CPAP, comes with a cell chip in it to relay data for the Dr to monitor/access. Cell chip stops working after 5 years.

Edit: Realized this could use more clarity. The cell plan for the chip expires after 5 years and cannot be renewed, meaning the entirely functional machine needs to be replaced or the Dr can’t properly monitor necessary vitals.

I just want to see some more exceptionalism from Flute Guy.

It’s not just that it means nothing, it’s that it exists as the implication of something or anything that can be used to identify with the in-group.

For the awareness of the elderly, 6-7 is starting to evolve, at least locally, into a call and response with the response to a 6-7 hand gesture being 8-9 with a kind of horizontal movement of vertical hands in a similar fashion. I’m unsure how local the trend is, it’s true origin, or if it will spread.

It’s interesting that to those not initiated into the call and response by peers will see knowledgeable non-peers providing the response as mocking or failing to understand the meme, thus further cementing it’s role as a tool as an in joke to the 6-7’er, despite them now being on the outside of the evolution of the joke, which is a wonderful contradiction.

This guy was working for them and did all this before the standards got lowered and the expectations for intimidation and violence were increased, so I’m not sure I can even imagine the sheer horrors currently happening that we only might find out in a few years.

Having never used OF, I assumed it was a pay to access content model, I guess they additionally allow tipping, which isn’t a surprise, I assume there’s also a pay for specific content creation model. But what I don’t know is if the tipping, while linked to a creator, is linked to a specific piece of content. If it isn’t, wouldn’t a creator with any amount of mixed content be hard to evaluate? You couldn’t prove the tipping was related to an excluded category in that case.

The point of games is to have fun, “cheats” are essentially just difficulty options.

Honestly, he’d probably better than like 80+% of the field we’ve had in the last 3 elections or will have if there is another one.

Once Upon a Galaxy has been my default game since I first played it.

It’s an asynchronous alternating activation autobattler (like Arcane Rush, or Storybook Brawl/Hearthstone Battlegrounds but you play against ghosts). Games take about 10-15 minutes.

It’s largely public domain fantasy themed, but has been expanding into the “legally distinct” cultural references as they add content, basically every captain/unit/treasure is a reference.

The shop mechanic is simplified, there’s no currency, you just get a set of choices, and can pick 1. You get two shops per round by default, lots of ways to get extra.

Asynchronous play means that you face challenging opponents that naturally evolve with the meta game but you can also take time to make thoughtful decisions.

The draft pool for the shop has a large base pool that you add to by selecting a custom sebset from a second large pool as your captain’s deck. The progression is through unlocking cards for each captain’s secondary pool, and unlocking new captains. You can naturally earn all cards through play, most captains are free, new captains are paywalled for a limited time.

Monetization is through 3 paths: cosmetics, acceleration of card unlocks, access to paywalled captains. I haven’t found it to be particularly exploitative or negative feeling.

My only gripe is minor, that it doesn’t have mid-run save/resume, but that is on their road map.

There is essentially no story, if that matters to you.

If it’s not obvious, I’m really enthusiastic about this game. I’m not affiliated/sponsored in any way. Happy to answer any questions.

It sounds very infrastructure/trade based than politics, so I’d stay away from nation/country terms. Regional Planning would be a generic term for the infrastructure piece, could use Commerce if trade is important. >

I’ve come to view tolerance not as a default position, but rather as a contract which people are defaulted into, if you’re breaking it by refusing to be bound by it, you’re no longer protected by it either.

I’ll leave guilt up to the jury, but people really need to read the article, though it could really use more details. There’s a possibility of this actually being a nothing burger. Their family business received a COVID relief payment from FEMA, article says it was for $5M too much (doesn’t say if it was more than they requested or just more than FEMA meant to send), portions of that money were paid to family members (unclear if they worked at the family business) and those family members also donated to her campaign (timeline is unclear, obviously faster movement would be more suspicious, but if these are well separated, not as much).

Does the length of the bill matter?

Maybe the elected representatives should read an entire bill before they vote on passing it…

Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace was originally planned to be a covert Sith Master. He force jumps, he uses mind control, and he “accidentally” sabotages them. But the negative reaction to him was so strong, Lucas reworked the last 2 scripts of the prequels and is why Count Dooku basically comes out of nowhere.

I’d say the use cases of: mundane but time consuming, pointed inquiries or interactive rubber ducking, are all getting AI help. Offloading a design where you don’t have a clear understanding of how it should be done is vibing.

Please don’t insult Camacho like that, he actually cared and did the best he could for his people with the tools and science he had. I’d take Camacho any day of the week.

The way I see it is, the usefulness of straight LLM generated text is indirectly proportional to the importance of the work. If someone is asking for text for the sake of text and can’t be convinced otherwise, give 'em slop.

But I also feel that properly trained & prompted LLM generated text is a force multiplier when combined with revision and fact checking, also varying indirectly proportional with experience and familiarity with the topic.

The Dean of Discipline at my Catholic High School was soliciting minors for sex during the time I was there. https://warwickonline.com/stories/assistant-principal-on-leave-pending-investigation-of-alleged-solicitation-on-web,34242

There apparently has been another controversy another controversy there as well.

Not as roguelike, but maybe Don’t Starve Together?