Year: 2024

In GOOD NIGHT WORLD, Captain Pico is the guildmaster of the Pirates, a guild comprising more than 3,000 players. Aoi Yūki voices Captain Pico.
Captain Pico and her Pirates are notorious for robbing, harassing, and killing players in PLANET. However, their ideology is that when they do something bad to a player in the game, they do something nice in real life to make up for it.
Pico and the Pirates, unlike the likes of Ichi, look at PLANET just as a game to blow off their steam. They play this game to relieve the stress they have in real life. The motto of Pico and the Pirates is “Fulfillment in the virtual world will bring a smile to your face in the real world.”
At the same time, though, the gamers, who are die-hard fans of PLANET, hate Pico and the Pirates for looking at the game this way. For them, PLANET is more than just a game.
The Pirates are looking for the Black Bird too, but compared to her guild members, Pico isn’t that interested in winning 300 million yen from the Black Bird.
Pico cares about bringing Ichi on her side more than anything. She is willing to sacrifice the Black Bird just for him. It is revealed that they share quite a past with each other, and Pico has feelings for Ichi.
When Pico began playing the game, she saw Ichi as the only one who looked as dejected as she did. She made friends with Ichi, and they fought and enjoyed time together for a while until Pico asked to meet Ichi in real life.
Ichi enjoys hanging out with Pico, but he doesn’t want to meet her in real life. Furthermore, the fact that he really craves to meet her kills him even more. Hence, he parted ways with Pico, who, since then, hasn’t given up on Ichi.
Pico wants Ichi to join the Pirates so he can learn to vent in the game and face his struggles in real life. Pico succeeds in bringing Ichi to her side when he begins blaming himself for the hate the people of the game have for Pico.
Pico was the first to protest against killing people, but then she created the Pirate Guild for Ichi, who left her all alone. Now the whole community of PLANET hates her and the Pirates. Pico breaks down the moment Ichi joins her to make up for this.
A 17-year-old named Hinako Sakurai, who lives in Musashino City and goes to an all-girls school, plays the character of Pico in PLANET. She skips school and spends time on this online game to make her oppressive mother mad.
Hinako believes that her mother truly doesn’t want her to be happy. Hence, she micromanages her all the time. Hinako’s father is the head of an organized crime syndicate. She has a brother 24 years older than her. As a child, her father called her ‘Peeko’, and that’s where her character’s name comes from.
Since Hinako joined the game with the intention of taking revenge on her mother, she failed to have fun until she met Ichi. PLANET is the only place where her mother can’t control and keep an eye on Hinako all the time.
Later, Kojiro, as Shiro, drops a heavy truth bomb on Pico by revealing that she is an AI. The world of Hinako Sakurai isn’t real. Hinako Sakurai is the name of Kojiro’s former subordinate’s younger sister. They digitized her memory and transferred it to the game, and that memory became Pico.
Pico is just one of the important power sources of the Black Bird that feeds on people’s emotions. She served the Black Bird well by offering it the emotions of 3,000 players who are in the Pirate Guild. Shiro is forced to kill Pico in order to stop the Black Bird.
Pico’s death hurts Taichiro, who plays as Ichi, in PLANET. However, at the end of GOOD NIGHT WORLD, the AI version of Ichi that Kamuro had created to save Asuma finds Hinako in the Birdcage.
Hinako is surprisingly alive, and she not only reunites with Ichi but also confesses her love for him.
Also Read: GOOD NIGHT WORLD summary and ending explained
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A new unpublished paper titled “Science and Religious Dogma” by Matías Cabello has caught the attention of Jerry Coyne, who blogged about it at Why Evolution Is True. Coyne has questions about the paper’s methodology, but he nevertheless likes the paper because it supports the religion and science conflict thesis with data. Cabello’s historical analysis seems to show that church dogma stifled science, but being freed from its influence opened up new ways of thinking, allowing science to flourish,
Coyne uses his commentary on Cabello’s paper to push his own dedication to the conflict thesis. In fact, he charges scholars like Ronald Numbers and Michael Ruse, who have adopted the no conflict hypothesis, with holding a “’woke’ point of view: it goes along with the virtue-flaunting idea that you can have your Jesus and Darwin too.” For Coyne, religion and science have always been and always will be in conflict. Further, he thinks they should be in conflict — religion and science are completely incompatible in Coyne’s worldview. Perhaps he could spend more time studying history. 
Not nearly enough attention has been paid to Copernicus’ justification for proposing his heliocentric model of the universe. Copernicus possessed no empirical data leading to the overthrow of the centuries-old Ptolemaic system. The latter still worked well for practical purposes. But to make it work, astronomers had to add ad hoc features like epicycles and equants. Over time, the model became messy and ham-handed. Copernicus reasoned that placing the sun at the center (in contrast to church doctrine) created a simpler and more elegant model. But why should the universe be simple and elegant? Because the God that Copernicus believed in as he affirmed in De Revolutionibus would never create the monstrosity that the Ptolemaic system had become.¹ Copernicus was led by a religiously inspired esthetic sense to a correct understanding of the structure of the cosmos. No conflict between religion and science here.
Interestingly, this drive toward simplicity and elegance as a guide toward scientific truth has survived in modern physics in the search for a Grand Unified Theory or a Theory of Everything, even though this drive has been shorn of its original religious context. 
As another example, the 18th-century Scottish astronomer James Ferguson employed a religious argument to argue that stars are bodies like our sun that likely harbor their own planetary systems revolving around them. Ferguson wrote:
It is no wise probable that the Almighty, who always acts with infinite wisdom and does nothing in vain, should create so many glorious Suns, fit for so many important purposes, and place them at such distances from one another, without proper objects near enough to be benefitted by their influences. Whoever imagines they were created only to give a faint glimmering light to the inhabitants of this Globe, must have a very superficial knowledge of Astronomy, and a mean opinion of the Divine Wisdom.²
Ferguson certainly had no empirical evidence for the existence of exoplanets, but today we know that his religiously inspired insight led him to the correct understanding of the structure of the physical universe. Once again, no conflict between religion and science.
In a passage of Cabello’s paper cited by Coyne, Cabello lets Issac Newton off the hook on the grounds that Newton had abandoned orthodox belief in the Trinity at a young age. His unorthodox religious beliefs may then have opened the way for his scientific accomplishments. But unorthodox religious beliefs are still religious beliefs, and they infused all aspects of Newton’s thinking. As he wrote to Richard Bentley:
I am forced to ascribe the design of the solar system to the counsel and contrivance of a voluntary Agent. The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone but were imprest by an intelligent Agent.³
Newton’s religious beliefs certainly did not hinder his scientific accomplishments. 
Cabello’s paper deals only with the influence of European Christianity on science. But Coyne likes to talk about religion in general as being incompatible with science. Perhaps he should study the medieval Islamic Abbasid Empire where one of the great early flowerings of science and culture took place. Centered on the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, Muslim astronomers calculated the circumference of the earth to a value close to modern measurements. The great mathematician al-Khwarizmi (10th century) developed algebra (al-jibr in Arabic), and the Latinized form of his name gave us the familiar word “algorithm.” In optics, the law of refraction known as Snell’s Law was worked out centuries earlier by Ibn-Sahl. Many advancements in engineering were also made during this time, especially in hydraulics and irrigation systems enabling food production in arid climates. There was simply no conflict between Islamic religion and science in the medieval Islamic world. 
One gets the impression that Coyne is not really concerned with religion writ large and its relationship to science, but really with a particular type of religion — the conservative evangelical Christianity he identifies with those pesky advocates of creationism and intelligent design that he so despises. But even here, he is off base. Many conservative Christians are capable of producing good science as we see all the time in the ID community. 
I dare say that Michael Behe has had a far greater influence on the field of evolutionary biology than Jerry Coyne has. Behe has conceptually influenced the entire field by introducing the term irreducible complexity, an idea that even skeptics must now engage. Note the words of Jan Spitzer in the Journal of Molecular Evolution, discussing the origin of life: 
Since the subject of cellular emergence of life is unusually complicated (we avoid the term ‘complex’ because of its association with ‘biocomplexity’ or ‘irreducible complexity’), it is unlikely that any overall theory of life’s nature, emergence, and evolution can be fully formulated, quantified, and experimentally investigated.⁴
When biologists resist using a word like “complex” simply to avoid being associated with the ID movement, you know Behe has had a major influence on the field. I don’t know that Coyne can match this influence and today he has become mostly just a polemicist. 
Perhaps Coyne is just jealous of the scientific achievements of the ID community. I don’t really know. But at the very least, his fidelity to the conflict thesis withers under critical scrutiny. 

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FORECAST UPDATED BY METEOROLOGIST SAM POSTICH:
THURSDAY: Partly sunny morning, then decreasing clouds to a mostly sunny afternoon. Still feeling chilly but near normal for this time of year. High: 31. Low: 17.
FRIDAY:Sunshine in the morning then increasing clouds in the afternoon to a partly sunny sky, staying dry. A seasonable chill in the morning before turning milder for the afternoon. High: 37. Low: 30.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy and a mostly dry day, becoming even milder, almost ten degrees above average for late December. A few spotty showers possible in the late afternoon to evening. Then rain develops late overnight. High: 45. Low: 40.

SUNDAY: Cloudy with widespread rain developing, continuing through the day. Mild and breezy, highs about 15 degrees above average.High: 55. Low: 42.
MONDAY: Cloudy with widespread rain in the morning to midday, tapering to scattered showers in the afternoon and evening. Gradually drying out at night. Still mild. High: 48. Low: 38.
TUESDAY (NEW YEAR'S EVE): Mostly cloudy and a mostly dry day until the late afternoon, then scattered showers develop, becoming a steadier rain at night, around the start of the new year! Still mild. High: 46. Low: 40.
WEDNESDAY (NEW YEAR'S DAY): Cloudy skies with widespread rain through the day, risk for flooding once again. Still mild. High: 45.
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Juliette Valle suggests to Eduardo that he should spend more on her, citing “experts” who claim that money spent on your partner returns. Their relationship on social media delights their followers.
By Deneb González
Thursday, December 26, 2024 – 12:30 PM
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Juliette Valle is devising some strategies to ensure that her partner Eduardo López Cardoso indulges her and has no hesitation when it comes to spending money on her.
The Cuban model sought advice from supposed experts to convince La Flaca Verónica that spending money on her girlfriend is the best option.
“I just saw a video that experts say, mind you, that the more money you spend on your woman, the more money will come back to you,” Juliette tells La Flaca, unable to hide her laughter.
“I advise you to spend and invest in me so that God will reward you,” was the conclusion reached by Juliette and the message she sent to all the men.
Eduardo’s expression clearly indicated that he was not very convinced by this reflection, and it seemed he was waiting for his reward for what he had already spent on it in 2024.
After their reconciliation, the couple has shared several moments together on social media, which has been well-received by their followers.
During the Christmas season, the lovebirds shared a very romantic video on Instagram, letting their love and connection shine.
Juliette Valle is seeking advice from supposed experts to convince Eduardo López Cardoso, known as La Flaca Verónica, that spending money on her partner is beneficial. According to Juliette, the more money you spend on a partner, the more you receive in return, a sentiment she humorously shared in a video.
Eduardo López Cardoso doesn’t seem very convinced by Juliette Valle’s thoughts on spending money on a partner. His facial expression in the video where Juliette shares these tips suggests that he might be expecting some reward for what he has already spent on her.
The relationship between Juliette Valle and La Flaca Verónica has experienced ups and downs on social media, from unfollowing each other on Instagram to sharing romantic moments following their reconciliation. The couple has been the focus of attention from their followers, who have expressed enthusiasm for their renewed love, especially after their recent reconciliation.
Dany Ome took credit for facilitating the reconciliation between Juliette Valle and La Flaca Verónica by participating in the show “Las Locuras de Miguelín,” where he encouraged La Flaca Verónica to express her feelings, which seemingly helped the couple reunite.
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Bloomberg Law has identified the most impactful private equity transactions that “helped fuel Big Law in 2024,” with Latham advising on three of the five featured transactions, more than any other law firm. Latham’s number one position in these market-defining private equity transactions reinforces the firm’s standing as a global powerhouse for the most complex and sophisticated deals. The Bloomberg Law article, published on December 24, includes the following transactions on which Latham played a leading role:
“We are proud to have advised our clients on their most significant, landmark transactions in another outstanding year for our practice. With our extensive experience and proven track record across industries and in the world’s financial centers, no firm can match the depth and breadth of our market-leading private equity practice. Our ability to serve in various roles at scale — from principal M&A adviser to representing both investment banks and private credit lenders in their most sophisticated and bespoke financings — gives us a 360-degree view of the market and distinctly sets us apart,” said Paul Kukish, Global Chair of Latham’s Private Equity Practice.
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Police Reveal Circumstances Leading to Stabbing Death of ‘Sweet, Hardworking’ Okla. Teen  PEOPLE
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