Average national cost of gasoline per gallon in the US (monthly average) first went over $3 nearly two decades ago. Today it’s $3.07. The July 2006 average of $3.025/gallon would have the purchasing power of around $4.75 in today’s dollars. What are people really thinking they should be paying for gasoline in a world that needs to be moving AWAY from using fossil fuels?

Just spread the germs around, it seems. And, potentially introduce more as non-sterile point of use water has a surprisingly high allowable bioburden.

It will kill the microbes but not all cooking methods are sufficient to denature all harmful molecules. For instance, endotoxins from pathogenic bacteria are not generally going to be broken down by heat even though the bacteria itself will be killed.

Just reply, “hello.” If they want more information, they will ask for it. Usually they don’t, and then you’re free from social anxiety.

If they ask, “how are you?” “how’s it going?” etc. I always reply with, “never better!” which can come across as sarcastic but in my experience not in a way that makes anyone feel like I’m being a dick. If it does, we probably don’t function on the same wavelength and they don’t ask again, so nothing is lost socially for either of us. And, since I might actually be feeling never better, it’s not lying in that case; whereas, if I have felt better then it is sarcastic, and not dishonest because most people already clock that answer as sarcasm and don’t follow up with any additional questions.

On the rare occasion when they do follow up with, “what’s wrong?” or similar, I feel they’ve opened up the floodgates and I vent my frustration or go into detail on things most people don’t seem to want technical details on. They usually don’t do that more than once, but the people who do tend to become friends.

Man, that reminds me what a waste of time Java conventions are for no good reason.

What can you get for a penny these days?

TIL. I dislike Milky Ways, they’re incomplete substandard Snickers. 3 Musketeers are even worse; nougat is the worst part of the Snickers. In a Halloween haul, I’d always rather eat a roll of Smarties or a packet of two Spree than a Milky Way or 3 Musketeers, and that’s the equivalent of saying I’d rather eat a piece of chalk.

Small unlucky differences like that among players can really make or break a game experience, for sure. I got through the starting areas in Last Epoch on release very quickly, and I only experienced a few crashes that didn’t prevent me from having a great time all the way to endgame. That was pure luck I think, bc when I maxxed my character out there were still a lot of players struggling with login and loading crashes, and I know some who refunded the game because they couldn’t even get in.

I thought it was great on release. Bugs were mostly easy to work around or beneficial and didn’t stop me from completing the game. I stumbled onto a bug that was basically infinite money and unlocked all the cars and motorcycles before it was quickly patched. Also a way to terrain glitch the psychos and beat them when I should’ve have been strong enough. Cruising through content when you feel like you’re breaking the world like Neo is exactly what I wanted from a cyberpunk game.

Part, part design, arch, curves, draft, and sketcher for me. Everything I need for 3d print modeling as well as larger scale planning. I recently stumbled on to the spreadsheet/data tab and don’t know how I’ve gone so long without it. Very handy for named dimension references all in one place