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There's also a 27th (non-alphabetical) "ending" that's quite different from all the others. I think it was originally part of a DLC but it just came with the version on Steam when I played the game ~5 years ago.

Adding to this, the money to repay bonds has to come from somewhere -- usually taxes. So, if a government issues a bond it is committing to collecting the amount of money for the bond-plus-interest from the populace. It's the government taking out a loan, essentially, on the basis that it can use long term tax revenue for repayment.

Why not just use taxes directly then? Sometimes you need a lot of money for a specific project and it would take too long to collect that money through taxes at a rate that is reasonably payable by the populace over a short enough time frame.

Suppose you need a million dollars to cover the cost of replacing some infrastructure -- like a critical pipeline for your town's drinking water -- but you only have 100 people in your small town. That's $10,000 per person if the cost is split evenly. The people in town may not have that much money to pay all at once, but getting the pipe fixed so they have water to drink is really important. So, the government gets a loan (i.e. issues a bond) and pays out the amount plus interest over a long period of time. Adding 5% interest and breaking the payments up over a 30 year term would require everyone in that hypothetical town to need to pay about $30/mo more in taxes to cover the cost. That's probably a lot more politically feasible to actually collect than trying to get everyone to pitch in $10k right now.

Bill's PC. As in Bill Gates, probably. You're lucky it didn't get overrun with malware.

(No idea who/what inspired the Japanese name マサキ though.)

Yes. Have done so several times, and have had people come up and talk to me out of the blue as well. Sometimes it has gone well. I've had a few good conversations with random people on long distance transport (planes, trains, and such) when I struck up conversations with whoever ended up in the seat next to me, and a few times (more rarely) in grocery stores when I'm having trouble finding something (or vice versa). e.g. got asked about uses for unusual ingredients I was having trouble finding and traded some recipe tips.

Usually when other people come up to me they just want me to give them money, or join their religion though.

Hmm. I don't think I've seen seeds/nuts used directly in pasta before (other than as an ingredient in pesto). That's an interesting idea. I'll have to experiment with that one.

For ceramic, maybe see if someone can do a kintsugi fix for it instead of 3D printing?

All of them? No. I can remember some details of a lot of them, and some of them very well, but there's others -- especially from when I was very young -- that I no longer have a good full mental map of.

I definitely do not remember the layout of all my schools. I moved a lot and some of these are just disconnected fragments of areas to me now. I have no idea how my classroom and the cafeteria were connected in the school I was at in 3rd grade, for example, and I'm struggling to even remember how I got home from school then -- even though I do remember taking the bus to school at that age, and I remember some of the places I had to wait to catch the bus home when I was even younger than that... It's strange what sticks in memory and what doesn't, sometimes.

I believe we're now talking about how he murders children

Unfortunately, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike

I've been using the HTML only version of DuckDuckGo as my default since Google made JS mandatory to run searches. It works ok for most of the simple queries I make. (e.g. looking something up from the Python docs, MDN, etc.) I resort to Google still for the stuff it completely flubs.

Gone from probably 99% Google + 1% of other to maybe something like 95% DDG + 5% other (mostly Google).

I haven't seen compelling enough evidence to believe in the supernatural.

That said, we do seem to be well on our way to engineering ghost-like phenomenon. People will set up LLMs and generative AI systems that imitate dead people, if they haven't already...

No ghosts IRL? No problem! We'll make ghosts!

Thanks Humanity. 🙄️

I thought I was lucky to be in California…fuck me.

You should go read the actual requirements because it's probably the sanest version of this that exists.

Your OS just has to have a way for you to say "I am this age" (bracketed into several groups) at account creation and software is supposed to respect that. Not a fucking face scan or ID or any of that other bullshit that some other idiotic "verification" attempts require.

I just played it recently for the first time. Took me about 50 hours from start to rocket launch (the win condition) in the default, recommended free-play campaign + a few more hours before that to go through the tutorial stages.

Haven't tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.