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A status code for (industrial/the-man) equipment? You could target specific environments by activating on obscure error codes that can be remotely triggered.

Aka If someone from the outside can make your equipment emit X internally, they can target X in some way.

The thing was that _any_ outside contact was going to be doom for North America. A lack of resistance and no sanitation equaled a tinder box just waiting for the right plague.

Like the other commenter said, you've got your various hard/soft combinations (there's definitely hard/soft carpeting, for instance). Synthetics and rubber are all over the place.

Outdoors: a wet field is definitely different than a soft field and a frozen field is different from a hard pack. You've also got your various snow amounts.

"Mushy" is almost universally bad, from wetlands to wood to computer lab removable flooring.

Good things I have found to stand on are large natural rocks, fine-grained beaches, and deeply carpeted bedrooms.

My wife informed me that I always comment on the hardness of the floor, regardless of where we are. (I will take off my footwear to stand on novel surfaces with my bare feet. Situationally, ofc.)

Anyways, there's dozens of us!

Number must go up

Does not work on DDG+Android, never get past the "please install" screen with Chrome and Safari prompts

If a mobile app results in higher Reddit-esque behavior then I'm permanently opposed to a mobile app.

I think it's fulfilling the Bahai global unity prophecy, but in a monkeys paw sort of way.

Is the guilty pleasure here one that you feel the satisfaction/enjoyment/reward is one that your younger self would disdain?

It's okay to evolve your thinking on this. Some of my younger ideas were conclusively proven wrong, payed for by the consequences of my actions and all that. Younger me clearly got a few things wrong, I feel like I need to re-examine my preconceptions often.

Young Me, a voracious reader, was defeated several times by the LOTR books. To this day, I doubt I could force myself to read dozens of pages of Tom Bombadil singing about trees.

Also Neil Stephenson, come to think of it. I believe that I've absorbed enough of Snow Crash and Diamond Age via nerd culture to provide summaries of both but oof, I couldn't finish either of them.

Can you explain the counting a bit more?

I interpreted it as: For every three pills I put into the channel, I add +1 to my internal count.

"The last number is unique for every 30" means... if you have a mental count of 13, you have 39 pills channeled? I didn't quite follow...

Honestly really enjoyed it.

I was pleasantly surprised at the change of media. It was done very well.

I got a good outcome! Thanks!

Man, just wait until you hear about what people say regarding members of oppositional political parties.

Your power would be all wet, This would never work.

Or one could conclude that the bots were posting at a time of day intending you as the reading target. As long as they post things that you are inclined to agree with, you'll feel positive reinforcement about an issue regardless of the actual popularity or even viability.

A word I hear thrown around often is "friction"

No, but you should be prepared to have people suspect you are using AI to create your responses.

C'est la vie.

The good news is that it will rectify itself and soon the output will lack even these signals.

4chan's system is pretty good. You can display your country or you can pick from a 'meme flag' (Pirate, Gadsen, etc)

Make it optional that you don't need to display it but you cannot misrepresent your country.

Concrete TV also fits the bill: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/cable-access-sh/

The Czechs were even agoggier, one might say.

In a terrible mixup, it was revealed that it was actually the first words of the first Czech president, after the envelope was opened to reveal the word "máma".

It's actually the basis of community building. The students take some ownership of the area they work/live in by fixing/building for others.

Wonderful idea.

I hate to break it to you OP, but tech news sites are not reliable. This is prima-facie evidence that you yourself can see. Please understand that you need to lower your trust levels of these sources as a result.

They don't care that they're wrong and no one will hold them to account.

That's covered in "more wealth", fyi.

Negative several years.

We do not want tens of millions of people excreting GLP via waste products into our environment. Hormones and others are already effing things up.

What about Salisbury Steak or other cuts that need extensive work to be consumable? One could argue mechanical processes allow lower quality meat to be used as a primary source (for some)?

I don't really buy the idea that mechanical processes = the Processed Food that I was thinking of. But I do think some sins can be hidden in ways a household would never try.

sticking the shipping label to a sticky note might be the quickest solution

Along a similar tangent - we are losing a lot of authenticity with the loss of culture. When the younger ones complain that 'nothing is real', this is a portion of what they mean.

A big aspect of authenticity is uniqueness and modern culture and political thought are absolutely counter-aligned to this idea.

Hollywood is not a trustworthy source. For anything.