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My headaches are usually a deficiency of something simple. I’ll eat and meal and drink a quart of water… If that doesn’t do it then it’s time for some ouch-away.

Not picking on it but actually wondering, do chimps have 3 fingers and a thumb or 4? I would assume it’s 4+thumb, but the AI even have me questioning myself…

Though given it’s a rough living banana slinger, it’s entirely possible to have lost a digit in an earlier draw.

Hopped on path of exile with a friend. We’re slowing going through the acts and likely won’t get to mapping by the time the new league drops. It’s fine though.

Been messing around with Sky: Child of Light, that one mmo that is very reminiscent of journey made by the same people and got extremely frustrated. I ‘finished’ the game after getting stun locked, and proceeded to find some trials which required precise control of your character… Which is not a thing. Pressing jump doesn’t always work. The physics aren’t great, and the leeway for timings is much harsher than it needs to be. All in all, that was not the best experience. I ended up on the Farmville quest. First objective I could do alone, second one required another person. Third one needs 3 people…

It’s also the 8th anniversary of Egg Inc. and they have their annual event running. I managed to triple my earnings bonus in one day… Which is fairly significant.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a happy Etna that isn’t exclaiming.

I’m sure in many cases they’d do it for free because they agree in general, it’s just looks strange to see values in the hundreds by these absolutely behemoth companies.

It’s always been amazing to look at the lobbyists donation amounts to senators to see how cheaply they can be bought.

It has been an interesting read on how they plan to implement such a system. It isn’t without pitfalls, but it does seem like the positives outweigh the downsides for now.

I am very curious about the various fringe cases they are surely going to need to deal with, such as being off-road.

And of course the inner anarchist in me wants to know how secure the road data is that’s being stored in the vehicle. Updates need to be pushed somehow, having it all stored on a server seems like it’d be a massive target for anyone who wants to cause a bit of mayhem.

that direct link had a concerning title, but then there was this paragraph:

research and meta-analyses over the last two decades suggest that the Flynn effect had already stagnated or begun to reverse. In a meta-analysis examining IQ scores across 31 countries from 1909 to 2013, Pietschnig and Voracek (2015) found that the magnitude of higher IQ scores observed for newer cohorts has declined. Dutton and Lynn (2013) found Finnish IQ scores had differed −2.0 IQ points (0.13 SD) from 1997 to 2009, while French IQ scores differed −3.8 IQ points (0.25 SD) from 1999 to 2009 (Dutton and Lynn, 2015); for these studies, more recent samples had lower IQ scores than previous samples. In a meta-analysis examining nine original studies that observed a reverse Flynn effect, differences ranged between −0.38 IQ points (0.03 SD) and −4.3 IQ points (0.29 SD) per decade (Dutton, van der Linden, and Lynn, 2016). Recent evidence within German-speaking countries, also suggests that the magnitude of higher visual-spatial ability scores in newer cohorts could be declining across certain regions of Europe (Pietschnig and Gittler, 2015).

Linking to a ton of other studies, which is enough data for me to consider acceptable.

I do this very silly thing where I watch the first episode of every new anime that pops up, do a short write up on it, and then most likely never watch it again. I’ve found some wonderful gems this way but there is an absolute shit ton of garbage.

That being said, the most memorable instant stop watching I had was the first season of one about a highschool maid Cafe that extorted the MC into joining, dumped this whole “we do bit acting to make it more entertaining”, and then having the MC call one of the other girls her sister, which was immediately a problem. Like there was some obvious trauma and they just keeeeeep on poking at it. Fuck that. It’s rude as hell, the entire show can go kick rocks.

There are way worse than that which are obvious ones to just not watch. Healer redo is one of those.

One of the gems I found was a mech anime based on the Japanese bullet train, and it’s completely bog standard. However, the first episode has an April fools variant of the subtitling that made it worth the watch. Sadly the rest of the show is done properly.

Biggest fail I’ve seen so far from sub to dub was from “ya boy kongming”, which is a delightful watch on its own. Apparently the company which did the dub didn’t think the literal rap battle needed to be translated… Or subtitled. I was very disappointed.

Well shucks I’m out of date. Thanks for catching me up.

Are your studies based on united states, North America, “first world” countries, or global?

I checked it out last night. The photo editor is close enough to photoshop that I’ll be glad to buy it. From my preliminary perusing of the tools and features, the only thing I used in photoshop that isn’t in affinity photo was the ability to animate things. I’m sure there are some other more important details between the two, but as a hobbyist for graphic design it fits my needs just fine.

It’s comforting to know that while things may seem to be going in one direction, the opposite is actually happening. IQ isn’t a static measurement, nor is it all that useful… However it has been trending upwards ever since it’s inception. Meaning that what 100 IQ currently is used to be closer to 130 back in our grandparents time.

I could send this to a coworker and they would be quoting from it the following day. As much as I want to believe people can descern fact from fiction on what’s currently possible, I am disproven on a nearly weekly basis.

There are plenty of slow cooker recipes that are more or less “dump entire container into warming vat, 3x times with different dumpables” that are not soups. The it’s just ‘scoop onto bread/pasta/wrap/carb of choice’ and serve.

I would think they’d need to keep the liquid like contact that’s available under pressure… But I’m no battery scientist.

The decarbonization of our power grid will thankfully not be up to a single technology, but a multitude which are all seeing development simultaneously. Solar is reaching for better efficiency and less harmful creation, batteries of all shapes, sizes, and concepts are popping up from everywhere. It feels more like a race now than a slow decline into uninhabitability.

This article is about manor lords, an indie solo dev who released their game into early access and in 2.5 months hasn’t released a groundshaking perfect version. Whoever is complaining about the speed of development should be ignored.

As for others who have yet to release a game but are being pushed by the publisher to hurry up and get it out are an entirely different matter.

For the article, I like to look to games like terraria, which took quite a long time between patches, and honestly said they were completely done patching the game and the patched it a few more times. People may lose interest for a bit, but each large patch will bring people back as long as it was a good game.

Hey! Those poorly translated east Asian novels that all seem waaaaay to similar to be anything other than one persons fever dream replayed 47 times are just interesting enough to keep me going back.

Ah, these are the aluminum dust under pressure solid state batteries. I wonder how much pressure.