Boring dystopia wins again. Our country likes its gun freedumbs more than its own children staying alive. (While making all sorts of noises about saving the children from....books).
I would try local library first, then your local Discord community, and then maybe Nextdoor.
I know Nextdoor can be a real shitshow of paranoid street watchers and bad political takes. But I have found it very helpful when it comes to stuff like this (and getting recommendations on local services / shops in general). Be sure to say you have the STL and are willing to pay a reasonable amount for help with it.
I wonder if Wikipedia could mitigate this to some degree by updating their UX. I don't particularly want them to, and I certainly don't want a "New Coke" Wikipedia. But the design is rather plain and "looks old" to a modern user.
And people are suckers for a friendly-looking starter like "Certainly!"
Listening is a skill. Be more interested in them and don't try so hard to be interesting. (Being interested is being interesting).
Ask questions and get them to open up with your active listening. At some point, they will show more interest in what you're doing. Being a host is all about letting your guests shine. Not giving them a TED talk.
I'm glad to see this shift. I hope drunk driving diminishes, too.
Alcohol will be around for a long time I'm sure. But if overall consumption declines, that's a good thing.
Of course, business owners see anything but constant growth as a "tragedy". But the smart ones will plan on scaling back and/or getting into something else and/or repurposing grapes.
Personally, I came to realize that alcohol just makes me feel blah, and interferes with quality sleep. I almost never drink anymore, and I don't miss it.
I've always wanted a sci fi themed game that plays like a Diablo style dungeon crawler. Sort of a cross between Duskers and Diablo, if that makes sense. You travel in a junky ship from space derelict to space derelict. You (and your party) explore these ghost ships looking for gear and upgrades for yourselves and your ship.
The overall story would be some quest for artifacts and navigational data to help you open a warp gate and escape the dying star system. You'd have playable classes like space marine, psycher, technician, doctor, etc. NPCs could be a variety of monsters and zombie astronauts. There would also be environmental hazards and puzzles and such.
Sorry, this is probably waaayyyy more than you were asking us for. Ignore me or cherry pick anything you like. =)
I once got a reply on reddit to a comment I had made ten years earlier. I looked at the person's comment history, and every single comment that I botheted to look at was a reply to things that were at least five years old. Reddit is not only full of weirdos, it's full or weirdos who will put in tremendous effort to be weirdos. I'm glad I purged my history on there.
This has been an issue for ages on the volume's slider control. I am guessing it is coded to operate linearly, and our perception of sound volume is non-linear.
It's extremely aggravating. The usable range for the control is indeed in that lower 20% or so, and it's a small slider so it's hard to adjust it within that narrow range so that it's just right.
This sort of thing always pits passenger against passenger, but the real villain has been the airlines all along. They "encourage" people to check their bags then charge you more to do so. They cram as many seats into the fucking plane as they can, amplifying every small problem into a big one.
Somewhat tangential, but Eddy Burback recently posted a YouTube video talking about AI, and how it's being marketed in a way that's intended to rob people of wholesome interpersonal experiences. Or at least dilute them by horning in.
Nothing is safe from tech bros. Certainly not hobbies.
Varies a lot by brand. Some brands started whipping more air into the chemical slurry they call ice cream in order it to rip us off. You can tell by the weight. Try the heavier pints.
Humans love recognizable patterns and symmetry. Rhymes sound alike, and when coupled with meter, help make the words "stick" in our memory. We also like artificial things that are easily distinguishable from the chaos and entropy of the natural world. We enjoy our feeble attempts at imposing order.
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Bleak but probably true. Cabin in the woods with a good book is my future.
What do you mean all the woods are "gone"?