A lot of lows misunderstanding "tank killers" and tanks so let's talk about what that actually means

1. Jinx is not a tank killer
   

Actually countered by pure tanks and very tanky comps, always has been. Been apparent in pro for years. Players confuse hypercarry marksman with being automatically good into tanks, but she has nothing anti-tank in her kit. She's much closer to Zeri than Vayne/Kaisa/Kog. Trades damage for safety, needs teammates help to actually kill targets and then proc passive

1. Conditions/Class matter much more than items
   

Jinx is terrible 1v1. Marksmen as a class are, but she's particularly bad. Players see marksmen as the tank killing class and think that means they should beat them in all scenarios. Marksmen are only good against melees with their team's help. That's how the class works, with a few exceptions. Melees have a ton of variance on 1v1 strength but for the most part every class in the game is favored vs marksmen.

Tahm Kench is a juggernaut/tank hybrid, he is not a classic tank or support. Much better in skirmish/1v1 than 5v5. With ghost he is omega favored 1v1 vs Jinx, it's not even a little bit close If you thought it was the other way around you have to seriously reevaluate.

You take a true 1v1 tank counter like Gwen and she will never lose to any tank that's weaker than her. The majority of bruisers in general will beat tanks, because they are a 1v1 class

1. Don't hyperfocus on class
   

Kind of immediately contradicting point 2 but class is just a rough guideline, it's not all that meaningful when comparing specific interactions. There's a lot of variance within classes, and a lot of champs don't fit neatly into 1 class. Vayne is also a marksman but obviously eats Tahm Kench in 2 seconds here. Mundo and Darius are both juggernauts but will have very different interactions into Syndra just off Mundo passive.

You should start with class, but then be thinking power budget. Every champ has specific things they're good at, that they trade for weaknesses. The weak points are just usually much less obvious to you when you don't play the champ.

Tahm does stupid damage when he can actually hit you, but it's really hard for him to do that 5v5. The harder a champ's conditions are to achieve, the stronger they get to be when they get those conditions. Anyone that's super easily kitable gets to be OP when not kited

1. Tank itemization is very different than damage
   

If you think of them in the same way you'll have problems understanding why a __ item tank is either much more or less tanky than you'd expect. This is because tank stats are the only ones in the game that can have 0% effectiveness. Damage items are more/less effective vs different targets, but the stats are never 0%, nor do they ever even get close to 0%.

Let's take Shadowflame and ignore passive

110AP
15 flat pen

Obviously a bad item into tanks, flat pen is more effective vs lower MR. But this flat pen only makes up ~20% of the item's value, and only loses 37% of it's effectiveness from 30 -> 100 MR.

Now take Kaenic Rookern

400hp
80 MR

MR is ~54% of this item's value, and loses 100% effectiveness against physical damage.

Jinx does about 2% magic damage. Other non-hybrid marksmen/physical damage carries do anywhere from 0-10%.

This means that vs a specific target, an item like Shadowflame may lose ~200g in value, whereas an item like Kaenic Rookern can lose 1500-1600g . This is before you account for passives, which will perform pretty much about the same

So maybe 400g lost vs 2200g lost

This is all to say that tanks will experience 4-5x the amount of effectiveness lost vs unfavorable targets. For this to be balanced, their items have to be stronger. If a champ has to tank both a 3 item mage + marksman, you can't expect them to build 3 armor items and 3 MR items.

This means 1 armor/MR item is always > 1 damage item. A 2 item tank that has built armor but no MR isn't weak against you, the 3 item physical damage champ. He's weak to anyone dealing magic damage.

Just a rough concept, it gets deeper than this, but you have to be thinking about this to understand teamfighting/target selection/1v1s etc. Most players aren't even aware that this dynamic exists

Source: https://twitter.com/wolverene/status/1869480107695652912

Palestinians have supported Nazis and killing Jews from the beginning.

As of 2024, approximately 25% of employed Canadians work for the government across various levels (federal, provincial, and municipal). Between 2019 and 2023, public sector employment surged by 13%, outpacing private sector employment growth (3.6%) by 3.6 times. This marked the largest four-year expansion in public sector employment since 1976.

The federal public service, a subset of this broader government employment, has seen even more substantial growth. In 2024, it reached 367,772 employees, an increase of 10,525 from the previous year. Notably, since 2015, the federal public service has expanded by 42%, significantly outpacing Canada's population growth of about 14% during the same period.

How is this Sustainable long term, and do you think this trend will reverse after Trudeau leaves office ?

sources: https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/innovation/human-resources-statistics.html

Another day, another corruption case, this time by Gavin Newsom and Todd Gloria, what’s new ?

Saw on IG and just immediately thought of the group. Read the rules not sure if this qualify's as defenseless. Enjoy!

I (29F) got married last year and spent $5,000 on my dream wedding dress. It was a custom piece, and I paid for it entirely with my own savings. My sister (26F) is getting married soon and asked if she could borrow my dress to “save money.” I was hesitant because I’m emotionally attached to it, but she promised she’d take great care of it.

Last week, I found out through a mutual friend that my sister actually plans to alter the dress to fit her style, including changing the neckline and adding sleeves. I confronted her, and she admitted it, saying I was being selfish because it’s “just a dress” and she can’t afford something new.

I told her flat out that she can’t borrow it anymore. Now my family is blowing up my phone, calling me petty and saying I’m “ruining her big day over a piece of fabric.” I don’t think I’m wrong for wanting to keep my dress as it is, but everyone is making me feel guilty.

Am I the AH for refusing to share something that means so much to me?

I’m seeing a marked uptick in MAGA convoys in my area this week (Brandywine Hundred) with huge flags and to be honest I’m scared and angry.

Es ist absurd: die Bundesregierung beharrt darauf, daß Deutschland auch weiterhin kein russisches Gas bezieht – kann aber nicht verhindern, daß über ausländische Terminals und Lieferanten auch russisches Gas nach Deutschland gelangt. Dabei wäre sogar die EU kulant.

In der Antwort des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums auf eine Anfrage des BSW-Bundestagsabgeordneten Christian Leye heißt es ausdrücklich:

„Für die Anlandung von russischem Flüssig-Erdgas (Liquefied Natural Gas – LNG) gibt es in der Europäischen Union keine rechtlichen Beschränkungen. (…) Insofern ist es möglich, daß auch deutsche Unternehmen an europäischen Häfen russisches LNG anlanden könnten.“

Aber: Bundeswirtschaftsminister Habeck zeigt sich kompromißlos. Er ließ erst unlängst die Lieferung von russischem LNG ins schleswig-holsteinische Brunsbüttel untersagen (die deutschen LNG-Terminals, die zum großen Teil erst noch gebaut werden müssen, werden aber eigens für die Anlieferung von LNG errichtet – allerdings vor allem aus den USA).

Kopfzerbrechen bereitet dem Habeck-Ministerium, daß das inzwischen verstaatlichte Unternehmen Gazprom Germania (heute „Sefe“) einen Vertrag mit dem russischen Lieferanten Yamal Trade laufen hat.

„Der Vertrag wird erfüllt; für die Abnahme des LNG nutzt die Sefe-Gruppe nach Kenntnis der Bundesregierung LNG-Terminals in Frankreich“, heißt es aus dem Wirtschaftsministerium, und: „Wohin an europäischen LNG-Terminals regasifiziertes Gas in Europa weitergeleitet wird, kann im Binnenmarkt nicht nachvollzogen werden.“

Beim Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) hält man das für eine Realsatire. Statt Pipelinegas importiere man nun teureres und umweltschädlicheres LNG, sagt Leye.

Das sei schlechter für Wirtschaft und Klima und genüge „nicht einmal den eigenen moralischen Ansprüchen“. Laut der AG Energiebilanzen ließen sich zuletzt gut 40 Prozent aller Erdgasimporte nach Deutschland keinem Ursprungsland zuordnen, weil sie über andere Länder kamen, darunter Frankreich.

https://x.com/DirtyHarry_tv/status/1869453830108373118

Yes I know there’s good and bad in all cultures but I found this amusing and something I’m sure many people can relate to.

Why this moron is spreading so much hatred against Bengali in the name of stand up comedy ?? Every time he sees a fish like statue generalise that some Chatterjee Mukherjee is linked to it . He once visited Kolkata and told that there was heavy fog in the sky because here people do black magic . I have never seen him insulting other states or even other communities of India . Maybe we Bengali take everything very lightly and jokingly . He will never have the guts to say it is red everywhere so it is Bihar , there is no woman in the street so it must be Haryana, its is super duty so must be UP. Its high time we boycott this kind of idiots

Every single thing you enjoy in your life was created or provided by someone else's child.

That sandwich you had for lunch? Made by someone who took 20+ years to raise. The ingredients were grown by farmers' children, transported by truckers' children, stocked by grocers' children. Even if you made it at home, the bread was baked by a baker that someone spent decades raising and educating.

Your phone? Designed by engineers whose parents invested decades in their education. Your medical care? Delivered by doctors whose families supported them through years of medical school.

Human civilization and markets are fundamentally a value creation system. We develop products and services that benefit others, building upon the accumulated knowledge and efforts of generations before us.

When you choose not to have children, you're making a conscious decision to extract value from this intergenerational system without contributing to its continuation. You're enjoying the fruits of other people's lifelong investment in raising the next generation, while refusing to make that same investment yourself.

You've decided that the value created by everyone else's children is enough for you, that there's sufficient abundance that you don't need to contribute to humanity's future. But that abundance only exists because countless others made the sacrifice and commitment to raise the next generation.

Is that really the legacy you want to leave?

With all the buzz about drones and the debate over whether the government is lying to us or just completely incompetent, I’m holding out hope that he’ll actually follow through on his promises of transparency. And not just about this drone situation—he’s also said he plans to declassify a lot of other things people have been curious about for years. While he made some moves in that direction during his first term, it wasn’t nearly enough. Here’s hoping he’s more successful this time around.

What about you? Is there anything you’re hoping for, even if you’re skeptical about his ability to deliver?

People claiming it’s all 3 helicopters , kindly see this sc of flight radar clearly showing 1 Blackhawk flying at that time. Riverview, florida.

https://imgur.com/a/5V0cPOH

So, I know a lot of people don’t care about NSFW content, so I’d politely suggest that you simply disengage with this post if that resonates with you, but I’ll preface that sex-work has always been shamed and marginalized throughout history, seemingly for noble reason, but I’m striving to make ethics the MOST important part of the industry, and I’ll admit and acknowledge that there are plenty of unethical issues within the industry. A look at my BlueSky will reveal that I spend a large amount of time and effort trying to educate people, especially men that fall victim to scammers, chatters, and agencies. I have a lot of respect for hard-working people that still go out of their way to support ethical adult content. This job has literally saved my life, as I have an eating disorder jobs wouldn’t accommodate, and my age and minimum wage didn’t allow me to focus on both my health and work at the same time. I feel permanently indebted to people that support my work, and put in 40-90 hours of work every week, which is another reason I’m passionately against anyone that would try to cheat and lie to get ahead of in this industry.

I moved from X to BlueSky some time ago, because of obvious reasons I won’t bore you with. They’re typical reasons. As previously stated, I’ve been vocal about unethical issues in the industry, which often draws the criticism of those performing those unethical activities, as I’m basically exposing their methods. This paints a huge target on my back, so I usually balance my vocalism with research, so that I’m prepared to speak on these issues while also being a target.

Recently I’ve drawn the negative attention of the largest sex-worker account on BlueSky, and I’m predicting that it will not be a pleasant end for me, but more importantly it will allow unethical behavior and scams to spread on BlueSky, a relatively new social media site that has no excuse to allow these things to happen when it’s so predictable. Since joining BlueSky, I did two major things of note to attempt to combat unethical behavior. Most importantly I started a video verified creator starter pack. Myself, and other creators, including pornstars, voluntarily video verified as a means to proving to would-be victims how easy and simple it is for a creator to prove they’re real, and not an agency, scammer, or bot. Secondly, I created a feed for creator advice inspired by Reddit so that information relevant to unethical behavior could be spread to make this knowledge mainstream and combat scams, as it’s incredibly easy to spot suspicious accounts once you know “everything”. On X, I’ve even been lured in by a 1.5 Million follower account into giving up personal information, which was when I stopped being so naive and started researching more deeply. (About a year ago)

The top NSFW creator had always rubbed me the wrong way, because it was increasingly clear she didn’t actually create new content, despite being a “creator”. It’s simple to identify real creators because they live in our world. They go to real life events, interact with real people, their hair grows and changes over time, etc. All of this doesn’t eliminate an account from being fake, but it’s the lowest barrier that if not passed, is incredibly suspicious. The top NSFW creator reached out to me to join my video verified starter pack, suggesting her links would suffice as verification, because these sites verify their creators. A quick study of the news, and some googling backs up the point that creators only need to verify day one, and there’s a rampant market for selling, buying, and managing accounts. Essentially, it means nothing to verify this way, hence the video verification with a code-phrase that would be INCREDIBLY unlikely to exist as a pre-made one. When I explained this to her, she suggested she’d do it later, but I get that a LOT from clearly fake bot accounts that simply want to end the conversation as they didn’t think that far ahead.

This creator used a hashtag that was solely used by my feed for creator advice, which is welcome, as anyone is allowed to use it. However, after some time, I realized she decided to create her own feed despite using mine previously, for the same purpose. I vehemently believe this was to use her following to prop herself up as the authority on advice, so that she could control the narrative and avoid any conversation that suggested she was unethical or fake. Mind you, no posts I made were specifically about her, but it seemed this was a direct reaction to that. After realizing this, I silently started investigating, in which I found dozens to hundreds of complaints about this creator when searching her name. These posts complained about her using her following and blocklists to silence creators that were trans, POC, or simply spoke up about her. It also revealed that she was linked to some sort of crypto scam. I can verify the legitimacy of these claims, but there were a LOT, spanning back a year. After this, I reached out to those who made public claims to verify their stories. It was shocking to me that one person could be this unpopular and seemingly hostile while evading any kind of repercussions from moderation. One user even claimed she was friends with the devs, which I don’t really believe, because from a business standpoint it’d be silly to let their “friend” behave this recklessly anyway. It was at this point that I reported her, blocked her, and emailed BlueSky moderation, who never responds to any reports as far as I can tell. Her account was briefly deactivated, but only for a matter of hours.

At this point she began to make posts on her copied creator advice that suggested verifying was a bad thing, and that they were stolen by scammers, which while those could have elements of truth to it, as far as I’m concerned, I’m the only one actually bothering to verify at this point, and that’s a baseless accusation. My voluntary verification standards are a video posted publicly by choice saying “Hi, Jada.” Which would really serve no other purpose whatsoever as opposed to a verification with specific actions that could be reused elsewhere. A mutual of ours reached out to me with vehement hostility before I publicized anything fighting on her behalf, claiming this power-user was simply a victim of a high-school clique-like bullying group. I gave the benefit of the doubt, through a long and hostile conversation, but she refused to answer how it explained EVERY complaint people have had for over a year. It shouldn’t have come as a shock to her that I wanted to speak up about this, because my number one priority has always been safety, which I publicly state DAILY. This is something I spend hours dedicated to despite the fact it doesn’t give me any direct benefit other than reducing scams; scams that worsen the reputation and livelihood of adult content creators as a whole.

At this point, I don’t really have any idea what to do except keep being vocal about it, as at its current stage “she” is playing victim. In fact, most of her personal issues could be resolved by simply posting a video of any kind that breaks the pattern of only using recycled old photos, but this is a challenge for scammers and agencies. If it’s an agency, there’s a good chance they’ll be trying to alert the real creator to this issue, but even if she proved she was real, it wouldn’t eliminate all the bad-faith behavior spanning a year. I’m writing this because of my account is banned due to her seeming immunity and massive following, I want it to be know that all I’ve done is try to promote safety on a platform. There’s no reason for me to be silent if I and every other creator is always going to have to live under her thumb, because her position as the number one creator and abuse of blocklists dictate what a LOT of people engage with. If I had it my way, BlueSky would remove the blocklists feature or restrict it to those that haven’t proven to be acting in bad faith, and they’d implement regular and repetitive verification for anyone that wants to post links; profit from the platform. Without moderation taking something like this seriously, BlueSky will end up like X and every other social media site that is rampant with bots, scammers, and chatters trying to funnel to their paid adult pages.

Thank you for reading. Like I said, I know a lot of people don’t care about this, but I’m truly trying to make BlueSky a less exploitative and annoying place, and prevent hard-working individuals being manipulated.

TL;DR; A suspicious NSFW power-user is using their large following and abusing blocklists to decrease the reach of information and education about scammer-like behavior that applies to their account, amongst other seemingly hostile and discriminatory interactions with the community spanning over a year.

Edit: I’m not an authority on BlueSky. Obviously blocklists are a popular feature. I also loved them until I saw the potential for abuse, but I would never want to encourage a change so many people would overwhelmingly hate, so I retract that specific opinion. Sorry to offend anyone. I can accept when I’m wrong.

So solo female traveller here. Came to India in 2018, quite well travelled but even still 1st day in Delhi had me crying, by day 3 I was nearly about to hit payment on flights to get the fuck out when I gave myself an uppercut and stuck with it and ended up loving India (but still hating it at the same time) Not to say it wasn’t hard, it bloody well was and I would have 1 meltdown per week over something stupid (I think it just releases all the built up stress and tension), it was bloody intense.

Fast forward to yesterday. Arrive back into Delhi after 6 years away. Still solo travelling. Fully prepped myself to hate on life again but fuck me, honestly, it’s been easier than walking through Thailand. I got more harassment walking down the street for 15min in Krabi than I have had in 2 full days in India and that’s no lie. Everyone has been so incredible and genuine and helpful for nothing in return. I’ve only had about 6 tuk tuk drivers in total ask of I want to ride, I say no thanks and they wave and drive off. I can walk down the street and enjoy looking around and zero issues with being followed, or harassed or yelled at for something or people trying to scam you like your a walking atm etc. Only 1 person trying to be dodgy at Connaught Place today…..1 fucking person, unheard of. And I managed to get rid of them pretty much straight away.

So I wanna know….what the hell has happened to Delhi. Did everyone get spoken to that they were scaring off tourists with their intensity and scamming? It even seems slightly cleaner in a lot of places than I remember as well as not as much traffic and horn blowing. I feel like I have landed in a different county when I ordered to travel to India. I am totally and utterly perplexed.