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treefrog , 8 days ago to Ask Lemmy in What games did you have a good time with that you just never finished?

I mostly play roguelikes, which is to say there's a lot of games I haven't finished and have a great time with.

The last big title I played that was really enjoyable for the first half was unicorn overlord. And I even played through the first half of a couple of times. After that micromanaging the units gets annoying, so I put it down and haven't picked it back up.

That's the last game I really enjoyed that I didn't finish. But I like to buy games on sale and check them out, partially because I have an interest in-game design and game theory. So even if I only play a game for a few hours, if I get it for cheap I'm still pretty satisfied.

treefrog , 8 days ago to World News in NASA has again delayed Boeing Starliner’s return to Earth

Maybe the pilot is a Boeing whistleblower and afraid for their safety?

treefrog , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to World News in Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times

They're giving the royal family jail time?

treefrog , 8 days ago to Ask Lemmy in I would like to start a simple business related to 3D printing, reverse engineering and 3D scanning. What are common pitfalls of first time entrepreneurs?

Great! I hope it's as helpful for you as it was for me.

I think my biggest piece of advice would be to set up an LLC, especially if you have any personal assets that you could lose if you would end up liable for stuff related to your business.

It makes your taxes a bit more complicated, but it shields you from being personally liable for damages that your business incurs on somebody else. And would protect like your house or car from being counted as an asset in a lawsuit in such cases.

treefrog , 9 days ago to Ask Lemmy in I would like to start a simple business related to 3D printing, reverse engineering and 3D scanning. What are common pitfalls of first time entrepreneurs?

You can grab a copy of entrepreneurial small business 5th edition used for probably 20 bucks. I'm about one semester out from a business administration associate's degree. That textbook was the most comprehensive of anything that I studied over the last year and a half. And the only textbook I made sure to buy a print copy of, so I have it for reference.

treefrog , 9 days ago to News in Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere

That's fair. I suppose I was overestimating the knowledge of the field guide writers.

treefrog , 9 days ago to News in Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere

I'm sure it depends on the book. I have a mushroom field guide published in the late '90s that still calls them plants. Which was really weird to me considering it's a mycology book.

treefrog , 9 days ago to politics in Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law Signals a Broader Christian Agenda | Gov. Jeff Landry wants his state to be at the forefront of a national movement to advance legislation with a Christian worldview.

Yet everyone who pushes for measures like this self-identifies as Christian, at least in public.

If Christianity's good name needs to be untarnished, then liberal Christians need to do more. Rather than expecting the media to delineate between the two.

treefrog , 9 days ago to News in Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere

May he keep Deedee Ramone company until we all get there.

treefrog , 9 days ago to News in Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere

I figured but still wanted to correct the dark matter/dark fungi metaphor in the article and saw an opportunity to do so with my favorite squid as I used to listen to Bauhaus as a kid.

Twenty years ago most biology books still classified fungus as plants. That's how young mycology is as a science. So, there's lots of unidentified fungus on the planet, but we still fundamentally understand microbiology as a whole.

Much different than dark matter/energy as we're not sure really what they 'are'. We only know them by their effects.

treefrog , 9 days ago to News in Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere

I listen to Bauhaus and grow gourmet mushrooms.

Unidentified fungi are not equivalent at all to dark energy.

treefrog , 9 days ago to News in FDA advisors voted against MDMA therapy – researchers are still fighting for it

I'm not telling anyone not to take psilocybin. Don't put words in my mouth.

I'm questioning the bias in that FDA advisory board. A reasonable question considering decades of prohibition and that historically FDA advisory boards have owned stocks in pharmaceutical companies that stand to lose profits if MDMA is approved as a medication.

In other words, the 9 out of 11 statistic that you just cited is a statistic that I don't trust because these individuals have historically been biased and are not specialists in psychedelic medicine.

And your whole argument hinges on this idea that because we have a treatment that could be effective we should not look into more effective treatments. In which case, meditation works just fine for all of this and is much safer than any medication we can put in our body. So, should we not use any mental health medications? And put all of our research money just into meditation? After all it is safe and effective, and much safer than either of these drugs.

treefrog , 9 days ago to News in The EPA's new limits on PFAS in drinking water face legal challenges

Depends on if municipalities sue or not to recoup those costs.

treefrog , 9 days ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Workers Shouldn’t Have to Risk Their Lives in Heat Waves

The Florida laws will hurt undocumented migrants the most.

Which is to say, don't forget the racism as a motivation.

treefrog , 9 days ago to News in FDA advisors voted against MDMA therapy – researchers are still fighting for it

Again you conflate symptoms and disease.

I think that's all I need to point out for anybody following this conversation.