“Why do I need an espresso machine? Just thrown some grounds in a sock, boil it, and you got coffee.”

Flashlights have more maneuverability and they’re significantly brighter. Trying to use your phone’s flashlight outside is an exercise in futility. Plus I don’t need to worry about my phone’s screen breaking.

Something I’m not seeing here that is absolutely essential is a good flashlight.

Human beings can’t do shit in the dark. Useful for power outages, dark areas, and if gets late. I end up using it more than my knife tbh.

I got a touch-pump soap dispenser for my kitchen. Just put the the sponge on the device, push down, and now you got a soapy sponge. Saves time but I’m old so ymmv.

how do you calibrate a fahrenheit thermometer? With celsius it’s hilariously trivial, if the thermometer says it’s about 0 when you see water freeze, it’s correct enough for everyday use.

You do the exact same but use 32 degrees instead of zero. I know celsius is cool and good but most people seem incapable of understanding how its just fucking marks on a line and any non-sciencey advantage is pretty much null.

It makes more sense for the former unfortunately.

The original theory was that it could have been a pregnant women looking down and that’s what lead to the proportions. The idea was they wouldn’t have been able to see themselves in a river or something. But rivers and puddles, not to mention OTHER pregnant women, were extremely common so it’s less likely.

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It’s just better to get used to a baseline level of misery than relying on happiness to get yourself out of a funk.

That said, turn the fucking devices off, get a big fucking cup of herbal tea, and look at the natures for 30 minutes. You are not allowed to press the buttons on the misery-skinner-box until tea is gone and timer is up.

I explained that the local area uses a gift economy and what that means.

I agree with Warlock here. Gift economy is a fun idea but the last thing I want to do is 5 different quests or “favors” every time I want to get some shopping done.

Obviously they’re an ass in your story but they were absolutely correct about that. Why not just have currency be some vague “good will” that’s semi-transferable between people but also allows gift/favors as a fallback.

I don’t think you understand that getting some hokey answers when you do an asklemmy thread about the supernatural is par for the course.

My point still stands even if its modified a bit.

It’s only your mind active in this scenario. You might as well just ask to know everything in existence.

Knowing everything in existence is just merging with the universe which isn’t what I want. I want my ego to still exist, even if only temporarily. I don’t want to go from human -> THE ALL, I want to follow the path with the extra time I was given.

I don’t see how you get to the ascension part anyway, you can only absorb the answers you look for, you don’t get time and space to do anything with it.

If I don’t get time and space then it doesn’t matter what I ask anyway as I’d be dead before I got to appreciate the answer. “Oh what’s the secret of the universe?” But then I’m dead before I even get to think about what it means. May as well just ask what’s on TV tomorrow because I wouldn’t get anything from it.

Tell me all the digits in Pi or some other irrational number so that I can get pseudo eternal life.

Since we have a wish-granting entity then that means the supernatural is somewhat real and I use my newfound time as well as the frozen world to learn everything I wanted and possible ascend beyond humanity.

Learn how to rocket jump and air strafe effectively. Don’t use the Conch at first because it’s a crutch. It’s very powerful tool and highly useful if your team doesn’t have a competent medic but it makes you rely on the passive healing instead of seeking out healthkits.

As a general rule, any 1-1 fight beyond mid-range is a waste of ammo for soldier. Once you start doing 20-30 damage rocket shots you merely become an annoyance. Either jump in to close the distance or use suppressive fire and move up. Sentries aren’t affected by damage fall-off so that’s an exception.

That said, using your rockets to soften up groups of enemies from afar is very useful. But only fire 1-2 rockets and then reload unless you think you can get a kill. Being caught out with 1 rocket in the clip and no shotgun is a death sentence for most soldiers. I’ve been spamming chokepoints to great success only to have a enemy that I could have taken with a few extra rockets kill me. At the very least, keep 1 rocket to escape with.

This is true for every class but turn on damage numbers and know your “rockets to kill” count for each enemy. A heavy takes all 4 of your rockets assuming you hit them at relatively close range. A spy, sniper, scout, and engi may only take 2.

Learn when to retreat back to your team. A lot of new players pick limited mobility classes like heavy and pyro which can’t really escape most fights. They think that once they are in an encounter they are “forced” to continue until they either win or die. But soldier can jump back to a medic/healthkit if they’re in a fight they can’t win.

Yeah…he literally put $1400 in your pocket, assuming you’re American, at the beginning of his administration in response to the covid-19 virus.

Trump did it twice, plus Biden promised $2000 and walked that back when he was in office.

Ignoring everything else, Trump pushed for the checks and called on congress to make increases to what was given out. Biden sent out a lower amount than what he promised and then presided over the clusterfuck that was the end of the pandemic.

There’s a good reason for the going for the last one: Opportunity Cost.

If you’re in a situation and have an ability that can only be used once a day, you can never really know if this encounter will be the optimal use. So you hold off on it and thus get less utility. Even if you are regularly using it, having something you can always get utility out of is far more valuable than something that is strong but wasted sometimes.

I hate their unconscious brains but I think their consciousness is okay.

Humans are driven more by unconscious monkey brain then they care to admit. The people they like, hate, and pay attention to are largely unconscious behaviors. In this way, a human in a social setting is pure animal. The personality and ego are mere tools used by the human organism to navigate these social situations.

The human organism is a unconscious, cruel thing that should be abandoned as soon as possible. The egos created from it are okay. But asking them to separate themselves is hard for the trained let alone the layman.

Kissinger’s death primarily.

It’s pretty easy ngl but it takes hard work.

Just set up a chessboard and play every single possible game and store the outcomes in your memory. After that, you should be able to play a perfect game whenever you want.

95% of the “wholesome human moments” are more or less tribalism/nepotism malfunctioning.

It’s like when a mother cat adopts ducklings because she came across them shortly after birth. But if it was 8 hours before she’d hunt and eat them. The cat doesn’t care about the ducks, it’s just a brain chemistry acting in a weird case. Humans are not different, they just imagine their emotions/unconscious social calculations to be a part of themselves.

I hate having to explain this shit to literal Comp Sci majors.

Even if ChatGPT was literally a perfect copy of a human being it would still be 0 steps closer to a general intelligence because it does not fucking understand WHAT or HOW to actually do the things it suggests.