How many children do you have?

It’s not perfectly symmetrical around the socket, kinda makes me think of someone spreading wall patching/repair material and/or paint, so maybe the mold didn’t like a different material that was made to look the same around the socket?

My takeaway from my bachelor’s was that my time in school wasn’t so much about what I learned there (though it did teach me things I wouldn’t have even thought of on my own), but a) learning how to learn on my own, and b) getting a piece of paper proving that I can stick with a difficult and expensive program long enough to get through it.

Though as I understand it, at the associate’s level, classes are more about learning specific skills than the theory behind them. Like an associates level CS course might teach a specific language or framework while a bachelor’s level CS course will focus on algorithms, data structures, how a genetic framework might be designed and built, etc.

I think it’s basically someone commenting on their own meme.

Can we though? Like, sure, as a personal choice, I could prioritize clothes made from non-plastics (and I do, though not religiously), but is there enough cotton and such available on the planet to meet every individual’s clothing needs? Because if we want to talk about it at a “reducing microplastics being generated” level, that’s what’s required in the end.

Plus supply and demand means that prices follow demand, so everyone doing this will drive up organic based clothing prices and drive down plastic based clothing prices.

Not saying we shouldn’t try to adjust our individual patterns, just that it gets more complicated as it scales up.

Is it just me or does that construction look delicious?

Guess it was just a matter of time that they’d eventually accept that he wasn’t really helping them or even trying and direct that paranoia back at him. And all that denial to avoid feeling stupid about falling for it is going to be channeled into even more rage.

You say it’s you say tomato, I say tomahto, I say it’s you say tomato, I say tomato.

What I was thinking:

1. Be born to a wealthy family.
2. Parents shot in front of you.
3. Take off and get trained by ninjas.
4. Return to a company still running well and not stolen from you while you were gone that also has an advanced military prototyping division.
5. Practice with these new weapons/tools until you can competently use them in uneven battles against people trying to kill you while you do your best to avoid killing them.
6. Now go out and fight those battles while keeping your identity secret because no matter how good you get at being Batman, you’re still vulnerable to any situation where your opponents have planned more than you have (eg every ambush and surprise attack).

So wait, is hell supposed to be punishment for the evil or their base of support?

Oh, look, I have extra time before I need to get moving. How much extra time? I dunno, probably infinite.

Though it can be used during the initial parts of a relationship to make it progress at a very fast rate. Imo it’s best to hit the brakes even if the other person isn’t abusive. And hit the brakes as in don’t rush to move in with them, get married, or have a kid, as I think ending a relationship because it’s moving too fast is just as likely to end a good thing as avoid abuse.

IMO detecting abusive people is best done by seeing how they react when challenged, especially by someone they might consider a lesser.

Step three (the first step involving gaining skills) is pretty brutal. Then step 4 is just an extension of step 1 but requires even more luck when already only 0.1% manage step 1. Step 5 and beyond aren’t very fun either.

In fact I think the only real fun part, other than the general satisfaction from a job well done, involves a cat suit, and even that is a pretty mixed bag. Stock up on disinfectant and bandaids.

Thought it depended on what kind you get. The one generally available in North America is just strong liquor like bacardi 150 (though more of a zambooka flavour), but actual absinthe is made from some tree wood that is hallucigenic. At least, that’s how I understood it; I’ve only tried the boring kind.

Supply and demand aren’t lies, it’s more the free market is a lie, which allows the supply side to be manipulated to create false scarcity. It’s competition that’s supposed to bring prices down but the governments that are supposed to regulate the markets to allow competition instead use measures that look like they’ll make the bug players play fair but actually make it difficult or impossible for new players to enter the game.

Lol some of my formative programming time happened on mIRC script. I wrote a battle.net chat client in mIRC script, ironically right when blizzard decided to make it for game clients only and I never did get to faking a game’s handshake. Other than that, it was basically just an IRC server itself, though I never tried connecting mIRC directly to it using the IRC side, just a mIRC script client that used the mIRC script sockets and would set up a channel window for whatever channel you went to.

I also had a DnD script where you could roll basic characters, equip weapons and armor, and attack each other, I think it was 3.5-based (or maybe just 3).

The bronze age copper industry was very unforgiving. You deliver reduced purity copper ingots once and suddenly there’s tablets all over the place telling everyone about it. Not that it affected sales; demand for copper was always high. But every single customer makes a comment about the purity.

I curse them all to be wiped out by mysterious alien invaders from across the sea!

Oh does he do it like chess engines where it seems like playing at a low level is still playing with an almost prefect engine, only it adds random “inaccuracies” that are mistakes no human would ever make, like suddenly hanging their queen with no actual intent behind the move other then being a random mistake?

Like “oh, a average user would have made a mistake by now, so let’s remove an important directory to simulate that”?

Or maybe if quantum immortality is real, he’s off in his own universe where it worked out for him while the rest of us take the “fucker’s getting what he deserved” branch.

How likely is he to run into Koreans very upset with what he did?