I would say how doesn’t it?

A placebo is known to NOT work. That medicine has defined, understands and even utilizes the placebo effect is exactly in that definition.

The quote is from Tim Minchin. I think the track name is Storm.

It’s him talking to someone at a dinner party and he’s trying to bite his tongue when someone new starts talking stupidity, but it gets to a point where he breaks and goes off on a rent.

It’s a very well written and entertaining bit.

What what’s missing from the quote is something along the lines of “You know what they call alternate medicine that is proven to work? Medicine”

The whole point of the quote is exactly what you are saying that some medicines legitimately started as alternative medicines

Edit: i realize now it might not have been a quote at all regardless of how similar it is the that Tim Minchin bit

It’s unlikely for sure but not impossible as we have no idea what they actually haul in. They have been said to be worth 20-40 billion but they may be worth much more unbeknownst to us.

I also highly doubt it and said as much in a different comment

All true but it also assumes valve isn’t thinking post gaben

Building a fab now and getting the experience and expertise it needs to build next gen, such as abandoning silicon like the one article I saw said might be the direction things go in might be in valves orbit. Froml all accounts valve is highly profitable and could potentially weather the storm of upfront capital and growing/learning pains.

Also as I understand it valve doesn’t hire developers that don’t have a minimum of 15 years in industry related employment so if valve maintains its current hiring standards (and I’m not completely wrong or it has already changed), they VERY easily could poach all the experience they would need to since they would have the time. Might be a very exciting and enthralling opportunity to work for a gamer/pc focused fab.

I mean I doubt it but if they were thinking long term it would given them a comfortable time frame to do it in.

If turns out they already have the capital to self finance it all that wouldn’t entirely surprise me they could.

Imagine if valve put it’s money into making components like ram and storage just because the guys doing it already are hurting gamers

Sorry to answer a rhetorical question but I think it begins with education and empathy.

We don’t care about a cartoon, but if Pepe was a real person, then it’s a lot harder to just say erase them. And we are essentially seeing that with fascists and immigrants.

If problems actually exist it would be easier to discard the people causing those problems, than to challenge ourselves by confirming that the perceived problem is actually happening, to them rehabilitate the person causing the problems, and then forgive them for their trespasses. Because this requires risk, effort, and a developed sense of community, not tribalism.

It’s not easy to allow people who did “bad things” to walk around your friends, neighbours, family etc, once someone does something that is felt to be across a line. But we can if we learn enough. we can if we care enough.

That’s a tall order when the world is in a state of everything sucks, and is getting suckier all the time, we are all having our ability to spend resources, be it time, material, or money, to help those that need it, and also just doing anything that isn’t just trying to take care of ourselves.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that when you have the time and means to help a complete stranger, and choose to do so, it makes the world a better place. It makes it harder to build that hate towards strangers or just people that we don’t agree with.

But religion and the reigns of power have been in it a lot longer than anyone reading this comment have been alive, and is why building momentum is so necessary to change anything because it has to start pushing against those long held and abused powers, very hard to be a 1 person movement with enough juice to get things done. Possible but incredibly unlikely

Sorry I couldn’t find it, but caffeine and coffee can have opposite effects on a person. Iirc caffeine making you sleepy is a symptom of ADHD or autism(it could be something else entirely, it was a long time ago I read the article) but was a very strong indicator of the thing in the article. This assumes it wasn’t a junk article, the acidity of the coffee apparently can have an effect on your metabolism depending on what else you put in it. Cinnamon apparently had a noticeable effect on the results.

Again apologies for not being able to locate it, but Ill update this if I do manage to find the one I remember. It was pre covid when I read it if that matters

It’s easier to erase than to fix

That is a classic British political face

Mine didn’t even last 2 months under a screen protector. I didn’t even get a cheap price on a cheap screen. I got rid of the phone since it cost too much to replace. They said it wasnt a common part, if it had been a Samsung or iPhone it would have been closer to 50 to replace.

The screen on my 6T broke and it was 500 dollars to fix it. Also their pricing is no longer worth it.

Not sorry to see them go away anymore

The mercenaries expansion of this game was my jam

Also for anyone who doesn’t know about it, I highly recommend this youtube channel

The Black Pants Legion

You should accrue vacation this year, for next year. Starting Jan 1, hire date, or whatever year end/beginning is chosen. Then you should have the entirety to take during that second year on Jan 1.

My company seems to think that when I accrue my vacation on December 31 I should have used it already

I’ve been arguing with my HR department for 13 years. How can I accrue vacation each week, use my vacation in the same year I earn it? If my last earned vacation doesn’t stay until the last period expires I December, I can’t use my vacation…

It’s frustrating trying to explain the rules to them and not understand.

Much like that old clip about someone trying to explain their data charges to the ISP customer service rep

Legendario is sometimes available in eastern Canada, but it’s not on the west coast that I’ve been able to find. Specifically my friend has brought me 3 bottles from Nova Scotia this year, but not sure if they still sell it given the state of things in Cuba right now

I’ve done this at Starbucks before. If they give me what I ask for I can’t complain about it.

I also used to ask for a good drink and a bad drink and not let them tell me what they are going to make. Became a bit of a known person there and after a bit the entire staff really got into making terrible drinks. Good times when I had more money lol

Probably helped that I didn’t ask for that when they were busy though. Usually near close and that location was pretty slow after the afternoon rush

Different countries different communication networks. A while back Facebook was internet lots of countries because it was a way to get online in those places.

World is a weird place sometimes

Obligatory George Carlin

The average person

Recently found out that Sam Elliot was the voice of Smokey at one point

Let me first say, I’m not vegetarian in anyway, but I also don’t have hate for those who are different from me.

It’s okay to feel like you are alone on an island.

That it’s pointless to maintain your values.

It’s okay if you fail to uphold them sometimes.

We aren’t and never will be perfect creatures.

We can only try to do better today than we did yesterday because we can’t change yesterday.

You may be alone but you may also be the reason that someone else in your area considers or even becomes vegan one day.

You may be alone but you can still be an example to everyone around you.

You will never know the totality of the effect you have on the world around you.

I gave up fast food burgers 25 years ago, sometimes it felt completely pointless.

But Im still going, what kept me going was that how rare is it going to be, to be able to say I haven’t had fast food on 50 years.

It’s a meaningless accomplishment, but it does no harm to anyone else, it allows me to stay true to myself even if only in this one way.

You will never know when you will inspire someone else simply by being who you are, but you will, you may have already.

And if you ever find yourself in Quebec City, visit Don Vegan. The citie’s first vegan only restaurant. They certainly had a hard time in that community but they are still there. And have the Thai Soup, one of the best soups I’ve ever had and that’s from someone who eats meat.

I personally feel like vegetarian and by extension vegans, are doing the world a favour by inventing new ways to get flavour out of foods and trying new things that we all can enjoy. In the end flavour is going to win against ideology, make the best food you can invent and if it supplants meat based alternatives simply because it tastes better we all win

Good luck out there, I’m glad you seem to have found some helpful advice already