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We were supposed to get another ~100 years out of that meme. Thanks, Trump.

I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.

I mean it probably isn’t, but it also wouldn’t surprise me to find out that the whole deeper meaning of the entire thing was entirely lost on such a shallow excuse for a human.

Sounds like the conditions that allow for this are pretty specific, and while you could harvest this, it would likely decimate the population.

Could it be artificially recreated? Probably, but at that point it’s looped back around to being non-viable.

I hate bright screens. On my phone I used the accessibility options to set up a trigger to reduce white point, turned it down decently far, and it’s easily the best QoL adaptation I’ve ever made re: screens.

Only downside is it’s very difficult to tell what is in darker pictures. But because it’s on a trigger I can toggle it on and off very very easily.

I genuinely wish I could do the same thing with my tv with just a simple trigger… I know I can alter the brightness and contrast and stuff but I’d have to mess with so many options, spread across so many sub-menus (fuck you, googletv OS, you suck super hard. Whyyyyyyyyyyy are there multiple settings menus???), to get it anywhere near what I want that it’s not really worth doing (I just crash it down to zero brightness, it’s adequate, I guess, but it’s no white point reduction…)

When I swapped to powder it was because I could buy a jug of All free and clear (cheapest brand for hypoallergenic that I could find) for $12. I don’t recall how many loads it did, but I could get the powder online, which was at least the same number of loads but probably way more, same brand same fragrance free formula, for $4.75. They don’t carry the powder in most stores around me, I assume because it’s so much cheaper nobody would buy the overpriced liquid. Same with cheap dish powder; just not available.

Have you ever had a renfaire-style roast turkey leg? That’s what I always assumed they are, and that’s easily one of my favorite things of all time, to the point that I keep turkey drumsticks in my freezer quite often.

Do you mean gild?

I’m not a huge fan of sales tax being used to pay for transit because that still disproportionately impacts poorer people, but it’s a good start, and maybe when they have solid public transit and people like and use it more, they can transition to a better funding source like taxing the rich more, or increasing property taxes on second+ homes or something.

Overall great progress. I would love to someday have public transit near me that’s good enough to get rid of my car. I don’t live in a big urban area tho so it’s gunna be a hot minute (even tho trains pass 4 blocks from me every hour of every day… we can’t ride those because reasons…)

I’m curious how you have it that you feel that way. Do you bake it, broil, steam? Do you cover? Uncover? How long for each? What bits do you have?

I mean breast skin is not great skin so if you like that cut I get your dislike but if you do legs and thighs, baked or fried or anything where it crisps and a lot of the fat cooks out, that’s not to your liking?

Do you have any links to these, or names I can look for? I’m genuinely into that sort of social norm bucking, as a comfort-in-skin-over-propriety sort of gal myself, and learning stuff (mostly any science-adjacent stuff) is my special interest - my degree and life focus is in science communication (I can’t help but infodump so I learned how to do it properly!)!

I mean naked news was(is?) super popular; why not fuck-me-branded science?

Is there a video of this talk? I’d love love love to see it if possible!

I like ladies in sparkly things being smart. I do it sometimes myself, along with bright colors and vivid patterns, and it’s wildly fun! Clothing doesn’t matter, so have fun with it!

I still have ps2 games in my backlog (physical collection)… won’t even say how many ps3-5 games I’ve got sitting… but it’s a lot.

Replaying botw for the dozenth time tho, then probably horizon zero dawn, I only need to do the hardest mode on that and I’ll have done it on every difficulty to 100% at least once.

One finger hand raises aren’t enough for me because despite being a force of nature, I’m often quite lacking in assertiveness in social situations. If I want someone’s attention I go full “engaged student” on them. Big shit-eating grin so everyone knows I understand what I’m doing is silly, hand held high, holding my elbow so I can outlast their lack of attention. Acknowledge anyone who looks at me funny with a renewed grin to make them smile/giggle with me.

I do this in busy bars, at meetings, at large social events… people do giggle a bit but everyone knows what the signal is for, so it works, and it’s completely passive so not rude at all, and I can giggle along with them because it IS kinda silly for a 40yo to do that. Buuuuuut it works. It also tends to enroll other people who notice and point it out, just like in class!

It’s one of the things I do instead of masking; it allows me to be part of conversations without interrupting, or gets me what I need without yelling.

I’ve mastered the rest of them though….

In the 15 years I’ve been in my current house I think I’ve seen trick or treaters come down maybe a handful of times. I’m only a block off the main road, but my street stops at the corner on one end (not a dead end, just have to turn), so if you aren’t starting from that end, coming down is a waste.

More importantly, I live in a very very old part of town sort of on the outskirts (my house was built in 1880, and I’m like 2 blocks from fields and woods, for perspective), and the parts on the other side of the river are much newer and more like suburbs… my side of town has a larger proportion of expensive houses, but they are between shitty cheap super old houses like mine, rather than consistently mid-range.

When I was a kid the only time I ever did the drive to a rich area was when I was like 14 and went with a friend for the first time (my parents changed my school every year from 5th grade through graduating so having a friend was ultra-rare, especially that early in the school year). It was surreal. Huge fancy houses that you -had- to drive to because they were so far apart, but full size candy…

Why would it be unlikely for us to be an end point, though? assuming an infinite chain from all spawned universes is kinda just silliness, imho.

If this is some big deal simulation (as in not common or easy, but like one simulation per universe) it would need several rounds of testing with simpler or randomized states to ensure it even works well enough for full prod. Sure those universes probably wouldn’t be maintained indefinitely, but from the inside it would be identical. There would necessarily be several of these -per chain link-. Plus if it’s for research, why wouldn’t they try simulating “impossible” universes with different physics than their own? I mean we do it, and we are nowhere near this level of complexity.

If simulation becomes trivially easy in just some of the universes, though… Everyone who plays sandboxy games plays through several really shit runs while they figure out what they are doing, before finally getting somewhere. And then half the time those runs get abandoned as well for whatever reason (like having a killer new idea, or some event happened that can’t be recovered from). I see no reason universe simulation, should it get trivially easy, would be any different. Some game which entities set up and play out, or abandon for something better… or maybe they are fucking around with mods and just testing stuff out so it doesn’t need to be complete in that way. (e.g. in rimworld a dev test map is tiny, and spawns with zero configurations, just random simplified spawning to test things, and you may need to spawn dozens of these to sort out issues.)

And if that’s the case, that for any reason there are far more end points than links in chains (like tassel fringe rather than chain), I see no reason to assume we would have physics that allow us to be a link rather than an end, since ends would be infinitely more common.

Cool thanks! I think I have this, so I’ll give it a watch tonight!

Muahahahahaha I got a friend to watch this for the first time the other day, followed by Donnie darko which they had also never seen.

Quality. Other than the clothing and cg being dated the visual effects are strong as ever.

I’ve been on a random weird movie kick, I’m open to suggestions.

I’m not vegan by any stretch, but I also like any restaurant with a strong vegan option. A mostly plant-based diet is better on my tummy. I’ll eat a steak, but then I’ll eat vegetarian for the next two weeks while I digest it.

Lots of reasons to end up at the same statement :)

I’ve got a similar set.

Fun fact; you can get a set of like 12 metal straws pretty cheap, and at least the set I got came with silicone mouthpieces, so if you forget one somewhere you can just throw a new one in!