I haven’t read more than 5 books in my lifetime and they weren’t difficult to read books. Now I’m in my mid 20s and found something I’m very interested in but don’t understand 4-5 words on every page

Is this normal?? I’m reading The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan and not only does he use vocabulary that I’ve never seen before but also uses so many scientific terms and names for people who are in certain professions that I’m not familiar with.

So every paragraph, I have to whip out my phone and quickly look up the definition to a word. Am I just stupid? I enjoy the book a lot otherwise but this vocabulary is out of my league.

Credulity, chauvinism, folly, syphilis, thalidomide, chiefly, cauterization, cadavers….. all some examples

Reputable vegan grocery store Cindysnacks offers gluten-free and vegan baked items from local bakeries. They have been doing business with The Savory Fig (ALREADY DELETED LOL) and they recently came across a donut in one of their deliveries with the classic D sprinkles from Dunkin. They tested it and found out it contained high levels of gluten.

Someone did some sleuthing and also revealed that the Valentine's heart donuts and the Christmas donuts delivered to Cindysnacks were identical to the ones sold by Dunkin.

The Savory Fig is owned by Michelle Siriani and she now has every vegan bakery that does business with her malding hardcore, especially since a local doctor with a dairy allergy recently died. She has been passing off Dunkin donuts as her own gluten-free and vegan donuts. Somebody with a gluten or dairy allergy could have (and may have already) died eating these products.

Link to the full post on Cindysnacks IG

This is a photo of the holiday donuts The Savory Fig sold at Cindysnacks

This is photo of the same donut from Dunkin

Valentine's donuts from The Savory Fig

Valentine's donuts from Dunkin

Michelle Siriani of Savory Fig is deleting all photos of these donuts from her social media accounts, and if you look at the comments flowing into the IG post made by CindySnacks - This b-word is in super deep shit lol.

💪 Together, we can take on any challenge.

🪂 Jump into the unlimited #ArmyPossibilities to #BeAllYouCanBe at https://t.co/H2pnYPLqaQ #MondayMotivation pic.twitter.com/N5kUAuyJ3O

— U.S. Army (@USArmy) November 6, 2023

You will also notice that they are depicting a static line jump which is evocative of the kind of hot war that attracts aryan man.

Before this, army advertising in the west was pandering exclusively to bullcute butch women by showing you how cool and funny it is to blow up hajjis with a computer screen and remote control (blood is icky).

I point also to the heavy emphasis on girlbossing that our armed forces have inexplicably used to recruit of late:-

suddenly we have pivoted back to boots-on-the-ground, masculine warfare? wat means?

It's live!

Play it on Newgrounds in your browser! Have fun!

MTD is a tower defense game where you run a restaurant, and must use your staff to feed your angry, incomming customers!

What's next!

A prototype I put together in 2 weeks. If people like it, I will flesh it out into a proper game.

I will eventually post the source code somewhere for people to play around/nitpick my code

What I'm looking for

If development continues, or people are interested enough, I might be looking for people to help me with the project.

Artists

Feature your art in game! Everything is placeholder and could be replaced, including interface, environment, marseys...

Level Designers

I need people to do the math and cruch the numbers, so that levels feel fair.

Testers

People who just want to test the game and give feedback/look for bugs.

Narrative People

If you can get my coffee just right, that would be perfect. Write your ideas and introspectives on paper, because I like the noise the shredder makes.

I only posted it so that the jannies in the groomercord would freak out, but it's fake, I just used inspect element and http://paint.net lol. The jannies immediately sniffed it out, but not dramatards.

one whole person took the bait

I did, however, actually send an email to Reddit Legal. They haven't gotten back to me because it's a nothingburger. And yes, it was from my blackjusticeforever email account that I used for the Waukesha job

I just wanted to clear the air around it because in general I don't like to lie about my bait ops, it's like cheating

For context, I posted these in the leak megathread. The first one is real, the second one is fake

Q. WHY DID YOU DO THIS HEYMOON

A. For the same reason I do anything on rdrama, I thought it would be funny (it was)

Cute pictures of her new velvet hippo Hickory:

https://old.reddit.com/r/velvethippos/comments/1ceklyc/welp_my_husband_brought_his_first_dog_home_to_stay/?sort=controversial

Hickory is home! After a decent introduction to Honey, we took him home. Honey was only slightly annoying to him as she yodeled loudly in his face for the first 30 minutes she met him. So, here he is! Hickory the Hippo!

Some of the typical comments:

Hickory is going to need lots of tennis balls!! I love him so much. Completely adorable! 🧡💙

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He's beautiful I love him 🥰❤️ congratulations!

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Honey still seems displeased.

Displeased? She looks like she's completely disassociated. Unable to comprehend the horror of the situation.

>tfw your dipshit owner brings home another pibble

Only 3 hours later, disaster strikes!

https://old.reddit.com/r/velvethippos/comments/1ceprr6/that_was_horribly_shortlived_and_i_feel_horrible/?sort=controversial

Hickory bit honey. I had just gone into my bedroom to take a nap. My husband and two sons were in the living room with the dogs. The dogs were fine. Then my daughter came home. Honey immediately ran to greet her, as did Hickory. The next thing I heard was a dog screaming and my husband screaming, “NO!! NO!! STOP!!” I ran out, and Hickory had Honey by the head. Right as I got to them, he shook her. I put pressure behind his jaw and he immediately let go of her and backed away. I had both dogs by the collar and told my husband to take Hickory to another part of the house away from Honey while I assessed her wounds. Two punctures on her ear lobe, and a puncture on her cheek. We called the vet and got instructions to care for her. The dogs are separated in different areas of the house, with strict instructions about who is to play with him, because we have a 5 year old child who is obsessed with him. We are flabbergasted. The meet and greet with them went well. We contacted a friend of ours who runs a pit rescue. We DO NOT want to take him back to the kill shelter. I fricking feel HORRIBLE. I feel like I failed Hickory, Honey, my family, and the shelter. I'm literally sick about it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Both dogs were on leashes. Unfortunately, they both ran to see my daughter at the same time, and I'm guessing the poor guy was just overstimulated . He is NOT a bad boy. He is a sweet, sweet guy. I've been in contact with my vet and some friends who do rescue. One is a veterinarian that specifically does pibbles. Humphrey had a hard time at first, too. He was terrified and reactive to men. It took a lot of work, but he did fine. We currently have the dogs in separate halves of the house. They can see and hear each other, but can't get to each other.

He's NOT a bad boy he's so sweet he only chewed on my dog's head a little bit

If you can't reasonably keep them separated for a bit, then for everyone's safety, return to the shelter but please do not tell them about the bite because it'll be an instant death sentence. Just say your dog wasn't getting along with him and it wasn't a good fit.

GOOD idea, there's too many toddlers in the world anyway

OP, is your Husband the one who's had most of the interactions with Hickory, or are You the one? Because it may have been a relatively "simple" matter (although ADMITTEDLY Terrifying!) matter of resource guarding.💖 Both dogs were FINE, and doing reasonably well together UNTIL your Daughter walked in. She was a NEW human, and therefore a NEW resource for both dogs. He wanted the resource (remember, he hasn't HAD many resources to call his OWN in who knows how long, living in a shelter!💖), and he was trying to protect that resource (even though the resource was your DAUGHTER!), from Honey. Work with your vet, work with your friend who's been with the rescue, AND see if there's anyone GOOD locally, who works in Behavior, who you guys can tap in for advice!💝 You're very much still in that FIRST Three, of the 3-3-3 rule, correct? For now, YES, ABSOLUTELY keep the kids away unless you're next to them, keep the dogs separate but able to see/smell & get used to each other, and then take it slowly and assess each step!💖 This MAY be a deal-breaker, OR it may be a simple blip. Time, patience, and careful observation will tell you which one it truly is!

I can't be the only one who finds the juxtaposition funny between the sparkly hearts and the advice on how to stop your dogs eating each other

Bonus Post

The same foid's previous (now deceased) pibble, chilling next to her baby. Just to give you an idea of how foidbrained this foid really is

>pretended he grew up in humble background, was actually born to incredibly wealthy parents
>pretended to be Muslim, but only when convenient to him
>spoke about how he's from "the Middle East", but attended wealthy schools in the West
>justified the killing of women and children… pic.twitter.com/ZXMQJlKBHU

— Destiny (@TheOmniLiberal) November 17, 2023

Wild story incoming. Last month, we had to cancel our Boston trip after I was hospitallized. As a result I had to use travel insurance to get my money back on our hotel, train, and restaurant reservations. Today I got this message from @tableboston pic.twitter.com/d7jc84rllJ

— ghostface stuck on the subway (@trevorshowvan) February 22, 2024

It's been only 24 hours and the restaurant is marked as permanently closed and here is their Yelp for your viewing pleasure: Check out Table!

https://yelp.to/cdjYMgOgzC

/r/interestingasfrick

/r/TIHI

/r/ShittyLifeProTips

/r/self

/r/IllegalLifeProTips

All show the same message on the sidebar. The hunt for new mop holders not going well?

Hurricane Electric, one of the largest ISPs in the entire world, has blocked 1776 Hosting's IPs which very briefly (~2 days) was a way to connect to the Kiwi Farms.

Hurricane Electric admits that blocking an entire subnet of IP addresses like this is unprecedented. They refuse to elaborate as to why they've done this.

HE is an extremely old, extremely large provider which owns an enormous share of all fiber optic cable in the world. Their connectivity between smaller ISPs is unparalleled. Their bandwidth is over 100Tbps. If every nerve in your body is connected to each other, much like two computers on the Internet, then Hurricane Electric would effectively be your spine - hence why they are called the Internet Backbone. The Internet Backbone is telling a small forum of a few thousand daily users that they may not exist, they will not explain why, and they are not open to being halfway.

However, our relationship with HE was indirect. 1776 Hosting had a relationship with an ISP, who itself had a relationship with another ISP, who has a relationship with Hurricane Electric. HE did not terminate a relationship with me, they instead obstructed my providers from receiving traffic they specifically requested because Hurricane Electric does not allow it, without stated reason, and without appeal.

What Hurricane Electric has not considered is that this relationship took place in Washington state. Washington is one of the few states which has state-level common carrier provisions for the Internet. Quote:

(2) A person engaged in the provision of broadband internet access service in Washington state, insofar as the person is so engaged, may not:\

(a) Block lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices, subject to reasonable network management;\

(b) Impair or degrade lawful internet traffic on the basis of internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device, subject to reasonable network management;`

This cause of action cannot be brought by individuals or companies. It must be brought by the Attorney General's Office in Washington. My providers have filed complaints with the Attorney General's Office in Washington. I am preparing to do the same via representation.

If you are a citizen of Washington, your right to access legal content via your Internet connection (as guaranteed by the state of Washington, to which you pay considerable tax to) has been infringed by Hurricane Electric. However, I am not asking anyone do anything at this point. We are awaiting a response from the Attorney General. If the Attorney General refuses to protect our rights, then we may need voices from the state of Washington to compel their Attorney General to protect their rights instead. If they still refuse, we have further options to pursue to compel the government to enforce its laws fairly and equitably.

Hurricane Electric's political decision making and deliberate meddling with the Internet is the most dramatic action I have ever seen in the degradation of the Internet and the erosion of our personal liberties. The only path forward is for the Internet to be regulated as a common carrier. If we allow this behavior to continue, no website may exist without the collective assent of a dozen megacorporations joined at the hip.

Some updates:

https://twitter.com/IncogNetLLC/status/1685359845505957888

/u/calexil

You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain.

— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) May 8, 2024

@Poj took this before leaving for chad in the uk !friendsofpizzashill !incels !truecels