These days we have been going by the rule:

• If you are here you have always been here
• If you are not here you have never existed

The people I play with are far too inconsistent and we have to take what we can get. Complicating things too much is just another barrier that we don’t need. We do have a decent sized group with a couple of reliable players, so this is probably easier to do with this group than with a smaller one.

Note: We are all pushing 50 and are pretty busy with work and family, which is a big contribution to the flakiness.

This was a vote to table. A no vote is a vote for impeachment, or at least continue the process toward it.

Wasn’t the building evacuated at the time so there were no casualties?

Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to the version of Opera that ran on the Presto engine, including some of the key people from back then. It has always run on Chromium with all of the baggage that comes with that. Manifest 3 and difficulty blicking autoplay videos without an extension for example.

It is possible that OP needs Chromium for some reason like sites restricting access to other browsers either intentionally, or due to incompetence. I’ve personally never been able to get any Firefox derivative to have anywhere close to as good of a user experience as out of the box Vivaldi despite my trying, though I can’t speak to Brave’s UX.

I might have to give Waterfox a try, though. Is there any word on how up to date they are with security updates, since derivative browsers tend to lack the resources to not lag behind?

The text on the top blends in a bit and I thought that this was an endorsement for a sec.

Breathing exercises like square breathing can help:

• Breath in for 4 seconds
• Hold for 4 seconds
• Breath out for 4 seconds
• Hold for 4 seconds
• Repeat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_people_in_prison#V-coding

Hormones are active in the brain and if you are low it can cause mood problems. Most sources I’ve seen show a 4-5 day half-life for estrodial valerate. This can leave you pretty low before 7 days are up if you are on weekly injections. There are two ways that people typically work around this:

• Increasing the dosage high enough that you don’t dip too low. This unfortunately also means that your peak levels may get higher than your Dr is comfortable with.
• Splitting the dose in half and injecting two times a week instead of one. This will significantly smooth out the curve, but have the downside of requiring twice the injections.

This is an example simulation with a once weekly 5mg injection vs a twice weekly 2.5mg injection to illustrate the difference between the two:

I guess what I am saying is that there are options if the dosing schedule you start off with causes you problems that you can work through with your Dr. Also, the 5mg I used for the simulation was a semi random number and not a recommended dose.

“Non-lethal” should really say less lethal, since the can and do kill. Especially when they are intentionally misused as they so often are.

…that the NY Times went out of their way to help usher in.

They are in fact awesome books.

I did as well.

30 grams is a round number somewhere in the ballpark of a musket ball. I am also uncertain as to how you ended up with 19.2 km/s.

To the best of my recollection the energy should be conserved according to the formula: energy = mass * velocity squared

Mass is in kg and velocity is in m/s

So solving for v would give us around 2.3 km/s for a 0.5 g projectile. At that speed, the projectile would most likely detonate immedeately due to air resistance rendering it problematic as a firearm.

Unfortunately people who have X instead of M or F on their documents haven’t been able to get a passport at all, even with the wrong gender marker. They have functionally been banned from traveling.

Many of the things we take for granted as obvious these days were anything but until recently. Take bolt cutters for example. The compound lever that let’s them function so well seems like something that would have been around for centuries, but in reality wasn’t something that was widely used/understood until the 1890s when they were marketed as a wonder tool.

On the other hand, this is a game and should be fun regardless of how anachronistic it is at times. At least as long as the witch/duck proportionality is maintained. There has to be at least some realism.

I was assuming that the total energy would be maintained (In this case 1350 joules) and thus the damage should be the same if weren’t spread out. It has been 20+ years since I has to do any of that math so I could be wrong about any of that. And since the only paper that was handy happened to be an envelope I guess it was technically back of the envelope math. :)

I imagine that the momentum would be conserved. So if the rifle normally shot a 30 gram ball at 300 meters per second, it would shoot a 5 kilogram ball at around 23 meters per second.

• The larger size and lower speed of the cannon ball would likely reduce the range.
• The larger size of the projectile would spread out the impact causing reduced damage.
• The ballistics would be significantly different making it far harder to hit with.

This is how I would do it in my game:

• Reduce the damage from 1d12 to 1d10
• Change piercing type to bludgeoning
• Reduce range from 40/120 to something like 20/60
• Add knockback of 5 ft to medium targets or 10 for small

The really neat thing would be shooting non standard rounds that wouldn’t be possible from a musket like incendiary or smoke rounds.

Most of the increase can easily be explained by the change in diagnostic criteria. The rest is pretty well covered by the fact that autistic kids do not in fact magically disappear when they grow up leading to the uncomfortable realization that adults can in fact be autistic. Well that and the fact that people who aren’t white exist, and I suppose women are real too.

We went from only middle to upper class white male children being able to have autism to black grandmothers* being able to be diagnosed and people wonder why more people end up with diagnosis. These studies are staring off on a false premise at best and often dive headlong into eugenics.

It is worth noting that one couldn’t get diagnosed with both ADHD and autism until 2013, and since 50-70% of people with ASD also have ADHD, that would increase the numbers further.

ADHD has a similar story, but I think I’ve rambled enough for now.

*(if she is wealthy enough)

I really needed this today. Thank you.

EEE is Eastern Equine Encephalitis should anyone else be out of the loop on acronyms like me.