Reminds me of the time I installed a 3d modelling program at work and decided I liked it and pirated it at home.
The work one took weeks of troubleshooting on my own with the instructions followed by email back and forth with support. And the business I worked for had a partner license the whole time. Their DRM involved a dongle in the parallel port and a license server running on the local machine.
At home, I decided one day to use it to make test files for a raytracer I was writing, found it, downloaded it, installed it, and was running it by the end of the night without any of the fancy shit they tried to add to prevent this.
That was when I learned that that pain in the ass DRM was only a pain in the ass for legitimate users and lazy/naive piraters.
Yeah patient gamers check in!
When you feel like it, that is, assuming checking in lives up to any of the hype or seems fun at all.
For impatient gamers, pre-order checking in right now and I, uh... And my LLC pinky promises that checking in will be amazing, so you better give me money to reserve it now in case we run out of check ins by the time you get to the front of the line. You don't want to miss out on something great, do you?
It could also mean something like, "I am going to challenge your opinion but don't intend it as a challenge to your position". Or even, "I respect your opinion and think you might be right, but I don't understand it, so here's the thing that has me confused so we can clear it up and get on the same page".
There's nothing wrong with asking questions, even if the answers aren't hard to find using other ways. Like I appreciate the question because it was something that had never even occurred to me, as obvious as it was in hindsight.
And even when the question is being asked in bad faith, discouraging people from asking questions can give them more credibility rather than less, because it looks like (soft) censorship, especially to anyone else who thinks it's a good question.
Lol thanks for the reminders with the corrections. Funny thing was I had started with S, then remembered shi, so switched to T. Should have done K instead. T also has tsu instead of tu, so even S would have been more correct than my "correction".
I think I might have initially had katakana written down but second guessed (though I did initially misspell it again right here, so it was probably another one that started wrong and was corrected wrongly).
And yeah, the origin of hiragana has a story of overcoming oppression. From women not being allowed to use katakana to them just deciding to invent a new alphabet so they could write anyways, and apparently being better at it because that's now the main alphabet, it's like the hero's journey.
Looking back at the thread, bans were mentioned, but the context that I was following looked like it was about wanting to go beyond what's banned because the industry just rotates in variations of the chemicals whenever specific ones are banned.
Though how risky is it in reality? Eg for bread, if visible mold means there's also invisible mold, wouldn't that imply that there's a period with just invisible mold that goes unnoticed and eaten? We're constantly inhaling and consuming mold spores anyways, so is this more of a "I know it's there and thus deem it icky" or "if it's soft and has mold, toss it all, and hope that you don't get unlucky and eat mold you couldn't see in the first place"?
Solar wind is a decent flavour, though much better if it's ions sourced from 1000km below the sun's surface. They say they are the same ions as just one km below the surface, but I can tell the difference between 1km and 1kkm (or 1Mm if you will) jam as soon as those ions start striping the electrons from my tongue (at which point I spit it out because it has become chemicals).
Also to remember that government spending isn't a loss of wealth but a transfer of wealth. There are people profiting from each of these missiles fired (assuming they'll be replaced, though it still counts if they are replaced by a different missile or system, unless that new system is from a non-profit or public weapons manufacturer).
Yeah but if I use stainless steel pans, I can use stainless steel wool to clean them, so the sticking doesn't really matter aa much when it does happen, plus cooking techniques can reduce or eliminate sticking even on stainless steel. So I'll adjust to say I'm not losing anything I value.
And I don't have a huge issue with it being used on things that doesn't touch our skin or food/water often. And my goal is to minimize exposure in this plastic world. I understand that at least some restaurants (if not most that use pans) probably use nonstick pans and that I'm getting exposed to BPA every time I touch a receipt. So I don't use those pans at home and don't let receipts linger in my hands and use gloves when going through a bunch of them.
How is it an overreaction if it can be done without losing anything in life? I retired all my pans with non-stick coating years ago and haven't missed them a single time and appreciate that it makes it easier to minimize the number of plastic cooking utensils my kitchen has, too.
At first I thought it was a printing error, but I see the same thing in scryfall images of the card. They've done a lot of variations with the card art over the years but I've never seen an art variation that obscures the card text itself (excluding cards that omit the text entirely because the card is well known, like Islands).
I'm just surprised that I can't even find anyone talking about it because it seems like an odd design choice to me.
Ok now repeat after me: "We are... Sofa king... Stoop id"