Part of a sprinkler system to bury in ones lawn, that extends upward with water pressure.

I do not own a lawn.

Don’t we already have a similar thing with regional pricing?

Video games (and pretty much everything else) are sold for less in countries where the local currency is “weaker”, to maximize the profits in each market. Selling Slay the Spire 2 for ₱779.00 Philippine Peso means they get this brand new game for half the price Europeans pay for it, only difference to most other goods is that it literally is the same product.

This is justified by claiming gaming is for everyone, it would be unfair to price out entire regions simply because the average worker earns less US $ over there.

Does this not apply within countries, too? Wouldn’t it be fairer if they sold games for less in Kansas compared to New York? I get that we do not trust game publishers with this new tool, and fear they just want to get the most money out of us, but then we also need to make the same fuss about how they use the old tool to do the same thing. I for one am closer to the Japanese median income, can I pay their prices then?

The article states that the “Intelligent Speed Assistance devices” are supposed to prevent drivers from driving more than 5 mph over the speed limit. So I’m fairly certain GPS and/or Road Sign Information systems will be used.

And a car that cannot speed can? You might not have thought that one through.

Honestly, fair. Some people are insufferable when it comes to these topics.

At the same time, it is a rather important topic and I encourage everyone to analyse how much they spend on groceries and why. It is the biggest expense most if us have any control over, after all, and it’s easy to pay too much for stuff you don’t even enjoy simply because it has become a ritual. Ignoring the randos, people have to decide themselves if what they spend on groceries is worth it to them, but they actually need to stop and think about it.

70€ (83$) food, 30€ (35$) drink. (Caffeine addiction)

I eat less than 1kg* per day, try to only buy food so it’s overall 2€ per kg of a meal, so it’s 62€ per month, with a monthly treat that’s 70.

Edit: Thinking about it, less than 1kg of food per day was perhaps too low, considering that realistically wouldn’t even be half of my recommended energy intake. Maybe the extremely high soda intake I used to have was just to balance that out? Anyway, since I switched to other drinks a month ago I probably eat way more.

Same way he’s getting around those back plates and thagomizer:

Life, uh… finds a way.

Easily Europa Universalis 4. It’s a grand strategy game, which means it’s an Excel Spreadsheet with better UI.

This game specifically since it was popular in my friend group, got both free and paid updates for more than a decade, and it is rather low energy so you can either focus on talking with friends or barely hold on to consciousness at 3 A.M. when you said you’d go to sleep just after annexing one. random. duchy. which takes way longer than it should.

Different tools in the program, the coloured marker always shakes around like the stars here (with the crisp diamond shape being an option for it), while the black wiggly lines all behave differently depending on the tool and how you draw the line.

I was shown this neat webapp called wigglypaint by internet janitor for making wiggly gifs.

Last song of the day, stop me if you heard this one before: it’s time for the

Impromptu Masturbation Rap Interlewd (featuring my Wiener as the scraper block)

In order of the FMK game, I assume?

Really puts it into perspective, we here in Germany complained (online) like hell when the price was raised from 58€ to 63€ this year and tied to inflation, yet it seems to be a rather standard fare. Train service notwithstanding, I do think Germany’s rail network might be worth 3€ more to a passenger than Spain’s.

Let me give it the good ol’ “it depends”.

The main problems with traditional motorcycles are that they’re louder and dirtier than cars, but both things could be solved with electric motors.

But aside from that, they’re basically better - or less bad - cars. Granted, I’m not in a scooter city like those in south east Asia, so I might be missing something, but I believe 1-2 Scooter parking spaces per household is more realistic than 1-2 car parking spaces and 50 people on scooters can move through an intersection quicker than the same people in cars. In a crash, they’re way more likely to kill or injure their driver than a car, but less likely to do that to the other parties.

I think they’re fine.

Bucket tree, tree in a bucket. Have the tree in your house in a bucket, bucket is in the house with the tree in a bucket. Move bucket inside with the tree in the bucket, or outside once you’re done with bucket tree.

Just fly a rocket into a stable orbit near a black hole and wait until the time dilation causes 1000s of years to pass on earth, then go back and hope someone has figured it out.

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75 bees actually, 3 rounds of stinging.

A sting from a honey bee is familiar to many because of its world-wide distribution. The sting can be reliably provoked, and standardized, making it an ideal experimental stimulus. Furthermore, its rating as the center point of the Schmidt pain scale suggests it may be a useful standard. The present study therefore used honey bee stings to determine whether sting location impacts painfulness, and how painfulness varies by location.

Reads as: honey bees are cheap to acquire and I ain’t letting no hornet sting my private parts.

Inspired by the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, Michael L. Smith did us all a favour and answered the obvious follow up question on which body parts hurt the most when stung. He had honey bee guards sting him in 25 locations, multiple times to account for variability, over 38 days.

Results:

The three least painful locations were the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm (all scoring a 2.3). The three most painful locations were the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft (9.0, 8.7, and 7.3, respectively).

He and Schmidt were awarded with a shared Ig Noble Price for their efforts.