This is for being admitted to the hospital though, not counselling. Inpatient psychiatric care is pretty serious stuff.

This is why I stopped buying games. I still have a massive backlog (like everyone else) but it’s a list, not a Steam library.

Don’t get sucked in by Steam sales. You’re not saving money by buying games you’re never going to play!

I used to collect way more candy than that when I was a kid going out on Halloween! It did not last 6 years. Maybe 1 month at most!

And if you’re wondering: no, I was not fat as a kid. I was very skinny. I spent tons of time outside, riding my bike and playing with friends. I didn’t really start to become an indoor video game nerd until early high school. Coincidentally, I also stopped going out for Halloween and I started gaining weight!

This one is it for me. The game really does so much with so little. The reality of the game is that it is a roughly linear sequence of closed levels (with some hub levels thrown in) that feels like a cohesive, connected world. It’s absolutely incredible!

We have lots of wind turbines in the country near here. Sometimes it actually gets too windy for them (risking damage by pushing them above design speed limit)!

High quality pasture isn’t just grass. It’s a mixture of grasses and legumes such as clover and alfalfa. The pasture should be slow to bolt and mature at different times throughout the season, providing the cattle with a good forage regardless of the temperatures.

I’m aware of plants getting sunburn. I’ve seen it first hand as a gardener bringing seeds started indoors outside.

Oh nice! I’ll check that out too! Thanks!

Oh yeah, I’m an avid gardener. I grow stuff in the shade on purpose. It’s usually in the shade of a tree though. I would imagine a giant array of solar panels that always rotate to face the sun would cast much deeper, more solid shadows than trees do.

That’s pretty amazing. I’ve never played the game but it looks pretty chill.

Sometimes I really get in the mood for chill games like Stardew Valley or NetHack! Maybe I’ll check out ETS2 sometime!

Commercial driver’s licenses?

Oh yeah that makes perfect sense. I’m thinking from my area’s perspective which is the opposite: barely any sunlight at all and tons of rain/snow.

How are you supposed to grow high quality, high protein pasture in the shade? This seems like it would greatly increase the amount of land you need for a given herd size.

Processing for rare earth minerals is costly and environmentally hazardous. The elements of interest are only found in very low percentages so you need to process huge amounts of material to extract them. The slag from this process is very toxic and takes up a lot of space to dispose of.

The hard part about arguing against renewables is the argument is a very complex, economic one. People love to have a single reason as the explanation for something but reality is far more complex. This makes it very difficult to present in an elevator pitch style.

I’m really hoping they have a gigantic pencil sharpener somewhere!

Wouldn’t the guy see his chat history with his mom and be suspicious?

Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism.

Now who says the parasites have to be biological?

Yes. It will all fall apart when all the regular businesses (not AI companies) realize that AI is just wasting their money and creating a big mess, not actually increasing their profits. These are supposed to be the big customers for AI and they’re really not benefiting from it at all.

Yep. That’s because they don’t actually remove the lactose. They add lactase which cleaves the lactose into simpler sugars, increasing the sweetness.

People other than Chinese restaurant owners buy fortune cookies?