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That's the problem (and the difference). You were certified as a hospitality manager. Chet at the drive through is at work instead of at his girlfriend's house because he needs money for gas to drive to his girlfriend's house. His priorities start and stop with getting his minimum wage paycheck and you literally do not matter to him and never will. And as Nuke said, you're better off eating pretty much anything else as the fast food companies care about making good food about as much as Chet cares if you get ketchup.

You drop the first reflector

Long before I understood all this (which frankly I still don't but I get the math now ) I wrote a story where the bad guys loaded a space ship full of antimatter with the attempt (thwarted at the last second by the good guys of course) to smash it into a planet at 0.1 c. I calculated they'd need some ridiculous amount of antimatter (20 or so cubic meters of solid antimatter lead, iirc, which had its own problems). Who knew all they needed was to let the ship just hit the planet with no cargo at all.

I'm hoping for 50

In happier and more personal New Year's news (olds?), I have not smoked a cigarette for over 20 years. I smoked my last one right after the ball drop on NYE 2004 (so Jan 1 2005)

Meh

Normally I say something along the lines of "It can't get any worse" but we all know that's a huge lie. So here's to it not getting as much worse as I think it will.

The same way many probes over the past decades have slowed down after reaching their destination. You don't.

Don't cry at your failures. Revel in them. When you make no more mistakes, the game loses a lot of its fun.

You just described pretty much every game out there. Is Skyrim on your list of 'abandoned' games? Or are you only concerned about 'abandoned' EA games that left EA (nearly) a decade ago?

Nobody cares enough to update it. If you care enough, update it. If you don't care enough, you have joined a very large group of us who don't care enough to update it. That's how Wikis work. People care, it stays up to date. Nobody cares, it doesn't.

I know. I double posted because of server issues and couldn't edit it easily due to server issues.

For various definitions of homemade. Store bought ingredients constructed at home.

Like we have he past several years, we're doing lasagna and garlic bread for dinner tonight. (drooling)

This is extra sad, because Niantec was very good at enforcing those rules when they were actually running a game (Ingress) and not just using all the data we collected for them to make an info- and money-farm (Pokemon Go) You should delete the game, but not instead of anything else, just delete it and move on. I don't know if it's any good anymore, but when Ingress died to give birth to Pokemon Go I moved on to a game called Resources and found it quite enjoyable for a year or two. https://hq.resources-game.ch/en This is extra sad, because Niantec was very good at enforcing those rules when they were actually running a game (Ingress) and not just using all the data we collected for them to make an info- and money-farm (Pokemon Go) You should delete the game, but not instead of anything else, just delete it and move on. I don't know if it's any good anymore, but when Ingress died to give birth to Pokemon Go I moved on to a game called Resources and found it quite enjoyable for a year or two. https://hq.resources-game.ch/en

I had taco meat, cilantro-lime rice, and "asado sauce" (which by direct translation is is "roast" sauce but specifically it's a copycat recipe for ChipotleTMs Asado Sauce) leftover from a couple meals, so made myself a bowl of the 3 mixed together (with nacho cheese on top) and man was it good. Nothing hodgepodge leftovers quite like Tex Mex.

You win at parent

Yeah YouTube killed my Video Downloader, about a month after I finally (after using it for free for years) finally paid for it. I don't mind paying for it and losing it because I got so much value from it over the years, but I do mind losing it because it was so wonderful. It's been down for months though and doesn't look to be coming back. At least my adblocker still works, so I can still watch ad-free.

@adsii1970 seems indeed to be absent. Last post was over a month ago and last activity was over 2 weeks ago. Could be just on vacation or busy (It is that time of year), could be they can't keep putting the work into it. I understand fully. Less threads, less threads of the month. I can't think of a single thread I'd nominate.

One problem. Nate said that like 6 months ago. The day before I lost my first "real" job (at a grocery store so don't shed too many tears for me) my manager looked me square in the eye and told me no one was going anywhere. The next week the store was empty and the entire workforce was either finding another job or re-applying for the other grocery chain that bought the building. Maybe I'm jaded. I know he either lied or was lied to. People lie all the time. My problem isn't the lying, it's the expecting it to ever stop.

Not sure what you mean, but if you apply the scientific method to *anything* you're doing science, be it warp travel, ghosts, or how prisms work.

I'm no expert but I thought teaching kids early that gambling is a huge waste of time - and then learn a healthy skepticism toward it - would make them less easy prey as adults. And yes I believe it'd be considered grooming but hey if you want to groom kids to be skeptical I'm all for it.

It requires changing laws which requires electing people who will change the laws which requires discussing something that is not allowed on this forum.

(Good) Physical items take a while to make. This deal could have been in the works for months if not a year. I've no clue who gets the money. That relies on a lot more things than I or anyone else around here have been made aware of.

This is false. It's false because this is false. Anything possible cannot be found in an infinite set. An infinite set of 0's cannot contain a 1. An infinite set of trees cannot contain a Thursday. And an infinite set of right triangles cannot contain anything other than right triangles. I am personally convinced that this (and most things Quantum) is proof of (or at least a strong hint that) we're living in a computer simulation and nobody bothered to program that part.