This started as a smear paper for another painting. I was dabbing my excess yellow and orange paints onto it. I realized I could do something with it beyond it being a throwaway and refined those colors. Then I dragged black ink across one end and sponged white on the other.

Das nice clouds.

The last book I read was Monstrous Regiment, a Discworld book that had somehow slipped past me.

It was pretty good. It’s more or less a stand alone book in the setting with some minor cameos by established characters. There is one conceit that the book runs on, which you’ll likely catch onto early, but it manages to mix up how it uses that conceit to keep it fresh enough. The ending big action set piece is contrived even for Discworld action, but the book really isn’t about the action anyway so it gets a pass. B+ book, one of the lesser Discworld books which still puts it way above most other books.

I bought GamePass just for Outer Worlds because everyone pointing out that’s it’s from the team that made “New Vegas”.

I did a whole review of this game, and one of the first things I tackled was that it is absolutely not from the New Vegas team in terms of writing or design leadership. I completely blame the marketing for setting wrong expectations by creating that connection.

It is a good game, but going in wrongly thinking (due to misleading marketing) that it is New Vegas In Space is going to leave you frustrated.

I had seen studies that say that training or even just daily walks can highly improve mood, but I had never heard that they fully cure depression.

The solution people are commonly offering helps then, even if it isn’t a silver bullet. If a silver bullet existed that instantly and universally cured depression I’m sure people would offer that instead. People are offering the best they can to a stranger.

Despite the fact that not all people are capable of doing both.

If you go online and ask strangers, you’re going to get general advice. If you have a paragraph of reasons why you can’t do both, either, or a modification of the advice of exercise and therapist then I feel for you but aggressively rejecting generally helpful advice while looking for some other solution is putting the responsibility on random strangers to come up with something.

I’ll add that while some people may not be able to do some of the common advice, I privately suspect that at least a healthy percent of the time that resistance to the advice isn’t coming from inability to do it, or in the case of the exercise part to follow the spirit of the advice by being more active. If you truly have a chemical imbalance, a therapist is the person who can help and is qualified to talk about drug solutions.

Short of telling you to see that therapist to get actual professional help, and doing exercise which while it might only a partial solution is something that you can do right away, what exactly do you want of random people?

but it’s not even remotely close to the real thing.

Work for a better company.

Anything more than that, we flip the maintenance light on.

Your systems don’t have the lights turn on automatically when the system stops?

I’m going to refer back to:

They cannot even comprehend that when your machine goes down for whatever reason, you can’t just walk out of the plant and sit in your car for 20 mins waiting on maintenance.

Which makes it sound like operators are expected to do work when the system stops to get it up and running again. In every plant I’ve ever seen, a system stop turns on a maintenance light and/or signal to the computer system the monitors the floor. Aside from doing simple clearing actions which don’t require tools, fixing that has been maintenance’s responsibility everywhere I’ve ever seen.

If it is the other hand a minor mechanical adjustment that should be made but isn’t currently stopping production, that is also maintenance’s responsibility to get to when they can, given the lower priority of the issue.

Maybe your world is completely different than mine, but if I saw a line operator with a wrench in hand for any reason, I would be very uncomfortable, and whatever they were up to would likely be against company policy of the various companies I have visited.

To me it sounds like your company is hiring people off the street, with no screening for expectation of mechanical abilities or even prior production experience since it is a basic plant job, and then once they get onto the floor those people people are then expected to do mechanical adjustments. However simple those are, they weren’t part of the deal. Then it sounds like you are getting furious that these people aren’t going above and beyond for a basic plant job.

These are ~ 19-25 yr olds.

Millennials

Hm.

They cannot even comprehend that when your machine goes down for whatever reason, you can’t just walk out of the plant and sit in your car for 20 mins waiting on maintenance.

These are ~ 19-25 yr olds. Adults. I ask them to grab a wrench (THE ONLY WRENCH WE HAVE) out of drawer, they have absolutely no idea which tool they’re looking for.

I’m sorry, does your factory ask operators in non-maintenance positions to do maintenance work? I don’t know what kind of plant this is, but in every one that I’ve seen that’s a big no-no for so many reasons. If a system needs to be reset or cleared out in a way the operators are trained on, that’s one thing. The moment it starts involving a wrench, that operator better be standing back.

Then, they go on one of the lines, we say "don’t put your hand in the machine while it’s running, bad things will happen.

Sounds like a lack of safety guards and light barriers to me. An operator should not be easily able to stick their hand into a running production system.

It is good to see this comment. Seeing the same joke of “I’m 30 and basically invalid” repackaged over and over on the internet and so many people finding it relatable is worrying.

A slight tangent into spelling, but I think “milktoast” is perfectly evocative of the idea the user is trying to get across.

I’m from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all.

Every reverse image search seems to agree it is a soldier of the Perth Regiment of the Canadian army. Although there is inconsistency on the name of the soldier.

It’s Granny Goodness.

A little tiny pinch of salt in coffee can take the edge off the bitterness. It surprisingly doesn’t make it taste salty, just less bitter.

If three people all have different terminal medical conditions, which are currently making their state of life excruciating, and will kill them shortly, and there is one healthy person who can be killed and their organs repurposed to restore quality of life and stop the medical condition to all of those people then utilitarianism says it is moral to do that.

Any answer saying that it is wrong to do that shows there must be a factor beyond need in the determination.

Politicians seem very good at misunderstanding things when it suits them.

Isn’t is supposed to be is.

[US] Any suspect that says “Am I free to go?” during an interview where they haven’t been Mirandized, and then if they are free to go leaves immediately.

Or if they are not free to go and Mirandized “I demand a lawyer.” and “I am asserting my right to silence.” and nothing else. Playing cute games in an “interview” so you can get off some zingers at the cops is at best not going to make your situation worse. Very likely though, the longer you talk, the worse it will get. Therefore any technique that is giving up your right to silence and council is sub-optimal.

This footage doesn’t catch the public eye as often because it isn’t spicy. It’s just boring. You want to be boring because the cops who booked you are not the right people to be spinning your side of the story to.

Airsoft has grown massively. While it is more of a whole day event, it fills that same niche but better in many ways.

Most lazertag places I remember seeing were inside or connected to arcades, and those really aren’t a thing for kids these days either so it makes sense the lazertag places aren’t as widespread as they used to be. If you’re specifically going to travel to just do lazertag, you’ll probably just travel to do airsoft or paintball.