Maybe someone’s finally solved it over the past few years, but he was telling me that automating apple harvests was still a massive challenge about 5 years ago - there are/were machines to pick up fallen apples and robots for picking them individually, but you can’t easily shake all the apples off a mature tree for collection and a human can pick them from the branch far more quickly than a robot. From what I can see online there’s one that does it for young trees, but most of them are still glorified cherry-pickers.

Afaik it’s mostly medium-large fruits that still get harvested by hand. I knew a Norwegian guy who developed the ideal bodybuilder physique just from picking apples for a few seasons.

This would be just as much of a problem if they were boys or girls - multiple hes and shes instead of theys. The problem isn’t “they”, it always applies to multiple people of the same gender.

I’ve been using a Marin DSX 2 for 4 years and can’t go back to drop bars now. It’s partly the particulars of the cycling infrastructure available to me (sometimes exists, but is rarely fit for purpose) and the range of terrains my commute covers (almost all of them) that benefits from extra control, but I also find the wider grip much more comfortable than any of positions available with drop bars.

Turns up a lot in middle eastern salads and Indian dishes. I’m generally a fan, but I find mint sauce is better than fresh mint for stuff like raita.
Also goes great on a bowl of pie n peas.

You mean Tetsuya Nomura?

The only thing my dog worries about is his dinner.

You’re not being oppressed by having to use the train.

Thank god, I’m not the only one

Ben Garrison is a satirical artist who portrays good things as being wanted by “sickos” in opposition to the hyper conservative characters in his cartoons.

This is tremendously funny, you just lack context.

The only times I’ve had fun in pvp games/modes was when I was playing with a group of people I knew.

Thinking about it you’re sort of right, in that I enjoy playing stuff like Smash Bros and Mario Kart with my friends, but even then I have no interest in competing, I just find ways to annoy everyone else. I might win as a side effect of being annoying, but I’m just asking likely to be hoisted by my own petard, and I consider both good results.

"can you get pregnant,” then that leaves out important information, such as “I have ovaries and should be screened for ovarian cancer.”

They know you have ovaries if you can get pregnant. From an outside perspective it definitely looks like you’re just being argumentative rather than discussing it from a position of knowledge.

Not really, I always preferred stuff that involved a group. The closest I get is board and card games, but they have an element of randomness that takes away the individual competition and makes it more of a social activity.

I have a strong preference for co-operative games, so I don’t really understand the attraction of non-team based PvP games like battle royales, extraction shooters, or just straight death matches like in quake or CoD. Like why would you want to be cold and alone with everyone out to get you when you could have friends.

I know it sounds stupid, but are you sure it’s not being caused by transient power outages? I thought this was happening to me until it happened one evening so I saw the light go off and on again at the same time and put two and two together.

I found the timing really difficult too, so I found a mod that slightly increases the dodge/parry window (something like 0.2s to 0.3s for parries) and suddenly I could reliable dodge and parry most attacks. Still requires precise timing, but now it’s a precise timing I can actually hit.

I think you’re underestimating modern Linux - Mint is particularly good at it, but a lot of distros have become very simple and user friendly to install. Installing mint to keep a shittop running is exactly what one of my least tech literate friends did, and when I tried similar I was really surprised at how easy they make it.
At worst they can probably find some kind of Linux coop near them that would be happy to install it for them.

Noita is part pixel physics part programming simulator. The tutorial involves fighting your way downwards to the final boss, while the rest of the game involves destroying the environment in every other direction until you’re stronger than the sun.

Well yeah, because there are claims that happened in the same way there are claims that aliens built the pyramids: it’s completely imagined and based on no actual evidence.

I unironically love the Star Wars Holiday Special. Every single scene is fascinatingly terrible, from Luke and Leia’s coke eyes to Chewbacca’s dad jerking it to be porn in the middle of the living room, and every time it hits me with a scene I had completely forgotten about and get to reanalyse. I don’t watch it every Christmas, but most of them.