A few years ago, mid pandemic, I started collecting ancient coins. I was really passionate about it even thinking about finding ways to make it a small after-hours job or such, but I’ve since run into a few walls and have subsequently lost my drive. For example, I wanted to take very high resolution pictures of the coins and then compose a catalog of sorts, but while I have all the gear that I need (camera with a macro lens) my shots keep coming out wrong and I’ve since kind of given up on the idea altogether.

My entire life is one long succession of passionately started projects that got abandoned either midway or after heavy setbacks. If I ever find one that brings me lasting happiness, I’ll gladly share it, but for now I’m just as much on the lookout as you are.

If anyone would pay to see my 40-yr old shriveled cock or asshole, you bet I would let them.

Buy physical gold & hide it (and well, not just in the house).

What are they going to do? Sue your descendants for something they can’t prove?

That’s nothing, quarks have a fucking flavor

I’m pretty sure I’m literally among the last few people alive who have seen live fireflies in our own country. That was some 40 years ago and I still miss them.

Let’s still not ban it though. I mean, it IS banned now, but also not. And the fact that massive insect populations started wholesale disappearing and never coming back - something even poison like DDT couldn’t pull off- after introduction of glyphosate is surely wholly irrelevant in this discourse anyway.

That’s why it’s commonly known as the wave of death.

Is it any good?

They also said there wouldn’t be a refresh of the original deck just weeks before announcing the OLED version…

Then fail a constitution check against your own urine, making you ill.

1080 was awesome but the original Titan was something else entirely.

Most flightless birds compensate by being badass at fighting on ground level. If you’ve ever seen a rooster fuck up a jackdaw you’ll know what I mean.

Fuck prions and the horse they rode in on. They’re not even alive, so you can’t kill them. No vaccine, no cure, and thoroughly cooking your food is still no guaranteed way to get rid of them.

Nature’s silent assassins, and they take their sweet time doing it too. By the time you first notice it’s already far too late.

Thanks for the links, very interesting indeed!

Too late, already played through the game (not paid luckily) after the summer, what a waste of ~80 hours. Not really excited about adding more to the pile.

I posit that the human mind is made up of dozens, or perhaps even hundreds/thousands “smaller agents” that work together to create consciousness as an emergent property of the whole, which makes it impossible to isolate and say “this, THIS right here IS concsciousness”. That does not mean each of those has their own personality, per sé.

Physical destruction. It’s the only way to be 100% sure.

It resides on the MB itself in a separate chip, so no, although there are probably tools to make it possible.

You can beat the rap, but never the ride.

Well, that just means your boss and his boss aren’t just glorified zoo keepers and actually contribute something to the bottom line.

Many of them don’t, however. My very own superior definitely falls in the same category as yours. He’s someone who leads by example and isn’t afraid to get “down in the trenches”, so to speak, so he has my utmost respect.