Yeah, that’s not how this kind of advertising works. Check this out.

Look at that ad for as long as it takes to read the article, then look away and immediately name the first three restaurant chains that come to mind.

Unless you’re coming from a place that is critical/cynical about the invasive nature of advertising, it’s possible you’ll just go along with “Chili’s” as one of a handful of options and not give it a second thought.

I appreciate the (icky) subtext that the reviewer is not only eating a good amount of food off of that, but is casually wearing it around town and also touching elevator buttons with it.

It’s actually possible with VERY high pressure and you don’t get normal ice. But clearly not what’s going on outside.

Yup. Same goes for temp/hunger/thirst. Unless the environment creates a situation that directly challenges that, like arctic conditions, desert, underwater, extended covert ops etc., these things do not serve the story and get in the way.

Plus, a bag of holding neatly side-steps a lot of encumbrance problems and I firmly believe that’s why it’s been a part of D&D lore since at least 2nd ed.

Meanwhile, if the table wants to go deep simulation on all this, the rules are there for that. But I wish everyone good luck with fighting monsters up close in a cave where weapons bigger than daggers are too large to swing, and heavy armor too bulky to be practical.

For medium sized rice, consider mochi or tteokbokki.

Total lack of empathy.

It is my unfounded, unsubstantiated belief that this is the biggest reason why ICE was chosen for the gestapo-like role they have now. If you take every last department with manpower and guns, the role of “disrupting and upending the lives of otherwise peaceful people” is far and away the one responsibility that differentiates it from all other roles. Like working in an abattoir, empathy just gets in the way of processing illegal immigrants for deportation. A total lack of empathy was a job requirement before all this kicked off. We shouldn’t be surprised that this is what we’re up against.

That’s why this doubles as a “Best 3D Printer Operator” trophy… provided you can figure that out.

I think you just listed all the best parody material, to be honest. “Happy Souls” is fun too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kr7KDCsIws

Edit: Okay, Happy Ring is worth a chuckle or two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY5EPn20mfw

I’m considering an Elden Ring replay. It’s been a couple years. Last time was a Samurai build - the starting weapon was so good, I just upgraded it right through to the very end. Any recommendations on alternate builds for a new challenge? I also haven’t even touched the DLC yet.

Can’t light-roll your way out of a vigor check there boss.

And seeing as how that projectile is the size of a small moon, I hope it’s not your dump stat.

Trans people should have free boneless wings

As in “instead of arms” or “to eat”?

While I’ve never seen it illustrated until now, I thought it was kind of obvious that this is our reality from outside our solar system. Is it not?

People keep putting coffee and chocolate in the same lane, so the addition of heat and salt should work just fine in coffee now that I think about it. I’ll have to give that a go.

What kind of ugly are we talkin’ here? The kind that you inherit or the kind you choose to be?

IMO, it really is what’s on the inside that counts. Doubly so, in this case.

I mean, that happens with CloudWatch all the time. It’s the most plausible part about this.

It also helps that we’re talking about rather dense nuclei too. So it’s not just a neutron absorbing blanket, but a rather high-performing one at that. Which you need to convert fusion outputs to heat and power anyway. And gold is soluble in mercury anyway, so extraction is already a known (albeit incredibly dangerous) process. Win-win.

yielding several tonnes of gold per plant-year

Mother of god that’s a lot to magic-up outta nowhere. At first I thought this would disrupt the market, but it looks like yearly global gold production is around 3000 tons a year. So it would take a lot of reactors to impact the gold market, so… yeah. Reactors really could start paying for themselves.

I’ve done this, but while deep in the throes of post-trauma dissociation. Dexterity and fine motor control kind of just “turned off”, leaving my limbs feeling heavy and numb for a good while. My other senses were thrown off too, but I recall having to watch my hands carefully so I didn’t drop things. It’s no fun.

That was a long while ago. Things are much, much better now, but man was that a rough ride.

I guess my takeaway here is that, while OP’s post is darkly humorous, it’s kind of the truth for some folks. Be kind to yourself and others, and don’t cry over (literal) spilled milk. Some days are just hard.

There’s some complex mechanical interlocks involved in charging circuitry too. You can hear these beefy solenoids clunk on/off when plugging in a charging cable. A stuck solenoid could be implicated too, as some safety detection circuitry might check those to see if the car is currently in a charging configuration. That goes especially since moving parts are typically more likely to fail before anything else. Although, I’d be stunned if that wasn’t already considered.

As a Leaf owner, this terrifies me. Do you have any details about that charging station, like what brand it was?

And just shooting from the hip here: I’ve noticed that a lot of folks that upgrade cars to electric using parts from crashed vehicles, know their way around production EV guts pretty darn well. Engaging with a local shop that does that work might be worthwhile, seeing as how (I assume) the dealer is getting nowhere by following the book.

Are they not allowed in the bike lanes? Nevermind then. I’m happy to be wrong about that.