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This is solvable.

First: don't tie transformations to the moon cycle. Every night they roll a Wisdom save, and the DC increases each time they succeed. If they fail, they're a bear/wolf/whatever and go around being a jerk that night. They still have a sense of when their time is coming up, but not exactly when, and they also don't pester you asking about the moon every night. Transforming in town is Bad News, no matter how nice a bear you are, and this means you can never really be sure you won't.

Second: enemies aren't stupid. If their weapons aren't working on this guy, get him out of the fight some other way while we go punch his friends. He'll get real annoyed that enemies just keep using crowd control on him, and his friends will get annoyed that they're getting creamed because damage isn't being spread out as far.

These two things together means that there are real consequences for not seeking a cure for both the characters and the players driving them.

Well, think about it.

WiFi is electromagnetic radiation, and penetrates walls. The standard frequency is 5 GHz. With harmonics, we should expect similar behavior from wavelengths that are some whole-number multiple of this frequency.

There are multiple such frequencies within the visible light spectrum, such as 500 THz (orange), but visible light doesn't usually penetrate walls, it's instead reflected or absorbed.

On the other end, we have X-rays, which are in the range of 3×10^{(16) - 3×10}(19) Hz, which are used medically to see into the human body. There are likewise whole-number divisors, such as 200, which put a potential fundamental at around 600 THz (green). Yet, we generally can't see through people using normal light. That's why we use X-rays.

Now, this is all well and good, but it's all purely academic, because the reason why you can't use your infrared sensors to detect the color blue or purple is because the infrared sensors aren't sensitive in that frequency, the same reason why you can't use your blue cones to detect infrared.

She hasn't started play yet, we're having our first session in a few weeks, but I don't really see her being a raccoon, although not for the reason one might think.

She has a custom subclass based on Circle of the Moon that expands her wild shape list to include certain monstrosities and aberrations, but restricts her spellcasting abilities a little further. The specifics aren't important here, but why be a raccoon to eat a little trash when she can be an otyugh and eat all of the trash?

Actually, yeah. She's currently wearing a shop banner held together with some fishhooks. I've been calling her the Dumpster Druid.

Depends on the character, to be honest. My wizard, I've gone out of my way to avoid describing her to the rest of the group because she's very bland, so nobody really can agree on what she looks like. I wouldn't describe her changing clothes, or even really doing anything that called attention to her.

My druid builds her entire wardrobe out of random trash that she finds, and it's never quite the same from day to day. For her, I'd absolutely describe exactly what she's dressed up in.

Ah. That makes sense. Something about the harmonics, though:

Sound generates those harmonics because it's physically vibrating sensors in our ear, so we get a 1 to 1 translation of the waveform. Light doesn't, because it's received by 4 different sensors that are sensitive at different ranges and in different phases. The reason we don't experience "blueness" in the infrared spectrum is because our infrared sensors don't know what "blue" is.

From what I can easily find, it seems to be around 3k-4.8k CNY after taxes, about 3.6k to 5.7k before. This was in 2019, though.

Why would you say there's only one octave?

Human audible frequencies are in the range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz, and are logarithmic.

Human visible frequencies are in the range of 400 THz to 800 THz, and are linear.

There's far more available distinction to be made with color than with sound, it just doesn't interfere the same way.

Ana my axe!

Night shift absolutely sucks, and I'm deliberately lax on enforcing many of the store policies because of it. Late for your shift? If your shit gets done, I don't care. Don't like wearing the uniform? I don't either, just put your name tag on before the store opens. Forgot your lunch? Grab something from the cold case or whatever and pay for it when a checker wanders in later.

The only policies I enforce 100% are safety-related. I don't want someone cracking their head open because they were using a pallet jack as a scooter.

My store has shift work, but does it in a sane way. The people whose schedules could change bid for schedules on a week by week basis, and they're awarded by seniority. In theory, you could get stuck with a closing shift going into an opening shift, but in practice it never happens because all the opening shifts get snapped up by the senior employees every week.

I think what happened is Musk wanted to change the signage, and gave them 2 days to do it. While they were working on it, the cops showed up and stopped them because no permits, so they put the original signage back. They report back to the Chief Twit, and he's just like, "All I'm hearing is you have 4 hours to go and my sign isn't up yet."

There's an incorrect assumption here that makes the whole math portion meaningless. That assumption is that ancestors must be unique.

In reality, you can have two parents each having two children, and then those two children having two children, etc.

Hell, you can do it with two initial parents, and then each generation only having 1 child, which then mates with its parents, and then the family tree looks kind of like a braid.

So, in reality, you only need 12 ancestors to be the 12th generation. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Actually, I was referring to 'it.'

People don't like using it for people, because it's traditionally only really used for objects ("It's a chair!" ) or creatures where the gender isn't identifiable or doesn't matter ("It's a bear!") , but that's the exact use case here.

A nonbinary person is a creature whose gender is either not identifiable or doesn't matter.

People just decided that it meant nonbinary people were objects, when in reality we use it for objects because they were the only truly nonbinary concepts we had.

Yeah, but you're using it to mean "I don't know which pronoun to use." This is a different meaning than what's being describes here.

What's being described here is a person who decided that they don't want to be referred to as he or she, and has chosen to make themselves plural instead of using the singular nongendered pronoun already present in English.

Since that is a grammatical error, and this is the internet, I am obligated to ridicule this person, regardless of how well their meaning is conveyed.

/s, by the way.

This is blatantly false. Chuck Norris wasn't born, he got tired of wearing his mother.

No, it's not.

What the philosoraptor is saying is that literally any computer program is machine learning, which is untrue.

An expert system is a system designed to simulate an expert. It's something you would seek advice from in some way. They're used in medical diagnoses and stock market trading, for example.

Am I contagious, or showing symptoms of something contagious? Stay home.

Am I incapable of doing my job or driving to work? Stay home.

Otherwise? Suck it up.

The base 60 part of time is the least-used part of it. Very few people care enough about exactly what minute or second it is and end up rounding it to the nearest 5 or 15 anyway.

The people who do care about having precision in seconds usually aren't converting it to minutes or hours.

Costco dogs helped get me through college, I tell ya