DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED

• vote early if you can
• tell your friends to vote early
• contact your local campaign and see if you can help – it’s not too late!

their stance is that the school policy didn’t explicitly say he couldn’t use AI,

According to the school’s lawyers, the policy against AI was stated in a presentation that the student attended, and the policy against AI was handed out at a parent’s night and on an online portal, see pg 4-6 of the following: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.275605/gov.uscourts.mad.275605.13.0.pdf

Excel is the one good piece of software in MS Office.

Last time I used MS Office was 10 months ago, and it had a bunch of annoying “features” related to sharing, etc. But PowerPoint has always had some great authoring tools. Sometimes if I was writing an article in LaTeX, I’d still do the figures in PowerPoint.

LibreOffice is a solid substitute, though.

I was expecting to start the batton running, and pass it off to the next idea, or the continuation of the idea.

I think I see what you’re saying. Lemmy is indeed a place where it’s very easy to get involved, and people get involved in different ways. A lot of us just pick a community and start posting regularly. Some of us adopt dormant communities and bring them back to life. Others contribute by becoming mods or admins or setting up their own instances or debugging/coding. Even those people who were giving you reasons why the “transfer your account easily” project was difficult, they were helping you by telling you the challenges involved. Whenever a well-run project is started, you think about the hurdles, risks, and mitigations, then integrate those into your project plan.

I encourage you to keep getting involved. The trick is to find the right level of involvement for you, then sticking with it and seeing it through.

What I do to get around that is: subscribe to communities that are not memes, news, or tech, then read new posts by “subscribed” and “scaled”. When I run out of those, read “all” to find new communities to subscribe to.

We should call it “X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.” Every time. Yes it sounds ridiculous, because it is.

Yeah! I submitted my first timestamps a couple weeks ago, and I got really into it, making it so the timestamps were timed just right. But in this case I was so grossed out by this techbro ad in the middle of this amazing movie, that I just clicked the window closed and went on to watch something else.

I’ve been using Gimp for simple things, and it’s been OK once I realized that whatever I want to do, I should look it up first instead of just trying to figure it out through trial and error.

It’s a killer movie, but it’s got ads embedded in the stream… even ublock origin and sponsorblock didn’t catch them.

ROCKERS: full movie. Just watch the first 3 minutes.

No, it doesn’t sound petty to spend your money carefully. I hope things get better with D&D.

You can borrow the DVD from the library or buy it second-hand if you don’t want Hasbro/WoC to get your money. Even if you’ve moved on to Pathfinder or something else, it’s still a lot of fun.

It’s a great movie, the best movie yet to come out under the Dungeons and Dragons name. However:

The film made $93 million domestically, which is not good compared to the $150 million budget. Luckily, its worldwide total was $208.2 million, but with marketing costs, it is likely the film did not break even.

https://movieweb.com/dungeons-and-dragons-sequel-unlikely/

It’s often difficult to identify why a film didn’t perform well, but fan anger over the licensing changes likely contributed, e.g. see: https://screenrant.com/dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves-box-office-bomb-reason/

The movie could have been a huge hit instead of just maybe breaking even. Trying to rip off the core fans right before it came out was a dumb idea.

These are the same geniuses who tanked their big Hollywood movie by changing their game license just before the movie came out, right?

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The CEO of that company supports Trump and spreads the election lies, FWIW.

According to various pages online, this represents:

July 3, 1863, the brave men of the 1st Maryland emerge from the wood line into a wall of musketry on Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg.

aka

the 1st Maryland Battalion CS attack on Union fortifications on Culp’s Hill.

It’s a little confusing because both sides had a “1st Maryland” unit at Gettysburg, and the Confederate 1st Maryland was renamed (and is often called) the 2nd Maryland. I think the relevant wikipedia page is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Maryland_Infantry_Regiment_(Confederate)#Battle_of_Gettysburg

Johnson’s division, including the 1st Maryland, arrived at Gettysburg late in the afternoon on July 1, 1863, taking position on the far edge of the Confederate left at the foot of Culp’s Hill; the men were exhausted after a 130-mile forced march.[4] Culp’s Hill was a rocky wooded hill topped by a line of well fortified enemy breastworks.

On July 2 the Confederates attacked the hill, with the 1st Maryland, the 10th, 23rd and 37th Virginia regiments, and 3rd North Carolina regiment, all assaulting the Union breastworks, defended by General George S. Greene’s 12th Corps. The Marylanders and others were initially able to breach the works and drive out Green’s men, and they held their position until the next morning, July 3.

The morning of July 3 revealed the full scale of the Union defenses, as enemy artillery opened fire at a distance of 500 yards with a “terrific and galling fire”, followed by a ferocious assault on the Marylander’s position.[4] The result was a “terrible slaughter” of the Third Brigade, which fought for many hours without relief, exhausting their ammunition, but successfully holding their position.[4] Then, late on the morning of July 3, General Johnson ordered a bayonet charge against the well-fortified enemy lines. Steuart was appalled, and was strongly critical of the attack, but direct orders could not be disobeyed.[9] The Third Brigade attempted several times to wrest control of Culp’s Hill, a vital part of the Union Army defensive line, and the result was a “slaughterpen”,[4] as the First Maryland and the Third North Carolina regiments courageously charged a well-defended position strongly held by three brigades, a few reaching within twenty paces of the enemy lines.[4] So severe were the casualties among his men that Steuart is said to have broken down and wept, wringing his hands and crying “my poor boys”.[8] Overall, the failed attack on Culp’s Hill cost Johnson’s division almost 2,000 men, of which 700 were accounted for by Steuart’s brigade alone—far more than any other brigade in the division. At Hagerstown, on the 8th July, out of a pre-battle strength of 2,200, just 1,200 men reported for duty.[4] The casualty rate among the First Maryland and Third North Carolina was between one half and two-thirds, in the space of just ten hours.[2][4]

“Novelvember” might work.

Now Novel November.

They’re both part of the nanobility.