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Ah, cool. Anoxic lactoferment, then. That does sound good. Like sauerkraut.
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What are we looking at? Pineapple and sugar and water?
Do you airlock it?
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Sweet, safehouses.
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Beat me to it, nicely done. :)
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You don't have to. Turns out, when you give women the option to not shove a watermelon-sized object through their hoohaws at an age when they're not ready for it, many of them opt not to!
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That talking point died decades ago. We have a clear path to reducing our population. Well-off people with access to contraceptives don't have high birth rates. We can roll back the human birth rate to sub-replacement levels and over time, reduce it.
There will be a problem with increasing population in 2250 or so, but we can cross that bridge when we come to it.
The moral thing to do is to ensure that all humans have access to clean water and food, contraceptives, and comfortable lives. The population will naturally go down and we can stabilize it over time.
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I don't think it can sustain the current population levels, at our North American standard of living. If we could distribute resources evenly, sure, we could keep everyone alive, but energy consumption, plastic production, all that adds up to an ecological footprint of resource use that isn't sustainable.
World wildlife levels have gone down dramatically. We're expanding human life at the expense of all other life. The other life on earth isn't superfluous: it's an ecosystem that keeps us alive, recycles our waste, provides our medicines and cultural wealth of all sorts.
We can't keep our wealthy lifestyle and at the same time tell the poor people of the world that they have to stay poor so that we can remain wealthy.
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We are in no way at risk of dying out from negative population growth. If we start to go down below a few million, then maybe let's talk.
World population is still increasing, and is set to maybe stabilize in a couple decades. Fingers crossed. If we could (gently, without mass starvation) reduce the population down to a more sustainable level, that is an unmitigatedly good thing.
What might kill us is infertility from pollution or disease, but this won't do it.
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While you're there, visit the Big Lebowski bar.
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A while ago (late 90s?) they straightened the border and reevaluated land along the 49th parallel. Some towns switched countries.
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Such a stupid border decision. They should have fixed it in the territory swaps a few years ago.
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I really like sandwich with a pretty large pickle in it. One of my faves.
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Again
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I feel like the Americans might frown on Canadians attempting to vote in their elections or assassinating their political leaders.
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Yeah, chicken and egg. Unfortunate twitter has now locked down feeds so you have to be logged in, so also fuck them on that point.
It's a tradeoff. I am so disgusted by twitter that I chose to give that up and leave.
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This is a baffling comment. There are tons of people on mastodon, more than I could ever hope to keep up with. I have a couple hundred accounts on follow and never manage to keep up. Honestly it could use some sorting.
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My grandparents did this. Rather than downsizing after the fire and moving closer to services, they rebuilt their house even bigger and added an elevator, then asked all their kids to drive them around. Not ideal.
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Yeah, i love it and use it often. I may not have expressed that rhetorical thought well!
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How great is etransfer, though? Venmo seems like total trash from what I've seen of it.
As subject. In Gastown, a plane flew over putting out rainbow contrail. Why? O_o Some festival?
steamcommunity.com
Splitsie's Scrapyard Engineers scenario is pretty great, I've been enjoying it, and if you haven't tried it, it's worth a crack. The concept is that you basically don't get refiners or assemblers, and only a limited number of blocks you can make. Everything else, you have to find from wreckage strewn about the landscape. The goal is to get to space. In addition to the base modpack, I strongly recommend Improvised Experimentation. The author also recommends it, but tunes down the carry weight so that you have to use cranes more. I didn't, but a crane is still extremely useful.
Apologies for the English, my monolingualism is entirely my own fault at this point. The tldr: my grandmother grew up during WW2 in the occupied Netherlands, and migrated to Canada in the 1950s in her 20s. She is likely in the stages of early dementia, and one of the recommendations for dementia patients is to find music that they'd likely enjoyed as teenagers or young adults. I'd like to see if I can find something that fits that rough description. I expect I can make do with the English catalogue of classic rock and country from that time, but it'd be nice to find something a little different. Can someone make any broad recommendations for popular Dutch music from the 1950s? Ideally, something I can find in mp3 format, but I'm willing to spend some money.
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Officially out! There's a video trailer, too.
This is our hand-drawn map of our immersive-mode Valheim map - I sail while my partner maps on the boat. We call out terrain observations, bearing, etc while we're sailing. Currently, we're settled on a Plains island in the south, four days' sail from spawn, and have established a full base in preparation for Ashlands.
So, I've been playing immersive mode. We just took down Queen, which was a pretty good challenge, and packed up the essentials and went all the way from the deep north to the (completely unexplored) edge of the Ashlands. Deciding what to pack on the longboat was a huge challenge, and we forgot some stuff, but made it work. One thing we took a risk on: we brought a stack of beech seeds. Turned out to be one of the best decisions of the trip! Once the initial round of tree planting was done, we had an inexhaustible source of *super* convenient wood without having to travel for it. Does anyone else have any base bootstrapping tips?
aftermath.site
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/22324944 > The beauty of The Long Dark. > > To clear up some confusion: there is an article behind that link and I'm _not_ the author.
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TLDR: Lotsa bugfixes. * [reddit link](https://www.reddit.com/r/thelongdark/comments/19enowc/the_long_dark_updated_to_v_227/) * [hinterlands](https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/44689-the-long-dark-updated-to-v-227/)
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[Oliv](https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198043851522) on Steam created a set of very nice maps for TLD zones, including the new Zone of Contamination.
hinterlandforums.com
A brief note announcing the title of the last chapter of Wintermute, "slated for release in late 2024". Hinterlands thread as above. [Steam community forum](https://steamcommunity.com/app/305620/eventcomments/4036978698785339299) [Reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/thelongdark/comments/18n17ga/dev_diary_december_2023_the_long_dark/)
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Looks like mostly bugfixes and such. Clipping, art, visual bugs mostly. I've been impressed by how solid this DLC release has been so far, nothing super gamebreaking.
The Long Dark is launching part 4, video is livestreaming at time of writing. - [Hinterlands forum post](https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/44363-tales-from-the-far-territory-part-four-is-here/ ) - [Reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/thelongdark/comments/18bhehc/mega_thread_the_long_dark_tales_from_the_far/) - [Steam announcement](https://steamcommunity.com/games/305620/announcements/detail/3904120607133158746)
Hey, is anyone aware of a method to filter chat by keyword? The in-game spam is ... absolutely incredible. Some super basic keyword filters would cut down on 99% of it. Even better, if you could selectively ignore any message containing a URL, or a contract, or something like that. It's SUPER weird that a, what, 20 year old game doesn't have this. It smacks of intention and makes chat completely unusable.
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Some neat and unexpected stuff! Looking forward to the harvesting animations. Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/thelongdark/comments/17sgpgj/dev_diary_november_2023/ Steam thread: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/305620/view/3820802116159638806?l=english Hinterlands forum thread: https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/44270-november-2023-dev-diary/
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Some interesting stuff here.
