Yeah this is a tricky one. Modern gold standards are to use cameras to recognize pedestrians and cyclists to give them intersection priority. This is a big benefit if designed properly but video data this way poses a huge privacy/surveillance risk.

I suppose maybe there would be a way to process the footage locally and delete it as soon as it’s no longer needed but that’s going to require a lot of oversight from the community to confirm.

I just want to explain the very clever double entendre here because I’m not sure how many people will get it.

Skunk cabbage is notable for blooming in late winter, even when snow is still on the ground. How can a flower bloom in snow? Well, it actually generates its own heat, which can be enough to melt the snow around it and allow pollinators to reach the flower. This heat can be extremely important to early season pollinators, since they can rest and warm up in the flower even when it might otherwise be too cold to fly.

So that spathussy really do be hot.

Yeah I think that can be a trap a lot of newer DMs can fall into, not understanding the difference between mediums like TV, movies, or books and the collective nature of D&D stories. Really extended sequences that require things to go a certain way are risky in D&D because you never know what the players will do!

This particular character was more of the penultimate evil dude and was also a former ally that betrayed them. So it was more of his motives for why he did what he did.

In the grand scheme of things it wasn’t a huge deal they just thought oh well that guy went crazy or something rather than understanding his personal motives which would have made the overall plot a little more coherent.

The issue was a lot of the events had already happened. So the plot just ended up making less sense than it should have. His speech was more about his motives and why he betrayed the party since he was a former ally.

But yeah maybe I should have brought him back (since they never saw the body and he was an archfey) but I never saw the right time for it and that campaign ended.

lol this happened in a campaign I was running. I foolishly thought the villain should reveal details of his evil plan across rounds of combat. And also that it would be cool to have the battle on the backs of giant rocs.

You can probably see where this is going but let’s just say the battle lasted about 2 rounds.

Why would this bother me lol

This is way more common than wildlife biologists want to admit.

Touché but you know what I mean. It’s the most logical to have absolute zero be zero.

Kelvin is objectively the most accurate. Celsius fans cope.

Call me naive if you want but I think we might want to aim for slightly more than another flavor of illusory democracy.

Although I have to say that the primary selection process in the US, while deeply flawed, is far more open for insurgent candidates than the Chinese system. See Mamdani for a recent example of how democratic elites don’t have total control of the outcomes.

Tiberius running out of spells? I don’t think so.

Sort of. Taiwan doesn’t really actively claim that anymore but the politics of officially retracting it are complicated. Someone was telling me that part of the reason they don’t is for fear of antagonizing the mainland, since they are extremely antagonistic towards separatists.

Ouch my teeth 😢

Interesting, thanks. Makes sense since P. cerasifera tastes and looks extremely similar to European plums. But I’ve never tried Prunus spinosa to compare.

You know it.

Only if it’s connected by water to the other major rivers. But I’m not sure if it is.

Thanks. That seems to be the origin of the extra braid that crosses the Rockies on the map.

I mean making shit up isn’t a joke though. I feel like the humor needs to be based on something real.

Most of the other “islands” are formed by man made canals, so I’m curious what the situation in the Rockies is that allows them to argue those rivers connect.