Plus Bowser actually looks good topless.

Didn’t realize don’t know was an answer. I feel like that’s a solid answer if you figure there’s a chance of an error or something. I wouldn’t put it since I don’t play, though.

Absolutely badass. I’ll make do with my shaders, but you’re living the dream.

Ever play Faxanadu?

Any loophole where you can make Jesus super fucking sexy so both you and your grandma can be happy with the wall candy?

We already have our local celebrities, anyway. And what good does it do them? Beans.

It’s really something how when you lose one sense, the other ones make up for it. Blinddeaf folks drive by smell alone, main reason EVs have that added scent since they lack the same smell as gas vehicles.

Might I suggest a second good reason for South American countries— when nuclear war hits the US, and it will, the southern hemisphere has a shot of surviving a nuclear winter. Billions will die but mostly in the northern hemisphere, even after accounting for fallout spread.

I think that might be my plan too, but I’m still waiting a paycheck or two before I even monitor the situation. My 2070 is fine and ultimately I just want to pass it down to a spare PC for kids to mess around on as my oldest hits 3. I know my the time I hit 5 I was playing shit like Dune 2, admittedly with hacked save files my dad setup.

Fake pizza, sure, but doesn’t imply it’s bad. Plus ironically, you can find Italian style pizza in the US if you look for it.

That said, I’ll still apologize for Dominos, Pizza Hut, et. al. for fast-foodizing the concept of pizza.

Social identity is key to survival, so it’s no surprise how resistant people are.

An old mentor of mine at UCLA did a study where they put people in an fMRI machine and monitored brain function when feeling rejected during a digital game of catch. When the other two “players” (NPCs) started only tossing between each other and excluding the participant, the part of the brain responsible for physical pain triggered.

Not being rejected from others around you is so important to human survival that evolution hardwired our brain to feel pain at the slightest hint of being rejected. Other experiments found similar, we forego an awful lot to stay in good graces with our society.

To add a note, they’re famously private people, hence living out there in the first place. It’s not that unusual to go unnoticed when you live on a gated compound and don’t like socializing with your neighbors. From what I could tell they didn’t even know who those two were.

I’m not actually sure, but the milk I buy isn’t and most milk I’ve seen doesn’t seem to be given they expire in days so I’m guessing not. Nutritionally, it doesn’t matter but it does impact the taste at the cost of lasting a long time and I have tasted bad milk before from the big box stores.

Oh. More or less what I expected, but still absolutely horrible.

Meanwhile I teach on a campus that charges people working there $5 a day to park and it’s too remote for busses so I just park off campus and hike a little. Ugh

Oh no, he found out countries play by Capture-the-Flag rules with our founding documents. He’s going to hand it over like it’s the deed to America and we’ll all be cooked— cooked, I say!

Technically Volvo (and I assume Polestar) are publicly traded but for a while Geely owned it, which is the same as Tencent owning something, etc. It’s still a swedish company and I think because it’s operated out of Sweden, there isn’t the same pushback in the US.

That said, the note doesn’t seem to understand that all those companies are kind of shitty and owned by rich people, except maybe Hyundai?

Heh, probably just needed a more extreme example, like healing crystals. But man, even that ends up tested by researches if for no other reason but to debunk it, lol.

It’s too bad they can’t just do 50% on MAGA households and non voters. Somewhere in NY there is someone who actively campaigned to prevent this and continues to protest and they’re getting a 25% price hike anyway.

At least we can target businesses and billionaires more directly, although unlike the average voter they need a lot, lot more pain before they change.

Well, those three things are what a psych teacher told me in community college like, way before I sought out my degree. Not that that should be a ding against her, she taught at pretty competitive 4 years, too.

That said, yours could just be a different framework (e.g. PTSD literature). I personally don’t think that works very well, as it represses the emotion (much like ignoring it would do). You could also argue physical exercise and deep breaths work, too, but again, that’s another framework and one that’s generally taught along with aggression literature.

So far, I’ve stayed in the know on every god damned thing, even going deep enough in some cases to explore the damage caused. It’s stressful, but somebody has to do it and I’m someone less impacted than the targets of this insanity (although I’ve dated a transfem for years and am trained in education policy, so obviously the news gets to me on a personal level).

One lesson about stress: you’ve got three ways to cope: (1) you address the source of the stress (or at least feel like you’re doing something, like protesting). (2) You ignore it with distractions, which is perfectly fine if it’s out of your control, (3) you reframe it, such as “this will pass” or “there’s still good in the world”, etc… All three will reduce stress.

We all do all three, and whichever one you find yourself doing is fine. For example, I feel good by trying to share my knowledge and convince my students to give a shit; I still play video games to relax; and I have told myself plenty of times that, while it’s bad (very, very bad), that as long as we survive we can build back our institutions (and believe me, the DoE is both important and deeply flawed-- as someone who survived a failed k-12 education and got a PhD in spite of it, education reform has always been my dream).