They claim to be a public benefit corporation, so while they obviously need to get income to run servers and fund development, their objective as a company isn’t just to maximize shareholder value.

I don’t know where/how to find their actual foundation documents to see what those actually say for their balance of profit vs mission.

In every place I have been to that use this, they will still take order by person. Maybe I’m just lucky, though.

Scrolling through what is there currently, only 1 tarot related meme. Overall good lulz

But he just gave them all the power. He needs them. They can demand higher wages, better conditions, etc.

That was part of HD1, wasn’t it? So probably not that, right?

Hard to say without knowing your full situation.

Does your power utility do net metering? How much do you expect to generate compared to your usage on a annual basis?

I got a 6.5kW system a few years ago for a final price of around 12k after rebates. It covers nearby all of my usage and my provider does net metering, so really good days cover less good days, summer covers winter, etc.

I put some hours into it a few months ago and had a good time, but one of the things that I hope they add is better conditions for routes. Maybe I was missing something, but I was having a hard time getting my workers to actually get in the trains I wanted them to.

Link seems to be trying to find a user rather than a community. At least in the Connect app.

First time I think I’ve seen an article that uses “X” exclusively for Twitter.

Does that still get registered that way if identical links/posts are cross posted instead of duplicated?

I regularly see duplicate rather than cross post, which is a shame.

Kinda neat to create a way to experience an older expansion that many newer players missed, outside of the Classic method.

Shane it is time limited and not a permanent thing, though.

A get where you are coming from, but my perspective when I was younger was that I could spend $15 a month to play this basically limitless game or spend $50-60 per game that would be a 40-50 hour experience. So for me, the value of that subscription was huge.

I think if modern games stuck with subscriptions without other mtx, that puts the most incentive on making a good game that is worth playing for a long time. But all the sub based games also have mtx these days, and there is also the incentive to make things just a little worse by default and offer a paid item to ease that a bit, the whole “pay for convenience” thing.

Support ranked choice voting first. Once we have that, a huge portion of the power the two parties have will fall away

Not likely, I think. Hosting text and images is far less expensive than high quality video to compete with YouTube or others.

Some astronomers are looking at JWST data and claiming they are seeing galaxies with red shifts in the range of 11-20, which if accurate, correspond to ages older than we’d expect to see galaxies of such size formed. Other astronomers disagree, and believe that the results aren’t so clear. This the “hubble tension” or “crisis in cosmology” maybe still live on.

It is exciting, either we get more data to confirm our current understanding or we need to discover be physics and form new theories that align with the data. Either way is great, imo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_age_problem

We estimate the age of some stars to be older than the estimated age of the universe. JWST observations have also made it “worse”. https://youtu.be/hps-HfpL1vc?si=H9tdTD3DJYLkalvx

That last bit is the important thing. If someone tells you pronouns, use them. If someone tells you they prefer “they/them” and you keep using he or she on purpose, you are disrespecting them.

We all make mistakes sometimes and most people I’ve met who use alternative pronouns that may conflict with their socially expected appearance don’t mind correcting someone a few times or will brush it off a few times, but more than that, especially if you see and interact with this person regularly, you become an asshole.

I don’t mind driving, especially through the mountains. So I don’t really think twice driving for 3 hours each way to spend an hour apple picking, for instance.

The left vs right thing in Japan depends on the city. Particularly for escalators. Some places will have signs that say to stand on left while others say to stand on right. Others also say not to walk on the escalator, but people always ignore that.