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It unlocked the cheats. So you could enter other codes, like Scourge and Mitzi, which gave infinite health and all weapons (or the reverse).

I played that game SO much, and was so terrible at it.

You can set up a genetic engineering lab for under 5000 bucks in your garage, and I would prefer you not being able to google how to DIY some super-ebola, thank you very much.

I’ve been saying it for a while, even if we figured out fusion, it wouldn’t see the light of day.

Fusion reactors would be absolutely massive, hugely expensive, centralized facilities that provide something of great value for very little labour input. They’re the PERFECT tool of capitalism.

So, nobody was guarding these sites???

I think there’s a word “paying into the budget in exchange for closer ties and access”.

It starts with the letter M, I think.

Technically correct, but not extremely useful, info

I joined .ml because the devs are there.

Then I interacted with people, and realized that was a big mistake.

Spent some time on LBZ, but the admin is making a few too many choices for the users (I’ll block my own assholes, thanks)

So now I’m on sh.itjust.works

It might be quitter talk, but I just haven’t found the regiment i like.

I can walk with them just fine, and taking my bike to the supermarket is OK, but more than a few minutes isn’t great.

But my disposable pad use is down to a pack per year!

They’re great, I have some for nighttime when the cup won’t save me. But they’re less great when you’re on a bike, thanks to the button.

Seldom have I seen someone miss the point THIS hard. Reading an essay by someone who feels bad that people are losing weight at her. She’s feels good when someone fails to lose weight through diet, and gets especially mad at weight loss surgery because it works.

She went with her mother to support groups, not to support her mother, but for the free clothing. She feels morally superior at the end because she didn’t try to ruin someone’s post-surgery recovery.

The author near the end aaaaaalmost grasps that apart from vanity there might be other reasons for losing weight, but then immediately considers only the most superficial aspects. Maybe it’s what others say about her?

For one brief moment she does actually realize that maybe people have their own reasons for wanting to lose weight. Diabetes, ruined knees. Those she accepts, but wanting to prevent it is not allowed, making that private choice is too much of an insult to the author.

That explains why I missed it. I have no idea who she is, but I do like it!

unfortunately yes.

I wish someone would make a good high budget Earthsea series.

There’s the 2004 miniseries, but it’s neither of those.

There is a transgender aes sedai in the show.

Really? I completely missed that. In-character-trans, or real-world-trans-in-character-not-discussed?

They made Perrin kill his wife too, because the writers were too incompetent to make the hammer-vs-axe choice in a better way. And then they never bring it up again, except for angst reasons.

I live in the Netherlands, where we don’t have water fluoridation because of legal principles. Our laws don’t allow medication without knowledge and consent, and fluoride is considered part of that. So if one person disagrees, you can’t do it, so we don’t do it.

As a result, we have markedly worse dental quality than in places that have naturally high fluoride content

You can absolutely ruin your palette with oversalting, or over-MSG-ing your food though.

I mean, I definitely don’t consider prozac part of a meal.

MSG also forms when glutamic acid meets tablesalt. That’s why tomatoes or beef with a tiny bit of salt are so damned tasty, they’re full of glutamic acid. Same with cheese (which is usually pre-salted for that lovely MSG-flavour).

Tomatoes and beef already contain MSG naturally, but adding a few grains of salt produces far more.

Edit: This is why walnut oil is amaaaaazing for savory flavours. It’s full of glutamate. Just like grape juice, or shi-take. Even potatoes to a lesser extend. And this is why we love combing all those foods for “winter foods” with game and in stews.