this revolutionary microwave will cook a fish in ice while simultaneously draining your wallet to completion.

duuuuuuuude…

i mean, i thought dos2 was amazing. bg3 seems like a great refinement of the gameplay.

but it’s the same style, with similar pacing, and similar mechanics.

so, if dos2 wasn’t your thing i’m not sure this will be.

this looks so, so useful

yeah, it really puts my god awful pile of terraform in perspective.

Logged in to comment that this particular comment made me laugh. It really puts what I personally do to shame, many times over. Thanks for the laugh. Cheers.

go on a long hike or bike ride in fully synthetic garb—you will absolutely reek by the time you get to your car.

if you’re talking a 1 hour workout, then i agree.

the bummer is that synthetic materials are so comfortable to wear during exercise compared to cotton and so easy to care for compared to merino wool.

i just accept it and smell like my body has been turned inside out after long exertions.

> go on a long hike or bike ride in fully synthetic garb—you will absolutely reek by the time you get to your car.

That's not universal and it hasn't been my experience at all (up to, let's say, 8-10 hour hikes).

I'm a nearly scentless freak (confirmed by friends, acquaintances, lovers) and will, at the end of a 10 hour hike, smell less than my old housemate did fresh out of the shower. It's body chemistry I reckon.

Are you East Asian by chance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor#ABCC11

my (similarly uninformed) opinion is… similar. the industry is so regulated and unsexy that it doesn’t attracted the thought leaders and technical talent necessary to created modern, inoovative systems. instead you get more verbose epic garbage. i could be totally wrong, but i always assumed it’s related to the sexiness-quotient of the field.

Ads are even more unattractive, both intellectually and ethically. Yet somehow there's still a ridiculous amount of intellect being completely wasted on ads, likely due to the dull motivator called currency. I'm not sure what the factor is, but there are plenty of intellectually unattractive and societally useless careers that suck up capable people's entire lives.

oregonian here.

full service in this context just means some gruff gentleman pumps your gas. getting your windows washed or oil checked is all but non-existent. so no, i don’t think there is any appeal for tourists. it’s an inferior experience.

gas stations are extremely understaffed these days, to the point where it’s rare at some stations for all the pumps to even be open. cars queue at popular stations while two employees man a dozen pumps. it can be agonizingly slow and frustrating.

i’ve read and heard a lot of pushback on self serve and i don’t get it. iirc stations are still required to offer full service on a portion of the pumps, so folks who don’t want to pump still won’t have to.

edit: all of this is of course my anecdotal experience from the willamette valley area.

This is exactly my experience too. My usual gas station experience involves waiting in a long line (they’ve only got one guy working the pumps, so only 2 or 3 pumps are open); pulling up to a pump; waiting a while for the attendant to get to me; handing him my credit card and yelling my rewards phone number at him (my gas tank is on the passenger side, making this annoying and error-prone); waiting briefly for the actual pumping; and then waiting for the guy to come back around to disconnect the hose.

It’s 5-10 minutes of waiting on a good day, or upwards of 20 minutes on a bad day, for 60 seconds of pumping gas. All the while most of the pumps are sitting there unused.

this drastically depends on where you live and what the restaurant scene is like. you’re describing corporate chain restaurants.

cities with food scenes still exist.

Yea but most people don’t exclusively eat there. I lived in a major metro area with a great food scene. But even then, 90% of those restaurants were competing with big chains on price anyway. Maybe they were 10% more in some cases, but it’s not like every restaurant in NYC has a Michelin star.

this is an overly cynical take. headlines are brief by necessity. nobody would read that and think that a curved line from A to B is shorter than a straight line between the same points.

the first paragraph explains it,

> these wavy walls actually use less bricks than a straight wall because they can be made just one brick thin, while a straight wall—without buttresses—would easily topple over

I recognize the cynicism in my observation, but is it fully unmerited?

I put the following prompt in GPT4:

create a professional title and a click bait title for the following article

Then provided the article. This was the output:

Professional Title: "Crinkle Crankle Walls: The Aesthetics and Efficiency of Serpentine Wall Construction"

Click Bait Title: "You Won't Believe How These Weird, Wavy Walls Use Less Bricks Than Straight Ones!"

I think you overestimate what people would reactively think when reading this headline