Dopamine regulation as a whole could be considered “Dopamine Responsibly”, the way I see it.

Mexico is turning into Texas, it seems.

We can’t forget about Lena Headey either. (Admittedly, I just learned that myself.)

Except for that one time when Leslie Hamilton played Sarah Connor…

The Picard Maneuver’s maneuver.

Absolutely. Putting yourself first in many situations can be a great for your state of mind, which may increase self-esteem which others naturally gravitate to.

You don’t have to be a selfish prick about it, but thinking of yourself first in healthy ways generally leads to healthy results.

Since we have a black hole theme starting, hows about “Naked Singularity”?

When and where???

Even if there was primitive multiplexing on those cables, I am fairly sure a 100 Mbps link could handle all of them these days with bandwidth to spare.

Edit: Telephony multiplexing didn’t show up till 1910 but telegraphy multiplexing was around since the 1870s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexing

Gleba was a pain. Once I got defense figured out and wasn’t getting harassed any more, it was much easier to focus on my builds.

While I still don’t like Gleba, it taught me how to create extremely resilient builds and forced me to fully understand belt logic. (I had an oopsie last night where I forgot about a one-off process I was running and I came back to 4M spoilage in storage. However, everything was still running and it was fairly easy to purge the mess.)

Give it a try again if you can muster the strength. It really did change quite a bit about how I solve problems in Factorio.

I think I am closing in on 2100 hours in Space Age and haven’t officially finished or gone to the shattered planet yet.

TBH, I am not in any rush. I’ll finish the game eventually, but there have been so many things I have wanted to build and experiment with first. (Once I get legendary bio science flowing continuously, my next goal will likely be to build an end game ship.)

The biggest problem is that I keep thinking up new projects to try. Currently, I am rebuilding Vulcanus for about the 5th time as I have a new up-cycling idea for green and red circuits and am getting bulk legendary tungsten flowing.

For me, not blocking the output of a splitter is a personal note/habit that the splitter can be moved or should be moved later. (Having the wasted materials sticking out is annoying as hell and it will tickle a few neurons when I am scrolling around older or more complex builds. Basically, it helps me remember any earlier intent.)

I gave this some thought and I still can’t decide what is the best option.

From one perspective, not binding the bundle to the spine follows a clean horizontal/vertical layout and isn’t tightly bound to the movement of the spine. This may be “shortest path” and save on cable cost. However, there could be conditions that would stretch the cable if it were only tied to the neck and hips.

If the bundle was tied closely to the spine, the cable would be stretched less when the spine moves, but it would be moving and bending more. Cable cost could be a bit more as the total path is longer.

Installing something similar to a cable chain on the spine to let the bundle float (while still being contained) is probably a decent meet-in-the-middle solution between the above two options.

(In hindsight, me giving this any serious thought was bizarre.)

They make about $54 million an hour.

*exabyte

If you do the one million terabytes thing, you have to do an evil laugh after you say it. It’s mandatory.

That comment needs a top hat and a monocle.

I doubt he got bored. That mechanical hand probably felt like someone else’s until the nerves fully adjusted.

Not surprising when you have closed architecture and have no problems replacing your entire system for any kind of an upgrade.

Raw performance comparisons between something like a Ryzen 9 and Apple silicon is misleading. It’s not wrong nor is it a “scam”, it’s just not taking many important differences into account.

(The correctly used double negative was confusing for me at first, btw.)

You make a very interesting point I haven’t ever thought about before.

While I have always considered myself a patriot to a mild degree, I never associated it with tribalism directly. Even with the many faults of all countries, it’s OK to be proud of where you are from. (It does make perfect sense that tribalism is the end goal of state sponsored patriotism though.)

In my mind, the fine line after patriotism was usually nationalism where tribalism runs deep and hate-based rhetoric becomes extremely effective. The definition of a patriot is somewhat twisted at that point. (ie: unless you believe [insert something random], you aren’t actually a patriot and therefore an enemy of the state.)

I am not agreeing or disagreeing with you, btw. Your perspective is something interesting to think about, s’all. (I am leaning on the agreement side, FWIW.)

(For the people reading this that may not realize that I am using the word “nationalism” in a negative context, I am. If that chaps your hide still, replace it with ‘christian nationalism’ or ‘white nationalism’ and fuck off. Everyone else, sorry for the disclaimer.)

I miss my old Hondas. All of 'em. I had a '94 Accord, a '99 Accord, a '03 Civic, a '03 CRV, a '13 Accord Touring and now a '23 Accord Touring. I had a 2003 Mercedes C230 that was a very quick fling, but we don’t talk about that. (I have already started talking to a few dealers for dibs on a '26 Accord Touring.)

The 1994-2003’ish generation Accords were super easy to work on, less a few quirky things. I still keep a Honda crank shaft bolt tool in my toolbox for nostalgia reasons, actually. My 99 4-cyl Accord was the car I used to learn how to rebuild engines and it was super forgiving with any mistakes. (It was running with half a valve somehow, but that was pre-existing and something I discovered prior to me breaking other things.)