I took some class in college, otherwise via apps like WaniKani, Duolingo and Busuu.

I’m the opposite with Japanese, at least. I can construct sentences and know what to say, but when native speakers talk to me, I just can’t follow well at all.

WoW for me as well with many weeks /played on multiple characters, but it has been years since I last played.

We got a replacement toilet seat bidet a few years ago and it was one of the best purchases I’ve ever made. Just connects to the water line with a split and nearby power outlet.

Some subset of people will be into this game. The rest of us can just ignore it. No skin off our backs.

Is it good?

I still don’t know if it was a glitch or intended, but the fact that if you used a sand crawler at minimum speed the worm would never get attracted was so disappointing. The whole thing with the sand crawlers and harvesters is that they quickly attract a worm so you gotta work fast, this was the opposite: go super slow and get the entire field with no danger. In the entire time I played I didn’t even ever get a chance to engage in any PVP, dunno if that was just the server I was on or not, but it also wasn’t encouraged by the game mechanics.

There are 38 reactors currently in development in China, according to the world nuclear association, It is faster to build out solar and wind than nuclear.

Electricity prices should be going down, as renewable ramp up at least.

That sounds like politics.

Is it possible that people could use flock or palantir stuff to track and collect info on ice agents? Their security is shit, yeah?

They are attempting to punish states that don’t support him. Gun ownership isn’t going to stop them. MN is pretty middle of the pack for ownership, at ~43% of households.

There are states that say a character in a book being gay or trans is automatically porn, so I think intentionally sexualizing a child in underwear should be sufficient.

Season 5 of The Expanse. I watched the first few seasons years ago when it was on Netflix and stopped when it switched to prime. Acquired a means to watch the later seasons without paying for amazon prime recently, so finally finishing it.

Sony would fall between EA and Nexon here. With a gaming division revenue of $31.5bn according to this: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/playstation-full-year-operating-income-jumps-43-to-28bn

There might be a valid argument somewhere in there that constantly changing the trade policy is worse than keeping a bad one in place? Not sure the trade-off there though. If you know you have a certain tariff in place long term, you can work around that and the tariff can actually do the things it is intended to do. If the tariff changes on a whim, you can’t and the country just becomes a more risky proposition to do business with.

Be weary of artificial sugar that can still trigger hunger by impacting your blood sugar levels due to insulin release. Your body can respond to the sudden influx of artificial sugar the same way it does to real sugar.

Met my step sibling’s fiance’s mother over the holidays. She not only willingly (and proudly) calls herself a “trumper” but she thinks she knows Nancy Pelosi, Elon Musk, and other political figures personally via twitter. So yeah…

It is very much intentional in a lot of places to keep the status quo.

The center should actually sue the administration for changing their name and causing a loss in revenue.