Basilisk @ Basilisk @mtgzone.com

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Given DHL's generally awful standard of service, the only way anyone could know they're on strike is because they say they are.

But the Christfuckers we do have are obnoxious and loud enough to make you think otherwise

You'd get even weirder looks if you said "those persons travel a lot", while also sounding like someone who doesn't really speak the language.

"Those people" can be a racist or classist dog whistle, but isn't always, and also there isn't really an alternative. Say what you're going to say, and don't worry too much about it. The people who would misinterpret it to fit an agenda are probably going to do so regardless of what words you use.

The pharmacist did say that it was to reduce the queasiness since both the antibiotic and the steroid I was prescribed are apparently quite rough on the stomach, so I have to take the pills with food, which I inferred to mean as a meal. Which was fine when I took them with lunch and dinner yesterday since obviously that's gonna be tons of food to go with it, but then it came to this morning, and I don't normally eat breakfast. I wasn't sure if something simple like toast or a granola bar which I would take with the morning dose would be enough food to counteract it, since obviously I didn't want to spend my morning with a miserable stomach.

What extension is that? Sounds like something I'd want.

It's sometimes used here, I think it depends how English you are. I just use "lol" but my fiancée does use "mdr" with other French speakers.

Depends on how the fight resolved. Sometimes you get snippy for a bit but ultimately either come to an agreement or the fight resolves and that's it. You rankle for a bit after, get over it, and move on.

Sometimes the fight isn't about what you're fighting about. They've had a bad day and it manifests as some bitchy comments about how the dishes were done. You stop fighting about the dishes but you're still upset because they're taking their bad day out on you, or they're still upset because they feel you don't care about them. These can last much longer because the fight revealed bad blood, but didn't do anything to address it.

A French one is common enough that it's used in English- "Répondez, s'il vous plaît" (Respond, if you please) is where we get RSVP. "SVP" is also sometimes used as a shorthand for "please", at least in Quebecois.

I remember Dolly Parton singing about her.

Maybe we also should talk about not needing to work so many hours that it's necessary to ration the sun then, too.

I truly do not care even one little bit about whether it stays on daylight time or standard time, I just want to never have to perform this absurd little ritual ever again.

Could be exercise-induced asthma? I get this as well and only found out it wasn't a common affliction a few weeks ago, when it was pointed out that this might be a cause. For me at least, after a while the pain gets so bad that every time I swallow it feels like my throat doesn't want to reopen.

Nuclear power, genetics, steam power, modern explosives...

Vancouver has a steam heating system around Gastown, which is what powers the famous steam-powered clock there (at least since they repaired it).

The big question then becomes: "is that behaviour inherent to all systems like this, or just this one?" Like, if you go to the store, buy a basic sprinkler, and then test it and it behaves exactly opposite to how you might expect it to. Or it does something completely unexpected, like phases into another dimension and starts pumping strawberry jam. Your next step shouldn't be to say "Oh, weird, I guess that's that." You'd start knocking down variables. Is it the same with every sprinkler or just this one? Does the amount of suction applied affect it? If I replace the water with something else does the outcome change?"

If you're doing research like this, you're kind of expected to do the same sort of elaboration even if the result of a basic experiment conforms precisely to your hypothesis, because the question isn't if any given sprinkler setup behaves in this way, it's about whether this is a universal phenomenon across all similar setups. Because there's an xkcd for everything, it's this.

Larian isn't especially big though, even with the success of BG3, a purchase like this is likely would be well outside what they could hope to afford.

FR It ain't like anyone's gonna be popping by for a visit. Landed nicely on the surface or energetically buried 30m below the surface, the ashes are still on the moon.

I've been playing Star Ocean the Second Story R since my fiancee bought it for me at Christmas.

The problem is that "drive less transit more" is only an option if you live where transit is viable. If they were simultaneously investing money (or even reinvesting the carbon tax into) into subsidies for transit systems, cycling improvements, walkable cities, and the like so that these alternatives are accessible to everyone then there would be at least a carrot to go along with that stick. But there's virtually no amount of tax that will ever make trading a 30 minute car ride for 2 hours on and off with multiple transfers with the bus a reasonable alternative. And there's no way to get more people into buses or trains that are crammed full to the point of skipping stops even if you could somehow convince people to make that trade.

I can't help but feel like if we didn't live in a capitalist hellscape, the increasing democratization of art would be unambiguously a good thing. I'd be more than happy to see "art as decoration" (as opposed to "art as a human means of expression") opened to being something shunted off to machines, if it weren't for the fact that this is a method that people currently use to make sure they have enough money to not starve to death in the cold. Advertising art of polar bears drinking Coke is nicer to look at than big block text saying "consume", but it's hardly a soulful expression of the human condition. Or maybe it is, which is even more depressing, but the ultimate apotheosis of this is pushing that sort of messaging to robots to make anyway.

Meanwhile, giving people who aren't necessarily "artistic" a vehicle to create art as a means of expressing themselves is also really neat, and in the hands of people who are artistic, it gives them a low-impact tool for pre-visualization, inspiration, and a new medium to experiment with. It also reduces barriers for people with disabilities to make art. I'd love to see artists training LLM systems on their own work as a way of sharing their "style" with the world — something which is difficult to justify in a world where your style is something that needs to be jealously protected against copyright infringement, which again comes down to needing to monetize your expression as a matter of survival.