nickwitha_k (he/him)

Also plants don’t really expend energy to modulate their bodies. It’s more about moving water around their internals.

Yes, but no. The energy expenditure is there, just not in the same way as animals and motile single-celled organisms. It’s, to borrow from software engineering, “left-shifted”. Plants invest the energy into building structures in their bodies that can be actuated via environmental changes. So, for example change in temperature between day and night may change hydrostatic pressure, which in turn causes motion (opening and closing the blossom).

Oh right, the destruction of every non-Israelite living in Gaza.

As we’ve seen since Oct 7th itself, Israelis are also acceptable collateral damage.

I grew up on the other side of the Saelish Sea (Puget Sound). I’d not recommend must places in King, Pierce, or Snohomish counties (or basically any major urban area). I’d also not recommend salt water anywhere but the coast. If you want to go lake swimming, there are good spots on the Olympic peninsula (ex Lake Cushman), places like Whatcom Falls in the North, or Icicle Creek out towards Leavenworth.

Basically, anywhere in the Seattle metro area will be questionable, IMO.

He is one of the people ever in the open-source movement.

What would you do?

Sandwich? Nah. We grillin’.

First, please clarify what sort of non-ad monetization you are talking about.

Second, we don’t need monetization. The commercialization of the Web, while handy for a while, is exactly why it’s decayed so much. We don’t need to import the cause of web rot here.

Unfortunately, Content Creator is not likely a solid long-term career. Don’t take this as dismissive of the effort that goes into quality videos. Some people really do treat it legitimately as a craft. However, the vocation was basically created through heavy subsidies from tech/ad companies, trying to get eyes on the ad space that they want to sell. Due to Chicago School economics (line must go up), and the fact that there is only so much ad space, tech companies are going to look to remove the cost of these subsidies, likely through a combination of generated content and removal of payouts, so that myopic investors can be happy.

So, how can you support yourself while still creating videos, etc? Well, if you don’t have a production company supporting you, you’ll need to learn business yourself or sell your talent to someone who is running a production company. As much as I would like for people to be able to do whatever they want with their lives, we’re currently stuck in a neoliberal hellscape where a working artist has to work and also be a business person.

I don’t dare express the opinion to my wife, who is Irish, but I actually do enjoy both. They both have distinct flavors and are worth trying.

Lyon’s, the superior Irish tea.

I’m also a fan of Yunnan teas. Especially pu ehr (shou, sheng, compressed, loose, it’s all good) and Yunnan Noir.

Good call. You might try games like Tomb Raider or the first Prince of Persia reboot for movement accuracy.

ETA: Just to be absolutely clear, the “/J” was “jerk” like the old “circlejerk” subs, not serious. You probably know that but I’d rather be sure and not assume as I don’t think being dicks to eachother makes the world a better place.

L2P n00b! /J

In seriousness though, I find the trackpads to be very useful for precision. Unfortunately, you have to build up the skill, like anything else. Work at it over time and you should get there. For practice, really depends on what you want to play. I’d suggest something that has a good system for criticals/headshots. Looks like Aim Lab might work on the deck, so maybe try that?

Indeed. I think that my questioning was more rhetorical but explicitly spelling it out can be helpful.

The state of Michigan has no historical connection to the AR-15, to my knowledge. Why don’t they pick something that is actually native to Michigan like the Johnston Muzzleloader?

They are absolutely eating the real costs in order to gain market share. I suspect that there’s going to be a mad dash to rehire humans when the bill comes due and the VCs want profits.

We’re quickly heading into a world where you can open up your phone and just say stuff. It talks back and it knows you. And it just works. Super exciting and as a user, quite looking forward to it.

I’m pretty sure that I’m not interested in that at all.

Yeah… Having ads in an app for FOSS software automatically makes it shit-tier for me. Even if they are blocked. I just really hate ads though.

And beeswax is an animal product.

Probably this and a synthetic emulsifier/surfactant or the like.

Amateurs. I beat mine 14 weeks per day.

I’d certainly say so. I’ve yet to see him even coming off as dismissive without trying to clarify why in a polite manner.

In my view, upvotes are too easy to manipulate to take them seriously or expect authenticity. And I’m ok with that. I think Reddit and the like showed that karma and the like are not great measures of authentic engagement.