There are corners of the Internet still out there where you can find some really great people to hang out with; like 70% of my friend group is people who all meet through online games. We get together in person weekly or so now but still regularly play games together and hang out. I know it’s no replacement for all you’ve lost, but maybe playing games with friends could be some comfort? Or some other hobby or interest group that can be engaged with online?

I’m thinking olive.

The sentence after the one you emphasized seems to be saying what I was: the virus is in aerosol particles or potentially droplets, which are what your mask protects you from.

Because the virus is transmitted via spittle/moisture from other people not wearing masks. The virus doesn’t just hang out in the air on its own; it’s suspended in aerosol particles.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I’m sure they’ll go down on them all night long.

Sure, our society is so progressive we could never backslide to the point that abortion is illegal or anything.

Beside that, if he’s throwing around billions, he’s likely most interested in economic issues like unions and worker protections.

Michael Crichton in a list of “best sci-fi”? Really? He just does mass market pulp. It can be entertaining, in the same way a Transformers movie can, but it hardly qualifies as “best”.

“Life is what happens while you’re making other plans,” as they say. The future is important, but so is the now.

I absolutely agree that it can’t create finished content of any particular value. For my D&D use case, its value is instead as a brainstorming tool; it can churn out enough ideas quickly enough that it’s easy for me to find a couple of gems that I can polish up into something usable.

This is why my most frequent use of it is brainstorming scenarios for my D&D game: it’s really good at making up random bullshit.

Came here to say this. Fantastic storyline, and runs great on Linux.

Growing up I remember hearing that red cars were the most expensive for insurance, as owners of red cars had the highest incidence of speeding and dangerous driving.

Here’s the first few paragraphs:

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s initiative to use antitrust laws to protect workers faces a key test on Monday when the agency will argue the merger between grocery chain Kroger (KR.N), and its rival Albertsons (ACI.N), would crush unionized workers’ bargaining power.

Khan and her fellow antitrust enforcers in the Biden administration have sought to use antitrust laws - deployed in recent decades mostly to protect consumers against high prices - to combat what they view as anticompetitive practices squeezing workers’ paychecks.

Labor has been an area of focus for Khan, a former law professor and congressional antitrust counsel, who took the reins of the agency in June 2021.

If loaded with pages didn’t have access to keyboard events, you wouldn’t be able to write comments on Lemmy posts. I’m not a front-end guy, but that should be limited to just white the browser is focused.

… she’s proudly left leaning.

She’s a billionaire. She’s no more left leaning than Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos. She just flies socially progressive flags.

There can be only one: Highlander

Here’s a gallery of all the raptor skins:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_Raptor_skins

They haven’t actually had a presence at PAX for ages. They did an event there to announce IBS when it was coming out, but I don’t believe they had a booth then. They’ve had parties pretty regularly though

With laying off 100 employees?

Will do! We went last year too; we’re a PNW guild (primarily Portland, OR) so it’s a reasonable trip. Gonna check out a couple of days of PAX as well.