It’d be interesting for one of these games to have realistic planning and permitting mechanics.

“Your permit is delayed a week because the only person at City Hall who reviews them is on vacation.”

“To add a 6 ft fence, you need to go before the local planning board and convince them it’s necessary. You can reduce the height to 4 ft to avoid this.”

“The power company installed the meter on the wrong side of the house. They will relocate it for $10,000, and the earliest appointment is in three weeks. If they don’t, you have to relocate the HVAC unit and reroute the ductwork to account for that. Further, the electrician will charge $9,000 to adjust the wiring for the different meter location.”

When I was a kid, someone tried to name a summer camp team Sofa King Cool. It originally slipped past, as the names were submitted on paper. One of the counselors renamed them Couch Queen Chilly after saying the original one out loud.

It tends to be geographic, so if you live in a region that’s able to deal with lactose, you’d have the impression lactose intolerance isn’t super common. But entire regions are lactose intolerant, like Southeast Asia (including China) and about half of India.

Basically anytime you see dairy as rare or non-existent in a region’s traditional cuisine, that’s why.

Yes. 60-70% are the estimate ranges I’ve seen.

Well, there are over 5 billion lactose intolerant people out there. Coffee creamers do typically include a very small amount of milk derivative, but it’s not enough to make a difference if you don’t have a dairy allergy.

So this is what Cardi B was talking about.

Agreed. I didn’t hear much if any grumbling from the US conservative base in the decades before Roe was overturned toward their politicians, provided that politician opposed abortion. It was enough they believed the “correct” thing and did what they could within the restrictions of the law, until process aligned in their favor via convenient Supreme Court vacancies.

It was re-established after Franco.

Gotta give the oligarchy plausible deniability.

I have concerns about this section’s impact on open source AI work: CHAPTER 124—RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT THAT BENEFITS THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. It feels like this could be a tool to force AI research to be closed source in the US, since Chinese entities like anyone can benefit from open source efforts.

I think it is part of making government agencies ineffective to prove their ideology that these agencies should be abolished and replaced with private companies (or not at all). That way, they can say come election time, “See? Government can’t do these things well. We should eliminate these agencies.” Many people will forget they are also the reason the agencies are shitty.

They have tried this with underfunding them in the past mostly. This is a much more direct approach.

If invulnerability means not being subjected to all the forces eventually pulling apart and decaying all matter, I’m still on board. I’ll roll the dice that things eventually find a way to come back around, whatever that means.

It was worth the sensible chuckle in my opinion.

I think you mean “bumpkin” unless you are making a very odd accusation about the sexual proclivities of rural police.

Well, immortality and invulnerability are a definite to deal with some existential dread.

Then I suppose insanely rich because you’re going to need a lot of money to make investments on a forever time scale.

People with a thing for giantesses: :3

People with a thing for robots: :3

People with a thing for robot giantesses: :33333333

I mean, if you’re googling that without even providing a model number, I can excuse the AI choosing to show it. It’s not a mind reader.

Seriously. You aren’t really managing your employees if they have to organize resource shortages for you. At my job, I tell my colleagues to just take time off and, like me, list a few close co-workers as people to contact in case of emergencies in their OOO reply. Nothing is life-or-death, so people can deal with waiting. It’s not like anyone is taking off months straight.

Pride would force him to only pay for cancer drugs the “legal” way. He’d fly too close to the sun trying to make enough money to afford them full price without insurance and create his own downfall. Cue “Baby Blue” by Badfinger as Walt dies after running out of legit cancer drugs that are blue pills while he has a barrel of them that he made in the other room.

Illegally manufacturing expensive cancer drugs under patent and selling them on the black market cheaper would be a very interesting reimagining of BB.