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Interesting concept. Reminds me of final fantasy.

The text in the red boxes is hard to read. Suggest changing to white.

The more advanced weapons that are locked actually have easier questions. I would expect them to be harder.

I can’t tell when I can use the advanced weapons. Suggest showing the charge level along with Hp.

Great job!

This isn’t surprising. It’s also not an indication that women are doing better than men writ large. Most degrees are not worth the investment. A few high performing ones hold the average up. Trades are desperate for workers and have above average pay. Men are much more likely to do those jobs. The risk is that women are going to be left with more debt and will be less employable in the long run.

But for a society that acts like everyone’s worth is wrapped up in whether or not you have a degree, we should be a lot more concerned about this than we are.

Or right next to their genitals. I feel like we’ve got a lot of maimed members out there.

Good lord that’s a lot of damage from exploding pagers. This is kind of next level stuff here - straight out of a movie.

Thank you! I appreciate the write up. Do I understand correctly that you do not get a companionship aspect from it? I guess I think of OF as being where you go beyond porn to forming some sort of relationship with the porn star themselves.

Is anyone willing to admit they subscribe to an OF and explain why over the free pornography alternatives that most of the internet is full of?

I always think of Field of Dreams. He was incredible in that role. He holds that movie together.

You and me both. I consider switching a few times a year just for this.

Cool game! I got it but it took a while.

Suggestions, limit to 5 chars and use a Wordle-like interface so your phone can’t suggest words.

I could see this being a legit NYT game.

3% of carbon emissions. Not 3% of greenhouse gases.

Carbon emissions all up account for ~80%.

Either way though, rising heat doesn’t bode well.

Fair enough. I didn’t know the X history. Twitter rename makes more sense now.

Austerity is miserable. It does not win elections. Even if a party bit the bullet, locked in and fixed this mess, they would be handing both the credit for any success and at least the best few future elections to the other party. Our system seems designed to fail from some angles.

Wait - it’s intentionally meant to sound like “space sex” right? I mean, it’s not 1:1 but it’s very close. Say it out loud 10 times.

But maybe possible it’s just all about the letter X for him?

Also, to clarify, I don’t dislike the guy. Nor do I dislike his naming. Just pointing out what I thought was the obvious.

This from a guy who unveils his new data center at exactly 420 and has a line of cars intentionally named to spell out “s3xy” and the reason we’re all forced to say “space sex” out loud every time we talk about a rocket launch.

We are trapped in a meme.

It was requested for…weather, alarms, music. You know - all the things his phone ALREADY DOES.

As god intended

The entire business model was people being willing to buy things “site unseen”. This is not how people shop. Seeing is an important part of the experience.

Also, these losses are staggering. And yet they are still selling these things. I just bought one for the kids dorm room.

Independent here. Did not vote Trump in 2020.

I tend to agree that for a party that spends a lot of time talking about the importance of democracy, we’re in fairly undemocratic territory here. However, you could make the argument that voters did kind of vote for Harris when they voted for Biden.

My wife is a nurse. She has a non-critical job making care plans for patients and the system is STILL down.

But neither “chink” nor “spick” is even remotely as offensive as the N word. The fact that I won’t even use the word but I will use the other 2 is proof. I don’t think you would use the word either. If we assume that we’re dealing with a word of that caliber for South Africans, it’s understandable why they want it changed.

We could have an argument about whether we should even have words that have this kind of “Voldemort” power in our vocabulary, but at present we ascribe a lot of power to these words.

I researched this a bit and it looks like the actual slur is "Kaffir", which is also spelled "Cafri" and comes from the Muslim term for "non-believer". And somehow this word was chosen to be used as a slur and is considered highly offensive in South Africa. As an American, I'll draw a similarity with the "N" word.

But is the plant name racist in the sense that when they named it, they were picking the slur purposefully? Or does the word simply _sound_ like the slur?

Even the latter can be enough if you consider what it would be like if name had the "N" word - or even something that had the same sound. You would literally be unable to use the plant name out loud. But it would be important for publications covering this to not call it a "racist plant name" as that really depends on how the name was given.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffir_(racial_term)?useskin=v...

I’m the same. My wife loves museums. It’s been a long 22 years.

I always thought it was because I had a character flaw. Like I’m not cultured enough or too stupid.

This is the right take. There’s a lot here we don’t know and tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance. We have none of the nuance right now. But I fear that even when we do, nobody will care. Because isn’t that kind of the current state of affairs on pretty much every issue?

It’s odd how we glorify religion in this country, and then are immediately horrified when it rears its head in certain places. We seem conflicted. Is it a good thing, or a bad thing? Or maybe just the “right one” is a good thing?

Full disclosure: I consider it a good thing.

This is what worries me. I have devised a law of absolutes that is, "Nothing is all upside" or "Everything has unintended negative consequences". And the more something appears to be all upside, the more devastating the downside usually turns out to be.

No, but it certainly helps. Alcohol makes me a better listener. A better father. A better husband. A better friend. Less selfish. Less judgmental. More caring and more generous.

I drink cautiously because I know the health risks. I limit myself and most of the time do not drink at all. But I would be lying if I said alcohol doesn’t make me a better person.

It definitely cuts both ways. I’m not trying to pretend like that isn’t also the case.

Would be interesting if one of the major benefits of AI is it pushing us to clean energy

No, they are saying that the best option for peace is to make yourself so formidable that nobody wants to go to war with you. The point is NOT to go to war. It's just that the argument isn't disarming, it's the opposite, however counter-intuitive that might seem.

> “Disproportionately affecting people of color”

Are we arguing that these things are worse because they disproportionately affect one arbitrary grouping? Would it be better if it affected everyone equally? Would that make us happier? This is one of those contexts where “diversity” starts to get strange.