This will make attacking more powerful relatively which seems to be the direction creature design has moved too. It seems to me like powering up attacking and down blocking is good for exciting games.

I hope they reprint Walker. That would be cool

I do this too. I would need them if I lost my phone, so bitwarden/keepass is a good place for them to be.

I think it is less secure though since someone who somehow has the unencrypted vault without your 2FA device could get in with the codes - but if someone cracks my master password I’m screwed in a whole bunch of ways so I’m not sure it matters too much at that point.

Could have brought viashino into D&D. They were introduced in MTG in 1998 so could have been added for 3rd edition. I kinda wish they had pulled more of magic’s original species into D&D earlier, there are some cool ones.

This is actually cool to see. I definitely noticed the basics used in the Analyst matchups but didn’t keep track of the others. Those Euro promos have got to be some of my favorite basics

Nice write up! Dwarves are cool. Rock and stone to the bone! Were you inspired by the Minotaur set review person?

These data are used for lots of stuff, including guaranteeing rights for protected classes, which in the US includes race.

For example, you could use this info to prove that a redistricting is racist and illegal by showing that it unfairly groups areas of certain ethnicities into one district. Without official census data that includes race, anti-discrimination legislation would be harder to enforce in the courts.

The Thursday Murder Club. Very delightful writing

Just started this. Very nice so far

For folks who haven’t read it before: Andy Weir’s ‘The Egg’

This is exactly my primary use for them too. Although I’m gonna start using a ski buff, see if that’s even better.

Not sure about the other but PoppinKREAM became known on Reddit during the Mueller probe for very long, very well researched and cited comments mostly related to politics. Their citation style in particular meant their comments got tons of Reddit awards and were highly visible.

I remember MTGGoldfish did this a few episodes back too and iirc they had to ask ChatGPT 3 or 4 times and it still never made a legal list.

I would never use AI to make a deck when EDHRec exists - you’re better off just using the Average Deck function, though that is just gonna lead you to playing staples too.

Yeah, free tier only lets you have 3 total calendars and there is no color coding available so it’s limited compared to Google which is what I was leaving. But export/import was seamless and it seems a good stepping stone to replace the one-click cloud megacorp offerings. Your stack seems perfect for when I have the time to get Nextcloud going.

I haven’t stepped up to using Nextcloud or my own hosted server, so I’m just using Proton Calendar. The free version is pretty limited though.

The claim doesn’t seem right. We do spend far more on healthcare than other nations overall and our taxed spending on healthcare seems comparable to other rich nations like Japan, though that’s only a fraction of our total spending - most is private cost. Quick back of napkin math says taxes directly spend ~4k a year/capita on healthcare expenses, mostly Medicare, and single-payer systems tend to cost about ~6k total. Data is a little old. Correct me if I’m reading wrong.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-much-does-federal-government-spend-health-care

Le Guin prose is exceptional and would be nearly impossible to bring to screen well. I’m sure it will be tried at some point. Maybe a dark horse, but I actually think The Lathe of Heaven might be the most adaptable. It’s the simplest story and has plenty of room for exciting changes and visuals in a film.

For folks reading through these comments, it’s called DeArrow and is also crowdsourced, so the more users the better!

The Garamantes are cool and notable for not being based around a river at all. I got introduced to them when they were added as a civ in the strategy game Humankind.

Another fascinating rabbit hole about the world’s largest irrigation project in the same region: Libya’s Great Man-Made River

As others said, these are mostly all signs of some kind of executive dysfunction. Mine is from depression, not ADHD, but there’s a lot of overlap. I obsessively keep my inbox empty which is a whole 'nother vibe