browser support to enter the address and credit card details makes a 1-time purchase less of a hassle

Do not ever use the built-in browser credential storage; use an exterior system. - [email protected]

Oops, Summit had said my comment had failed and offered to retry. Not sure of what happened there…

75%, Mostly Positive: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1573100/Subterrain_Mines_of_Titan/

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Unfortunately, I ended up disliking this one because of the mouse requirement (I’m unable to use a gamepad), which games like the Cook, Serve, Delicious!! trilogy or The Chef’s Shift don’t require. Sort of a similar vibe to CSD, though.

I don’t understand; isn’t the entire second half of this video showing typical kamikaze moves that the text claims to be minimizing?

Too bad they’ll all be extinct soon, at this rate: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ocean-heat-wave-blob-whale-songs

That… is deserving if you do an action while knowing what the reaction would be, though.

IWNDWYT

Gotcha. To be fair, I actually use your individual method and have never made a spice mix, either, but that’s more because I’m too habituated to make one—not because I don’t think it’d work (since I don’t often taste-test anyway).

Gotcha, that’s a tricky situation.

add an illusion of company

Now this part I personally dislike; if it feels like but is not actually building my social connectivity, then I think that’s better to avoid, emotionally speaking. I try to scratch that itch by watching friends personally stream titles, or by being the streamer for private circles of mostly/only people I know IRL. We also play a lot on Board Game Arena.

Skill-driven games require major dedication. Why would @[email protected] care to suffer through Silksong, not knowing what to do or where to go, getting frustrated by having to memorize enemy moves, etc. when there are experts out there who have already discovered everything and the most efficient takedown methods (or other amateurs who don’t find it as painful to explore so)? I see nothing wrong with this.

I used to be a huge gamer but frankly I find tinkering with Syncthing and Espanso perhaps even more fun than playing tough games, and watching NC (no-commentary) playthroughs by people who have already tested everything, etc.

This still applies to feelers, though; you can still feel out the ratios for the spice mix. The point is, either way, the spice mix is just 1 jar that you dump out onto the meal instead of 5.

Okay, I had no idea that this was the way it worked. Then I wish @[email protected] had the troll button say to do this if you press it with nothing selected. Anyway, ThAnKs!

Hmm, I seem to have lost my shocked-Pikachu-face gallery image. Oh, well.

Many individual devs on itch.io will do so (I think not Slice & Dice’s dev, though, sadly)!

“Although data is still quite limited, maybe all these epidemics that we have — obesity, cardiovascular disease, everybody getting cancer — are related,” LaBeaud said. “People are trying to figure out if they’re associated with the plastics that we’re inhaling and imbibing.”

Children, whose organs are still developing, could be at higher risk of harm. Kara Meister, MD, a pediatric otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon at Stanford Medicine, noticed that thyroid cancer was becoming more common among her patients and was often linked to autoimmune disease. Considering what could be disrupting kids’ hormones, she decided to research microplastics.

In early 2024, Meister and her team began looking for microplastics in tonsils they’d removed from healthy children with conditions such as sleep apnea. “What we found is there are definitely microplastics in a high proportion of pediatric tonsil tissue, and they seem to be not only on the surface but also deep within,” she said. In one child’s tonsils, the team found specs of Teflon visible with a microscope.

Next, Meister and her team are developing techniques to identify and quantify the microplastics they’re finding and to determine where exactly they’re embedded. Eventually, her aim is to illuminate the potential role of microplastics in pediatric thyroid disease. “We have a long way to go,” she said.

Scientists don’t yet know how long microplastics stay in the body or how effects are tempered by genetics, the environment or other factors. They haven’t determined whether some plastics or forms of exposure are worse than others. Nor do studies exist on the direct dangers of microplastics in humans. “Because plastic is so ubiquitous, it’s difficult to have a lot of evidence that’s causal,” LaBeaud said. “It’s not like we’re going to have randomized control trials where people aren’t exposed.”

- Microplastics and our health: What the science says

Microplastics’ physical properties are one source of potential hazards. Some marine organisms seem to be eating more microplastics and fewer nutrients, which can reverberate up the food chain. In humans, researchers point to illnesses caused by particulate air pollution, which contains microplastics, and by workplace exposure to plastic dust.

Other threats arise from chemicals in and on microplastic particles, including plastic components — such as BPA, phthalates, and heavy metals — that are known or suspected to cause disruption to nervous, reproductive, and other systems.

Although the variety of microplastics and the difficulty of estimating accumulation in human tissues make it challenging to pin down risks, findings in models show inflammation, cell death, lung and liver effects, changes in the gut microbiome, and altered lipid and hormone metabolism.

Mounting evidence suggests that microplastics magnify the potency of other toxicant exposures, such as cadmium, as Demir and Turna Demir have confirmed in fruit flies and Lemos has confirmed in mice and fruit flies. Others are chasing down hints that microplastics can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria and other pathogens on their surfaces and into our bodies.

- Microplastics Everywhere | Harvard Health Magazine

So yeah, it’s baaaaad. I literally only have stainless steel cookware. I store food almost exclusively in glass containers and I carry a metal fork and spoon with me whenever I dine if the restaurant would serve plastic utensils (but I’m declining more and more outside food in general).

Most recently, I’ve adopted the practice of filtering water, boiling it for 5 min, cooling it for 10, and then sending it through a tea strainer: Boiling, Filtering Water Can Get Rid of Microplastics, Study Finds (Yale)

My bad: I didn’t see that you’re not @[email protected] (the original parent commentator in this chain), whose video sources I’m now wondering about. Leaving YouTube itself, entirely, is the major hurdle for us all in this case.

Rage rooms are all the rage these days. /s