It’s so good that it’s even in Coca Cola!

Since COVID, the use of that word has got unprecedented levels.

The weird part is the government are trying to get the children to stay away, rather than track down the pedophiles.

As in, three hours from crash landing to this station? Or, after unlocking the sector you flew for three hours? How does the whole unlocking thing work, anyway? Could I not just fly there as soon as I get to space?

I was entirely confused for a moment- I think you might be getting an echocardiogram, rather than an electrocardiogram. If you could hear an electrocardiogram, there would be something seriously wrong with their machine- It’s meant to be a passive electrical measurement. Echo on the other hand is exactly what you described, an ultrasound of the heart.

I was actually thinking you might have a strong interoception, which is when people have an awareness of their own heartbeat signals- super rare but super cool.

The two main differences in what I consider a MUD vs a Dwarf Fortress / Caves of Qud would be that the mud is first person and has a textual description, where DF is third person and uses ASCII to represent things in space. So to describe a Dwarf next to a Goblin in a small room, DF would display:

####
#D.#
#G.#
####

While a mud would display:

You are in a small room. A dwarf stands next to a goblin.

Try putting the egg in later, so it’s still soft after cooking.

You can buy crispy onion pretty cheaply, put it on at the end to give it a little texture.

Try it soupy, try it dry. Try draining it and adding the seasoning to the dry noodles.

Big spoonful of peanut butter / gochujang / miso / langaoma

Frozen veggies.

Mince meat, shredded chicken,

There’s also heaps of different brands, give em a whirl.

I find another part of this story pretty wild- The US ‘rebuild’ was done over dry land, then a canal was dug underneath.

In my world, very much not software development, the two roles would essentially be the same thing. What’s the difference for you?

Telstra in Australia were at one stage providing routers to homes with a hidden SSID for their premium ‘public’ wifi.

I think it was solidly isolated from the home wifi, and did not eat into the homes speed quota, but still…

Yeah, this is the first step in properly refurbishing cast iron.

There’s a section in the Mars trilogy where several pages are given over to describing how a farm is laid out, with the wind coming over this rise and hitting this rock, which means a little pool of moisture forms in this particular spot, making a little ridge in the soil that shelters a bit of grass. Oh and someone blew up a space station with a missile.

I spent way too long wondering why your sentence looked wrong. I re-read it several times but it all seemed fine, I mean, that’s obviously how you spell ladel. But then I realised it’s actually ladle, and English is stupid.

The location of light switches relative to the light.

…what?

Slideable keyboard phones are my jam. I would love a modern Nokia E7, or Fxtec Pro1. If anyone knows of something like that, let me know!

I see your water bridge, but ask, what happens when a big boat wants to get past? I’ll tell you what happens- The Barton Swing Aqueduct.

I once left a club for good when they played Love Shack and Rock Lobster back to back. I tolerated the first one, but when they played the second straight away I just stood up and walked out, vowing to never return.

Bwow, badadaDa, danananaa…

They send someone around every month to check the water meter? That’s crazy. Why would they do that?

I remember thinking the exact same thing, just the other way around, when I moved to the UK. I went from a country that measured what you used and billed you for it, to a country that just kinda went “oh, you’re a family of 3? We’ll charge you for… I dunno, like this much water? How’s that sound?”