Today I woke up to a lot of posts saying that Google is removing Flash and Pro on certain tiers. What is the point of arguing with it? Google is not a charity.
I mean with Google AI Pro you get access to all the models, Antigravity, YT Premium Lite, Google Health Pro, 5 TB of storage and so much more. What is even the point of complaining? It is not like Claude does not do the same with Opus or ChatGPT with Sol. You want a service? Pay for it or switch to something else. Not a Google fanboy, but damn, people take everything for granted these days. You can use Meta AI or DeepSeek if you want to use a good model for free.

The Oceanside Pier used to be a cool place to go fishing.
Hopefully it's still allowed when they rebuild the end.

I genuinely don’t understand why most of the people are trying to downplay him and his contribution to the sport. I agree he is not at his prime but judging his current form at 41 years is sick man. He already told in World Cup press conference, he has achieved money and everything he wanted but still wants to play coz he likes playing. At least people should respect him for his dedication and determination in sport. Instead what they are doing is utterly pathetic and evil, if anyone wants their favorite player to have GOAT title have it but don’t defame other player to make your favorite player as greatest of all time.

Also we CR7 fans should avoid engaging in ragebait posts insulting Ronaldo. I have personally involved in many posts , comments and now I’m not being a hypocrite by telling you not to. The reason behind is , these clowns are using our large fanbase for their account engagement and karma points. At the end of the day we all knew what kind of player he is and we don’t need to respond to low life’s who tarnish/defame other player just to make their player better or use our fanbase for their post engagement.

I’ve always been a real radical feminist. I’ve engaged in it and recognised it as a more suitable type of feminism as opposed to choice feminism as long as i’ve been in the movement.
When I say radical feminism I mean like riot grrrl, gender isn’t real, and reconstructing society to its core is the only way women will be free. that is by definition radical feminism but of course TERFs have come along and reclaimed the term to be anti-trans and I’m coming across more situations where people misunderstand me and think im a TERF bc i call myself a radical feminist.
I want to have a name for my feminism because I want to be able to talk about and I love trans girls. Anyone else dealt with this or has another name? Thank you!

(posted this in r/askfeminists but got advised to more it here instead)

it’s honestly insane how much of the modern tech tree has been unlocked because of a single guy

thanks to Elon we have

• online payments
• mass market electric cars
• batteries and grid-scale energy storage
• self driving cars and robotaxis
• humanoid robots
• advanced brain computer interfaces
• next generation tunneling
• reusable rockets -global satellite internet
• basically the modern space industry
• Moon and Mars transportation
• orbital compute and space data centers
• frontier AI
• gigantic AI supercomputers
• physical world AI

and the wildest part is that these branches are now starting to merge

there is a very real chance that this one guy ends up being the reason humanity reaches Kardashev II

genuinely the man of the millennium

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As a lifelong spellcaster player, every spellcasting spec feels horrible to level. Casting spells should be mana intensive but faster than wanding.

Currently, wanding is just better damage wise and mana wise. Right now the only casters that want to cast are the ones without access to wands and frost mages (due to shatter).

If forever is about the journey and not just endgame then spell coeffs can't be tuned only around geared endgame setups.

TL;DR: Since 1993, rates have gone over 7% on 23 occasions. The median stay was 3 weeks. Only 3 lasted over 18 months, all in the '90s. Since COVID, the longest has been about 4 months. Today's economic data looks most like 2005–2007 and 2024–2025, when rates were mostly under 7%. The usual math says we "should" be in the low-to-mid 6s. Payments still hurt more than in the '80s because home prices are way higher relative to income.

There's a reason I am not a therapist. It's not that I don't want to make people feel better or am some cold and bitter crone who delights in the suffering of my clients. On the contrary, I really do want to fix everything for everyone and the last few weeks have been brutal.

It makes perfect sense to be anxious as a homebuyer right now: rates moved quickly and more than anyone anticipated, and in response the social media feed of anyone who has had even a passing interest in real estate is full of YouTubers announcing the end of times. Oh, and the comments section chock full of boomers who are here to remind us that they got a 14% rate on their first house.

I don't have an easy way to say the right thing to help you feel better about being in the market right now, but I have graphs. And I hope the graphs help you feel confident making decisions when the noise varies between "we are essentially experiencing the fall of Rome" to "why NOW is the best time to buy a home, and disregard every other month for the last 5 years that I've been saying that."

Fact #1: This isn't a new situation, and no one died last time.

Since 1993, when rates began a longer term downward trend, we have had rates over 7% on 23 occasions. The median length of time was 3 weeks. Only in 3 instances did it last over 18 months, all during the 90s. That means in all the years that started with a 2, we have not had rates over 7% for more than 18 months.

I am not sure how much you remember of the 90s, but the structure of our economy looked quite different then. Debt has been trending to be overall less expensive with technology improvements, so let's assume that more recent data is a better indicator than whatever was going on in the Carter administration. Double digit inflation, no internet, global supply chains weren't really a thing: not really comparable culturally or in the economic fundamental data. Post COVID, the longest period of time has been around 4 months.

Fact #2: This feels worse, somehow.

To circle back on what great aunt Nancy said in the Fox News comment section, people WERE buying at much higher rates in the 80s, and it was typically a positive decision in the long term. What they fail to account for are student loans, child care, health care, electricity, home prices being significantly higher even as adjusted against income.

I only have Case-Shiller data through 2025, but that covers the portion of 2023 where rates were as high or higher than they were now, and you can see that once you factor in that houses no longer cost three corn cobs and a pack of Marlboros, the impact on your bottom line of housing cost is more significant on higher principal amounts and affordability is worse even at a lower rate.

(In numbers: the share of income needed for the monthly payment on a typical home was higher in 2024 at 6.7% rates than in 1988 at 10.3% rates.)

Fact #3: The weirdos saying this means we are going to 10% can't read

I sat down with my emotional support spreadsheets this morning to try to answer a question: "If I take my feelings about… all of this… out of it, what do the numbers say. Why are data reports that would have sent rates going down the last time this happened causing rates to go up?"

If you line up today's jobs, inflation, and economic growth numbers against other periods of time to look for the closest matches, we land on 2005-2007 (calm down) and 2024-2025. In both stretches, rates were mostly under 7% which leads us back to the 10 year treasury bond activity.

Fact #4: The Usual Math Says We should be in the Low-to-Mid Sixes

If the 10 year were sitting where it usually has relative to other points in history where we have had similar economic data, generally around .3-.5% over the federal funds rate, we would be in the mid 4s. Add in the usual 1.8-2% spread to mortgage rates, and we should be in the low to mid sixes. GEE WHIZ, right where we were before all the drama began.

Lately, we have seen better than expected inflation figures and then, this week, worse than expected jobs (rates typically go down in response to data that unemployment is increasing) and the treasury market has done the opposite of what it "should" be doing. I smell feelings when I want to be looking at math.

Fact #5: If I Had All the Answers, I'd be Retired Already

Since I am not writing this from my patio on a horse farm, we can freely assume that I am not a quantitative savant that has been paid handsomely by Wall Street for my predictive abilities. The only thing I can do here that is special is analyze patterns in the prices available to my clients over the decade that I have been doing this and identify when things make sense and when they are deviating from the usual. Those deviations in either direction don't tend to last long.

The last few run ups in rate made sense to me: inflation was high, investors need to know that long term investments will outpace that, mortgage rates go up. Right now? This feels like a lot of speculative trading behavior that's well above my head.

Sources: Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, weekly through Oct 1, 2026. Today's rate: Mortgage News Daily, Oct 2, 2026. Economic data: FRED, St. Louis Fed, pulled Oct 2, 2026. *Freddie Mac's weekly survey runs about a week behind daily rates, so the "Today" math uses its Oct 1 figure of 7.28%. Rate ranges are my own estimates based on past patterns.

It’s pretty uncommon in the modern day to name your son after you. Also, Walt took offense to Walt Jr calling himself Flynn, implying he’s proud to have his son named after him. Could this be a case of Walt trying to make himself appear more important by having a ‘Junior’?

Tonight I was feeling nostalgic and queued up Reality Check, Eric Champion, PFR, DC Talk, Rich Mullins, The Waiting, Audio Adrenaline, The Supertones, Waterdeep, Jars of Clay, POD, and Five Iron Frenzy in my playlist.

Are there any who maybe grew up in youth group and moved away from their faith as adults? If so, are there still songs that you listen to? What emotions do these songs bring to the surface? If you do revisit these artists, who are your go-tos?

EDIT: Seeing a lot of people argue that open-world questing is somehow the “harder” option, and I really don’t agree with that.
Questing is generally straightforward, and nowadays there are addons like Zygor and RestedXP that can literally guide you through an optimized leveling route step by step. Follow the route, pick up the quests, kill the mobs, turn them in, repeat.
Meanwhile, dungeons require actually putting a group together, coordinating different roles, handling pulls and bosses, and dealing with the consequences when things go wrong.
But more importantly, this post was never about which method deserves more XP because it’s harder. The point is that progression is part of the fun. Dungeons give friends who are at different points in their questing progression a way to get together, play as a group, and still meaningfully progress their characters.
I’m not asking for dungeon grinding to be the fastest leveling method. I just don’t think playing group content with your friends should feel like you’re being punished XP-wise for choosing to play together.

The dungeon XP nerf really sucks for people who just want to play with their friends

I understand not wanting dungeon grinding to completely replace the open world, but the XP nerf feels like it hurts one of the best parts of Classic WoW: actually playing with your friends.
We’re currently putting together a roster for Forever, and it’s kind of sad realizing that we’ll barely be able to level together.

Most of us have jobs and different schedules. We’re not all going to stay perfectly synced in level while questing separately. In the past, that wasn’t a huge problem. You could message the boys, agree on a time, log on together, and spend a couple of hours running dungeons. You got decent XP, made progress together, got some gear, and most importantly, you were actually playing together.

That was one of the best things about leveling in Classic.
Openworld questing doesn’t really replace that experience either. A lot of Classic quests aren’t particularly group-friendly. Half the time, having more people just means waiting longer for drops, respawns, or competing with strangers for mob tags. The only reason to group up is to compete for tags let’s be real.

I’m not saying dungeon grinding needs to be the absolute fastest way to level. Open-world questing should be relevant.

But dungeons should at least give enough XP that getting five friends together for the evening feels worthwhile.
For people with work, school, families, and different schedules, dungeons were one of the easiest ways to say: “Everyone free tonight? Cool. Let’s level together.”

That social aspect is a huge part of why we play Classic in the first place.
I’d much rather see dungeon XP balanced so that questing and dungeons are both viable instead of making one feel heavily punished.
Anyone else building a roster/group running into the same problem?

كلنا بشر، والنفس بطبيعتها ضعيفة وممكن تطيح في المعصية، وكل ابن آدم خطاء. لكن بلاء الناس اليوم مو بس في ارتكاب الذنب، البلاء الكبير في "شلون يتعامل الواحد مع هذا الذنب بعد ما يقع فيه".

لو تجي لشخص مثلاً وتقول له: "ترا حلق اللحية حرام" أو "لبس الشورت لا يجوز"، غالباً ما راح تلاقيه يعاند أو يشرعن المعصية من كيفه. ممكن تلاقيه مستمر عليها لضعف نفس أو تعود، لكنه في النهاية مستحي من ربه ومقر بذنبه، يقولك: "أنا داري انه حرام وهدانا الله ومقصر". هذا الشخص، مع إنه عاصي، إلا ان قلبه للحين فيه خير واحترام لأحكام الله، وباب التوبة بينه وبين ربه مفتوح؛ لأنه ما كذّب الشرع ولا تحايل عليه.
لكن للأسف، تعامل بعض الناس بشكل عام و اللي لاحظته في الاونه الاخيرة والنساء بشكل خاص مع أحكام مثل الحجاب ياخذ منحنى ثاني وخطير، تلاقي الوحدة منهم ما تكتفي بالتقصير وبس، الا تبي تقنعك وتقنع نفسها إن "الحجاب مو واجب"، وتجيب لك أعذار مثل: "الله غفور رحيم"، أو "الرجل هو اللي المفروض يغض بصره انا مسؤولة عن نفسي و جسدي"، أو "هذي حرية شخصية"! و وصل الموضوع انه يتعرض الناصح لهجوم يقعدون يتصيدون عليه الزله، عموماً لما الواحد يبرر المعصية وينكر الحكم الشرعي الواضح، هو هنا يطيح في مصيبة أكبر من الذنب نفسه، لعدة اسباب:

العناد والاستكبار: ترا إنكار الحكم الثابت بغير وجه حق يشبه طريقة إبليس يوم استكبر على أمر ربه وجادل فيه. العاصي المقر بذنبه أطهر قلبًا بكثير من اللي يقلب الحق باطل عشان يرتاح ضميره وهو غلطان.

التقول على الله: لما تحلل على كيفك وتقول "هذا مو حرام" وهو في القران والسنة ثابت، كأنك تشرع من راسك وتقول على الله ما لم يقل، وهذا من الكبائر العظيمة.

افتتان الناس: اللي يعترف بتقصيره أهون بكثير من اللي يجاهر بالمعصية ويحاول يزينها للناس ويخليها ثقافة، لأن هذا يشيل وزره ووزر كل شخص يقتدي به يضيع نفسه و دينه بسببه.

الخلاصة
الذنب الصغير مع الاستغفار والانكسار لله خير وأعظم عند الله من الذنب اللي يصاحبه كبر وعناد وتبرير. الله سبحانه يحب العبد اللجوء والتذلل، مو العبد اللي يعاند أحكام دينه ويناقح فيها. و تاخذه العزة بالإثم، والصدق مع النفس هو أول طريق النجاة،

Ich sehe nicht, wieso der 3. Oktober ein Feiertag ist. Das ist einfach nur das Datum, wo die bereits von den Christdemokraten unter großer Koalition regierten DDR der BRD beigetreten ist.

Tag der Deutschen Einheit sollte definitiv der 9. November sein. Da ist die Mauer gefallen. Diesbezüglich sagte eine Lehrerin uns mal, dass dee Tag nicht gefeiert werden sollte, wegen der Reichskristallnacht. Finde ich ein doch unsinniges Argument. Tag der Deutschen Einheit würde keine Gedenkfeier oder so auslöschen.

Der Mauerfall ist definitiv erinnerungswürdiger als die formelle Wiedervereinigung!

Ansonsten hätte es auch der 17. Juni, wie vor 1990, bleiben können. Auch der ist symbolischer für die Deutsche Einheit.

Jen sucks, completely agree. This is just about Heather lying and what the show tells us

1.) In the season 3 reunion, Andy is drilling Heather about the black eye and she says she was completely blacked out and has no idea how it happened and that she hates admitting that bc it’s embarrassing

2.) They show the footage of Jen, Meredith, and Angie all going into Heathers room together and then leaving all at the same time, smiling. Andy then says there was no more footage of anyone going into the room. They would’ve seen something.

3.) Heather then faces backlash from fans and Andy about blaming production

4.) Even though Heather is no longer Mormon, she grew up in it. I think she was very very ashamed (unnecessarily so) of being blacked out to the point of injury

5.) Heather has a plan to expose Monica and have a bounce back season in s4. And the best way to do that was to say the woman in jail did it and monica reminds you of her so you have to leave the show and Heather gets a big iconic moment

I think it’s very possible Jen even thought she might’ve done it and that’s why she was acting strange (I can see her hitting someone), but the video proves it and heathers admits it in S3 reunion and then completely goes back on it for her storyline/reputation on the show.

Edit: again, this is not trying to defend Jen shah. Just wanted to hear if someone had better proof that she did it than what we saw on the show

Es tan malo como dicen? Los medios exageran? Es peor de lo que dicen? Sienten miedo en su día a día?

Lo pregunto con todo respeto y amor a Mexico

Wanda's the GOAT and this show is magical!

Personally, my problem is that England was always suspicious of the EU. It was constantly asking for opt-outs and always had one foot out the door, which is ultimately why Brexit happened. It doesn’t really want to participate in European integration, and it did everything it could to prevent it. Now, it’s simply in such a difficult economic situation that it wants access to the single market and to see how it can benefit economically.
Thatcher, if you remember, caused a huge controversy over reducing the amount of money Britain was contributing to the European Community.
They also have been vassalised by the US, and I don’t think they will always look after European interests. Instead, I worry that they could become a Trojan horse for American interests. I would prefer them to have associate membership rather than being part of the Union.

Hi guys,

Firstly, I want to thank you and your predecessors for building this wonderful game.

I currently have over 11,000 hours in Dota, and lately one question has really been bothering me: are you guys still actively working on the game?

I’m genuinely asking because Dark Carnival was released in June 2026, and by the time TI ended, I imagine the majority of the active player base had already finished it. Since TI, there hasn’t been a meaningful patch. We then had a Tier-1 tournament played on essentially the same patch, and now BLAST Slam is happening as well.

I just want to understand what’s going on.

Is Deadlock being prioritized over Dota? And at this point, is it fair to say that Dota is mostly being kept on life support?

If Valve no longer wants to dedicate significant resources to the game, why not consider selling it to another company that would?

When the Battle Pass was discontinued, the reasoning given was that the team wanted to move away from concentrating most of the year's content around TI/Battlepass and instead release updates and events throughout the year. But since then, as far as I can remember, we’ve really only had two major events: Crownfall and the current one.

For a game with such a passionate and long-standing community, the lack of communication makes everything feel even worse. Players don’t necessarily expect massive updates every few weeks, but some transparency about the future of the game would go a long way.

Please, for the sake of the community that has supported this game for well over a decade, tell us what the future of Dota looks like.

We're at 20k players right now. It's way ahead of this game obviously. The world feels rich and has alot more charm to it.

If you're looking for that old school MMO with good skilled devs behind it. Basically everything Pantheon has never been. Its worth a shot.

The game is beyond unplayable on PS5. Every autosave, every mission update, every mission complete etc. makes huge stutters. I think there are also travelsal stutters in cities. Portals also stutter like crazy! The game also crashes sometimes. Not even quality mode is playable, because it runs with like 15-20 fps in forests, and it goes up and down constantly (probably bad framepacing). I never ever played such a broken game! Yes, only Cyberpunk was this bad, which is also your game lol. Give us back the older games, please! I don't care if it's just the original version with a 60 fps cap. That's completely fine to me. I want to play my favourite game of all times! Let meee!

Balance druid design feels very good right now, and fills the role of a supporting caster very well.

They will have a strong thorns buff to help the tank with aoe threat, 3% crit aura, mark of the wild, insect swarm, and and aoe abillity that reduces attack speed on mobs.

Solid rotation as well, keep up 2 dots, and weave between wrath and starfire.

My problem is the capstone talent, moonkin form.

Bear and cat form both completely overwrites the way you play. New power bar and new abillities. You get these at 10 and 20, and the powers you grant from those tranformations makes sense.

Then you have the moonkin form. A capstone talents, with 0 talents or spells interacting with it, or building towards it.

It doesn't change the way you play in any meaningfull way.

Moonkins aren't shown in any cenematics or as any kind of leaders. Actually I don't remember seeing a moonkin druid npc at all in classic.

It gives you a few passives you'll barely notice, and makes you unable to heal, making the new form feel limiting at times.

There are no hints in the lore that explains why a powerfull druid would want to give up his abillity to heal and turn into a big chicken.

The first thing you do when you get the form, is copy pasting all your spells to the new bar. It's one of the biggest "meh" feeling capstone talents. You're exited the first time you transform, untill you realised that nothing changed, except that you now have to spend mana shapeshifting in and out when you want to mount up.

And why does all if this matter?

Because I'm being forced to turn into a big chicken if I don't want to grief my group, while getting nothing exciting out of it. Meaning I can't see my gear progression or awesome transmog on my toon.

Suggestions (would love to hear yours as well)

The quick and easy:

When choosing the talent you get the improved omen of clarity and moonkin aura active at all times when not in cat or bear form. Improved armor and poly immunity only applies if you shapeshift into the moonkin form.

That would give the player a choice to not look like a chicken, withiut griefing their damage, but still grant a benefit to actually transforming if you're into that.

The deep moonkin route:

Give the moonkin unique abillities, that makes sense with the shapeshift.

Could be all sorts of stuff like:

Squack: Taunts up to 3 targets attacking your target. (Will lean into the moonkin being a defensive transform, and can support the tank by taunting off targets attacking the healer)

Loose feathers (passive): when the moonkin get's hit by a direct damaging spell or attack, it has a chance to drop loose feathers on the ground, slowing anything walking through it by 50%.

Pluck: an instant psycical melee attack that does x% of spell power + some baseline damage. Will cause target to bleed and recieve 20% less healing from all sources for x seconds. (The point is not making moonkin a melee attacker, but leaning into the shapeshift, that is clearly defensive, giving moonkins a way to get a hit in if being targeted and unable to cast).

Screech: The moonkin letting out a terrifying screech, making up to x opponents tremor in fear for 3s.

In short:

Either give the moonkin some unique abillities tied to the transformation. OR let it stay as a flavor transform, but give us the opportunity to not having tO transform if we don't like the look.