For whatever this is worth, Turtles made me nostalgic for Double Dragon, while Cosmic Encounter made me nostalgic for the X-Men Arcade game. Both fine, just hit different.

CEO of Mistral AI says warnings about extreme risks of artificial intelligence [presented by other AI companies] are often ‘distraction tactics’

I think makes more sense.

Epstein Visualizer at least was a thing at some point, not sure what’s up with it now, but it was a searchable graph database.

Civility and society are a social contract, if someone rips theirs up to free themselves from its restrictions, they also remove themselves from its protections.

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US bombs Mexico

Taxes levied by the US federal government are against individuals and businesses directly. States also levy their own taxes independently. So these funds paid to the federal government (largely) don’t go through state hands.

It’s a first person survival crafter with very strange science vibes.

Imagine you were a scientist on your first day at Black Mesa when Gordon caused the Lambda Incident (this is a Half-Life reference for those uninitiated) and in a kind of Subnautica style need to scrounge the environment for resources to research and crafted supplies and equipment to use to survive and explore further while encountering invaders as well as what are essentially SCPs or Objects of Power (Control/Alan Wake) throughout the facility and other environment all in the hopes of trying to escape with your life.

April had a content patch, 12 new subclasses and it enabled crossplay I believe.

From my 10 minutes spent on it, Interactive Brokers seems like the way I’d go for a long-term ETF style EU investment broker, and I’d run from Trade Republic based on a few negative experiences I just read about.

While they have an app, I see references to a desktop tool, as well as online, so I think that’d resolve your phone issue. Might be worth a look.

Saw a couple mentions to using their Irish entity, likely to do with tax benefits, not sure, should look into that more too.

I’m going to flip this a bit, do you only feel bad for just the “people who get pregnant who the anti abortion people affect”? Or do you actually feel bad for all the “people who the anti abortion people affect”, like doctors, those trying to use IVF, widowers or even the unwanted children, for example?

Rather than trying to use a more accurately specific term, I think using a more general term is likely easier and is probably more accurate.

Wendy’s is falling off a quality cliff unfortunately, while also driving up prices. Used to go there a lot, haven’t been in a while.

Gifts are from us, to parents/grandparents individually, everyone else as a couple if possible, else single.

More or less the same reason jury nullification exists, just concentrated on executive leadership. The problem isn’t that it exists, the problem is the bribery and ethical issues. Theoretically, if the executive is abusing the power, the legislature is supposed to remove them, but since we no longer operate in a system where that will happen… Here we are.

Sesame Street is great for exposure to a variety of types of people and some cultures. PBS in general is pretty good for that.

Bluey is fun for parents and kids, though it can give kids some high expectations from their parents.

Numberblocks is a good math concepts/counting show.

Storybots is a good learning about the world kind of show.

Paw Patrol has some life lesson kinds of things, but has more action/adventure stuff.

Aged like 21, working in a gas station convenience store register, man walks in, seems homeless and wasted, asked me to call 911 for him, says they’ll know him. Obviously not covered in the manual, but I figure that if someone asks you to call, you call.

I call, talking to the operator trying to explain… The dude just goes down like a sack of potatoes, whacks the top of his head on the counter, knocks over a couple of displays, and starts twitching on the floor. The operator got ALOT more compliant, EMTs picked the guy up (he was a frequent flier), he had a like 3in bump on his forehead that looked like a horn.

I cleaned up the store, trashed the food he damaged, bleached all the other stuff. Weird day.

CPAP, comes with a cell chip in it to relay data for the Dr to monitor/access. Cell chip stops working after 5 years.

Edit: Realized this could use more clarity. The cell plan for the chip expires after 5 years and cannot be renewed, meaning the entirely functional machine needs to be replaced or the Dr can’t properly monitor necessary vitals.

I just want to see some more exceptionalism from Flute Guy.

It’s not just that it means nothing, it’s that it exists as the implication of something or anything that can be used to identify with the in-group.