I bought two right before stuff jumped too badly. Looked about a week later thinking buying another one might be an ok idea, rofl no way I can justify it now…

So now I’m debating if I really NEED backups… certainly not of everything… I still need a video card, and those never did really come back down…

The best way to get rid of it when it happens is to fill your lungs as much as you can, and then bear down lightly like you are pooping. After that it’s gone.

Happens to me about 3x/yr and always has.

I tried it once, and found it to be intensely lacking in any sort of… well anything.

My brain told me everything was tiny, and I heard a whomp whomp whomp whomp for a few minutes and that was it. It tasted like smoking grass clippings over a campfire, and I went “well its a fun plant to grow but I wont be harvesting it again”

Yeah, I want it purely for aesthetics. I like generating 100% of the planet, and sending colonies to far-flung places via dev mode instant travel to settle in isolation, so I spend a decent amount of time looking at the world map. It just bothers me when it’s mostly land. It’s ugly, imo, and you get fewer interesting land/climate combos, even with expanded biomes. Also one of my mods adds things washing up on the beach, like organs, so I’m a big fan of ocean-adjacent tiles.

Honestly I haven’t gotten the new DLC, and probably wont, so I don’t really know anything about the space stuff. I have way too much time and energy invested in my collection of mods and don’t have any interest in doing it again (I manage them manually because I don’t use steam, so updating/replacing a thousand mods is a big project)

I’ve been playing whiskerwood on and off, its in early access and runs for shit on my crap windows computer, but it’s all islands and it seems they’ll be adding more to water navigation (last patch I installed added ferries and boat docks, and that was a few months ago). I enjoy that sort of thing too, but I don’t think rimworld really needs it.

My point is that if they have less energy density, they aren’t a particularity great choice for EVs, as the increased battery size to get the same capacity makes the whole thing much heavier, requiring even more battery to move it.

I guess for like short range vehicles, it might be fine, but at least around here, thats gunna be a pretty tough sell, because everything is spread out.

It can’t really make EVs safer if its not being used for them due to the drawbacks, is all.

I thought sodium batteries had considerably less energy density than conventional? Is that not a problem anymore? If that hasn’t been solved, I don’t see how this helps make EVs safer.

Mine also try to kill me on the stairs. As soon as I start to walk up, they run up a few stairs ahead of me and then stop like assholes. Especially in the dark. Thankfully they don’t hang out on the stairs at other times so I know its going to happen because I hear them.

I’ve started walking up them very slowly, so now they continue the game in the hallways and are guaranteed to get kicked at least once, at which point I say “by now you know I can’t see in the dark, you deserved that.” Rather than rewarding them with apology attention.

So thats where rimworld got the shitty planet generation from. Seriously, I want big contiguous oceans. Not like I can use the vast majority of the planet anyway.

The margin was fantastic, but the turnout sucked. Wisconsin’s population is about 6 million, only 1.5 million voted.

Spring elections always suck for turnout, but with everything going on, I honestly expected better. Hopefully we can get it together for the other stuff this year.

Probably this

The way that makes the most sense for me is intelligence is related to external learning (books, from others, from detailed study of things, etc) whereas wisdom comes primarily from internal observation (self-reflection, personal experience, situational awareness, etc.)

From doctor who, a species that was in stasis underground for eons.

Clara is a brunette, I just want to clarify that in case people get confused about which meme. :) (It took me a sec)

Not really, no, though there are logging operations and they sometimes ruin large swaths of land by planting shit like a whole forest of pine where there used to be a healthy mixed forest.

This area is pretty heavily wooded yet, though. The fields that are here are old, generations back stuff with more natural boundaries, rows of wind-break trees between fields and the like, swampy areas left in field corners. We aren’t really adding new farmland here either, in fact there are incentive programs to reforest former farmland. Often old farmland is used for development.

We do pull stuff out if we are developing the property, sure, but otherwise no, most land is left pretty natural.

That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.

They have some really cool pressure capsules for bringing deep sea specimens to the surface, can’t imagine it wouldn’t work for bacteria and such, but the actual studying of it would be very difficult.

Like the blob fish, which was really just a fairly normal looking fish that essentially ruptured into a pile of goo under the lack of pressure, the cells they would be trying to study would be really really difficult to do anything with.

You’d probably have to create a whole special automated lab for them, maybe even a whole mess of different types for different environments, but making a rover-type craft and studying them in situ would probably be much easier. Like the mars rovers, but close enough to control live.

Personally, I’m partial to sending people down to work on deep sea labs to study this stuff similar to the Rifters series by Peter Watts. It seems fascinating to be modified to breathe underwater and survive the pressures.

Link is to the archive.org full copy of Starfish, book one of the Rifters trilogy, all of which were released entirely free under a Creative Commons license, and are absolutely amazing imo. Wild ride of insanity and destruction. All of his work that I’ve read has been great.

Consider: graphics cards pricing.

Shit’s not coming back down to reasonable prices any time soon. At least not without major intervention on the part of governments.

Thank you, I went into the mastodon (I think that’s what that is?) post looking for a link, knowing I’ve seen it arranged like a comic before, and was dismayed there don’t seem to be one.

Considering the delay some stuff has, I extend it to roughly a week.

The fact that he’s into bimbofication makes so much sense, even if she didn’t do it strictly for him… (mar-a-lago face is political bimbofication as far as I’m concerned)

Bet he was real encouraging.