I thought the California redwoods proved it was a different thing limiting height. They get water from the air because of how humid it is and therefore grow taller because their main limitation was the ability to move water from their roots to the rest of the tree.

If you aren’t doing multiplayer then there is another way. Quite cheap in fact.

My company is doing small trial runs and trying to get feedback on if stuff is helpful. They are obviously pushing things because they are hopeful, but most people report that AI is helpful about 45% of the time. I’m sorry your leadership just dove in head first. That’s sound like such a pain.

I seem to compare less when I care more about contributing than winning. I feel more stablely valuable when I feel I am working towards a greater good.

Also, I don’t think comparison is a conscious thing. Not every time at least. So really a good angle may be to try and be more accepting and react more comfortably to the comparisons you naturally make.

pebble

Honestly all it is for my family is eat the big meal and watch the game. I usually nap during the latter part because I ate so much.

If I’m at my moms then we might do some games. Sometimes we do what is called an “auction party”. Where everyone who shows up brings two things they don’t want anymore. Then we all get the same amount of fake money and sit in the same room and bid on it. I can be real funny with gag items going through long bidding wars. It can also be pretty helpful to get an item you actually care about.

During a covid auction party a half used bottle of hand sanitizer had an absolutely riotous bidding war over it.

Ah dude I feel that so much with looking at pond samples under the microscope. It was and still is quite magical, but you can’t beat seeing it for the first time. Just a whole other world right there.

My phone has a option in battery settings for setting max charge to 80%.

There is only one of me.

I used to set some coins on the table (five or so) and then if I get it right I move a coin to the other side. If I get one wrong I move them all back. I can’t move on until I’ve moved all the coins to the other side. This was generally for music practice but it seems pretty applicable here.

If we had some omniscient and perfectly fair justice system that could confirm there is no other option, sure. But jeesh, how much further could we be from that yk? The US justice system is becoming increasingly blatantly political.

Also, as someone who thinks punishment is vindictive and unnecessary compared to rehabilitation, the ultimate punishment does not appeal to me.

Oh Jesus. Jungle juice was a hazy near forgotten memory for me. What a horrible concept. Or at least horrible execution near every time. I may have had one okay jungle juice in my entire college career.

Cool. I use my mullvad and use their DNS. Thanks for the idea on the UBlock filter!

Is there any way to do that kind of blocking when using a VPN?

My cat died

New cats

One’s anxiety

Is too much

Donations would be great. I dream of mine would be to get a large enough following to live a decent life off of donations and just make art. Kinda far fetched, but it would be great.

I know one person I’ve found that did that is Chris from Airwindows. His art is a bit technical, but he makes interesting audio software and shares it all open source. I donate a bit to him.

Yeah I’ve given up on making a living off of art. I’ve pivoted to trying to just share it for free as much as I can. Honestly I think big corporate studios would have way less of a market if community art was more of a thing. It’d be nice to have local art and culture around rather than soulless corpo slop. I think those communities would process the world in a healthier way.

I hear you though. It really really sucks ass that literally no one (if you round) gets to make a living doing art. And (if you don’t round) those that do get to make a living on it generally come from a very small subset of the available cultures.

This is a good thing to be mad about. It affects how everyone sees the world.

Though those aren’t really proven real: From that same Wikipedia article:

Although widely used, they are by no means a necessary feature of QFT, but rather are mathematical conveniences — as demonstrated by lattice field theory, which avoids using the concept altogether.[citation needed]

I mean aren’t you saying: “Something can happen without a cause if we just ignore the cause.”

I read ops question as about reality, not hypothetical universes that contain a hand that moves a without an arm or brain attached.

Self defense can apply to systems. Insurance for example. From what I understand United Health Care did change some policies because of Luigi.