Hey this has been happening at my work! It definitely isn't a complete dumpster fire over here now, that knowledge and experience from those hundreds of people wasn't critical or anything, the people who are left are totally working well and not just scraping by under constant fear of being fired next, it's fine
I almost did that with my keyboard like 6 months ago for life stress reasons, then realized I didn't have a spare keyboard to buy a replacement one with. Somehow I ended up calmly putting my cats in another room while I threw a cheap clay pot instead
While I agree, and am in Washington now in part because of stuff like this, we need to do better about keeping these people subdued or it won't be much better here. The college towns bordering Idaho/Washington are in the middle of a very successful christo-fascist takeover with plans to foothold into Washington. Spokane has been toying with nationalism and white supremacy for ages. There are a lot of very red rural farmland and small towns who are angry at Seattle for having such an influence on them.
I still feel safer here and most areas of Washington than I have living in other places. We need to work hard to keep it that way because fascism doesn't stop at state lines
MOO2 is still one of, if not the, best 4x space games and part of that is how clear cut it is. The systems play together well and it isn't a bloated mess of complicated mechanics for the sake of being complicated. The depth is very emergent and not artificial feeling which gives it an incredible timelessness
You can add map markers with custom descriptions in Morrowind. I use them to leave little "what the fuck am I doing" notes for myself before leaving the game if I don't know I'll be back on within a couple days
For real though it can be a hard game to jump back into if you've had it on pause for a while. I usually just make a new character at that point see where the new adventure goes. There are so many factions and places to explore no one character can experience the game in full anyway
The worst offenders of this are the 2-position chairs. My dorms had them and it's been over a decade but I remember the absolute fear the first time I sat in one like it was yesterday. And I remember all those late study nights I thought I was on the forward setting and went to lean back only to fall all the way
All I see is a bunch of unused ad space when looking over the water. How are people going to know to buy Bouncy Bubbly Beverage if their attention is on a sunset or whatever?
With all our experience from the last plague this one should be a breeze where everyone quarantines, vaccinates, and masks as needed. Yeah we'll be fine
I do fermented hot sauces regularly. I don't know if it is me specifically but when I was trying to follow recipes they'd mold every time. Once I stopped following directions and started eyeballing everything I got better ferments. As much science as there is to fermenting at the end of the day humans have been throwing random shit in jars and calling it good for generations, and it can be just as much a 'by the feels' kind of thing
Not all trans care sterilizes people, hormones don't even necessarily sterilize people, and because this is in the context of trans care for kids I'm going to reiterate the obvious that children never get surgeries done. Minors might in the sense that rarely like 16-17+ person may be able to get some cosmetic stuff done but like we let cis kids do that anyway as long as it fits within their prescribed gender norm. Also we already make non-consensual surgery choices surrounding intersex people when they're actual literal babies so where's the "don't surgery the kids" crowd on that topic?
I'm loving the mutated statues in the background