Chittenden county is moderately dense. It has about 25% of the state’s population. There’s public transit in the form of buses and it seems moderately used. It’s a rural state, but not nearly as rural as you seem to think.

In contrast I grew up in a significantly more densely populated suburbs in the greater Boston area. People might use the commuter rail, but I’m not even sure what other public transit even existed. If it’s there I’ve never heard of anyone interacting with it.

True but I’d just like to sit and admire the word frugivorous for a moment

Maybe folks just like symmetry.

If your comments are going to gum up the thread with a segment that they don’t think will have any effect, what’s a few more to match?

Slice it before you go. Are items with bread not found in picnics?

Sandwiches are perfect for a picnic, and it’s an occasion you’d want to gussy them up a bit for. Fancier bread might be the cheapest and most obvious way to do that.

You’ve moved away from the part which specifies long-haul trucking. To my understanding this is an area where trains are a reasonable solution.

Last mile coverage we also have room for improvement with much smaller vehicles, like bikes.

Boulders are the best kind of decorative bollard

The More sweeping forgiveness attempt was blocked.

He seems pretty committed to forgiving whatever he can get through. It wouldn’t be unusual to give up after the initial attempt was blocked, but now he seems to be breaking it apart into more manageable chunks. I’m still slightly hopeful that more forgiveness is coming for those who need it.

It’s a good feature, and probably makes sense to default to on. But I know I’ll find it more distracting than useful, so I’ll turn it off.

Large tooltips on mouseover are usually distracting. Facicons, text, and additional windows do enough to remind me what my tabs are.

New features often aren’t helpful to each and every user, but as long as I can turn off the ones that are actively unhelpful to me, I’m perfectly happy to see them.

I didn’t see you mention these authors, but maybe because your cutoff date looks to be around 1989:

• Wild Seed- Octavia E Butler
• The Left Hand of Darkness- Ursula K LeGuin
• Dhalgren- Samuel Delaney
• Book of the New Sun- Gene Wolfe
• A Scanner Darkly- Philip K Dick
• Cat’s Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut

Not exactly always considered sci fi, but maybe sci fi adjacent:

• The Terror- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, seems to be free of his politics
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union- Michael Chabon
• Gravity’s Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
• Fictions- Jorge Luis Borges
• Machine of Death- collection of short stories from various authors
• Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace

Per capita probably isn’t a good way to measure this.

Car deaths should probably be by miles driven.

Yes. But it’s a duel, so they’re just trying to stay behind one person.

You’re not allowed to stop, so you try and creep forward really slowly by doing bike stands until the last lap.

I dunno exactly what sandbagging looks like in Mario Cart, but I kind of doubt it looks this silly.

It does, but for a real world parallel see bike sprints.

IIRC, the Pope is only considered infallible when they say they are. Otherwise they’re just speaking as the highest ranking member. So most of the time what they say is not treated by members of the clergy as the literal word of god.

Maybe other Catholics are more in the know, but this isn’t a distinction I was aware of when I was a practicing Catholic. That might be because the Pope really didn’t come up much at all. I’m sure he influenced policy, but his words seemed to come up in the news, and not really much outside that.

For me it also happens constantly with things like the crossword, which obviously can’t be listening.

Links between folks is part of it, but a lot is just ordinary coincidence.

Maybe English (Malta) if that’s an option

Also it’s Valve. People choose the projects they work on and are free to start their own projects.

I’d be a little surprised if there weren’t several earnest attempts to make 3.

If those are communication apps supported by the bank, that’s the idea. Banks have been hit with huge fines for employees communicating over unapproved channels.

One of the problems with the unapproved channels is that the bank can’t enforce a retention period. So written messages that are supposed to be kept on record for 10 years or whatever can get deleted. In the event of a lawsuit the bank can be fined for not having the messages.

When poorly written or complex, maybe. I don’t know how often I’ve had to focus on a headline.

Headlines are also written to be attention grabbing. I’d rather headline-specific grammar over clickbait. Maybe there’s a different attention grabbing technique, but for now I’ll gladly settle for headlines if given a choice.

Thanks for this. As a native speaker, it never occurred to me that headlines had separate rules that would be hard to parse as a non-native speaker.

It doesn’t look like a hardware issue. Yes, the less powerful hardware is what forced graphical changes, but it looks like an art direction problem.

The changes mostly fail to capture the essence of the original design. The characters look like they were ripped from the SIMs.

No one is expecting the same lighting, textures, or poly counts, but they do expect something that looks like Mortal Combat. That isn’t an unreasonable expectation.

You’re right that this may be a budgeting issue of sorts, but if they can’t set aside enough resources to make it look like some sort of Mortal Combat game, then maybe they shouldn’t have made the port.