I can do ya one better…

As someone stuck in this train wreck of a country, please don’t compare yourselves to us. It makes us feel worse when everybody stares. :(

(In all seriousness, though, please feel free to annex us.)

I dunno, dwarf fortress seems to be doing alright for itself so far. Tarn and Zach really needed some more help and some graphic design backup. I don’t agree with the total abandonment of the keybindings system in favor of mouse clicks, but I understand that it was necessary to make the game’s learning curve less precipitous.

The same thing has always confused me about CCGs. Why spend hundreds of dollars to be able to play them at all, when you can just get Dominion and know that the game is both fair and varied?

“Truth is singular. Its ‘versions’ are mistruths” Sonmi-451, Cloud Atlas

Except that there’s no incentive for a moderation team to implement that policy, and anyone with enough access can make a workaround to censor whatever they want without allowing people to view anyway, right?

Weird. I got a totally different read. I’m probably mistaken, but I thought it was suggesting that they were doing malicious compliance by making shitty code that will fail the moment they are no longer maintaining it, so that the corporation will have to bring them back with a consultancy rate.

Not that it is incorrect to call him an immigrant, but I do think “castaway” and “refugee” fit his situation a little better. Still a xenophobic thing to say he’s not an immigrant. Every single document regarding Clark Kent’s existence is falsified, so he is, by definition, an illegal alien.

Nestle, Part 4: Bad for your Planet

Nestle, Part 5: Literal Slavery

That’s a one-in-three chance of a task failed successfully, then!

I think that, in order to have this be a projection of a square, the space between the interior right angles of the space from which it was projected would have to be not just curved, but also twisted, like a Möbius strip, such that a person “walking” the square and starting from the rightmost angle leftward would start walking as if they were on your screen (their head coming out away from the screen), but then they would need to have their perspective twist so that they are now walking on the “underside” of the figure (their head now pointing into your phone). This would allow them to perceive the two “external” turns as “internal” turns, as well. Then it just needs to untwist on the way back. We just can’t see the twisting, because the lines have no width.

HA, get a load of this, everyone! This person thinks researchers get paid royalties by the publishers!

<the entirety of academia grimly chuckles, a single tear of inner pain welling in each eye>

I don’t believe so. IIRC from my mineralogy & petrology courses, minable quantities of most metals occur from 4 sources:

1. hydrothermal deposits: where water impregnates crustal rock at a high temperature and pressure, dissolving metals, which are then released as the water cools.
2. placer deposits: where small crystals of metal ores are chipped away by erosion and carried by fluid. Those dense particles settle out from the liquid as soon as it slows down, so they all end up concentrated in specific places in rivers, lakes, etc.
3. pegmatites & layered intrusions: these are igneous bodies which, due to the processes of their formation, tend to create either very large crystals of rare minerals (pegmatites), or significant concentrations of those rare metals over an entire magma chamber (layered intrusions). Hawaii doesn’t exhibit the necessary geologic conditions for either of these cases.
4. banded iron formations: caused when, during the Great Oxygenation Event, microbes bound oxygen atoms to iron ions in the early ocean, effectively eating the energy of that reaction, as Iron ions became less stable with higher oxygen fugacity, and the Iron Oxide that was created, suddenly insoluble, sank to the ocean floor.

As a very recent mantle-plume-driven volcanic arc, Hawaii doesn’t exhibit the necessary conditions for any of these in great degrees, so you would not expect to find any serious metal deposits there.

I know it’s a joke, but in case you’re wondering: there’s no coal on Hawaii. It’s too young, geologically speaking.

No, this is supply-side Jesus, and he’s barrel-chested because he wants to be like his idol, Melon Husk.

And the whole reason they’re evil is because the most powerful person who has one gets to choose what all the others see. I’m sure there’s no metaphor there.

And not one of them is going through the public terminal.

Absolutely, but aerobic life is more able to harness efficient energy with the use of oxygen’s INSANE reactivity, and that change was only possible because the anaerobes turned 20+% of the atmosphere into the elemental molecular form of the second-most electronegative element in the universe. Even plants, which produce oxygen gas during photosynthesis, use oxygen to power ATP synthesis. Oxygenation of the planet was absolutely requisite to allow the evolution of eukaryotic multicellular life.

Oh absolutely! I was just working with what we were given.

Don’t forget the anaerobes, which generated so much oxygen that they poisoned themselves nearly to extinction and made the entire atmosphere a toxic miasma for themselves, without which all multicellular life would not exist!