My wife and I love going to the theater. We have a couple of local playhouses, so therefore options, but still find it difficult to go with any regularity.

I think the last thing we saw was Primary Trust in 2024 (!! I can’t believe it’s been that long)

Me too!

Although someone (steam maybe? I don’t remember) updated their system and won’t take it anymore. So now it’s 1930-01-01.

You should try it. It’s like I’m 30 years younger!

Really it depends on how your employer handles expenses for travel, and how lax they are about verifying receipts.

Several places where I’ve worked have had things in place that would stop this kind of thing from occurring (whether that was the intended purpose behind those things or not)

But if they only require you submit the purchase receipt, then you might be able to do what you suggest. But if there’s any info on the receipt that could lead them back to the canceled ticket (confirmation number, etc) then it could backfire on you if they check it. They could probably even use the credit card transaction number to the same end. But I’d expect that to be more involved and less likely unless you did something to make them suspicious.

Possible? Maybe. Risky? Also maybe.

I think you’re misunderstanding what they’re asking. It’s not about scamming the airline or the bank that issued the credit card. It’s about scamming their employer.

I think it would be more interesting if you could change at will. Wake up and pick your gender like you pick your outfit for the day.

Yep. At one place I worked, we did a big off-site disaster recovery exercise every year.

Most of the time it went fine, but there were multiple years where a restore didn’t work due to an issue with one or more tapes. Either the data and/or indexes couldn’t be read, or the tape physically failed during the restore.

Backups aren’t backups unless they’re tested.

I guess that heavily depends on the games you’re playing

I think this is the key thing.

If you’re always buying the newest GPU to play the latest tech- envelope-pushing AAA title that requires the latest greatest driver, then you’re probably not going to have a good time with gaming on Debian.

But some of us don’t care about those types of games, or maybe in some cases we do but are willing to wait a while to play a particular title (hello Patient Gamers). In that case Debian is a nice, rock solid gaming platform.

Anecdotally, I probably do 85+% of my gaming on Debian (the rest being my steam deck). And it works fine for me because of the types of games I play and/or how long I tend to wait before getting new titles (giving Debian time to catch up).

It’s definitely not for every gamer, but I don’t think it’s as unusable for gaming as people often suggest.

Plus queens are often dewinged so they don’t fly away.

Not dewinged. Beekeepers don’t go around pulling wings off of queens.

Some beekeepers will clip part of a queen’s wing, similar to how people with pet birds will sometimes clip a wing. This doesn’t hurt the queen just like it doesn’t hurt the bird.

That said, I don’t think it’s as common of a practice as it once was, as its benefits are pretty questionable (especially vs the risks). I expect when it happens, it’s new/hobby beekeepers who read about it in a book somewhere and don’t know any better.

I’ve heard, but have next to no proof, that in winter, drones are suffocated because they will eat the honey that they make instead of humans getting it.

That’s ridiculous. You’ve been lied to.

It’s true that drones die in winter, but it’s because the hive itself makes the decision to evict the drones - the workers force them out and then they starve, freeze, or are eaten by predators. This is true of wild colonies as well as managed ones, and is how the life cycle of the honey bee has evolved.

Humans have absolutely nothing to do with it.

I’ve read that there are some 3rd party launchers that will let you bypass the account requirement for solo play. I haven’t dug into it to figure out which one(s) though.

Lots of methods work, but they each have their own pros and cons. Different yields, different risks, different costs, etc. There is no method that is perfect, IMHO.

That said, shroomscout’s guide is good, though personally I found 90sm’s videos to be similar content but easier to digest. ( He also had a video on fruiting from the bag but I’ve never tried it)

I don’t know your situation but I know a lot of people on this path are doing it to try to deal with shit they haven’t otherwise been able to deal with.

If that describes you, then my advice is to inoculate a few bags using whatever method you feel like you can handle right now.

If you have a normal size syringe, you can do several bags of UB and still have a lot left over to try again.

Then, while you’re waiting for growth, keep learning. If it doesn’t work out, figure out what went wrong, fix it, and try again.

It works except when it doesn’t.

Our previous cats (who have all crossed the rainbow bridge) were happy to use scratching posts.

Our current cats are a different story. We’ve tried scratching posts with various coverings, including cardboard, jute, and carpet, and even uncovered, bare wood. They all prefer one particular chair, and occasionally the wood trim on one corner of the kitchen.

Shrug

There are some older studies that indicate it may be an issue if you eat them raw.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3731070/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2132000/

(and maybe more, but I’m lazy)

But the latter one seems to suggest that cooking them (including eating canned mushrooms, which get cooked during the canning process) should to mitigate it.

Maybe the underwear gnomes are using the bag clips to hang the missing socks to dry.

What works for me:

1. Have radar coverage to keep an eye on biter expansion

2. Keep an eye on your pollution cloud, and reduce production (at least initially) if it’s expanding too fast.

3. Build up military tech alongside your other tech

4. Pending 3, take out biter nests that expand too close to the edge of your pollution cloud.

If you can do 1-4, biters should never actually get to your base.

Then by the time you’re ready to go off world, make sure you have a perimeter lined with turrets (and some walls to help protect the turrets), repair bots and repair kits, automated ammo production, and supply lines (belts or trains) to automatically get that ammo to your perimeter turrets.

I think it’s normal.

I made a similar move a few years ago, from 10+ years at the old job. There were red flags that came up a couple months in, but I decided to stick it out.

It took me over a year to really feel like it was the right decision. But the red flags faded as it turned out there were just some growing pains going on. Leadership managed to resolve the major issues and I’ve turned out to be pretty happy in the new position.

I’m not saying the same will be true for you… Some red flags signal issues that are correctable, but others signal toxicity or other things that are unlikely to be fixed.

But IMHO, 3 weeks seems like a short time unless the issues are really egregious.

Also consider that if you go back to your old job, your old boss may treat you worse than previously.

If you don’t like the new job and don’t want to give it more time, consider starting to look for something new immediately (you were headhunted, so your skills are obviously desirable) and continuing to move forward rather than going back.

My 2c.

If you want true for empty strings, you want -z not -n

if [[ -z "VARIABLE1"  && -z "VARIABLE2"  ]]; then
    echo "OK"
fi

That’s amazing. I’ll have to look up some current builds.

I managed to finish vanilla pre space age.

After space age was released, I started over again, left Nauvis for Vulcanus and then Fulgora, but lost momentum on Gleba and wound up getting distracted by something else.

I’m sure I’ll get back to it eventually (it’s a great game, but I go through phases).

I’m a pretty casual player, and I’ve never been able to bring myself to up and move when it seems the starter base is good enough.

Occasionally I might pause production to reroute/reorganize a section when I don’t like how its turned out or I need to make room for something. And I’ll bring in more ore by train as my starter patches deplete.

I build my silo and spaceport there and then move on to the next planet.

But then, I’m also not trying to hit 1k spm or more like some of these mad lads. (No shade intended - some of the builds are seriously impressive)

New band name: Alien Prolapse

Twice on Sundays.