America is often the voice of media, being the home of, Hollywood, reality TV as well as the loudest voices on the internet it's natural that we perceive that to be the home of Alien stories.
Being a 'wealthy' country: often a higher employment rate leads to an increase in extra curricular hobbies. Countries with less time to focus on things other than work will also have less time to expand on other interests. This can have a spin off effect of increased time spent day dreaming about lights in the sky.
America is a very new country. There's lots of vast open nothingness to explore. Considered a 'frontier'. The concept of unexplored territory and unclaimed space of mystery is very much more engrained in American culture, unlike say anywhere in Europe where every square inch is claimed and has a city within an hour's drive. All that empty nothingness with strange lights on the horizon can lead to more mysterious musings of what they might be.
Adobe has no time for it, so it ads that annoying extra step when collecting assets. I would appreciate Adobe support for it natively in Pr / Ps / Ae / Me and I'm cool with it.
Mate, a bad actor could put today's LLM, face recognition softwares and functionality into an armed drone, show it a picture of Sara Connor and tell it to go hunting and it would be able to handle the rest. We are just about there. Call it what you want.
Plot twist: The money to spawn comes from other people randomly. Eventually people start reporting vanishing money at the same time that people hear news of a man randomly raining money wherever he goes. This immediately sparks controversy and religion, as the country begins to destabilize and the economy grinds to a halt.
The government gets together and decides that changing the currency to a new note, so as to avoid it being conjured away and raining somewhere east of Massachusetts, is the only solution forward.
This has an unexpected blowback, as the superpower is to spawn money, not useless green paper. The rain immediately changes to the new currency.
Discovering this loophole, the government changes the currency to bowling balls in the hope to have the problem solve itself.
You now randomly hail bowling balls around you and the local bowlingalley owner is a tycoon. You killed ten pin bowling. I hope you're happy you bastard.
I should think you can, depending on the wood, many can be toxic.
The bark of a Willow tree is used to make Aspirin, we smoke paper and eat many plants with less woody stems. There are certain other barks and cambium (the soft layer between the bark and the wood) that contain nutrients, such as birch, pine, elm and a few others that have been eaten by our ancestors for centuries and even have medicinal properties. We also grate cinnamon and a few others as spice. Dog food is often bulked up with ash.
The real issue is that the hard cellulose in the actual wood part is not particularly digestible and basically pure fibre and devoid of any real nutrient value. So it would need to be boiled or blended first I imagine, or steeped as a tea. It would be revolting or taste like nothing and probably give you constipation but I doubt you would die.
As a raw bite of a chunk of wood, no. It would be considered inedible.
Big brands like Epson and Canon have verification chips on their proprietary ink containers and also 'read ink levels' that simply stop your printer from functioning even if it has ink if their cartridges drip below a certain level, sometimes as high as 50%. It's a scammy practice to fraudulently sell you more ink even if you haven't run out but the ink is now considered out of date or some bullshit.
I assume this is a way to circumvent your printers crap and make it print until the ink runs out. The websites not particularly clear on that.
Steaming hot shower, get your face warmed up, and try and blow your nose and clear it up as much as possible.
Grab a bowl of hot water with salt to make a saline solution (cool enough to dip your fingers in though) should be a bit saltier than tears but not more than that. Pour a bit into your hand and snort it in small amounts at a time, this may be hard at first but easier once you get the method down. You should start to taste the salt water in the back of your mouth. Do this a few times in each nostril, and finish off with fresh water if you can't stand the taste, but try let the saline in as much as possible. Towel dry, and give it a minute or two, then blow your nose. Repeat if necessary. After 10 Min your nose should clear right up as the salt will help break all the mucous up.
Do this periodically or seize the moment when your nose momentarily clears enough.
I've got a pair of nice old Japanese wooden bookshelfs hooked up to a NAD amp that plays both my records and my TV/PS. That does the heavy lifting, for my office I have some good but generic over ears that get the job done. And then I have a pair of planar earbuds 'LetShoer S12':which are awesome bit I don't use often because they're quite sharp for long sessions but sound fantastic.
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