Terminal Lance #167 “Bootcamp: Disease” - Terminal Lance I don't remember a lot about bootcamp, but I remember one thing very vividly: I was always fucking sick. Most recruits were, in fact I believe there were moments during "2nd phase" when the infection ...

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Channeling this classic XKCD comic (with apologies to Randall Munroe for my edits here) as I review my chapter comments that read "include a map, no one but you knows where these sites are"

The real question is if us FREAKS were right all along, or if we've been over-egging things 😛

Well this is…quite exciting!

You best star believing in cyberpunk dystopias You're in one with picture of Hector Barbossa with a cyberpunk hat and glasses

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Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

Whelp, took down the wi-fi network at work attempting to reconfigure the modem now that we have an FTTP connection. No idea how that happened, I didn't touch or do anything with anything that would have affected the wi-fi network.

I'm going to blame the Barracuda, which always seems to be problem.

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I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

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Sometimes you're subscribed to a YouTube channel that is, say, laser focused on old computers.

Sometimes you're subscribed to a channel that has a healthy balance of Australian politics, Pokemon and the development of Christisn theology.

Such is the duality of man.

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Minns doubles down on ‘rational’ anti-protest law despite NSW’s highest court ruling it unconstitutional Greens criticise premier’s ‘extraordinary attack’ on judiciary and urge him to accept he ‘got it wrong’

Chris Minns would have made for a fantastic Liberal Premier.

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Vengeance for all the British/American accents that have been given to Australian kids over the years!

It gives me so much pleasure that an Australian show has been so successful that it's been translated in Korean!

Review copy just arrived!

"Gesta Francorum Ierusalem expugnantium: The deeds of the Franks who conquered Jerusalem"

Edited and translated by Susan B. Edgington and Thomas W. Smith

without any help from the English men-at-arms, probably deserves to be explored in greater detail. Those details might be more important to understanding the battle than any potential change in the battlefield.

It must be said that other accounts don't hint at a prior dismounted French attack, but I do find it interesting that the Gesta has some support for the clearer narrative of Monstrelet, etc.

I think that initial advance, plus Waurin and le Févre' contention that the archers demolished the vanguard

3) The Gesta, similarly, does not explicitly mention a dismounted advance prior to the mounted attack, but does say, after the repulse of the mounted men, that "the French nobility, who had previously advanced with all of their front, so that they had nearly come into contact with us" attacked.

2) The Monk of St-Denis does not explicitly say that the dismounted men-at-arms made an attack prior to the mounted attack, but does say that the English archers "had already engaged in combat" prior to the charge.

You wouldn't if you haven't read the sources, because I haven't come across any secondary source that mentions it.

1) Monstrelet, Waurin and le Févre say the dismounted men-at-arms "advanced a little against them, but then made a little retreat" before detailing the mounted charge.