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Imagine if this stuff becomes the new standard and it ends up harming a lot of people because the industry/whoever has it on hand reaches for "the big guns" when they acquire medications. Same deal with "MAX STRENGTH" NSAIDs that are rather normal doses, except those aren't usually used in life-threatening emergencies.

To be honest, Yorkshire Gold is probably the best black tea you can get in US grocery stores. I have some kind of weird tannin sensitivity that causes it and most grocery store black teas to be painfully bitter, but it's a nice "try this and see what you think" tea.

Here's what I recommend: get some silver needle white tea - Yunnan Sourcing has good stuff - and a big tea strainer basket that goes in your mug. Boil the leaves for three minutes, but don't dump the basket, just put it aside. Drink the cup. Then boil them again for 3 minutes 30 seconds, drink, and boil for 4 minutes. See how that goes. If you get a big bag of tea, you'll be able to experiment.

I used to believe tea was trash too. That was because I was only drinking grocery store bags. Problem with those is the tea in them is stale, like breadcrumbs, and typically devoid of flavor. Broaden your horizons a bit.

I prefer loose-leaf tea as well. I can't tell whether I prefer a sweet and relaxing cup of silver needle or a whiskey-strength brew of gyokuro. Genmaicha with matcha dust during a work day is a great little escape, and you can't go wrong with a big-leaf Chinese black tea.

Ironically, the Brits conquered the world only to shut themselves out of every culture they could have learned from.

I used to believe I had developed an inter-universe, romantic, quasi-religious relationship with an anime girl (I will not say who). That ended not long after I started taking meds. Recently the delusion has started to come back on the occasions I need to change meds and I'm without them for a while. Instead of being fulfilling and joyous, though, it's infuriating and shameful.

Said like a true "never had good tea in their life" individual.

Permanent sanity.

Political stances are relative across the globe. You can't just draw a line in the middle of American political talking points and then apply that generalization to the rest of the world. It's more useful to describe specific ideologies (although even that gets pretty muddy fast), but that wouldn't be very practical for a bit either. Imagine if it somehow concluded that Mother Jones has a "minarchist-capitalist" bias. Still, I question the use of this bot, which is probably based on US terms, running this analysis on a site called "lemmy.world".

Wouldn't that argument be like saying an image I drew of a copyrighted character is just an arrangement of pixels based on existing data? The fact remains that, if I tell an AI to generate an image of a copyrighted character, then it'll produce something without the permission of the original artist.

I suppose then the problem becomes, who do you hold responsible for the copyright violation (if you pursue that course of action)? Do you go after the guy who told the AI to do it, or do the people who trained the AI and published it? Possibly both? On one hand, suing the AI AL company would be like suing Adobe because they don't stop people from drawing copyrighted materials in their software (yet). On the other hand, they did create this software that basically acts in the place of an artist that draws whatever you want for commission. If that artist was drawing copyrighted characters for money, you could make the case that the AI company is doing the same - manufacturing copyrighted character images by feeding the AI images of the character and allowing people to generate images of it while collecting money for their services.

All this to say, copyright is stupid.

I had my Sonata stolen last year. The problem is that, by default, there was neither a key checker nor a steering immobilizer built into the vehicles. These are industry standard features for every car manufacturer... Except Kia and Hyundai. These are required features in every car sold in every Western nation... Except the United States. To have excluded this literal 90s tech from their vehicles when they're so common that no one would ever stop to think about whether their car has them constitutes a serious lie by omission on the part of Kia and Hyundai, in my opinion. If I knew that all you had to do was rip off the ignition and shove something onto a peg to screw off with the car, I would have told the dealer to stick it up his butt.

For those wondering: I had comprehensive insurance, so I was paid the full value of the vehicle after it was totaled. I bought a Toyota Camry with the money and it's a great car. I am never buying Kia or Hyundai cars again and I recommend everyone else avoid them from here on out. Like, if this is what they're willing to do to save $30 per assembled vehicle, what else might be lurking in their newer vehicles that we won't know about until it's too late?

Maybe not you personally, but locking people's digital character sheets behind a subscription service, refusing to provide PDFs of their printed materials, and most recently DMCAing content creators who showed any footage of the inside of the new PHB (which was being sold at GenCon), all strike me as anti-consumer behavior. Meanwhile, like he said, you can find the rules for just about everything Paizo has published online, legally, and they encourage you to do so. You can buy a PDF version of all their books on their website for a fraction of the cost of the physical volume. There are so many third-party tools available for free thanks to their generous use of the OGL/ORC licenses that it's hard to know which one to use.

I do understand the point about familiarity, though. If you're already running a game, or multiple games even, that's going to be a huge hurdle.

I've played about 150 hours of ESO. One of the big problems, IMO, is that the surface-world PvE story content is so unchallenging it's boring. They made it so that someone with an intentionally atrocious build can solo everything that's required for story progression, which means that anyone who puts the slightest thought into their character will steamroll the game. If I thought that's all there was to the game, I wouldn't have played it more than an hour.

Honestly, even the default-difficulty dungeons are lame. There's technically a story in it, but everyone just rushes through it so fast that you have no idea what's happening. All you know is that you and your party are sprinting from room to room, wiping out huge groups of enemies just by spamming your most efficient area attack. I play a healer character, a Templar in light armor, and when I do standard difficulty I think I pop a basic heal once the entire time if I'm lucky. Sure, the fast pace is exciting for the first few times, but you catch on at some point to the fact that you're just mindlessly spamming AOEs every time.

If you actually want a challenging game, you need to do the world bosses, veteran dungeons, and trials. World bosses are technically group content, and there is usually a group running a schedule for the world bosses in each zone, but if you hate those people you can kill them yourself. Veteran dungeons are roughly on the same level of difficulty that WoW dungeons are. I actually have to pay attention to my positioning and resources when I'm in one, which is refreshing. Also nice is that the targeting system works seamlessly with my heals; all I need to do is point at my teammate and hit the spell key, no specific targeting required. It feels like I'm in a combat with magic I can control instead of playing with a UI. But anyway, it's such a different experience from the default difficulty that I really recommend you try it out. You'll be fine, I sucked my first few times and I never got vote-kicked or even flamed.

Trials are the one thing I don't have experience with, and to my knowledge it's the most challenging content by far. Someone else could tell you more about it, though. I also don't have a ton of experience with PvP, other than getting ganked in Cyrodiil a few times while looking for delves and a match where I just ran around spamming heals and running away from enemies. My team didn't win and I didn't get so much as a single kill, but I got the highest score of anyone in the lobby. Good times.

Electrical engineering. I'm not in the department that does all the heavy math, I mostly just do what people tell me to do. But there's satisfaction in making something comprehensible, even elegant, and solving the few problems I come across in my work. It's not artistic, exactly, but it's still very easy for the hours to melt away.

I'm an engineer. I don't usually spend more than a few hours on a single job, and there's always something to do. My favorite thing is finding out how to do an unusual job and becoming the go-to guy for it.

Thank you based Ross.

I really don't see why an indie dev would oppose this. If you were an artist, you wouldn't want to watch your creation completely disappear from existence because you couldn't keep working on it, would you?

Those zero-interest payment plans will friggin kill you.

You should have named this "BECAUSE THIS IS A TEXT POST YOU WILL NOT READ IT" and put a heartfelt journal entry in here.

Sadly, this won't stop Google from killing off Manifest V2.

You think you do, but you don't.

The discussion here is founded upon the assumption that a fetus is a person. The OP's argument is that if that's true, then self defense laws apply and the woman should be able to defend herself from the fetus by whatever means necessary to prevent harm. But the fetus can't choose to do anything, so killing it in self defense would only make sense if you could also kill the five year old who was thrown at its mother.