Too true. Upgrading to NVMe was the most noticeable speed boost I’ve experienced all at once in my history of building my own rigs. It’s was like black magic. Wouldn’t shut up about it to all my friends for a month.

I do, too, but mostly because it makes me laugh. I especially like watching the dumpsters at work getting picked up and then dropped back down harshly and rolled back into the wall like someone throwing a shopping cart into a corral. Peak IDGAF with a potentially lethal machine. Not even sarcastic here, I love it.

I’m still trying to convince my wife that we can wait til our kid even asks to go to Disneyland before dropping that level of coin on a trip. I don’t remember my early childhood trip to Disneyland, but I remember my early teen trip fondly.

I feel like that opens up the opportunity to say they experience rapid aging in that area as well, accelerating cell divisions, right next to areas running at normal speed. Probably wouldn’t be great for the circulatory system.

It’s fun to think about

Whoosh

This guy?

I like to imagine healing magic as almost a targeted time reversal. Otherwise, things get would get strange when people are overhealed.

My head cannon is also that repeated magical healing increases the risk of cancers and defects when it is shown as a form of natural regrowth. It’s totally worth using in combat if the alternative is death, but you risk shortening your life with repeated use. This helps explain people having sick battle scars and other wounds in most fantasy settings.

The other explanation that would make sense is that healers are exceptionally rare, but since we are heroes in these stories/games, it just doesn’t seem like it to us.

I agree entirely. 👍

We can blame whoever we want, but deaths are deaths. We can even go further and say that the deaths to user ratio makes the disparity even greater.

Hell, we could go completely nuts and say the stamp tax on tea and other goods leading up to the American Revolutionary War led to the creation of the United States, and therefore, all deaths resulting from the actions of the US could be blamed on caffeine.

LOL, definitely not, but I remember the 90s as well when every stoner wouldn’t shut up about weed bringing anti carcinogenic. Weed kills people beside the user. It’s still hugely safe, but bad decision-making under the influence of weed has probably killed more people than caffeine. You could argue the caffeine didn’t kill them. Their other health condition did. The same way we could argue weed didn’t kill anyone, but the drug trade did.

Chevy Bolt EV is $26.5k MSRP. Every dealer around me has it listed at $30k+

I don’t know why the first example you give is a $70k car unless you were trying to push a narrative.

I stick to my belief that the dealerships are tanking the sales due to incompetence, on top of the inflation driving down sales for all cars ICE or EV right now.

There’s a recent anime called “The Great Cleric” that addresses this slightly. People with the ability to heal may charge crazy sums, and even the knowledge of spells that could help may be financially gatekept because of the wealth generated by healing.

No. I disagree on both examples.

Edit: And I don’t see how Germans asking Germany for a ceasefire is an argument against my statement.

I think we, as a people, should stop demanding ceasefires when we aren’t actually in the conflict. It’s all just virtue signaling. The counties actually fighting can be the ones asking for it since it would actually be them having to follow through.

We aren’t doing a genocide in Palestine… feels kinda wrong to diminish the meaning to include people not actually committing the violence while a large portion of their population protests any support the country gets.

It was slow, but I remember a major crack occurring watching Stephen Fry being interviewed when he paraphrased David Hume, paraphrasing Epicurus.

If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful. If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good

Things start to fall apart from there. All the other Bible stuff can be explained away as being recorded by imperfect beings, but the core notion of a good God worthy of worship ends with the trilemma.

I think this is some 4d chess shit where they realize they can get a bunch of people to void their warranty on their vehicle by making easily bypassable paid service locks in vehicles.

The only way to stop this is with regulations.

Why bother? You’ve made up your mind. I’ve made up mine. I’ve literally never met anyone with your opinions besides the internet.

It’s important to remember that they don’t believe this stuff because they are simply stupid, but they have a confirmation bias that many reasonable people would fall victim to.

When you are successful and have the weird version of modesty where you are uncomfortable taking credit for your own work but somehow believe you are a personal beneficiary of “God’s Plan,” your faith will skyrocket.

If you really believe in God and believe you are blessed, you’d be an asshole not praise them loudly and publicly.

I’m an atheist myself, but I don’t think Christians who act this way are being crazy so much as consistent with their beliefs.

I think “many” is an exaggeration.

And your WHO reference is actually factually incorrect. The truth is they say it is beneficial.