The market has shrunk and the prices have gone up… there are still some good items on the second hand market, at times, depending on location.

How are people surprised ! That’s just sad

Googling seems quite effective, honestly. For example here

For my friend, I think was a Google search as well

I guess I also don’t have the power of thesaurus on my side! Lmao

The most groundbreaking moment in this sense for me was when I was writing course notes for an introductory course (level 300 on my specialty, I was ready). On a small topic, I had my references lined up, until a colleague shared that the obvious, well-known, widely referenced result had been disproven a couple of years prior. The new proof is far from simple, does not belong in a level 300 class and made me scrap the whole section.

For the interested: the course was Introduction to Numerical Analysis, the topic was the order of convergence of the bisection method. Widely known but wrong result Ironically, I can’t quickly find the paper disproving it.

At first read, I enjoyed it, but afterwards I realized it’s a Mary Sue character with some problematic views on romance, I’m not interested in continuing reading

Over the summer, archeologist groups look for helpers. Here is an example. It’s often mostly grunt work in a bigger group.

There are also plenty of small seminars scattered around the world with artisans teaching their techniques. A friend of mine made a sword for example.

I learned the hard way that my limit is one and a half. The half means “sometimes, a second shot is fine, sometimes NOT”

1. amazing short film

2. the description doesn’t really match it?

There was some (I don’t know how widespread) use of strong alcohols as sedatives. Get them drunk!

I don’t have the power of briefness 🤣

I’m not even American and this makes me rage

We are all dying sooner or later, but we can someday a little bit choose how we go.

I’m all for decreasing alcohol consumption, I think last year I was around 1-2 drinks a week, but I also strongly believe you should enjoy life. For me, that mostly means eating more red meat and chocolate than advised. In my 20s, it was less meat and more alcohol. Was it “necessary”? No, but I liked it. I would do it again.

Enjoy life!

I haven’t done a full recap yet, but this is year I read all of the Murderbot books (recommended if that’s your sort of humor, steer clear otherwise) and the Black Sun trilogy. Honestly the latter has stayed with me the longest, even if it’s a light read.

Project Hail Mary is a sound hard scifi book that finally doesn’t mix romance into everything (as or rarely happens since a couple of decades).

I haven’t heard of since there was a clear explanation of how the eye evolved - since that one was a specific example they were referring to

That’s what gets me. “You visit so rarely, let me make it uncomfortable for you!”

I’m so sorry. You said you accept internet hugs, so please accept mine as well 🫂 and remember you can leave early.

Lucky you… :/

For me, it’s a weekly occurrence. I loathe it, but for practical and personal reasons I have to pick up all calls. Lately, there are calls where you hear, oddly loudly, a keyboard clicking away. Spam call 100%

Quite reasonable for Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich, that I know of off the top of my head. Probably many other capitals in Europe. I checked Rome, Madrid and Barcelona and they seem to be in line as well.

Love your description! Incredibly fitting! It’s tasteless honey, basically. Very sweet but not much else