Yeah, I read the article because I wanted to see why they were claiming the pole flipping would make a noise at all. Given that the idea it would make this noise will still be at least some people’s takeaway, this presentation of the data is worse than useless, it’s misleading.

That is a pretty low bar.

Hey now, Arnold deserves better than that.

Laws are based on morality, but they can only cover peoples actions, not their motivations. People who’s motivation is to be nasty to people they see as lesser will find a way to do so, and trying to eliminate any action they could take to show their hate would lead to a tyrannical micromanagaing government and a society that can’t be called free. Obviously we have to legislate against physical harm, and do what we reasonably can against financial harm, and threats, and more reasonable things I’m too tired to enumerate, but at some point social pressure and personal consequences are a better way to handle such behavior. The more society is improved, the better it will be at this function.

I have no disagreement with your 3 points on how the wealthy have coopted the legal system.

Protecting political beliefs and legal actions are good, but tricky to implement with at will employment. Not that there isn’t an easily identifiable solution there, haha.

But that would still leave this guy vulnerable to being fired. And I think that’s OK.

Haha, so the comedian tried to get fired and get unemployment and be a full time comedian, but the law protected him from his deliberate efforts? Sounds like it probably gave him some good comedy material anyway.

In principle I agree with you, and this is a very clear example of hate speech. But as with so many things, the issue is where you draw the line for acceptable vs not, and how do you ensure the laws don’t get abused and twisted to inverse effect. There are many examples of that process happening right now. You can’t legislate morality. That’s not to say we shouldn’t try to impove things, but I think trying to fix root issues in society will have better effect than adding more complex to implement laws to a struggling legal system. Not to imply that is easy either.

It definitely happens. The first amendment only guarantees the right to speak freely without legal repercussions, it doesn’t guarantee that anyone is obligated to continue associating with you if you say things they find reprehensible. That includes your employer, and I think is really the best way to handle it. We don’t need to protect the security of employment of someone who celebrates the suicide of a child.

Do free speech laws extend to eliminateing repercussions for anything you could possibly say in Europe? I’m doubtful.

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That’s the real highlight for me.

Developer disappointed by game sales announces game will be removed less than a month after Steam launch. FOMO cash grab attempt I guess.

A few months before. Theory checks out.

If your set starts with the Magician’s Nephew, move it to second from last. Read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first. The Magician’s Nephew is chronologically first, but the wrong order to tell the story. Which is why the author didn’t put it first.

It all makes sense if you read Magician’s Nephew first, but it removes mystery from the others. And the reveal of the events in Magician’s Nephew was more exciting after reading most of the rest of the series, instead of being the intro to that universe. It takes some of the magic out of the series. As someone who has read most of C.S. Lewis’s books more than once, I’m pretty confident he’d be pissed about it.

Spoilers below, it is a pretty good series, read it. But also, do not start with the Magician’s Nephew. It is chronologically first, so some publisher changed it after the author died, use the original order.

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Last time I was playing FNV I had these two as my companions. Do not recommend for a melee build. Progressing is tough when half the stuff you encounter is dead before you get to it.

And that was without the pictured ultimate form nonsense.

I think it’s just what you get accustomed too. The heat level that seems painful is lower and below what is actually harmful unless you get used to higher temps over time. Same as people not used to drinking very hot coffee, or a cook or server used to handling very hot plates.

Your conversion took a wrong turn somewhere. BAC is just percentage, promille is parts per thousand. So to convert, multiply by ten. Making it 4,2 promille. Really shitfaced. Very potentially life threatening even if you are not driving.

A truly horrifying prospect.

Knowing all your players current stats, feats, and items is a pretty high bar for a casual DM.

But also, if some of your player’s characters can make the roll and some can’t, I’d say it feels worse to say off that bat, “Roll a WIS save, except you Phil, you fail.” That will feel more like getting targeted than your build just not being suited to the current situation when you roll well and still fail.

Well, don’t be hasty. Being sent back to Venezuela may not be the beginning of justice, depending on why they left Venezuela to begin with.

Well, I can understand the feeling, but it’s not true. Many of the states in between have a better ratio of relatively sensible people to fruitcakes than it looks like, but the fruitcakes have gerrymandered voting districts pretty severely. Which is a self reinforcing issue.

Radiant heat is great, and heat pumps absolutely can and should be used to supply the heat. Radiant cooling, while technically possible, has a lot of downfalls, forced air is your best bet there. The same heat pump can be used for both though, just need a valve to switch between different supply loops.