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Yeah, I haven't gotten price histories for a while now. This sucks.

You need management buy-in to make major improvements to processes. Sure, start those conversations, but if they fall on deaf ears, then it's not something that one person can implement by themselves.

Seriously, 95% of these comments are off-topic.

Maybe. The animations are much more toy-like than human-like, and the games did get me really hooked on mechanical engineering.

Bridge construction games. I love watching my bridges crumble and the drivers fall screaming to their death. (Because your bridges tend to do a lot more crashing than standing firm)

All of the trades are AI-proof. Who you gonna call when a pipe bursts at 1am?

Women tend to understand men's perspectives as well as women's perspectives, but men tend to only understand men's perspectives. Poor people tend to understand middle class people's perspectives, but not the other way around. People of color tend to understand white people's perspectives, but again that's one-way.

This isn't always true, but too often it is.

Privilege blinds us.

Some people are really shitty. I refuse to mistrust everyone by default because that prevents human connection that makes life meaningful. However, the first time someone lies in a real way, absolutely tag them as untrustworthy and act accordingly.

You can't force her to go to therapy, and even if she goes, you can't force her to actually engage with the therapeutic process.

I agree -- Protect yourself. You're the only person you have control over. If she's never willing to go to therapy, then you may have some hard choices to make.

Urushiol is used to make Asian lacquerware, it's the main ingredient in the lacquer that cures to a hard protective surface. Until it cures, it can cause an allergic reaction, so the artisans that apply the lacquer have to be careful to avoid touching it without gloves.

I bring this up because many of the workers believe it's possible to gain immunity after being exposed enough times. This seems to contradict what Western medicine believes about repeated exposure.

I find it's best to be bilingual.

Emotional validation was the biggest thing by far I've gotten out of therapy, which is good because my parents were really invalidating of me during childhood. It's helped me move past that to some extent.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I was in residential treatment (where you sleep at the facility for several weeks; this is one level down from inpatient, so pretty intensive treatment). One time we went around the room to answer "What are you most looking forward to when you get back?" and fully half of the people said their pet. Some people added that, sometimes, their pet was the only thing that keeps them alive.

Put masking tape over its camera. Easy to remove but it's disabled until then.

I've owned 5 different OpenRun products over the years, 3 magnetic and 2 USB C.

I really prefer the USB C ones. Besides not having to carry around an extra charge cable, I also find the magnetic ones to be more fiddly (I often have to lay the headset awkwardly on its side so the magnetic connection doesn't get pulled off).

Slingshot tournaments are held worldwide, including international-level competitions. South Asian countries typically do very well. If you feel it's so easy, please enter and win. Good luck.

(It's hard to compare one weapon versus the other, but neither is trivial.)

Mushrooms especially should be stored in paper bags to avoid excess moisture. Mushrooms are different from plants and have their own quirks about storage.

It's true that "universal healthcare" doesn't mean it's the best healthcare. Universal healthcare assures more equal access, that's it.

Universal healthcare can be privately funded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care#Private_insurance

Universal healthcare doesn't mean it's top-tier healthcare. I believe that Obamacare / ACA was considered universal healthcare before the penalty attached to its individual mandate was struck down.

I like my ice cubes in the vaporized form.

Vaporware.

This works: 3M Nexcare "pain-free removal" medical tape, available at local pharmacies. Other brands of silicone medical tape probably work too, but I haven't tested them.

(Background info: Parchment paper is lined with silicone, which almost no tape sticks to. Tape that is itself silicone works though.)

The divide is much bigger than that. Black Christian theology usually focuses on liberation, the idea that the supernatural and divine will help them overcome oppression.

Whereas White Christian theology doesn't center liberation nearly as much. In fact, white Christians have used the Bible and their religion to support a pro-slavery stance; the Southern Baptist Convention was originally created to be a pro-slavery organization. (Of course, there's a lot of nuance here. Some denominations believe that Christian theology firmly opposes slavery, such as Methodists and Quakers.)

Old Italian grandmothers used tongs — you actually want to transfer over a little of the pasta water.