Shakespeare actually wrote that part In originally but had to cut it from the live performances because he couldn’t find a trained cat who would do it reliably. Shame too, it’s the most realistic part when it’s included. They didn’t spay or neuter back then so there were just always kittens everywhere. If you died a dozen or so would mess with you to make sure you weren’t faking it.
Based on getting progressively better each time I played through one of the horizon games even with months or years between them, I’d say yes.
When I first started, I was awful with aiming and stuff (shooters have never really been my thing, I’m trash at aiming, horizon is JUST far enough from a full-on shooter that it piqued my interest and held it solidly), now I’m playing actual FPS/TPS because my skill and muscle memory in that regard has improved substantially. Enough that I got platinum on both horizon games. :)
I was reading with increasing trepidation, and was relieved when I got to the bit about them being harmless, for largely similar reasons.
Which is a legit concern, birth is a major medical event with possible complications galore even if it goes well, and literally an emergency in many cases. Women die during childbirth all the time even with the best care.
Local dude here stopped running for office due to death threats against them and their family… small, semi-rural, conservative town, the most important decision for which is… idk, tbh. Can’t honestly imagine why anyone would threaten someone here.
Which makes me want to run for that position instead. Fuck you people, I don’t have a family to worry about, and I’m not all that worried about dying myself. Solid chance I won’t even know about them since I don’t use social media, and barely check my mail… they’d have to actually act on the threats for it to rise to a level I’d notice, and boy oh boy would I love that. Talk about publicity for the campaign for doing nothing!
Genuinely so many things come from oil, and a lot of them are dyes. Also some antibiotics, and various other useful chemicals.
But yeah, a surprising number of dyes come from oil, and its actually a waste product of refinement. It’s a good thing overall with our current gas dependency, but its a fragile system when oil is one of the most sought-after finite-supply things on earth.
Grocery stores gunna start looking like 1930s movies. Surreal.
Im very excited for that. I love surreal stuff, and the more immersive, the better. What could be more immersive than reality (other than drugs)?
Since they have higher income, they pay more taxes.
Citation very much needed, because lol no they don’t. Their propaganda sure worked on you, though.
In fact they hire people to find every loophole they can so they pay as little as possible, often less than us working class stiffs pay. Absolutely less as a percentage of total, if not in absolute numbers, tho usually in absolute numbers as well.
There’s no actual guarantee there will be a morbid last time with random chest pains. It could be more like the last time you burned a CD; uneventful and not really noteworthy.
Technically, heart problems only kill like…
Oof looking up those stats was depressing…
Heart disease deaths as of 2022 account for only 24% of all deaths though! So your chances of death by heart problem aren’t actually super high, especially if you don’t have existing heart problems! Yay! Its probably just a panic attack! Or gas!
The share of heart attacks as a subset of all cardiovascular disease deaths is also down, but deaths from things like hypertension are way way up, relatively, so take your meds if you have them, get your exercise, eat the veggies, do the health things.
The only reason thats any different than just saving your own regular money for it and blowing that on the exact same thing is the optics.
Like if you get the bennies, its not like people know that every single time you buy stuff, only when you use that specific payment method
It depends here, sometimes we genuinely do get a bunch of “continue straight to stay on xyz” for no obvious reason, and on highways with multiple off-ramps that split the existing lanes, it’s very common to get “use the middle lane to continue on xyz” so it’s not really as out of place as you might think. Our roads are just spaghetti garbage. Josh from Let’s Game It Out must have done the road planning.
And yes, navigating by signs is doable, but we are (were?) talking about navigation apps which provide excruciating detail, so thats a bit of a moot point. But where, specifically, they are marked changes, how well they are marked changes, and on many of them you can’t see signage at night until you are almost past it, and due to mostly being space-constrained retrofits, which exit you want from the roundabout isn’t nearly as standardized as it should be, even to continue straight. Sometimes straight is the first exit, sometimes the third. Usually second. It’s not a super great implementation of the system, but the roads themselves aren’t a whole lot better. Sometimes it is really really unclear what road you are already on, because only cross-streets are marked (as in you can’t see the signs for your road until you go through an intersection, and it might not be marked in a way you can see for several blocks if the intersections are with small quiet streets)… driving in general sucks, basically, and the maps direction to continue through the second exit is thus either welcome, or at least not a dealbreaker, for drivers here.
We’ve had roundabouts all over the place for 20+ years at this point. I genuinely don’t get why people still struggle so much with them.
But fwiw my town also requires several roundabouts to get through and it’s not very big. And almost every time an intersection needs work, we get a new roundabout.
However I actually do like the way the directions work in maps where it says “take the x exit” because a ton of roads aren’t well marked in roundabouts, and there are some weird but decently common situations where the exit you’d think you need is not the right one. Thats just sort of what happens when you are retrofitting everything, and have space constraints.
Were they, though?
Must be how they use so much water, too. Makes perfect sense.
(Seriously under the hood of a bolt the only interesting thing there that isn’t sealed in a metal box is three separate cooling fluids plus washer fluid. Just so much fluid.)
Yeah that all sounds pretty doable. I don’t usually buy groceries that frequently now, and I don’t currently have a farm with year-round greenhouse space as I would do with land, just minimal space for plants inside. Though I do need fairly regular medical care (every 3-ish months) so that might be a challenge.
My plan for winter no matter where I end up is basically hibernation, because screw winter anywhere with snow (I’ve lived near the great lakes most of my life so no stranger to unpleasant winter). What I want to build would allow me tunnel access to any outbuildings, all of which would be earth bermed.
Thanks for the info :)
It’s not all plumbing, sure, but there are actually (basically) cardboard pipes. They are called Orangeburg Pipes, but they’ve long since been phased out. They are still installed all over the place, however.
Whats the land situation like? Like say I don’t particularity care where, I just want some land where I can build a microfarm/homestead and largely be left alone, and I genuinely don’t care if I’m 100km from the nearest settlement. Would prefer closer, but meh. Doesn’t even need good internet, I’m beyond caring at this point.
Don’t forget skyrim! And vr skyrim!
Earthquake, then. :p
But also still yeah kinda, I assume.
Roku, in my experience, likes to break apps every 3 months to force you to reconnect and reinstall them, so pihole works, I’ve had one for years, but it didn’t work very well for Roku, unless adblocking is your one and only concern and tracking doesn’t matter to you. I assume it’s the window where they can still get fine-detail logs.
This might be out of date info; I have had mine off the internet for years at this point, but it’s because of that crap.