jgbrowning.bsky.social
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The OP was talking about TTRPGs. What would you suggest someone use other than PDF which maintains image and text placement?
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Bamboo leaves.
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The "Political Center" is rather...um...right-wing.
So the problems caused by Christian Patriarchal Capitalist Ethno-Nationalists aren't going to get solved by the people who support them.
They will get worse.
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Solving those issues requires reducing the power and wealth of the Rich White Europeans for the benefit of the non-rich Europeans (which includes some non-whites and some non-Christians, and even some people who aren't European but who live in Europe).
Which won't happen from "The Political Center"
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What format would you recommend that allows creators to place images and text in specific locations?
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It's not that uncommon that images and text need to be in particular locations.
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I left the US in 2018 after several years of planning. I do not intend to return.
I went to The Netherlands on the DAFT treaty. If you own your own business (and are portable) you should check into it with a Dutch immigration lawyer.
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Until the non-rich white europeans stop blaming "the other!" for their problems and start blaming "the rich ones who are US" things will continue to deteriorate.
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IMO, Europe's real threat is from within.
The non-rich white europeans who are putting all the blame for their decreasing livelihood upon anyone else other than the rich-white europeans are the real threat to europe.
The xenophobic, racist, misogynistic right-wing of Europe.
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Iggy!
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Yep, if it's designed for digital viewing, 150 is fine.
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My greatest concern with the modern right-wing is that one day they will cease to pillage the working class for the wealthy and decide to support the working class (whites) against the wealthy.
If that happens, the West will become full-on, no holds barred, Authoritarian very quickly.
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It's mostly that we live in a world that's fine with hurting it's children but isn't fine with saying it's fine.
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So many problems with so many reasons...as someone who writes for a living, I find myself unable to do much other than shake my head and sigh in sadness.
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Is the solution dealing with "The Men" problem?
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In one way, yes, but in another, no. It all depends on what one believes creates competence: the epistemological conflict between the pro-Democratic and the pro-Authoritarian.
To pro-Authoritarians she is *not* incompetent so cannot be malcompetent.
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Yep: she is using language to communicate to other pro-Authoritarians.
The fact that so many do not see what you see is because they fail to understand that language is *not* the same for anti-Authoritarians as it is for pro-Authoritarians.
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Yep: the media endlessly normalizes pro-Authoritarian language as ignorance.
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This is why we *repeatedly* hear the stupidest fucking statements and about half the population doesn't care.
Because the utterances aren't stupid to them. They heard, "WE HAVE POWER AND WANT MORE POWER".
Which they agree with.
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So the many saying that she's "stupid" are demonstrating that they don't understand the purpose of Pro-Auth language based upon the context of the utterance.
She could literally say *anything* at it is as good as anything else for pro-Authoritarians.
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Pro-Authoritarians use language differently than anti-Authoritarians.
Pro-Authoritarians understand that "why?" or "what?" are unimportant: the important is providing more power to Authority.
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Then say malicious.
Everyone can *see* the stupidity and because of that many do not see the maliciousness.
The maliciousness is the important part. One can have benign stupidity.
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She's an Authoritarian.
It is not ignorance making her decisions: it is her desire for anti-democratic government.
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My favorite Devo song is "Faster and Faster."
I like to listen to it when I'm thinking about when I would like things to go faster and faster.
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Single image.
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I don't know, but they do have a paper published in Nature about the process (behind a paywall, alas). Looks like they're treating the wood with lye and sodium sulfite and then compressing it.
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
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I think you misunderstood me. Any 'journalist' who isn't concerned about this event shouldn't be considered a journalist' and instead a propagandist: who generally tend to be less worried about the powerful they promote imprisoning them.
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Propagandist is the more accurate way to describe his job, methinks.
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The fuck you doing here? Go be pro-Authoritarian somewhere else.
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The Sun is a Dark God.
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If Russia wanted peace, they'd withdraw.
They want *land* and *people* and *power*.
The peace of the grave is the only peace they want.
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Were they standing on the roof?
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I suspect that your question is rhetorical, but if it isn't the answer is, "Because the USA supports Russian military and political goals."
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That sense of completion is one of the benefits of being a creative.
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Nice to see him wearing a respirator.
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Health is so individualistic that social class is a primary predictor of it!
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One day the professionals will stop congratulating other professionals for failing to using the single most effective method of airborne pandemic prevention while gathering together in large groups to talk about the vital need of healthy air.
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One day the professionals will "discover" that the efficacy of respirators in airborne pandemic transmission is highly dependent upon wearing them.
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This is what they're aiming to do to *everything* that benefits anyone but the wealthiest while the racist whites cheer on their own destruction as long as they get to hurt 'the bad people'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTEL...
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White Supremacy is a hellva drug.
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This.
The unifying theme is hatred.