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I think people tend to have a very narrow view of what goes on around them. And frankly, I don't think that's really a bad thing. Everyone does it. It's just a fact of life. But we have to account for it. Talking about big-picture issues doesn't work when people are focused their narrow view of the world. Even if they agree with the issue, they won't be riled up and take action. I think there's 2 takeaways to this:

First, regarding talking to the people around you: narrow your focus. Focus on things that affect them directly, or frame things in a way such that they interpret it in a way that affects them. Don't talk about concentration camps, talk about Trump retroactively rescinding birthright citizenship and how that might affect their lives (especially effective if that person happens to be an ethnic minority or is in a relationship with one). When talking about anti-immigration policies, focus on ICE arresting American citizens because they didn't look American enough. You don't have to convince people of everything, you just have to convince people of enough that they feel personally concerned.

Second, regarding yourself: it's easy to think that all Americans are similar to the people that you're with. Society is a bell curve. You don't need to shift the entire bell curve to the left to exact change. You just need to stretch it out leftward - pull the left leaning people more to the left. Trump didn't win by convincing leftists to be right-leaning, he won by convincing the right-leaning moderates into shifting right. Consider the audience and pick arguments that would be most effective against that particular audience. Be more direct toward more left-leaning people. Republican? Sow seeds of suspicion toward Trump. Moderate? Make them fear for their way of life. Left-leaning moderate? Maybe we should punish the rich. Leftist? Hell yeah socialism baby

She would have had to be Frankenstein if she somehow had her living husband's heart. Taking out the heart does tend to have the property of leading to death

But will this make the eggs cheaper??

To give more detail: Proton uses a hacky workaround called fsync. Fsync was developed by the Wine developers but was explicitly not merged into Wine because, by their own admission, this is a really hacky workaround and it's definitely not the right way of doing things.

For games, using fsync is far better than not using anything, and so Proton uses fsync. Apparently there's recently been concern that the fsync workaround is going to become a bottleneck in modern games (not entirely sure the reasoning why), and so the Wine developers pushed for the development of NTsync, which is basically fsync if it weren't a hacky workaround. NTsync alleviates the bottleneck that fsync creates, making it more robust, less hacky, and more futureproof.

In short, don't expect any noticeable performance increases, but Proton might work more consistently and it might improve performance for future games

The moment the ghost comes I just keep going back and forth between the same 2 rooms until the ghost goes away (the ghost travels to an adjacent room randomly when you enter a new room)

Science here - a lot of my fellow scientists like the humanities and definitely are not missing the point. At least in the pure sciences, we tend to encourage all education, regardless of field.

Just be aware that STEM encompasses way more people than you're specifically referring to

My favorite is spinosaurus! The fact that it is fully aquatic is so interesting!

Only semi /s

Abrahamic religions evolved from an earlier religion that we now call Yahwism. Yahwism is super different from Abrahamic religions and it developed alongside the religions of neighboring communities and as a result had a lot of syncretic interactions with them. A ton of inconsistencies in the modern Bible can be attributed to leftover scars from the syncretism and evolution of the religion.

A really interesting aspect of Yahwism is that it was polytheist, with an entire pantheon of gods. Yahweh even had a goddess wife. And he was definitely not the leader nor the most powerful of the gods in the pantheon. He was a warrior storm god, similar to Thor, except he controlled floods. El (now called Elohim), used to be an entirely different god. He took on the grandfatherly wise god role, and he was the king of the gods. Over time, El and Yahweh merged into a single god, and that's why the God from modern Bible is so bipolar (loving and wise at one moment and bloodthirsty and vengeful the next) - it's because the wise God stories originated from El and the bloodthirsty God stories originated from Yahweh

Also, Beelzebub arose because the original god (Baal) was a warrior storm god from a neighboring religion and the Yahwists thought that Baal was a Yahweh copycat and didn't like him lol

I don't understand how what you said isn't burying one's head in the sand

I really liked Porgy. I'm currently doing Divers but I honestly don't really quite know what's going on. There's very few descriptions so I don't really know what things do. I assume the colored icons next to items indicate some sort of elemental ability but I don't know what they are or how they're used

Chubbyemu was talking about how the mushroom is just the fruiting body of the fungus, similar to flowers in a plant. The only purpose of the mushroom is to reproduce and spread spores.

Also, the video was about poisoning by eating too many toxic mushrooms

Is she strong enough to break stone?