I don't know much about him, but reading that he lost the young people vote for supporting the Vietnam War is such a good parallel for today.

Barb has also not figured it out because their sister marrying a bear made perfect sense to them. Bears are strong, clever creatures, who wouldn't want to marry one?

The first CRISPR gene editing treatment for sickle cell disease was approved. An amazing start to what I hope is a future of cures for various genetic diseases.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-cure-sickle-cell-disease-first-treatment-use-gene-editing-rcna127979

DM: In a crowded street?
Sorcerer: I then cast, "avert my gaze" and "willful ignorance" on myself.

Article says it only moved to living trees and that its a symbiotic relationship. Which to my understanding of trees, they already do this with other fungi, and this one is just tagging along as well.

The last of us this is not, not even close.

“Most Norwegian cities now have more of a car-centric, American approach toward transportation than a multi-modal, European one,”

That's a sad sentence to read, I always assumed Norway was like Sweden with amazing public transportation as well.

I've never heard that word. TIL. Dang sneaky dog whistles that just go over my head.

Part of roleplaying is not metagaming. Even if the players suspect something is wrong, you play like you don't because your character would not know that. At least I find it more fun to play that way. I'm not there to min/max my adventure.

Dang that stuff should only be in natural fresh water spots, how badly maintained was that splash pad to be infected with this?

Dark Souls is kind of a lonely game, I wonder if they'll recruit some ally npc characters like the Solaire, Siegmeyer and that funny little guy named Patches. Or will they go the Samurai Jack style and revel in the loneliness of the journey.

I fall under Tech Conservative mostly, but I would like to edit the last 2 points to this for myself:

"Believe every publicly traded company is inherently evil"
"Doesn't morally support big tech, but uses some anyway"

That someone looks at how Elon handled Twitter and goes ""Yes! that's exactly what I want to do." is wild. I have no words, but it does explain so much of how things have gone down.