I just assumed Google was kissing the ring to avoid antitrust.

So you’re thinking he means small in terms of Proton vs Google.

Cliff notes: end to end encryption is borked.

No, there’s nothing Skyrim about it in terms of game style. No open world, but it’s a very cool rpg space game.

Prey is worth your time.

This is a deeply personal question only you can answer.

The other piece is impact on other children.

I was privy to one situation in which the mother told the father she would divorce him if he did not agree to place their heavy needs child in a home. Why? Their two other children didn’t know their father and the entire household revolved around 1 person instead of the family unit except on private outings between the two non-special needs kids and the mom, who scrambled to give them normal kid experiences. Caring for this needs child became all the father did when at home. Sometimes caring was sitting in the room with the heavy needs child, a child content in a bed, unable to walk or communicate (congenital) to the exclusion of the other children.

We have all probably read those Reddit threads from kids who were screaming into a thread about hating their special needs sibling as well.

Consideration needs to be made for every member of the family unit. And healthcare being what it is lately, outside the home care options may not be as available today.

Nothing about this is easy and there is no one right answer.

This occurred a while back. I was standing at a nurses station, when the technician watching the heart monitors announced that a patients heart rate had jumped from 80s to 140s

For those who don’t know, parameters are 50-100. 40s if you’re an athlete. And the heart rate is generally allowed to go to 129, in a hospital, if you have no symptoms.

This individual jumped from 80s to 140s. This being a significant change, staff ran to the room to check the patients well-being and found this patients girlfriend riding him in the hospital bed.

The question you should ask is how much privacy do they want?

Proton up people. And get your people on Signal or WIRE.

We’re probably the most boring people day to day and we’ve dove it for a while on general principle. Now, it feels important to have already made that shift.

I like the way the Behind the Bastards podcaster explains it. Each journalistic outlet had strengths to certain things and part of learning to consume journalism is knowing what each sources’ strengths or weaknesses are. Or learning to follow specific journalists across platforms.

And some just play to the echo chambering of political parties saying exactly what their reader base wants to hear. It’s good to learn what those are as well.

Exactly. That’s my thought.

Cure for cancer: yes. Support of this thing that made my god emperor look bad: no, on pain of my own death. Alternatively, support of this thing that made me extremely uncomfortable and robbed me of some life choices: no, even if it kills me. I will twist it around so theyre somehow not the same tech.

Granted, there’s always the flat earther, dinosaurs bones are trolling fakes, chem trails, and the moon landing was another troll on all of humanity types. They’re probably all in on the Bill Gates cares enough about you to track you via nanites in the vaccine. I mean, why not? If you believe any of the other is the vaccine hype all that big of a stretch from there?

Actual risk? Someone lives on the tippy tails of the bell curve, or there wouldn’t be a bell curve. There’s no such thing as a 100% with people, or medical care outcomes. Except eventual death. (I’m subtracting taxes because sovereign citizens really do try their best on that one.)

All of that said, people are at deaths door a lot in hospital and will still refuse life saving care.

Amputating gangrene is one. Not taking lactulose. Not taking diuretics. Guzzling sugar with diabetes. Having a hemoglobin of 5 and continuing to refuse blood that might be from a COVID vaccinated person. So why not refuse this too?

There’s no differentiation in blood donations. Surgery consent is wrapped around blood consent so it may mean surgery is off the table as well, depending.

Ofc it’s a choice, refusal of medical care is almost always on the table, unless you’re chaptered or deemed nondecisional or some such. As this tech becomes more mainstream, I’m curious to see how many bow out of medical cares going forward. Or, if this we be re-written as somehow different than the vaccine tech and therefore deemed ok because everyone wants a cure for cancer.

There are people in hospital, on the cusp of death, who will refuse to receive blood because it’s unknown whether it’s “vaccinated” mRNA blood or not.

I’m curious to see how this goes.

I didn’t read all of that, but yes, modding. Or just console commands.

Hey, when you started PC gaming with BG and NWN with user crafted modules which continued the adventures for years, you just expect it as basic form for PC games.

The one little game I’ll play on a mini is Scrsbble/Words w/Friends, with ad blocking.

The screen is small.

It’s an old person thing, probably, but I don’t enjoy phone sized screens beyond reading and such. I don’t know how people see an Apple Watch well enough to use it comfortably.

Laptop is fine most days but I really want that desktop screen when I can get it.

I can’t imagine Stellaris or AC or even Pathfinder on a phone or iPad mini sized screen. Like TV, most people aim bigger not smaller. I can still have portable games at 15” instead of 7”.

Even if an ice asteroid crashed and vaporized some semblance of an atmosphere onto the planet the solar wind would strip it off because there’s no magnetic field.

It’s a dead rock. Better to look to Jupiter’s moons than Mars.

I’m assuming half of that is FPS which is very much not my thing. Give me a story I can play. BG3 I understand.

If I was in my 20s souls would likely appeal, now I’m an old fuck and just want a good, ad free story I can play along with. And DnD. No one is too old for DnD.

Ok, and Stellaris, Civ, etc. Those are like the fentanyl or crack cocaine of the gaming world.

“The help”. That deserves more attention.

I would get a pic and send it into your closest, large academic institution, the relevant department head or professor, as well as your state department of agriculture. Tell them where. Tell them how many.

The academics can confirm species and are often the ones telling the government this, whatever this is, could be or become a problem.

“Write your legislator” is popular but “write your local academic institution” is not.

This is how budgeting works. Wait for the “old” sale so it’s cheaper money wise. Wait for the first few patches to roll out so you don’t spend that other precious commodity, time, on anything other than actual gameplay.

Perception management, probably. I thought terrorism applied to upsetting state entities not private ones. How, by any stretch of the imagination, is a private health insurance company part of the United States government? It’s bizarre. Jan 6 would fall under that umbrella for sure.

What do you think?