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It forecasts that by the end of 2026, the center will receive another 10,000 wounded veterans, most of whom will be suffering from PTSD or other mental health conditions.

I was writing a fantasy novel and in it, the captain and his troops were ordered to massacre a village (of fictional creatures); after the massacre the captain quit his position in anger and disgust; the captain had also smuggled a child out of the village.

When I mentioned this on a writing forum I was on, people got upset and everyone rebuked the idea that the captain would quit his position and defy orders because......it takes a long time and a lot of effort to become a captain.

This was supposed to be a positive reflection on the character, that he would be disgusted at being ordered to commit a genocide (it wasn't JUST a massacre; absolutely no one from the village was to be allowed to live, including kids), but posters got upset because....it takes a long time and a lot of effort to reach such a rank and no one would quit their positions or disobey orders, that it was unrealistic; people were genuinely upset; PEOPLE WERE GENUINELY UPSET.

My conclusion? A rewrite of the character so he's not a military dog, but someone else who would've been in the area and ignored. My novel has anti-colonial themes although they weren't that central to the story; if the military are supposed to be jackbooted thugs then that's how they're going to be portrayed going forward.

I genuinely can't believe people would actually be upset at this point when it's supposed to reflect well on the character; this post was also an old one, as in around 2016-2018, so before the Gaza genocide or the Russian SMO. Absolutely disgusting bootlicking individuals.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40009220

Apparently they blocked access to Xiaohongshu on the desktop by polluting DNS entries, which can be easily circumvented by just changing DNS server address network settings. This didn't affect the mobile app, which can be accessed without a VPN.

It's very funny how Xiaohongshu went from a largely domestic app to multiple time international headline maker this year without them doing a thing.

https://xcancel.com/i/status/1997629292851683502

the possibility for fried beans is blowing my mind you can just make bean nuggets and season them a trillion different ways

P.s. to do this exact same thing veganly the choices I'm aware of are 1) just skip the three step dredge and dredge it in seasoned flour and accept your life of less crisp breadings, 2) use soy milk instead (maybe oat milk since it's less sweet but i haven't tried it) because it works okay, or 3) use aquafaba instead which I haven't tried but I feel like would maybe work better than the milk

random thought but maybe an aquafaba milk blend might be a better egg replacement, get it to a more eggy consistency, idk

Anyway, bean balls, y'all

Boutta make some chili up in here with the last tomato harvest that i picked right before frost killed everything

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