Landrin201

Joplin is another FOSS alternative to Obsidian. I've been using it for years; it let's you encrypt your notes in place so they can't be read without the client having the password to access them.

It also helps that they are essentially a monopoly.

I know that there are technically other game launchers, but that's always been how monopolies work. They allow a few token "competitors" that they completely control to exist.

Other than steam the only other gamelaunchers/storefronts for pc are:

• EA (Only has EA games in it, which are mostly also on steam)

• Ubisoft (Only has Ubisoft games, also mostly all on steam)

• Epic Games (the only true competitor to steam, and everyone hates them because they aren't steam)

• GOG (storefront only, I'm pretty sure they literally give you steam keys)

Only ONE of them is a true competitor to steam, Epic Games, and they don't have anywhere close to the usage steam does. The others are exclusive storefronts (that also have their games sold on steam) or storefronts that sell steam keys.

Steam is so deeply ingrained into the PC gaming space that I'm not sure most gamers understand how devastating it would be to get banned from steam or to have steam go under as a company. Their terms of service in relation to your "ownership" of games are a nightmare, if you get banned from steam your entire library disappears. Poof. Gone. Unrecoverable.

If there were actual alternatives to steam andiwere able to untie my library from them then I would do so in a heartbeat, but as it is my entire games library is trapped in steam and there isn't really anyway to retrieve it without having multiple terabytes of storage space ready to just hold all of those games at the same time.

The athlete in question is not their government, cannot prevent their government from doing the war, and is not responsible for any of the crimes of her government. Changing the rules for one athlete because she doesn't like her opponent is ridiculous. This rule has been on the book for decades. People from countries in much more bitter wars have shaken hands.

And also the other fencer literally did not rape her, this situation isn't even remotely comparable to what you just said. That's an utterly ridiculous comparison. You're making it out as though this one athlete is personally responsible for everything Russia has done in the last 2 years and should be treated as such.

Given that we have a lot of evidence that trex would swim to islands in the middle of north America to hunt (there was an inland sea here 66 million years ago), I think them having very good long distance vision actually makes a lot of sense. If they were hunting across flat crasslands and looking for food on islands across stretches of water then it would make a lot of sense that they need such good vision.

They don't need to see a mouse from kilometers away, they need to see if that big Grey blob on the Shor of the island 2km across a strait is a washed up icthyosaur, or a triceratops, or just a rock.

What would you expect out of "suck off capitalist daddies to hopefully get a job" the social media company?

Why should she be treated any differently than other athletes? She deliberately broke the rules, got a punishment, threw a fit overthe punishment, and now is getting a special place in the Olympics despite not qualifying for them? That seems kinda ridiculius IMO.

If it's any consolation trex was an animal accustomed to hunting truck sized triceratops, eating you would be like eating a single potato chip; very unsatisfying.

We can infer a lot from the size and position of its eye sockets. The eyes were position so as to be forward facing, not side facing like an herbivores.

This article has a really good pocture in it showing you a direct view of the eye sockets from the snout. Its cheekbones and nostrils are designed so that it's visual field easily would clear them, giving it binocular vision like ours. The study that article discusses used fossils to model what dinosaur faces would have looked like, then examined their visual field. The trex had around a 55 degree binocular range, which is larger than many predatory birds that we know to have excellent vision over long distances. It's eyes were also gigantic, allowing for a lot of light to get in.

As for sense of smell, I don't know how we know about it; I think we assume it did because it's nostrils were also huge, and because most animals today have good senses of smell, meaning it's a good adaptation to have and likely would be present on the largest land predator to ever exist.

Man his divorce really fucked him up didn't it?

Lol I have a feeling that getting in there as a total newbie like me is a stretch...

Literally all of the evidence I have been able to find backing his claims is him saying "just trust me this definitely happened." He hasn't shown any documents. He claims to have them, and that he'll give them to congress, but has not publicly released them.

It's your standard conspiracy grift- make up something that's plausible for you specifically to know, back it up with nothing because there's nothing to back it up with, do the media circuit spreading your bullshit, sell a bunch of books, retire.

His entire argument to congress is basically "the military isn't telling you about everything they do, and I say they have alien bodies and spacecraft" which... yeah, I 100% believe that the military doesn't tell everything they do to congress because congress is full of people who would openly release classified materials to the public just to do it. It makes logical sense for the military not to tell them all of the programs they have going at any given time, even if I think that isn't constitutional and shouldn't actually be allowed. That doesn't prove anything though.

He's trying to use the military hiding information from congress to back up his claim that they have an alien bodies program and it just doesn't work. But stupid people will happily eat it up though!

Unless the military actually releases info that corroborates what he is saying I'm not going to believe a word of it.

Is there a private tracker for good quality versions of really terrible movies?

Things like The Room and Silent Night Deadly Night 2. I feel like there must be a niche bad movie lovers community...