One of the first things I learned was to never buy books before the first class.

As with most things, it’s a continuum. Some assimilation is good, a hairstyle, a clothing style, food, even customs. Sometimes certain people can go too far, and it gets more problematic. Think the jeweler in Snatch that isn’t Jewish but pretends to be. The episode of The Neighborhood with Nicole Sullivan. Rachael Dolezal.

In small amounts. It’s not economical at all to extract on it’s own, maybe as part of desalinization, but even then it’s probably marginal.

Centuries of fire suppression across the state have led to massive fuel stockpiles for fires. Controlled burns have been recommended and blocked for decades.

It’s Australia (of course) they have fire hawks that will try to use fire to flush out prey at times.

It would be 10x worse than brexit for California to secede.

Jail was never an option.

There’s a balance to be managed and valve is on the extreme end of no release pressure.

They get paid, so it’s more like serfs.

It’s going to be a flagship game that releases with a newer engine. Maybe ES6 will be that game. A less hopeful take is that the success of ESO is going to prevent them releasing anything else in the universe until it dies.

Steam is a marketplace, making games is a side hustle. It’s the opposite for the big 3.

Facebook is only useful for the ancillary stuff. The main page and status updates have been monetized and engagement hacked to death.

California can’t even commit to stopping the mismanagement of fire prevention. You expect them to commit funding?

Or they add a lot more to the deal. New Orleans wasn’t worth the rest of it.

Regular reminder that rules against politics are just rules against questioning the status quo.

Who voted is recorded, but ballots are anonymous and secret, so once they hit the box it’s functionally impossible to match them up again, which makes removing and recounting impossible. I assume the goal is a special election due to the number of invalid votes being likely to have affected the election.

That sounds awful, steam deck is borderline too big.

It’s a little scammy to call it 2.2 and require new cables for functionality. That should be a 3.0 thing.

Maybe it was just bad autocorrect and they meant single payer.

It also has a perpetual source of expenses and it’s growing faster than the source of income.