picked up No Man’s Sky the other week at 50% off and really enjoying it

regarding your edit there, I guess most people stopped reading at ‘essential oils’ without knowing where this was going.

this is one (the only?) actual medical use for these things - their main thing is that they smell in a certain way that is consistent, so you use them to retrain your sense of smell. that’s it. no taking internally or applying to skin or whatever. just take the stopper off the wee bottle, sniff and repeat for as many bottles as you can be arsed.

when I had covid-19, I didn’t have so well defined scents on hand, but I did have several colognes I could sniff, and I knew fairly well how they were supposed to smell and could use those to gauge my senses. fun times, they were…

heh, TIL steam keeps lots of patches. I may get back into EUIV, yet. thanks for that!

heh, TIL steam keeps lots of patches. I may get back into EUIV, yet. thanks for that!

Yeah I loved EUIV early on, but have left it alone for a while. Now, whenever I get the urge to play again (and I do), I have a look at everything that popped up in the meantime and it’s just overwhelming. Sure, I could play the snapshot I have but then the game keeps getting patched so you get stunted new mechanics that need the DLCs to function properly. I could revert to a previous patch, but what was the patch in march 2021? Do I still find it in the steam options?

And if you want to bite the bullet and just buy the whole DLC collection it’s around 100 euro for a couple of years. or something like 300 for the whole package? I do appreciate the quality that paradox churns out though.

This is why I’ve been holding off on getting victoria 3.

Ah, you are a person of culture(s) as well, I see

especially the looting, that was done for the woman and the children. I bet they’ll donate looted items to some charity /s

The results section of the full pdf is an interesting read, though I’m not entirely sure what to make of it. It poses an interesting question and ends on an grim tone (if truly an experiment, it’s probably not the last).

I am confused whether I should put my tinfoil hat on or not.

I share your feelings there regarding the choice or lack thereof with being born and seeing some of the points of antinatalism.

I don't think that community fully understands what antinatalism should be. Casually browsing it though, it seems more like they're more going towards eugenics than an actual antinatalist approach - i.e. applied to everyone, nondiscriminately, for reasons of morality (choice vs forced into existence, overpopulation and its ties to resource allocation and requirements and such). Arguably some posts there could be reasonably expected from non-antinatalist people, the sort of 'if you can't afford to raise them, don't have them'.

May I introduce you to subtitles?

shhh, don’t spoil the myth now!

yes, immurement does seem like adequate punishment for his kind

Yeah, apparently working as a contractor apparently involves a middleman, a ‘pimp’, if you will, that brings nothing to the contractor, the person doing the labour, but instead just serves to make it easy for the company in need of services to skirt labor laws. Even unionized, what are you going to do, strike against the one with which you do the actual contracting by not attending the monthly check-ins with PimpCo and refusing to submit your timesheets?

I wonder, however, shouldn’t not doing the work cause a breach of contract between the company requesting the service and the middleman and thus cost the middleman some valuable business?

corporate speak joke is my guess. but let’s do a quick round table and see what everyone thinks, we can circle back to it or follow-up offline.

pluviophiles unite!

here we see the violence inherent in the system. help, help, I’m being downvoted

so your response to being accused of being inconsiderate is more of the same, which serves to further accentuate the point?

Agreed. Why are you getting downvoted though?

Hey now, LLMs have um… a presence… here, too.

Though to be fair, it’s probably something I’d ask ChatGPT as well, just to see how it works.

Honestly, I can’t tell anymore. Didn’t do any sort of work, just hit reply.

nice shoes and cars mostly

just wanted to say, username checks out