We’ll have to agree to disagree. If anyone yelled at me in such a manner while I was driving, I’d never offer to drive them anywhere again. If they’re that existentially uncomfortable with the ride, they can drive themselves or walk. Dunno why they’d ask for a ride from someone who they clearly don’t think can get the job done without being yelled at in the first place.

I’d say, even if a driver is making a mistake, yelling at them while they’re driving is not the solution. I understand being nervous or frustrated while in the passenger seat, but yelling at the driver just doesn’t seem helpful, even if you’re yelling useful advice at them. If anything, you’re likely distracting them from making a decision at a critical moment.

I’m very comfortable behind the wheel, but my wife is not. I could not imagine yelling at her while she’s already in an uncomfortable position like that.

About 10 years ago, I read “Creativity, Inc” by Edwin Catmull, co-founder of Pixar. It detailed the ideas and events that lead up to the advent of feature 3D animation and filmmaking. I found it to be an inspiring story that mixed a passion for computer science with the desire for compelling storytelling. I was independently studying animation at the time, and it definitely lit a fire in me, as it was written by and for computer nerds who would like to make art.

I’ve always been more technically-oriented than artistic, so it was nice to see a book written from a similar perspective. I spent most of my young adulthood working on my technical skills so I could get a decent job, but around the time I read this book, I actually started putting time into creative endeavours in my free time as well.

Nah. I’ll continue enjoying Christmas as I damn well please. By all means continue to be a huge asshole about it, though. Happy holidays! 🎄🎅🎁

Whole lotta grinches in these comments. Of course Christmas has been exploited by big business to make money and yada yada, all that cynical bullshit.

To quote Charlie Brown, circa 1965 (which I mention to point out that this problem is nothing new):

I won’t let all this commercialism ruin my Christmas. I’ll take this little tree home and decorate it and I’ll show them it really will work in our play.

You might as well hate Halloween because it gives overly-religious people an excuse for their Satanic Panic every year. It has nothing to do with the actual holiday itself, but how bad actors have co-opted it. And I say that as an atheist who enjoys Christmas in a secular way.

Christmas rules. I love having a time every year where I can reliably take some time off work and spend it with family.

That said, I’m not skipping Halloween by any measure; I love Halloween as well. Our decorations our going up today.

Yeah, I think I’ve only bought one or two PS5 exclusives since I got mine around October 2020. Demon Souls remake and Horizon Forbidden West (though the latter is now available on Steam).

That said, I still think I’ve gotten a good amount of value out of the console by reaping the Patient Gamer™ rewards by picking up many of the major PS3/PS4 titles during good sales. I didn’t play many video games during the PS3/PS4 era, so I missed out on quite a few major releases. I’ve accumulated a pretty great digital library with some fantastic games for a relatively small amount of money (which, like my Steam library, I’ve only actually played a fraction of).

As an aside, probably my favorite PS5 exclusive has just been the free Astro Bot game. The haptics in the DualSense controller are frankly cool as hell, and I hope more games utilize them going forward.

Could be! I’ve often wondered if the problem is something I can’t really overcome with practice. I’ve watched many tutorial videos over the years, but my tongue just ends up doing nothing when I try to practice.

I can’t roll my r’s. I speak pretty decent Spanish (took 5 semesters in high school), but have never been able to figure out how to roll the r’s, despite years of trying on and off to figure it out.

It’s never a problem. On the rare occasions that I actually need to speak Spanish, nobody cares that I can’t roll my r’s.

My parents and all their friends used to use PTT with their Nextel phones. It was a super handy feature. I wonder why it fell out of style. Seemed more convenient and less tedious than a phone call for short communications.

They don’t want to sting you.

Maybe they don’t “want” to sting anyone, but wasps can be very territorial and aggressive. Every time I’ve ever been stung by a wasp, I was minding my own business and just happened to piss one off by existing nearby.

I’ve tried the mint extract approach before, but it has never helped keep wasps away from our house. I wonder if efficacy varies based on the specific kind of wasps.

Been playing Silksong a couple of hours each day since launch. It’s been a fantastic experience so far. Tough, but fair. Great pacing, which incentivizes getting good with the default moveset before expanding it with powerups.

Looking forward to putting some more time into this one over the next few weeks.

If you want a view to count you need to use an official client

I would think that parsing the website would count the same as any browser-based page load, since parsing the website requires first fetching the page (probably using something like wget or curl under the hood). I dunno if non-logged-in page loads are generally counted toward the overall view count on a given video, though.

I wouldn’t say Matrix needs 1:1 feature parity with Discord in order to be a viable alternative for a lot of users.

My social circle doesn’t typically use the entire suite of features in Discord. Text chat, voice chat, video calling, file sharing, and screen sharing cover our usual needs.

OP says, “with our current current level of technology.”

We have the technology to overcome any logistics issue pertaining to eliminating scarcity (and by extension, poverty). What we lack is the societal structure.

Their products suck. Their markup is excessive and makes their products cost far more than the equivalent meat products.

This seems overly harsh to me. I’ve bought plenty of Beyond products (and Impossible, and Morning Star, and many other plant-based meat alternative brands) over the years and I’ve found them to be fine in terms of quality. I haven’t bought them in a while, but I don’t recall them being particularly more expensive than the other plant-based meats in the grocery store. Though I virtually always wait for those to go on a good sale before I buy them.

Since plant-based alternatives are competing with the meat industry, which is heavily subsidized to keep meat costs artificially low, I wouldn’t say it’s fair to say Beyond’s products being more expensive than regular meat is why their business is failing. Other plant-based meats I’ve tried have generally always been more expensive than regular meat.

Perhaps “sophomoric”

This is the first I’ve heard of such a thing. Like TVs connecting to one another through Wifi Direct or BTLE and tethering their internet connection? Can you link to anything discussing this?

Damn, hoisted by my own petard.