My trick: I ended up just blocking 5 or 6 total users and see almost none of it.

This is an Odyssey

Or it just means that he has sufficiently weaponized psychic powers and witchcraft to protect him.

No kidding. Here I was today just trying to do an image search for some game artwork, and about half of the results were AI-generated slop, hosted on sites boosting their SEO by listing hundreds of keywords people might search for.

FWIW, duck and cover was more meant to protect kids from falling debris in the event a nuke goes off a distance away that is survivable. I don’t think anyone expected this to help in a direct blast type of scenario

Just my 2 cents on a surface-level reading of the character because it’s also been a while since I’ve watched it.

Aragorn is strong and capable, with a generally masculine image about him. He’s handsome, good with a sword, rides horses, and commands respect by his presence.

But he is not prideful or boastful, he doesn’t seek glory, and he’s respectful to the women in his life.

At least the way the movies present it, his relationship with Arwen is one in which both partners are equal participants. Aragorn is not controlling, and Arwen isn’t some damsel who lacks agency without her man there to tell her what to do. And when Eowyn shows affection towards him, he is quick to respectfully decline her advances without leading her on, thereby preserving a positive and supportive relationship between them.

That might be the sort of thing people are referring to, as far as his characterization. There might be more examples, but that’s what I remember.

Verizon

I heard a joke once: Man turns on computer. Goes to edit settings. Needs a patch to fix a system deficiency. Can’t find any other solution. Windows says, “The fix is simple. Only a system administrator can make these changes. Go call one. That should take care of it.” Man bursts into tears. Says, “But Windows… I am the system administrator.” Good joke. Everybody laugh. Upgrade to enterprise for $199.99. Curtains.

(Original reference)

Wild, you’re right, it’s apparently blocked by my mobile carrier. Tried it again with a VPN and it worked fine.

So much for the idea of a free and open internet…

I can’t even view OP’s image at all, but it’s just showing as WebP to me? Is Catbox just down?

Not to mention those companies have divided priorities. Valve’s main income is Steam, they have a vested interest in keeping their product dominant. Microsoft and Epic simply don’t, because their stores are only side projects that incentivise their main income sources. But that’s not to say I want to substitute Steam with some other corpo giant’s latest money grab either.

The bigger question is why more consumer-friendly stores like GOG that sell DRM-free games can’t compete with Steam. High profile games have no incentive to release DRM-free versions of their titles on GOG because the bigger store where they make more money encourages DRM. And these locked-in publisher relationships built on DRM allows Valve to outcompete more consumer-friendly stores through sales and user experience.

Valve gets a lot of clout in the Linux sphere because their adoption of open-source platforms is better than their competitors, and we have the mindset of “a rising tide lifts all ships”, but this is also what we were saying about Google and Android 15 years ago and we can see how that is shaping up. Something something “you either die a hero…”

Basically, Valve is too big to compete with at this point, because any competing product needs to be more perfect out the gate for people to even consider using it. Which is hard to do when you are not as entrenched and don’t have the kind of money Valve has.

If you disinfect and cover, there should be no bacteria.

Dress the wound, change dressing routinely, reapply antiseptic when doing so.

Meanwhile Ranni the Witch out here dissociating 24/7

TBF Henry Ford was a literal Nazi and I probably wouldn’t want to license anything to him either.

I don’t think that’s the point OP is making, but rather using one’s lived experience as a basis for which to judge others’ lived experiences.

For some, 21 may feel ancient, but for others, their current >21 age is just right. No need to say things in a way that makes the latter feel like they missed the boat on happiness.

Richard Attenborough

Does anyone else smell burnt toast?