I'm still not an expert, but I like to speculate and dream of a better world

I have no disagreement with point 1, I've heard that before. But gosh, it's a tough pill to swallow when you're not food secure. I think maybe it's easier for people to accept "there isn't enough food" than "there is food, but I can't have any."

Point 2: I imagine we'd probably grow different food there. I suppose there might be some concern for biodiversity loss, but if we were suddenly gifted a ton of arable land to grow food on we could probably get better variety.

Point 3 is a tough one, it's something I haven't really considered before. However, I suppose that raising animals for fertilizer could potentially be more humane and lower impact than raising animals for flesh. For instance, you're no longer incentivized to slaughter the animals at a young age, and older animals might actually have a lower caloric requirement. Plus you wouldn't need to raise the mega polluters like cows, you just want whatever gives good fertilizer.

In English we have an idiom, "same shit, different day," which means dealing with the same sort of unpleasant task until it's routine. Do you have something similar?

This Hamburg court thing sounds like something I'd call "same shit, different pay," which would be like when you have an issue with your boss so you appeal to their boss, and find out that they're just as bad except they're higher in the organization.

I don't think a ban is coming at the issue from the right angle. Social media misuse is fundamentally a problem of addiction, and we have a checkered past of causing harm when banning things. For a historical analogue, look at the Prohibition era of the United States.

Ultimately, bans for these things don't work because people will get around it anyway. And that's exactly when dangerous things happen. Using the Prohibition example again, people poisoned themselves trying to make illegal hooch because they were determined to drink anyway.

I think education is the answer. And I mean honestly, isn't education always the answer? But you've got to educate your kids about the content they're using. We've got to educate the parents about the dangerousness of unlimited access to screens. If people don't understand the danger, then they don't recognize the danger, and suddenly they've stumbled on danger.

I'm sure everyone has heard a story about a straight-laced kid who grew up with strict parents, and then at the first opportunity to party in college goes on a bender to destroy their life. Those kids' parents really did them a disservice by not preparing them for reality. If their only education on drugs and alcohol is "don't do them," then the child isn't really aware of the risks. They just see that everyone else is doing them and having fun, and then they go off the deep end before they realize how bad things are getting.

Social media's the same thing. The day your kid turns seventeen they'll have every chance to succumb to brainrot on their own volition. Without being informed of how or why that happens, there's nothing stopping someone from falling into any internet rabbithole.

Imagine having the first four, but still somehow not making it to the fifth

I'm not the expert, but I believe we're currently growing that food for the animals.

If demand for meat decreased then there'd be more food in the supply chain for humans.

Admittedly I stopped working in food service well before the Beyond came out, but I definitely had people order the veggie burger because "they were trying to be healthier" that day.

And I guess that means different things for different people, and I don't think Beyond is actively marketing specifically as a health food or anything. But my lizard brain is always going to assume that the plant is healthier than the meat.

"We were a victim of propaganda, so we asked Fortune to print our own propaganda"

Honestly good for them though. It sounds like they are looking to make healthier burgers. I like that they're moving away from palm oil, although I'm not sure that avocado is much better for the environment. Either is leaps and bounds ahead of real meat though.

The criticisms facing plant-based meat might be justifiable, I'm not a nutritionist. Intuition suggests that they're almost certainly better than meat, but if they're dressing it up with a bunch of oils and such then maybe it's not a supremely healthy meal.

All that to say, it sounds like plant-based meat should be consumed in moderation. Just like regular meat. Or, heck, anything you put in your body

Beyond does make a pretty decent burger, I'd be interested in trying one when the avocado oil variant hits the shelves

Ah, family dinner at the Birb house

Later, mom will visit the kids' table to regurgitate. Wholesome tradition

Every other skilled trade just says "Fast, Right, or Cheap: pick two."

It's not my fault if they always pick fast and cheap

"You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master."

"What? How can you do this? This is outrageous! It's unfair! How can you be on the council and not be a master?"

"Take the fucking seat, Skywalker."

I've got an idea for a game, I call it "Elmo's Steaming Pile of Bingo"

Make a bingo card with all the horrible dark patterns in gaming on it.

A monthly fee to play a game where you can buy the battle pass with cryptocurrency and you get NFTs in the lootboxes. Watch ads during matchmaking, purchasable respawns, buy your way out of chat bans. The winning team can talk as much trash as they want on the post-game lobby while the losers are sent to farm captchas until they can play again

Get five boxes in a row and you win! I mean, we all lose, but you win!

For changing your sex, I would think you'd need to update your ID and notify your doctor. Driver's license, identification and passport are all things that you might run into issues if they're out of order.

The name change probably requires more action. All of the above plus I'd imagine you might come into issues with banking or billing. If you're a homeowner you might need to update your title, but I'd check with a lawyer

You go, dude!

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs - I know you know what they are, but for anyone reading who doesn't) are such a terrible metric for performance. Like, yes, well performing teams generate good KPIs because they're performing well. The minute a suit tries to actually tie a KPI to performance, people start gaming them and the product suffers.

A little bit of a segue here, but Factorio recently released some tidbits about their performance when they wrapped up development. They said they have 0.24 sales per line of code. Now they're a very different team making a very different kind of game for a very different kind of market, so I take this as the amusing corelation it is without putting any stock into why that is.

Some project manager from Ubisoft is going to read that and think, "Well we can do better," and start mandating more sales for less code. Next thing you know, devs are being punished for verbosity (an ironic twist on the classic and often abused KPI of how many lines of code are written) and before you know it you've got compound statements, nested ternaries, and inscrutable lambdas out the wazoo that make maintaining the code base impossible.

I wonder if I minified all my source code into a single line before compiling if I could game the system 🤔

G..E..T....O...U...T...

Get out of what? Get outside? Have you been cooped up too much? Get out of your comfort zone? Have you been stagnating?

(jk I'm not fluent in Morse. For that you'll need a radio operator or an exorcist)

Well sure, old people do

I don't know, I guess I must have forgot

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All costs are passed onto the consumer. Heaven forbid the line doesn't go up

GROND!

Friendly reminder to DMs that Counter Spell is a reaction, so after your fireball gets counter-counter-counter-counter-counter-counter-counterspelled you can just have some other mook cast another.

I mean, you shouldn't counter-counter-counter-counterspell if you can help it. But having multiple casters in an encounter adds some more strategizing, especially if you have a scenario where a player might want to hold their reaction for something else.