The best answer is to eat a diet that contains enough fruit, vegetables, whole grains and legumes.
that might be true, but eating a perfectly balanced diet every day is more difficult and more expensive than just taking a multivitamin. I wasn't a believer, but I started taking 2 multivitamins twice a day and I have never felt better so I really don't care if I'm pissing money away if it makes me feel good.
It really is pretty simple, Steam or it will be a failure. No one wants another marketplace (die already Epic), especially not the best Apple could do building one from the ground up. I think we’ve all hit our bubble pop limit. Developers have no interest in giving someone else a cut. As an end user, I havr no interest in yet another marketplace beyond GOG or Steam.
Apple should buy Valve, and offer optimized updates for games and "verified" status on Apple devices like Valve currently does for Steamdeck. Valve is worth 8 billion. Apple is worth 3 trillion. I'm shocked Apple or Microsoft hasn't done it already considering Valve is so cheap.
Honestly, I predict Valve will take over the console market, because they've proven with the steam deck that PC gamers are willing to ditch a keyboard and mouse if provided with a proper controller and the steam deck has been able to run a surprisingly large number of AAA titles on $350 handheld device. Imagine what they could do with a plug-in console device not bound by limited batteries and storage? No screen, no batteries, two m.2 2280 slots, price it at $299 with controller and xbox and playstation wouldn't know what hit them.
Its every level too -
Look at Jamaal Bowman, slam dunk felony conviction there if charged for disrupting a proceeding. All the evidence makes it abundantly clear he knew exactly what he was doing; but you know he puts a (D) after his name so - he gets to plea down to a misdemeanor. Why? because the DOJ is completely weaponized.
Correct. He was a middle school principal for 10 years but claims he doesn't know what pulling a fire alarm does. It would be comical if it wasn't so infuriating.
I mean he’s literally making daily headlines. Just a few days ago he claimed he never swore an oath to support the constitution.
Because he took a oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution, not support it, is what Trump's legal team said. And all of this is because democrats are trying to not allow voters to vote for Trump in some states. Which just seems crazy that democrats are trying to tell Americans they can't vote for a former president.
Do you have any examples of actual woke movies that did well?
a) By the weird No-True-Scotsman-y metric you're using in your three replies? Certainly. "The Rise of Skywalker" had two LGBT characters kissing, so it passes this odd alternative Bechdel test of yours, thus counts as woke, and as it had a gross revenue a little bit over $1 billion, counts as a successful woke movie.
Were the characters gay in the books or original stories? Having LGBTQ characters in an adult focused movie isn't woke if they were always LGBTQ.
Woke: The political weaponization of social, racial or ethnic identity by subversive Marxists for the purpose of stirring controversy, creating division, or causing conflict where there previously wasn't any.
So having a cartoon movie like Disney's Strange World that focuses on a gay teenage relationship would be woke, but two adults in a star wars movie isn't. Make sense? Lightyear's cartoon lesbian kissing scene and Elemental's cartoon non-binary characters are all example of woke movies that flopped at the box office. Little Mermaid's woke race swapping also failed, the least profitable live action Disney movie since covid's Mulan.
Case in point, the wokest movie ever, Barbie
More examples of how not woke Barbie is: Mattel released a gay Ken doll in.... wait for it.... 1993, exactly 30 years ago. What perfect timing!! Have him run all around the movie, re-release the doll, sell millions to LGBTQ! Make accessories, maybe a cartoon or spin-off movie! Right? Wrong: no big gay famous scene in the movie. How about "Ken's buddy" Allen played by Michael Cera? Surely Ken's "buddy" would have some homoerotic woke gay tension, right? Nope, not a second. Barbie had so little LGBTQ content that some were disappointed that a movie about a child's toy wasn't the LGBTQ woke movie they expected.
Case in point, the wokest movie ever, Barbie
Barbie isn't woke though, not even a little. The movie is a satire about modern American society, using a plastic doll as a vehicle to create tension between flawed, idealized versions of what societies “should” look like. Yes, you might think it's woke because there are LGBTQ actors in the movie, but none of the characters they play are LGBTQ, and there are no LGBTQ scenes in the movie. The movie mocks the patriarchy and anyone that believes it's real. I'm sorry you didn't understand the humor, maybe watch it again and you'll get it? For example, Ken believes in patriarchy, so he goes around trying to find a job. He's turned down everywhere, even as a lifeguard, because patriarchy does not get you a job in the real world.
Do you have any examples of actual woke movies that did well?
Case in point, the wokest movie ever, Barbie
Barbie wasn't woke though. The movie is a satire about modern American society, using a plastic doll as a vehicle to create tension between flawed, idealized versions of what societies “should” look like. The movie had no LGBTQ characters and had no LGBTQ scenes like many other "woke" movies have had recently. Yes, there were actors that are LGBTQ in real life, but none of that was in the movie. And yes, Barbie is diverse, but so are the toys, which the movie explained at the beginning. The movie following the toys does not make it "woke", it's just following what the toys already do.
Do you have any actual woke movies that did well?
And 3 months of income from Walt Disney World pays for the entire Organization. At least that's what I heard in the early 1980s.
That's why it should be mandatory that every kid after high school spends 6 months in a camp that realistically mimics living in the 1850s. Having to no refrigeration, AC, fans, running water, poop in an outhouse in all weather or a pot inside that you carry out to empty, use newpaper or magazines for TP, or having to stuff old rags up your hoochichoochi to stop your monthly bleeding might get their heads screwed back on correctly so they see the forest instead of just the trees.
a week would probably suffice, but i agree, these kids need to touch grass
I dont know. I read at about a page a minute (novel type). That's about 300 words per page, so maybe 4 characters per word in average. The average man lives to 73. take 3 out to learn to read. I probably can read about 14 hours a day. (You need to sleep, shower, eat.) that's: 70*365*14*60 = 21 * 10^6 minutes So 300 * 4 * 21 Million = 25 Billion characters.
But that is a "I don't do anything else than read" type of estimate.
But no one ever in the history of all humanity has had a life like that, spending 14 hours a day reading for 70 years. So the 1 billion being "approximately the amount that a human can read in a lifetime." is probably a lot closer to reality.
When these just started showing up as an option, I looked into renting out my beater and/or maybe buying something to rent out as a way of making money work. It didn't seem to be worth the risk and headache.
I'm with you. I have an exotic and a beater I thought of renting out on Turo several years ago. But all it would take is the renter to hit a curb hard and I'm out $800 for a control arm and possibly more. And the problem with vehicles compared to houses is it's harder to blame the renter. A hole in a wall is obvious, but vehicles have wear and tear, and it would be difficult for me to prove the renter did the damage to the vehicle. I don't know how anyone is making money on turo.
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