Probably “fills in” would be a better word in this context. “Jucika fills in”, she’s taken on someone’s job for the day

Yeah, fair. I dont do a ton of that, myself.

I build a heavy cargo ship with a bunch of raw supplies, assemblers, roboports, and ingredients for a rocket, go to the planet, slap down a rocket, some solar, a roboport, and logistics chests, and leave.

If I have to return in person, I have failed my challenge.

What didn’t you like about the expansion?

Biggest complaint I’ve heard (besides Quality complainers) is that they don’t like that T3 modules got retconned into needing other planets to get.

I personally find that a good change, and also quality is ignorable. I don’t have nearly the hours you have into it, but a respectable high triple digit number, and about 200 I’d guess of those has been post-space age. Haven’t actually played base since space age launched.

Its also been proven that people who’ve had alcohol, just the proper one or two glasses, form better and longer-lasting bonds and are less inhibited, reducing social anxiety. In the context of a business dinner, that IS a productivity boost. Even if no one loses themselves completely, that sales client or coworker thinks better of you and knows you better, because of that.

Booze has been key in human social interactions since the beginning. Shame its literally poison.

It was Apple.

Roasting and process both affect it greatly.

The coffee we produce is a soup full of a variety of compounds in the bean. Some of those are taken up by the water easier than others. Caffeine is one of those.

So as a general rule, the more you extract a bean, the more caffeine you get. Dark roasts extract much easier than light roasts, so a properly extracted light roast has more caffeine. This is also why you need so much less espresso than with other methods, it’s extracted with so much pressure.

Also, the common sense answer, use a lower beans/water ratio. Find whatever brewing method you like best where you can minimize the amount of coffee you use. I personally find I prefer a much lower amount of grounds when I make it with a french press (30g/liter) vs a pourover (45g/liter), so if I was trying to minimize my caffeine, I’d be using that. It’s not that the french press is less caffeine inherently, but the coffee is objectively waterier while still tasting full to me.

Also, in a similar thought, diluted coffee drinks will serve you better, as well. If you like a latte, swap the 1-oz espresso with an ounce of regular, and see if you still like that.

Any way that makes a coffee drink with less coffee should smooth over those jitters.

I love this. I’ll definitely be using this next game.

If it’s not too much trouble, it’d be cool if the name took you to the aonprd website entry for the thing in question.

But this is great.

How was the 1st bacon? As cooked as the Sausage?

That hasn’t been true for years now

These shenanigans are exactly why most spells with an otherwise-unlimited range are limited to their plane of existence.

Good loophole, would also allow it, RAW it should in fact work, although depending on the afterlife in question it may not produce a useful result, the person might be a lemure with no memories or something similar, depending on how long they’ve been dead.

Honestly, I don’t know exactly what google can or can’t track if the app developer doesn’t specifically enable them. I don’t have specific evidence that they’ll even be able to tell if the user was verified or not

What I do know is they have repeatedly shown that they’re happy to hide or lie about what and how they track people, and more broadly about their business as a whole.

Again I cite the drug analogy. Google is in the business of tracking people and harvesting data for ads. It’s like inviting the cartel to the DARE program and expecting everything to go swimmingly.

If they want their age verification app to actually be anonymous, they shouldn’t force people to use a tracking service to use it. The app specifically won’t be functional on degoogled android phones and won’t be offered on desktop computers. Maybe Google can’t spy on anything going on in the app, but even so, they could correlate “used verification app, roblox usage went up” or “used verification app, continued to use Tinder, concluded adult, ignoring ‘do not track’ preference as it doesn’t violate laws about tracking minors”.

It’s true that a minority of users have taken the steps where this inferred information would be particularly helpful to google, but not having the option to opt out is going to get harder and harder, and this service doesn’t provide enough good to give the information cartel that is Google any more information, even inferred, in my opinion.

It can’t be anonymous if you need a google or apple account to use. I’m not concerned about what the government tracks (well, not in this context at least), I’m concerned about who and what they’re working with to do the tracking. If the app verifies me as an adult but I couldn’t use the app without google butting in, google now has yet another data point in a secret ad profile that the government should be putting a stop to, not helping them build up. It’d be like announcing a plan to stop illegal drug usage by partnering with the cartel.

If they wanted a government-sponsored age verification sort of thing, it should’ve been an app whose only job was to type in a code you got from going in person to some government body and verifying in person. Town office, DMV, somewhere like that.

More fundamentally, though, “protecting the children” shouldn’t go anywhere near anything that can be used for identity theft. Showing my ID to the cashier at the cigarette shop is significantly safer than showing it to any business on the internet, because sharing a high-quality picture of something is giving them a copy. The cashier gets to see it, but it never leaves my sight and isn’t recorded in any way except probably some dodgy security camera where you can’t read it anyway.

I have a bag, and I got one of those quick disconnect keychains, so that I can attach the keys to the outside of the bag that always has my cards and ID and phone.

No poke, but I can see they’re there visually instantly, and while I have the power to misplace anything, by attaching the keys back to the bag in the car, I make it so that I’m only ever looking for something the size of a cat instead of the size of a rat. Much easier to find.

Alright I admit it. I’M the one who misread it as tankies, I just asked Quilotoa to say it instead because I was scared to say it.

Tech workers keep the modern planet running.

Do I regret the modern world frequently? Yes. But that’s like blaming the mechanic for a drunk driving accident.

I don’t have proof, naturally, but I got the sense the friends they were losing were friends made on the platform. With the account being lost suddenly, there’s a good chance they didn’t have backup contact info for them.

I do assume things based on performance based on the engine, but that’s more for moments like "new game is coming this fall, using some engine ", before tech specs are out. I find a lot of games that care to announce an engine in any way tend to be the heavier resource hogs, because they’re advertising the high fidelity of something-or-other.

But that’s not really a condemnation on any games. I do often avoid the high resource games, but that’s because I have an older PC, not because of any actual prejudice against an engine itself.

You’ve never had dehydrated bananas?

I’ve put them in oatmeal before.

I think they sorta reasonably might have thought kamala would be another Bernie, who was pulling republicans from trump during the primaries against Hilary. They thought kamala had that sort of appeal.

It’s not sound logic, but I think someone in politics who doesn’t understand what drew people to Bernie could see the parallels and conclude if they focus on it, they can draw those Republicans in.

Right? Makes that other comment under this seem more valid.