You can “simulate” life inside your brain, too.

[Alt text: this is Bob. Bob is a figment of you imagination. When you leave, Bob will leave too. “Don’t leave” says Bob]

The Bob in your head is intelligent, it can communicate in English. Is it unethical to stop thinking about Bob? Was it unethical of me to show you this picture, creating a “Bob” in your head? Is any story unethical to tell?

Part of a sprinkler system to bury in ones lawn, that extends upward with water pressure.

I do not own a lawn.

Honestly, fair. Some people are insufferable when it comes to these topics.

At the same time, it is a rather important topic and I encourage everyone to analyse how much they spend on groceries and why. It is the biggest expense most if us have any control over, after all, and it’s easy to pay too much for stuff you don’t even enjoy simply because it has become a ritual. Ignoring the randos, people have to decide themselves if what they spend on groceries is worth it to them, but they actually need to stop and think about it.

Not regularly. It’s a twice a month thing at best.

70€ (83$) food, 30€ (35$) drink. (Caffeine addiction)

I eat less than 1kg* per day, try to only buy food so it’s overall 2€ per kg of a meal, so it’s 62€ per month, with a monthly treat that’s 70.

Edit: Thinking about it, less than 1kg of food per day was perhaps too low, considering that realistically wouldn’t even be half of my recommended energy intake. Maybe the extremely high soda intake I used to have was just to balance that out? Anyway, since I switched to other drinks a month ago I probably eat way more.

Funny, the job site comparison is also in the article:

Cannon said: “In every other hazardous environment, particularly workplaces, we apply an internationally recognised hierarchy of controls: eliminating danger where possible, engineering risks out of the system and separating people from hazards. Only as a last resort do we rely on personal protective equipment. On our roads, we invert this logic entirely, skipping straight to: ‘Be visible’ and ‘Watch out’.”

Where I’m from, you are required to adjust your speed to visibility.
If someone has trouble seeing cyclists who have all the required visibility measures, they are driving too fast, or shouldn’t be driving at all.

It’s hard to see this as anything else but allowing drivers to drive faster at the inconvenience of cyclists, under punishment of a felony.

Easily Europa Universalis 4. It’s a grand strategy game, which means it’s an Excel Spreadsheet with better UI.

This game specifically since it was popular in my friend group, got both free and paid updates for more than a decade, and it is rather low energy so you can either focus on talking with friends or barely hold on to consciousness at 3 A.M. when you said you’d go to sleep just after annexing one. random. duchy. which takes way longer than it should.

Different tools in the program, the coloured marker always shakes around like the stars here (with the crisp diamond shape being an option for it), while the black wiggly lines all behave differently depending on the tool and how you draw the line.

I was shown this neat webapp called wigglypaint by internet janitor for making wiggly gifs.