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The icing is the only part I like - I literally eat the cake separately so that I can maximize the icing-to-cake ratio in a single bite.
This is mostly because frosting is "wet" and offsets how dry the cake is. I dislike the dryness of the cake so much I prefer to eat most of it in one go and get over it, and then enjoy the rest of the cupcake with my preferred 9:1 proportion of icing to cake. π
The "phones are bad and suck your life away" crowd has gotten way too big. Yes, it's easy to waste time on them, but that's just something you gotta learn, like not watching TV series all night. You're a grown up, deal with it. Also maybe you feel bad for spending all that time on your phone just because feeling bad for that feels cool? It's actually your life you can spend it however you want. You don't need to be productive or successful to be a worthy human. Be a lazy shit that plays stupid phone games while on a train to work.
That exclusive content in physical games is a cruel disservice to late discoverers. "Exclusive" content should just be delayed public release content instead - something for the early adopters, but not unavailable to people years later.
Even just the normal game, if they're discontinuing production, should be made available as a digital purchase (including STL and print-ready files) for people coming along years later. We have the technology to not screw over potential future fans, and it's not that expensive to keep a small website running - especially if they're still going as a company. Looking at you, CMON Games.
The contemporary disdain for postmodernism was a Psy op designed to completely destroy philosophy from the inside. And the supposed replacements for post modernism (metamodernism or whatever) were just pop culture millennial distractions that just took attention away from the philosophical issues of the inadequacies of language and crisis of our communications systems. We became stuck in limbo. Cultural conversation dumbed down by useless culture wars articulated in low attention span pop culture commentary and therapy speak.
yeah but if you're clever you can come to the conclusion that postmodernism is the way to go
Blessing someone for a sneeze is the most useless human interaction I know of and we should do away with it.
I just loudly say "ew". It means the same thing as if I were saying bless you, but less confusing for the sneezer.
Bless you
Listen here you little shit lol
In Germany it's also okay to say "excuse me" as the person that sneezed. What do you think about that?
Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and tacky and will never be as good as previous gen flip phones. Just won't. Sorry not sorry.
Nuclear energy is currently the best way to achieve energetic independence until we find out how to maintain a fusion core running for more than 20 minute.
You mean fission, but yeah
Solar started to beat out nuclear in terms of LCOE a few years ago. We should continue to operate all of our current nuclear reactors as long as it is safe to do so, but planning new builds today given how cheap solar is just doesnt make sense.
We don't have the storage to use solar for base load energy yet.
Factories and mills and chip fabs and industrial refrigeration needs to run all the time, and needs reliable constant power.
Solar is -awesome- for distributed generation where loads peak based on insolation (classic example being a/c units). Residential power demand is also just generally higher during the day.
Nuclear for constant demand, solar for circadian and insolation-based needs is a pretty good mix to start, certainly a hell of a lot better than what we have now.
We donβt have the storage to use solar for base load energy yet.
Base load is a myth in large connected grids. They have wind and solar. Solar hits the high day demand, wind is always blowing somewhere so there's nights demand covered as well.
Methane peaker plants are good until better solutions are cheaper.
Factories and mills and chip fabs and industrial refrigeration needs to run all the time, and needs reliable constant power.
They don't actually necessarily need reliable power if they will get discounts, but that's somewhat in the future. Industrial refrigeration certainly doesn't need reliable power at all if they can get variable prices.
Also peaker plants exist for the few hours per year where prices are at max.