hits the weak first: Old people, people with certain disabilities, homeless people, people who have to work physically during the heat are at higher risk to suffer from the heat.

That’s kinda the core of self-hosting, isn’t it? We are taking back digital sovereignty but giving our time and mental health to the Machine God.

Don’t forget Zardoc!

But you must admit that he’s hilarious at it.

Huh? Folders are called notebooks in Joplin and when creating a notebook you can select a parent notebook. It was pretty straightforward for me. Maybe this has been added after you tried out Joplin.

My issue with both of them is that they don’t seem to offer hierarchical organization.

Do you mean this? Hierarchical Notebook work perfectly fine in Joplin.

Okay, I get it. So do you propose that we simply don’t trust any company, or do you especially mistrust DDG? If you specifically mistrust DDG, do you have a good alternative?

If you mistrust companies in general: I get where you’re coming from, but I also think it’s highly impractical to distrust basically everyone on the Internet because you have to use their services at some point.

I wouldn’t use DDG’s Android app, though, because it doesn’t block Microsoft trackers. Now we can debate whether this means the app doesn’t block MS trackers on MS websites or if it allows tracking on its own website (which would contradict the claim I cited above).

I’m not sure if I correctly get your point: DDG provides search results based on Bing and has advertisment contracts with MS but DDG in itself doesn’t track you:

From DDGs FAQ:

We partner with many different information sources to deliver DuckDuckGo Search (e.g., Microsoft for ads, Apple for maps, etc.). When you view search results (including ads), your searches cannot be tied back to you, either by us or our partners. How this works technically is we do not store any personal identifiers (e.g., IP address) with your search terms, and we also proxy all requests to partners through us.

Switching from a search engine that heavily tracks you to a search engine that doesn’t is a privacy win.

No, they’re not, but they are one of the better-known alternatives to Google, and they do advocate privacy. This, in itself, is a good thing and should be promoted.

The problem is that Google’s monopoly on web search is so large that using Google is the de facto standard for the vast majority of people. Getting them to acknowledge that there are alternatives to Google benefits privacy on the internet more than DDG having contracts with MS harms it.

She wasn’t killed but your point stands: The headline, while obviously being clickbaity and maybe even trying to be funny hides the underlying problem:

Somehow, the dog had triggered the shotgun – which had a live round chambered – to fire, damaging the vehicle and striking a female passerby.

[…]

It is illegal in Nebraska to drive with a loaded shotgun in your vehicle.

If your Toyota is a Hilux it may as well perform way better as a boat than a Cybertruck.