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.
Probably. Her standards weren’t that high; I’ve met my dad.
Which is reasonable from what my mom told me. She agreed those were the best.
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!
You could download three random games from your list and present them the same way as though they were new? Think that would be enough? I mean idk how Xbox is laid out, but I assume new games show up on the Home Screen which is how they access the new games of the month or whatever, right?
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.
Check with Asian/Indian groceries; it originates in SE Asia, so that’s the most likely place to find it locally. I got mine online, which is also an option :)
I decided to skip this clock setting.
I don’t have a job, or anywhere to be at a given time, and any event I do need a specific time for I’m usually looking at my phone or watch for…
But I have a nasty habit of going to sleep super late and sleeping until 9-10am, and that’s all based on non-internet clocks, so this is a step toward a more reasonable normal person schedule for me. At least for the next 6 mths.
If you like colored food, I highly recommend adding pandan to your ingredients cabinet.
Pandan works in place of vanilla, tho much thicker, and it dyes your food a brilliant emerald green. Makes beautiful baked goods.
I used it to make what I called “teenage mutant ninja turtle cheesecake cookies” which were just turtle cheesecake cookies made with pandan so they were green filling with brown accents, and arranged to look like turtles… and they were a wild success!
Example:
Oh my god it’s political bimboficiation… that’s fucking fascinating.
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.
I used to think this sucked.
My life has been chock full of switchbacks. But I think that’s ok now.
Running straight to the top is nearly impossible for anyone, and certainly will burn through all your energy super quick if you happen to manage it. Yes there’s a gondola for wealthy people, but there’s no personal gratification from taking the easy way, and everyone else thinks they suck for literally hanging over us and not helping any of us climb faster, instead throwing rocks at us to slow us down.
But the thing about taking the hike, even with all the switchbacks, is that… there’s a lot of really cool stuff on that hike, no matter which path you start from or which mountain you are climbing. Those amazing things are mostly nestled where your path whips you back around. You won’t experience any of those things if you go straight to the top. And where’s the satisfaction in that?
Besides that, it turns out the top isn’t always the best place to be anyway. You get sunburn up there, there’s not a lot of room, and the air is thin. Once you make it up there you spend all your time trying not to fall down or get hurt, and maybe even building a rickety tower to go even higher, making the problem even worse.
I’ve made it what appears to me to be about halfway up, a nice stable spot with big open inviting areas and a view of the rocky expanse I’ve already crossed, and I really like it here. It may only be 1/8 the way up in reality, but I think I’m done with my hike for a while. It’s not the goal I’m “supposed” to be aiming for but this place makes me happier than continuing to work toward someone else’s goal. Toward the top of a mountain I’ll never crest because I started too far away.