Brilliant.

Reality has a doom bias.

The news for insects is not entirely bad, emerald ash borers are finding the ability to survive in areas that were formerly too cold for them. This allows them to kill more trees turning them into kindling for lightning strikes and other fire starting events.

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

When I first started seeing my now-spouse, she commented that she thought it would be nice if I added some flavor to my wardrobe that wasn’t black tee shirts with optional band/sportsball/nerd printing. So I gradually added some colors, but quickly realized that the brighter the shirt, the worse it looked on my fat gut. And it became tedious trying to find desaturated or earth tones in casual clothing (especially polos for work).

I eventually gave up and just started buying cheap black tees in bulk every few years, oversized so I could throw them in the dryer instead of hang drying them like I’d been doing for years to preserve the prints etc. The spoons set aside for wardrobe choices were better allotted elsewhere.

And you thought sushi was expensive.

You’ll make do with three and you’ll like it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point

Just teleport me to L3 and be done with it. Earth-Moon, Sun-Earth, doesn’t matter.

The extra space isn’t going to cause more heat on its own, but the phone is still going to get warm, and a thick case can prevent that heat from dissipating properly. A good charging design will already have taken this into account, and start limiting current if the temp gets too high.

The primary downside to using induction charging through a case is decreased power transfer efficiency due to the greater distance.

I mean… I do. Doesn’t mean I’m doing them, though.

keeps scrolling

I will not stand for this Robot Unicorn Attack slander.

sits carefully

…that’s better.

Followed by Ghandi cackling as he unleashes a nuke on your Civ.

At the time it was the best way to duct tape over someone else’s long-forgotten but recently uncovered cut corner.

And so the cycle continues.

Enigma? You mean enema?

Wonder if it’s like when they land on a can of beer.

My dad would fondly recall dinners of cubed spam mixed into cream cheese. I never looked at my grandmother the same after that.

Every year the local squirrels steal the veggies we plant

This has been my experience as well, along with raccoons decimating all but one season’s attempt at a water garden.

VLOOKUP. Every time. Also Catan Cities and Knights.

Point taken.

And for all of its ills, capitalism solved scarcity. There’s more than enough to house and feed everyone on the planet. And yet the vast majority of us are still, at best, dedicating our lives to feeding the beast in the name of feeding ourselves. With many living in abject poverty, on the edge of starvation.

It’s no longer a problem of resource availability. It’s now a matter of resource allocation.