Its Orwellian double-speak. It implements restrictions on how people in Montana are allowed to use their personal property (computers) where no restrictions existed before.

trans mission

Dungeons and Dragons 5e is less fun than 3.5e IMO.

There was more of a sense of character progression, and ability differentiation in 3.5e.

5e achieves balance by flattening the power curve.

For example, the attack bonus for a level 20 Fighter in 5e is just 4 points higher than it was at level 1 - same as a 5e Wizard. Both get +2 at lvl 1 and +6 at lvl 20

In 3.5e, a level 20 fighter’s attack bonus is 19 points higher than it was at level 1 (+1 to +20), but a wizard only gains half that much fighting prowess as they level up (+0 to +10).

All 5e characters are pretty much the same statistically & mechanically. Differentiation comes from role play, which is the least interesting part of the game for me.

At current exchange rates, 50oz of gold would sell for $201,050. It would be a good down payment on a starter home, but less than half the total cost of ownership.

You’d think that starfleet would realize that $100,000 in 2025 won’t even buy an old busted house in the middle of nowhere, let alone someplace that’s actually secure.

a small bit of cardamom can be good too

I’ve tried with both kinds of vinegar, and both are good with different dishes.

Personally, I liked the apple cider vinegar version on salads, and the white vinegar base paired well with heavier foods like tacos or fried potatoes.

Maybe start with 2 smaller batches, one of each, and combine them later if the mix is what works best for you?

I find pickled red onions are good on their own - like, the onion itself makes a good condiment. However, if you roast some yellow onions & garlic in a light vegetable oil until they start to caramelize, and throw a spoonful of it in the jar with the peppers, it will infuse the vinegar with a nice flavor.

Those are super easy to turn into hot sauce.

Just cut the tops & stems off, and stuff them in a jar.

Boil some vinegar in a pot on the stove, mix in a bit of salt, and pour over the peppers.

Let it cool down & then throw the jar full of vinegar and peppers into your refrigerator for 2 weeks.

Done.

Use the salty, hot pepper infused vinegar like you would any other hot sauce.

makes you wonder if/how/by who its been used all these years

yeah, the timing is ‘interesting’

I suspect this is incompetence, but once Oracle gets it the enshitification will be due to malice.

Yeah, not sure if its badly configured AI, or an employee not getting paid enough to care.

I wonder if their staff have a ticket quota system that lacks oversight of whether or not the ticket’s support needs were actually addressed before it was closed?

Are you suggesting that golf balls migrate?

eating a what?

Born of contraband smuggling?

mfw Bezos wants to build Mikoshi

Weakness to Magic stacks exponentially with itself when it comes from 2 different spells.

For example, lets say you have 2 spells with Weakness to Magic 100% for 6 seconds: Spell 1, and Spell 2.

Spell 1: target becomes 100% weak to magic
Spell 2: target becomes 2 * 100% = 200% weak to magic
recast Spell 1: target becomes 2 * 200% = 400% weak to magic
recast Spell 2: target becomes 2 * 400% = 800% weak to magic

And so on. After a few stacks of that debuff, and you can 1-hit-kill any foe with a spell that deals damage.

Weakness to Magic also works on the player character and it will amplify the effect of buffs. Stacking it before casting your buff spells lets you walk around with millions of health, stamina, and mana for short periods of time.

the school’s owner siphons off all the resources, leaving very little for the teachers, staff, and students to utilize.

2 guys cook cafeteria fare for the whole school - they don’t have time to get fancy. they want to make good food, even though they don’t get paid very well, but the ingredients they’re given are mid shelf cans of things purchased from bulk warehouse stores like Costco or Sam’s Club or whatever the local equivalent is. it tastes decent and checks all the nutritional boxes, but is less exciting than food you can make at home or buy from a restaurant.

IDK if its just my local social circles skewing my perception of things, but it really does seem like autistic people tend to have a strong anti-authoritarian leaning.

Sometimes I wonder if that’s why the nazis are so eager to find a ‘cure’. A cynic might think what they’re really after is chemically induced acceptance of injustice and tyranny - ‘vitamins’ they can load into school lunches to turn the entire population into regime collaborators, sympathizers, and apologists.