Good for you.

If I can only fix one I’m going with the school food.

I can only assume the “point” is just general anti-US sentiment. Hardly much that’s similar between US/Iran and US/Europe though. We’ve had a cold war with Iran for most of my life and now it’s a shooting war. With Europe it’s more like “the military power you’ve been relying on for decades may not be so reliable anymore.” To compare this to Iran is… imaginative.

What is that point as you see it? And how does it apply to Europe?

Man the devs founders really thought of everything.

Life is a collection of very small problems and minor precautions that are hopefully never needed. But I’m with you on this one. I think the only reason we’re talking about it at all is “ew poo poo gross!!” and meanwhile most peoples phones are dirtier than money or toilet seats yet they press them to their faces all day long. I’m for taking any precaution that I can easily take but I’m also for not stressing so damn hard about dirt and such. People freak out about public toilet seats and all I can think is: how clean does it need to be for me to press my ass into it? “How clean does it need to be” is really my guiding question. Without that, people start trying to absolutes and that is really unhealthy as well as impossible.

Not nonstop or anything - he just got them often.

A friend of mine told a story about his brother who had a major surgery in his abdomen and HAD to control his chronic hiccups while in recovery or risk opening his wounds or worse. His doctors helped. I don’t even remember all the remedies he mentioned because there were several and the point was that each person can be different so you have to figure out what works for you.

People love it and all respect to them. I could never get into it. Back in the day, serialized storytelling on TV was often harder to break into because you didn’t just sit down and steam whole series in order. You had to watch whatever was on the air and whenever Babylon 5 came on I’d check it out, be totally lost on what was happening, get sick of all the talking, and change the channel.

Also worth mentioning that while memories are retained in the slug, each host/slug combination is considered to be a unique being and not necessarily exactly the same person as past incarnations. They deliberately play with the boundary of this to show how having different body or gender is part of who we are but doesn’t totally define us.

Couldn’t they both be decent without being king?

Even inexpensive purchases may be looked at that way! Yeah what they wrote has no meaning.

People often view concerts as a way to let loose, express themselves, and make the most of the money they’ve spent on the experience

This is a hell of a sentence. Let me emphasize one part of it.

People often view concerts as a way to … make the most of the money they’ve spent on the experience

Man that says a lot. Once something costs $200 you start getting entitled behavior from people who “paid $200 for this.”

Make concerts affordable again.

I think I read your reply too quickly and got your point wrong. My bad.

Absolutely perfect example of what I mean. You want to talk about gamers like they are this specific sub-niche of humans who are all the same.

Would you do this with movies? “People who watch movies are like XYZ and they only have a couple of skills.” What about music? “There’s a music listener in this thread and he said ABC.”

This is why I led with “do you know how many people play video games?” The gaming industry earns more annually than movies and music combined.

You have some stereotype of gamers in your brain, fine. That’s your deal. But “gamers” is just “people” these days. Including me. I’m a gamer. And I say: what bogus hysteria.

I really can’t understand how their tech is so chronically held back. I understand they need their games to interop with modders and such. But can’t they keep that API relatively stable while modernizing the stack behind it? I clearly don’t get it.

Maybe it has to do with the way their games all take 11 years to make. It’s like interstellar war: you launch ships and you know they’ll need centuries to arrive and be outdated when they get there.

I want the varmint rifle to be more viable for longer.

I think what you’re missing is the picture of a business that is doing pretty well and has extra cash but needs to grow even if it means losing some cash.

In the old world of brand advertising, the idea was to plant an image in people’s minds that would last a long time, earning back the price of the ads by raising customer awareness and loyalty.

In the new world of online ads, it’s more transactional. I can only sell t-shirts on my t-shirt site if I get visitors to it. How do I do that? Oh I can buy ads. And the ad network can target people interested in t-shirts. How does it know they’re interested? They clicked on other t-shirt ads. I spend $5.50 on hundreds of ads just to get one person to the site who buys. But I make $9 profit on each shirt.

If you had a machine that could pump out $9 every time you put $5.50 in, your only question would be how many times you can turn that crank per hour. That’s where all the ads come from. And did you notice the ad company gets $5.50 while the t-shirt maker who actually makes and sells the product only gets $4.50? It’s still a profitable deal for them. But the ad companies make bank.

All of this is going on all the time. Your post seems to be saying “but I hate ads.” I can’t disagree with you there. But unfortunately they actually work as long as you have some profit margin to spare on them.

As long as we’re all clear that that’s the only thing OP can expect, sure. If OP is wondering how much they can knock off their energy bill with this project, the answer is jack shit.

I believe you’re thinking of momentum in a narrow sense: the energy an already-moving object has that allows it to move for a while before stopping. And it was meant in a more general sense ie the amount of energy being generated and doing work.