Liana

It does sound war-crime-y.

Regular blood donation goes through the Red Cross, which is a nonprofit. This plasma donation happens through private companies though.

Possibly “donation” because the payment isn’t guaranteed? I mean this in a way that the company is using to protect itself.

Yeah, my Starfield installation with a few hundred (probably conflicting) mods doesn’t even take 10 mins to load. Presumably, Cassette Beasts isn’t a couple hundred gigabytes, either.

I’d throw my hat into the “full HDD” ring for OP.

“Ha! Face to foot style, how’d ya like it?”

“I’m sure, on some planet, your style is impressive, but your weak link is: this is Earth.”

Friggin love Kung Pow.

You see, there’s a ‘b’ in there. A lot of people don’t know that. I’m very smart.

It’s quite thin for aluminum, and the downside with glass is the high energy cost of melting it. I’d like if we went back to washing and reusing bottles, but I suppose that’s a big shift in processing capabilities.

I prefer using the opposite windows. I don’t like a breeze directly at my face.

Yeah, where did those cans go? I’m disappointed each time I try to find em at the store :/

Would it have seemed the same if the reporter was a guy?

Sweet, thanks for the info!

I was unsure of the effect of the dead-blow, since “minimizing damage” and “same driving force” sound contradictory to me. The latter makes it sound as if both would drive a nail to the same depth, and I was thinking the beak is effectively a nail. I’m glad the paper mentions concussions, and I’ll give em that bird and primate brains are probably similar enough in that respect.

Odd that the tongue wraps around though. I’d figure it would just slide down the neck, since that seems closer to what we have.

Your link says the page does not exist.

By my thinking, the damage to the brain could outweigh the better foraging. Then I thought that the brain mooshing into the front of the skull later in the peck would turn the head into a dead-blow hammer, which are still quite effective hammers.

“A dead-blow hammer delivers the momentum over a longer period, resulting in less peak force, but similar total driving effect for the same head weight.”

Like, if Starbucks put a swastika on their cups, and the symbol came out 45° rotated on some of them (as the third reich did), and they just decided not to ship those ones to Germany, it’d be pretty hard to defend.

You either die a Netscape Navigator, or you live long enough to become a… any of em, really.

They’ll probably hold to it for that exact product. If they rebrand it and add it back, that’s no longer the same thing you paid for ;)

I love the cataloging aspect. Maybe official names like those, plus imaginative names from whoever lives on it, or whoever discovered it.

Thank ya. I remember my favorite times with the internet being those when I had a list of small sites I’d check each day. I’d like to rebuild that :)

How, uh… how do we find them? I’m presuming Google isn’t really an option, since they drive traffic in the opposite way. Got a link to a list of them or something?

Speaking as someone that knows basically nothing about 3d printing (though has done similar with CNC), do you think it’d be possible to reverse-engineer the code in some way? I’m thinking something like a simulated 3d printer 🤷‍♀️

I have a Quest 2, and I bought a headrest that allows for (smaller) glasses to be worn underneath. My glasses were too large (and the world looked weird when I looked to the side), so I ended up purchasing prescription lenses that attached directly to the headset.