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I hit rock bottom, gave up drinking, went to therapy, found a new job that I don’t hate, gave up weed, found a partner, got asked if I wanted to go on a hiking holiday with her, said yes, panicked because I was totally out of shape, bought a bike, got in shape and enjoyed it, got married, have a kid on the way. Life’s good.

Can confirm. Germans are the most pathetic, docile people. Love nothing more than moaning and complaining about everything, but don’t you dare break any rules or norms to do something about it!

(Source: am German)

This is just me, but I just wouldn’t man. I drank for years and then quit completely about 6 years ago. To me it wouldn’t be worth the risk of falling back into my old ways. I know me and even if it was fine just this once, that would quickly turn into “it was fine last time, so it’ll be fine again” and then just creep back up on me. Sure, sometimes I still fancy a beer (or maybe I just still have cravings), but being sober all the time is really not that bad. It’s pretty sweet actually.

We live in a flat, but don’t really have any special storage solution. Just bike stands to keep the wheels from marking the floor and the brake levers from scuffing up the walls. Two gravel bikes in the dining room (one is my wife’s) and a road bike in a corner of the bedroom. In the winter the road bike goes on the turbo trainer in the same place.

We’ll probably end up moving at least the gravel bikes to our cellar though, since we’ll be needing extra space soon. Hopefully the road bike can stay upstairs though where I can admire it.

You’d think so, but all you’d have to do is tell them where Ozzy is sitting and they’d go pester him instead.

I rarely even finish the main part these days. There just aren’t that many games that can hold my attention for the time they take to beat. Especially since I just don’t have as much time, as I get older, so beating a big narrative game could take months.

Late to the Party (see what I did there?), but Jamboree has “Pro Rules”, which disable minigames that are highly luck based, makes the start location less random, limited items and tells you at the beginning of the game what the bonus stars will be (and probably some more changes too). It definitely reduces the luck factor quite a bit, but for what it’s worth I don’t think it’s as fun as the default mode.

What would be a just sentence though? If we’re going for “an eye for an eye”, you’ll quickly find that you run out of punishments for the most heinous crimes. And even if you can keep coming up with ways to punish people, it stops seeming like a good idea real fast when you accidentally end up punishing the wrong person.

It’s easy to say “this person deserves more” when you’re talking about an individual case, but when you’re trying to build a system that balances punishment, justice, rehabilitation, deterrence and protecting the public you’re never going to come up with a perfect solution that feels fair all of the time. But the alternative is making arbitrary decisions on a case by case basis, influenced by bias and personal feelings.

That’s not so say the justice system, especially in the US, doesn’t have big problems. But I don’t think the solution is to double down on harsher punishment.

The pedos he’s killing are being punished by the justice system though.

Not to defend pedos, but prison violence is not a good thing, even if in some cases it ends up affecting the “right” people.

Do you do any sports? I’m the same. Can eat as much as and whatever I want, while always staying under 60kg (I’m 176cm).

Counter intuitively, I am healthier and have more energy since I started doing endurance sports (cycling). My weight got down to 48kg at one point before I started exercising, but I’m consistently around 57-58kg now. It increased my appetite and I eat even more now, but I feel infinitely better. Plus I have the perfect body for endurance. I’m not strong, but I can keep going for very long time and being light means I’m really good at going uphill.

My time has come

You’re taking this way too seriously. It’s just a kid getting punched by another kid. FWIW I didn’t downvote you.

That’s weird, because my take away was that next time he should punch him harder to make the consequences worth it.

I’ve been playing a lot of Tetris recently. My favourite versions are Apotris (playing the GBA version on a DS Lite), Tetr.io (Browser, Desktop), Tetris 99 (Switch) and Tetris Effect Connected (Switch, PC, VR).

Also great, but not quite as good as the others imo: Tetris DS (DS, obviously) and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Switch).

As someone not looking to spend a ton of money on new hardware any time soon: good. The longer it takes to release faster hardware, the longer current hardware stays viable. Games aren’t going to get more fun by slightly improving graphics anyway. The tech we have now is good enough.

That expansion ran like shit and was full of bugs when it released (maybe it’s better now), so I wouldn’t be surprised if they couldn’t get it to run well enough for VR.

I wanted to be a palaeontologist. Ended up working in IT. It’s okay and a comfortable job, but I sometimes wish I worked with animals (living ones, not fossilised) instead of computers.

I was able to find several articles in English by searching “Amsterdam cat staircase” on DuckDuckGo.

What makes you think it’s AI? Nothing about the picture looks like AI to me.