I would absolutely choose this mode without any shame. I already spend plenty of time in "Story Mode" difficulty; I don't care to spend hours of frustration trying to hit just the right dodge pattern for a boss because I no longer have the finger dexterity that I did when I was 20.
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I've been using it for the last day or so on a separate account and I like it so far. It's a new app and there's plenty of stuff planned for it, but the ability to open comments in a separate column instead of another tab is fantastic. There's already a request for light mode in the repo, which is my biggest issue right now.
Here's an archive.today link for that article, it has the whole thing on one page.
I enjoy the Philosophize This podcast by Stephen West and The Grey Area with Sean Illing from Vox.
The Being in the Way podcast has been putting out official recordings by Alan Watts on a semi-regular basis for about two years now. I like listening to his lectures as his take on Taoism is fairly down to earth and practical, rather than esoteric or excessively religious.
I also second the recommendation of PhilosophyTube on YouTube. I've been a fan of that channel since nearly the start, and it's been cool to see the improvement over time in both the presentation and substance of her videos.
Because climate change is already a do-or-die political issue and Republicans are on the "die" team, so if you actually care about the world being on fire vote for a Democrat.
That's the argument from the piece. Nothing new, interesting, or likely to be persuasive to anyone whose mind is not already made up on the issue of climate change.
I really enjoyed this manga, I hope the anime will keep the laid back yet slightly melancholic feel.
I've been listening to a lot of instrumental metal lately (all the awesome sound, none of the incoherent screaming or terrible rapping) and found the 2018 album Controlled Chaos by Nita Strauss. Her playing is fantastic - I especially love the second track from that album Alegria.
Dangerous in what way? According to the article:
The panel cited the long history of safety and efficacy of Opill, which was approved for prescription use 50 years ago. The over-the-counter pill will be identical to the prescription version, which is 93 percent effective at preventing pregnancy with typical use.
"Mallyhacked" - meaning something that is broken or destroyed. I heard this phrase a lot from older folks during my childhood, but never by anyone who wasn't from my area. My SO didn't believe it was a real word so I did some digging and I think that it is likely a very regionally accented version of "malahack".
Urban Dictionary says that malahack comes from the Lumbee-English slang of southern North Carolina. I don't think that's quite accurate because I'm not from anywhere close to North Carolina. My preferred reference is from The Vocabulary of East-Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years of the Eighteenth Century, and Still Exists: with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority; in Two Volumes · Volume 2 by Robert Forby, 1830:
Malahack, v. A word ludicrously fabricated, which means to cut or carve in an awkward and slovenly manner.
According to gaming conventions, that armor provides +20AC and (when combined with a full-body cloak thrown open dramatically as I enter the tavern) can make a barman swoon at 30 feet.
Is a heat wave literally burning the giant piles of lobbyist money that they get to pretend climate change isn't happening, along with their children? No.
Here's what politicians do, because it's what they've been paid to do:
But the government quickly began to back down after a meeting in June with officials in the oil-rich province of Alberta...
The task for the government is to make it appear that as much progress as possible is being made (to appease the fifth of Canadians too worried to have children) while causing as few political problems as possible with the industry.
...politicians want to be seen doing a lot about climate change, but not so much that it lands them in any kind of real trouble with the industry.
Finally, this:
But this moment feels as if it calls for something larger—comparable to the Earth Day demonstrations of a half century ago, which brought ten per cent of the American population into the streets. It’s eruptions on that scale that change the political reality.
The only way to get them to do something meaningful is to have enough constituents screaming in their faces to do something or get replaced by someone who will. If you're not screaming at the people who represent you in government to make real change (including restricting fossil fuel companies), then you're wasting your time doing anything else to "fight" climate change.
Also, because I have more to complain about, I see we're still doing headlines that comply with Betteridge's law.
This week is starting out complicated. I have a ton to do for work and absolutely no motivation to do any of it, so I'm having to spend more willpower than I'm used to just to get started. I'm coming off of a bad weekend mood-wise and really feeling the "want to run away to a cave and live there forever" vibes, which is also taking effort to move past.
One thing that's cheering me up is planning out the details of some house changes for August/September, which hopefully will end up going well. Visualizing the end result is giving me something positive to look forward to.