I meant around town and such, but yeah, wild yards are cool too. Easier to maintain flowers and clover and stuff.

You skipped kids 3 thru 14 there

All you can do is add to pollen I guess. Plant seeds of native plants that bees love. Indiscriminately in random places.

Maybe someone else has some better ideas.

Long term = next dem president inherits a recession and gets blamed for it

If there IS a next dem president.

Do be careful. I’m considering 700€ headphones because of them.

Their sortable category ratings are just awesome though. Have a big home? Go look at routers and sort by rating for multi-level home or large home.

Sony and Philips are the top tier lately as far as I know. LG has been doing weird things and Samsung hasn’t actually been good on the high-end for a long time. Or maybe it’s coming back now with the QD-OLED displays? Because the original “QLED” absolutely felt like deceptive marketing, as “QLED” looks so similar to “OLED”. Then there’s the whole ads thing on Samsung. Idk if LG does this.

So chances are, you made a pretty good choice. Sony’s a reliable company generally.

Fair enough. I just hit install on Civ 6 on Steam too. May my ADHD show me mercy.

It’s the problem with the whole high ground approach.

The republicans don’t need to have any moral values. But as soon as the democrats drop down to their level, republicans WILL start throwing shit at them.

I mean usually there’s a reasoning behind jokes, I was wondering what that would be.

Ra-ra-rasputin

Not OP, but rtings seems good to me. They’re not afraid to mention when a new model is actually inferior to it’s predecessor and they have standardized scoring for multiple product categories. Downside is limit of free reviews per month, but I’ve never needed more than they allow.

I can’t imagine a democratic president pardoning someone for burning buildings.

I can’t imagine a republican president pardoning someone for building republican buildings.

Probably not going to happen.

Huh?

6 has too many DLCs for my taste and 4 just kinda feels outdated with tetragons for tiles. I won’t buy 7 unless the Steam reviews greatly improve with updates. It sounds unfinished, and probably you’ll have to pay hundreds to get all the DLC to finish it. I MIGHT pirate it to check it out down the line.

Yes but the question is whether it’s imagined newly by a human, or it comes from an algorithm that only works because it’s combining other people’s existing works.

Tablets and software made things easier for humans, AI just… Makes artists obsolete and if you do create something new, it’ll be ingested too.

I agree with you in the core principle that less work for more productivity is good, but I feel creative work is the one notable exception. We remember a bunch of paintings from centuries ago not because they’re beautiful to look at even, but because these particular artists have found interesting new ways to convey their view of the world or their feelings. AI generating a new version of a Van Gogh painting isn’t as impressive.

Ghibli movies, similarly, have a distinctive art style that reminds you of how these movies have been lovingly made by dedicated artists who poured their souls into it. Using AI to shit out random content with the same style is just blatant disrespect for everything they’ve done. You can use AI to clone paw patrol or something if you want. That’s a merch seller, not art.

That one IS a controversial opinion unfortunately.

Man, if only this was happening in a country with armed citizens, they could maybe do something about it.

I actually also went before EVs were commonplace, I was more referring to the fact that you got the knowledge to instinctively make that connection (and probably nowadays they have exercises on the subject too).

Yeah, we were pretty similar, except we didn’t have “school school specialty curriculum” since I went to public school, and public schools are standardized in what they teach

I went as, I believe, the second or third year of an experimental new system under which schools offered different specialty tracks that were up to the schools themselves to design. We had like a science-focused track, an art focused one, and then one that was basically “cool shit we threw together” that included stuff like psychology and law (first all kinds of basic legal concepts, which in of itself was a really big course, and then a second course focusing mostly on Estonian contract law, as that is hugely important, as well as some looks into stuff like employment law, consumer protection law, etc. This probably was not too common in schools in our country either, we just had a really awesome principal that was a former lawyer and took it upon herself to teach all this.

As of the 2024/2025 school year, the system is abolished and now the student gets to pick more of the electives, instead of the school tracks. So more freedom of choice, which I reckon is a good thing. The mandatory basics are still really solid.

I mean that depends on the sign of the W/h as well as your W/h² and higher orders too. Maybe you’re actually approaching zero watts :P

In our case, we had the pulleys and stuff too, but we had different modules and the later ones showed how they connect to eachother, so you start up with optics, mechanics (as in movement, not car parts lol), thermodynamics and electricity in middle school, then you get all of the same with a lot of new information in high school and also very basic nuclear physics, like atom models, electron levels and stuff. Essentially first you learn about power and energy in the context of movement and thermodynamics, and then later also electricity (at which point you’ll understand how heat at the power station converts to electrical energy at your home car charger converts to movement of your electric car, or similar with fuel and internal combustion engine car - of course the efficiencies are simplified greatly).

Of course you heard a lot of bored classmates go “But why do I have to learn this, I’ll never need it in real life”, but at least electrical bills are so much easier to predict when you know how power and energy relate.

I’m very happy with how the education system in my country works and how it prepared me for university (which I just didn’t have the attention span for) and life. It’s the reason I’m OK with paying a fair bit higher tax than I would in some other countries. Our income tax is at 22%, but a bunch is hidden from regular peoples’ view by making it part of the employer’s tax burden, meaning if I pay myself a decent salary, the tax rate is ~43% or if I pay myself less than I need to live I can make it 31-33% and get a visit from the taxman asking why I’m paying myself so little and paying the rest out in dividends. Luckily the economics course in high school included our tax system in addition to macroeconomics concepts, so I can navigate all this fairly easily. Not sure if that one was mandatory nationwide, or just part of my own school’s curriculum, because we basically had 3 types of subjects: Absolutely mandatory (like 60% of total course load), school specialty curriculum (like 20-30% of total) and then the rest was up to you to choose what you wanted to learn.

However, now they’re talking about making universities charge tuition from everyone as well as all kinds of cuts in other sectors WHILE raising taxes, despite the fact that we barely even use debt as a nation so if all that happens, I’ll find some creative ways to reduce my taxes or pay them in another country.

Okay, long ADHD rant about our education system aside, I do agree with you that most people will probably intuitively understand the differences. But man do I feel like some countries’ curriculums have been half-assed. It’s entirely possible to give young people an understanding of the universe from astronomical scales down to microscopical AND teach them things like tax systems, energy consumption calculations and other things that can be used in real life.

Oh, in my country you have to take physics, chemistry and biology. That actually goes for middle school too. Plus geography which actually also contains geology. And math could be considered science I guess.

We have elective courses too, but all the basics are mandatory. That includes at least two foreign languages, history, our own language, literature (becomes separate subject from language in high school), music, art (including history of both), basic computer usage, shop class for boys and home ec for girls (with trades in between so us boys still got to cook and stuff, plus in elementary school everyone gets to knit and crochet IIRC). Oh and physical education unless you’re disabled, in which case you either get to watch or just do something else I think.

I’m actually sure I’ve missed something. These are all mandatory. You can do shit like folkdance or choir for electives, or many other things depending on school. I had philosophy as one of my electives lol

I think people in some countries (the US) don’t even know what they’re missing out on tbh.