It feels risky to take a side, especially when it seems like the other side is feeling increasingly emboldened and righteous in their violence. I want a world to exist where LGBT (and others) don’t need to be afraid to live freely, and that means sometimes I do things that scare me.
I’m not trying to preach, or say you need to suck it up, or anything like that. I just want to say that I get it. Thanks for taking a side; I wish more people would.
I hear people say that all generations have their dumb numbers, but I don’t remember so many establishments having to ban 69 back in the day. Yes, there will have always been something dumb getting popular, but I think it’s more willfully obnoxious now, and I don’t think I’m just an old man yelling at a cloud.
E: Thinking about it a bit, I think there’s truth to it being willfully obnoxious. The rise of social media encourages being more disruptive, causing a bigger scene, anything to go viral. God, now I really do sound old.
I’m currently playing The Outer Worlds on the hardest difficulty which, among other things, disallowes fast-travel. For the most part, the worlds have been small and it hadn’t been a problem, but yesterday I had to go back and forth to 3 locations several times in a row in different corners of the map. It only took a five minutes each time, but ugh. It got old.
I wonder why? Just taste buds changing as you get older, or more exposure to alternatives?
I suppose also that the flavors themselves might have changed over time, but there are plenty of people that love them now, probably.
Is it just sunk-cost fallacy that keeps them in denial, or is their view of reality truly that warped? At any rate, if there are more people that want to leave America because it’s “too woke”, then godspeed.
It’s so dumb I have to assume it’s satire
When did you play it? I liked the game when it came out, but I tried to replay it recently and the mechanics did not age gracefully. It’s pretty clunky by modern standards.
I’m sure that to a lot of people this is likely sacrilege lol
Yes, you could collect energy while coasting down a hill, but it would slow you down. Which is fine if you want to slow down; this is the basis for regenerative braking. You might be thinking that a pinwheel spins like crazy in the wind, and that’s just free energy. But a pinwheel doesn’t store anything. To store energy, you need to add resistance, and the more you add, the more energy you collect and the harder it is to spin the wheel.
So at the end of the day, you’ve got a fan at the front of the bike that is either spinning quickly with little resistance and storing little energy or one that is spinning slowly and collecting more. And the slower it spins, the more pushback there is against your forward movement.
Despite there being two batteries, this is still a single system which uses energy to propel the bike forward and collects energy by preventing the bike from moving forward. They offset. The only way to have the energy to propel the bike is by introducing energy from another source (not related to the movement of the bike) such as a battery charged ahead of time or calorie loss of the rider (active pedaling).
It would wash out. Any energy collected would be at the cost of resistance. So add fans to add wind resistance. You could collect energy from coasting and braking, but that’s just tech we’ve been using for years in cars, and it comes at the cost of movement. It actively slows you down because the energy has to come from somewhere. And since energy conversion is hardly one-to-one (loss to heat, etc), storing it into a battery and then pulling it out again means you won’t gain as much as you lose.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed. If you are generating energy, you’re taking it from somewhere, and on a bike, it’s from your forward movement.
Bust down a door and say, “Heeeere’s Tronnie!”
Thanks for allowing me, too, to experience a patronizing grandad’s voice so that I can empathize with OP
Yeah, this actually sounds fine to me. Since they’re entirely self-made men who acquired their wealth through their own hard work and gumption, it’s only a minor setback.
I’m an athiest, and I don’t recognize this philosophy as Christian. I will recognize it as Christ-like, or at least how the stories say that Christ was, but Christianity as I know it, the Christianity that is shouted by loud hateful ignorant bigots, the Christianity that is the most visible and the most impactful toward me and my fellow man, had been distorted and bastardized from those principles into a monster that doesn’t sound anything like this video.
If this is what you want Christianity to be, then I wish you the best in trying to take it back.
Legend of Zelda along the same lines. I remember how cool it was that it could save progress without constant power. Caveat is… It’s so hard without a guide or a lot of trial and error.
Since you mention the d-pad. It was patented, so all the big companies had their own legally distinct spins on it. Nintendo has their cross; sega had a circle thing; Sony had discrete buttons, Microsoft had a different circle thing.
The Nintendo patent actually expired a number of years ago now, so nowadays the cross is showing up more places.
Wood stoves have something called a baffle plate that redirects hot air so that it flows along the interior top of the unit before leaving through the chimney. The purpose is to heat the metal enough for radiation tranferrance. I often put a ceramic-coated cast iron kettle on top, and it will boil if left for a while. Anyone who sits on the stove would have a very bad time.
Built in fireplaces work differently but aren’t typically sit-onable.
I injured my hand last week, so my normal escapes (woodworking and video games) are not available right now, and holy shit has it been a hard week. I didn’t realize how much I relied on these breaks from the otherwise constant stream of bullshit.
Some things I wasn’t told ahead of time but wish I had been:
Your particular gfx card might have issues with your Linux distro. Save yourself a lot of troubleshooting and research ahead of time which distros are more likely to work out of the box with your card. After I started over and switched to PopOS for Nvidia, my life has been a lot easier.
There is a fork of Proton called Proton-GE made by some dude with the moniker GloriousEggroll. It includes more features than base Proton like the ability to play more cutscenes and various graphical updates. For my build, it was essentially required.
Just another note. Steam is great; for everything else there’s Heroic launcher. It’ll launch Gog, Epic… The non-steam launchers. And you can choose your compatibility layer, so if you install Steam first, it’ll default to Proton.
I don’t think his stance on science or health had any bearing on getting a job. I think that was the job that kept him from contained (in the opinion of the maga administration).