Mithridaticus

Anakin did not kill Padmé. The medical droid even said she was physically healthy, but she had simply lost the will to live. She chose to die. Her love for Anakin was never unconditional. It was conditional on him remaining loyal to a Republic that was already rotten, run by a corrupt Senate, manipulated by a Sith, and happy to send clones and Jedi to die in an endless war it refused to end. The moment Anakin rejected that system, she could no longer reconcile the man she claimed to love with the idealized version of him she had built in her head: the good Jedi, the loyal servant of the Republic. The fantasy she created mattered more to her than the actual person in front of her, and it even mattered more than the two children she was about to bring into the world. She had the strength to fight the Trade Federation, to challenge the Senate, to stand up to Anakin when it suited her principles, but she could not find the will to live for Luke and Leia once Anakin stopped performing the role she needed him to play? She did not die because of the Force choke, but because she would rather abandon her children than accept a reality in which Anakin had chosen her (and their children) over a failing, corrupt Republic. The writers made that clear.

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I have 8 years experience in the Canadian university system. Almost half of that was during the height of "Woke 1.0". I was also within the liberal arts (philosophy, Greek & Roman studies). University students are affected in their attitudes and ideology primary by peers, not professors. They go to parties, they join social clubs, and they are unleashed from their parents. For young adults who have never had any form of real independence before and have been extremely sheltered, this can have a dramatic affect. Secondarily they are exposed to ideas that can break apart their often patchwork and ill-conceived conception of the world that their parents never properly helped them develop, picked up purely through some comments around the house and Fox News playing somewhere in the background. Your children have agency, and so do you, if you choose to exercise it. Why didn't you "program" them? Why are you expecting an 18 year old to automatically have a fully worked and unshakable concept of the world if you didn't teach it to them? And if that worldview can be so easily destroyed by a couple university courses, then how powerful or truthful is it? I have never seen a university professor make someone mentally unwell, or even directly change their political views. Most interactions with professors are limited, especially in early years due to the large class sizes. Most professors I have had try to present themselves in a politically neutral way, with maybe the occasional joke or jab at a conservative political figure. Professors will expose young adults to information and ideas they may not have considered through their course material and assignments, but it is always the individual who makes the decision whether to agree or disagree with those ideas. The worst thing I experienced was a contract instructor (non tenured) going on a rant about how racist JRR Tolkien was, and fantasy in general. I argued the point with him before the class, then promptly dropped so I wouldn't have to put up with his stupidity. I submitted a complaint against him. On the other side I had a professor who was a right-wing anti-communist who used to go on rants against The Chinese Communist Party for absolutely no reason, and with no relevance to the course material. You should be building up your kids so that they are mentally prepared to interact with and counter wrong ideas. If your beliefs are not able to stand up to push-back in real life interactions and require your own children to be sheltered away from other ideas in order to be maintained, they are either not fully understood or they are not based on truth. Yet frankly the girl below seems perfectly fine and healthy in both images. Tattoos are not my thing, but young people do go through such periods where they want to form an image. Would someone make the same post about a young boy and then compare it t when he became a biker dude, or a skin-head with a swastika tat on his neck? Was his professor to blame?

I already explained this dude. I have nothing against Pagans, I like them but I am convinced by Buddhism. I just am not convinced by Paganism I would need to know what Paganism says about reality is actually true. No, this doesn’t mean I need a supernatural sign, but I would need a more convincing argument Once again, yes I know my ancestors were Pagan. Still doesn’t change my requirement. Still doesn’t change that I would need a better explanation for reality. That stuff, the metaphysics, is very finely tuned in Buddhism and I agree with it I don’t even know for sure that the majority of what modern Pagans believe is actually what their ancestors believed since Christianity destroyed so much stuff. Most of the Pagans I know will say yes, they follow the authentic teachings of their ancestral faith. But I don’t know if they’re simply mistaken. I genuinely am not sure if crucial things about their faiths got destroyed and tragically became lost. I’ve heard the explanations for this before, but I still am just not convinced. It is Buddhism I am convinced of and that is why I am Buddhist.

Buddhism in European history? You mean Dagestan? It's actually in Asia.

One thing about pro fighters is that they never want to fight. They know they can k!ll you, that’s why they avoid it. This guy didn’t want to fight clearly but the other one is a fool, you don’t even know who he is😭 The part he clipped him on the floor and sat comfortably is just too funny to me😭 His wife is also too proud😅😅

For centuries, European soldiers told stories about swords from the Middle East that could slice a silk scarf in midair and cut through armor without dulling. They called it Damascus steel. The steel didn't actually start in Damascus. It started in southern India and Sri Lanka, where smiths made something called wootz. They sealed iron and plant material inside clay crucibles and heated them in furnaces for hours. What came out were small ingots of steel with far more carbon than most iron of the time. Those ingots were traded across the Indian Ocean and the Persian world, and smiths in the Middle East forged them into blades. When those blades were polished and etched, a pattern appeared on the surface. Swirling bands of light and dark, like flowing water or wood grain. Nobody had painted it on. It came from inside the metal itself. The blades had a reputation for being hard enough to hold a razor edge but tough enough not to shatter, which was the hardest balance in sword making. Then, sometime around the 1700s and 1800s, the knowledge died out. Smiths stopped being able to make true wootz Damascus blades, and nobody wrote down exactly how it had been done. For about two hundred years, metallurgists tried to recreate it and failed. In the 1990s, a materials scientist named John Verhoeven and a blacksmith named Alfred Pendray made a breakthrough. They found that the patterns depended on tiny traces of elements like vanadium in the original Indian ore. Those impurities helped form the bands as the steel was worked. When the old ore sources were exhausted or changed, the magic may have disappeared with them, even if the smiths were still doing everything right. In 2006, German researchers looked at a 17th-century Damascus sabre under an electron microscope and reported finding carbon nanotubes and nanowires inside the steel. Medieval smiths had been producing nanostructures without having any idea they existed. And the silk scarf story? The most famous version of it comes from Sir Walter Scott's 1825 novel The Talisman, where Saladin shows off his blade to Richard the Lionheart. It's fiction. The real swords didn't need the legend.

This is making me so emotional actually. He got to experience this

> seen a half a dozen better Jedi fall to the dark side for their version of the “greater good” > tries to learn what is akin to necromancy from a snake in disguise > Focuses on passions rather than good works and morals “I’m owed a seat on the council.” Prideful.

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This feels very much like saying "don't be saggitarian be ariean" and it waters man down. We need our Conans and our Aragorns. We need whatever we can get.

Why are men in their 30s attracted to girls who are only 18 or 19? Honestly, there’s something about that age gap that just don’t sit right with me.

🗣️ The reasons President Karol Nawrocki cannot simply fight back or order the arrest of Donald Tusk are as follows: First, the EU is firmly supporting Tusk. Secondly, any attempt to use force against him could immediately trigger a civil war. The police, secret services and prosecution service are all under the direct control of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his government. The military situation is more complicated. Although President Nawrocki is the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, the Prime Minister is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the military during peacetime. This means that for President Nawrocki to arrest Tusk by force, he would potentially have to deploy the military against the police. Even within the military, there could be divisions, as some senior generals appointed or promoted under Tusk might side with him. Such a confrontation could easily escalate into a civil war. I believe this option is still on the table, but everyone is hoping to resolve the crisis peacefully through next year’s parliamentary elections. If Tusk loses those elections and his government loses control of the police and prosecution service, I believe he will eventually face serious legal consequences and could end up behind bars. You’re right that in the United States, a similar situation might be resolved much more quickly. However, the American system is different. Federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors operate under a different constitutional and institutional structure, while the President has significant authority over the federal executive branch. This makes the comparison with Poland much more complicated. The situation in Poland is far more complicated than simply asking why President Nawrocki doesn’t order Tusk’s arrest.

Competing with Steam isn't as hard as they make it out to be. "even if someone builds a better launcher" But it's not just the launcher that's good. It's how they treat their user base. There's a ton of unorthodox ways they deal with support tickets and such, they allow free speech, they don't let big companies shove ads down people's throats, they actually read people's support tickets and help them STEAM SALES. Every single person who uses Steam can see the one platform on the internet that still treats people like they're not walking bags of money waiting to be sucked dry. If Valve created a YouTube competitor—my god, everyone would jump to it immediately. Forget the damn launcher, it's the customer service that keep people on Steam. Companies don't understand this though. They don't care about a regular person's plight, all they care about are profit margins and what they can monetize next. They would throttle download speeds and sell it back to us in tiers. Epic was literally giving people free games and no one wants to use it. If that's not a clue that it's not the launcher, I don't know what is.

“The scroll offered only a shimmer, a veil thinly lifted to my eyes. A future lost. A victory undone. Sands of time scattered by fate.” Yazar, Moth Priest to High Queen Iradne of Hammerfell (4E 206)

She was 19 when she answered a modeling ad and walked into a porn shoot. They said it would only go on DVD in Australia. A month later a classmate messaged her: “How much did you make from it?” By the end of her shift she was on Pornhub. In the video below, Mariah tells it herself. She was sleeping on a couch in San Diego when she started answering modeling ads. Then she walked into a hotel room and saw six studio lights pointed at a bed. Wait for what they say when she calls them. She says the same operation ran a site that published the women’s personal details the moment each video went up. Her parents’ home address ended up on Reddit. She went back because she saw no other way to pay for a lawyer. They filmed her twice more. Michael Pratt, who owned GirlsDoPorn, fled the US and made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list before he was arrested in Spain. In September 2025 he got 27 years. So many women spoke that day that they were assigned letters. Mariah was U. Ruben Andre Garcia, the man she says offered her five grand to come back, got 20 years. The company behind Pornhub admitted taking money from the trafficking and agreed to pay $1.8 million. Should anyone at that site have gone to prison too, or was $1.8 million enough?