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That wouldn't generally be needed here, though. At least in the cities where most people live, they are walking and using public transit just to live, eat, etc.

Over a certain percentage, I bite into chocolate and it just sucks all the moisture out of my mouth and is just terrible bitterness. I think 86% was the last one I tried, but even 50% is getting to be too bitter for me. I was always super sensitive to bitter compounds as a kid, though, so that may make sense. I do actually like black coffee of some beans/roasts, but it doesn't have nearly as much bitterness.

One of my teammates used AI (our company heavily encourages it) to write code. It did what it was supposed to and the tests passed, but it was the most ugly and unmaintainable shit ever. For one example, I don't want to have to untangle a for i = 0; i++; i <= len(foo) {} that has multiple ifs inside that separately increment and decrement the loop counter i when trying to troubleshoot an issue.

Constantly sold out here in Japan. Even the discounted Japan-only version that was meant to stop foreign purchase and resale with more restrictions such as Japanese-language-only

Well, if you have to build all kinds of stuff to win (or even survive) things like environmental regulations go out the window. You can expect factories, many not meant for it, to start running 24/7 and producing all kinds of pollution. People will need to get to those factories and it's also all using more power. All of those things also need to be shipped around, both to temporary storage and to staging areas for wherever they're destined.

During WWII in the US, a lot of old mines were also re-opened to get what was left of lead, copper, zinc, etc. and mining can have a huge environmental impact. I suspect we'd see that again along with rare earths mining and refining which is not great for the environment. I suspect we'd see more coal mining, facking, and other things as well to meet energy needs at home and abroad.

There will be tons of fires pumping carbon and I'm sure plenty of nasty materials into the atmosphere as well. Lead is going to end up all over the place in some areas and probably depleted uranium as well (you can see what that's done over time in various parts of the Middle East).

Probably not. Iron is way more abundant and better for a number of usages as well as being easier to work. Bronze requires sources of multiple metals for the alloy, but may win out in some limited applications

The old TSR/SSI game Unlimited Adventures had randomized potion colors. It's also how I learned that khaki is not pronounced 'kahiki' when trying to explain what was going on to someone (I knew khakis as a type of trouser not a color).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Realms%3A_Unlimited_Adventures

Edit: or maybe I'm thinking of another gold-box game if that one didn't have some random generation. Hrm.

Pokemon. I was in highschool when it came out and had no time for it followed by being too poor and busy trying to survive directly after it. With no nostalgia for it, there seems to be no reason to try it. I gave pokemon go like 20 minutes and I was over it (though I did play dragonquest walk for around a year)

I started Korean a few days ago. I am still in the "learning how this all works" phase. I'm frustrated by my slow reading speed and inability to find something to help that readily.

... why on earth would anyone want emails in their notifications to begin with?

Well, it was an old way of pronouncing it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-have-been-saying-ax-instead-ask-1200-years-180949663/

I've said that, if I had it to do over again, I might choose to move to Norway or Finland instead of Japan, but birth? I don't know that's possible to answer. Even if my family were the same people, they'd probably be culturally different having been born and raised somewhere. Even if we assume my parents were just plonked down there, I probably still wouldn't be the same person due to my environment. Some of that almost certainly for better, but I wouldn't be me.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight was one that set me on quite the Dragonlance collection and reading journey

Yeah, I'm not a fan of those. I'm fine with licorice.

Peeps. I've never like marshmallow anything, really, and definitely not those abominations. Most cinnamon-flavored things. Edit: forgot one: chocolate-covered cherries. I don't know why. I have a cherry tree and will eat the cherries off it and don't even mind most artificially-cheery-flavored things. I also eat other fruits covered in chocolate (even durian).

Ah, Usenet...

Cats know their names after a while but often do not care to react to them (or at least not in the way the human wants)

I'm a dude in his 40s. If anything, I've gotten more empathetic and easily moved over the years. I have cried at movies and over books.

Machinae Supremacy - Sidology 3 -- metal covers of songs from old video games actually also using a SID chip.

Yeah, I got laid off multiple times, lived out of my car, and have a bunch of health problems. The drinking problems also came because of the former (and mental healthcare in the US) and caused/worsened some of the former. Hang in there!