Hey, McDonalds, I got a general AI that can understand human speech.

It’s located between my neck and the top of my head, and it costs $25/hr for fuel consumption.

Yah, replace the UPS with USPS and it’d be bangin

Not a joke: simply stop buying meat. Don’t think about how to ‘replace’ meat. Don’t attempt to limit yourself to a certain number of meat meals a week. I tried those things, and I completely failed at them. Make a list of all the meals you eat that do not include meat and/or can be made without meat and just make those. Make sure these are meals that you want to eat - donuts and cheese pizza are fine.

Random suggestions:

-Spaghetti - extra mushrooms, plus onions, peppers, spices as desired

-Veggie sandwhich - Bread of preference, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, humus

-Pizza. Yes, pizza.

-Tacos - black beans, roasted sweet potato cubes, pico de gallo, cheese etc

-Roasted cauliflower - cube it, toss with oil and spices, roast it.

-Chili - buncha beans (pinto, kidney, black, even garbanzos can work), tomato, onion, garlic, chile powder. If you wanna go nuts, add corn and, wierdly - barley. It works great.

-Chana masala - Google it, basically chickpeas with a gravy made of tomatoes, onions, garlic, buncha spices. Very similar to making chili.

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Your ‘argument against GMOs’ is an argument against seed patents, not GMOs. That’s the same as saying there’s an ‘argument against insulin’ because big companies own the patents and charge lots of money. The product is absolutely irrelevant to the conversation.

Right, so maybe if it’s now being applied in a discriminatory fashion, it’s now due for a change? My point is that enforcement of the law cannot be considered separate from the law. A law that cannot be enforced does nothing, and a law that creates discrimination in enforcement is a discriminatory law.

Nah, the government. Trying to de-radicalize people with ingrained beliefs is hard and unlikely. Accept the parent’s wierd beliefs, let the kids go to school wearing whatever the parents want, and you get much less radical kids out the other end.

Yah, every graph of % of religious people is trending solidly down.

Seems self-defeating to me. Most effective way to fight radical religosity is to educate people. Let em go to school and half of them will be ex-Muslim by college.

My brother in nothing, enforcement is part of the law.

If you know a law will be applied unequally, don’t pass the damm law.

Yah dip it in your humus, dingbat

Yes, this looks much better. My other thought would be road-rail buses, but getting on/off the tracks might be too much work to be worth the extra flexibility.

That looks horrible. Cramped, the giant windows means it’s hot and the sun is always in your eyes… Any reason they need to only use one rail? We already have road & rail buses, trucks, etc…just use those.

I second that idea. ‘Once while sober and once while drunk’ and all that.

Honestly, yah.

See how much they want it when they have to start paying tariffs to ship their potatoes into the US.

It strikes me that this could be quite useful when used proactively.

E.g. - Player Character Byrnwolf just got a crit on the Bandit Lord with his Greataxe. Queue the GM: “How comfortable would everybody be with a description of Byrnwolf splitting this guy in half?” All the players tap red, yellow, or green in response, and the GM can moderate from there.

It would be good at providing ongoing feedback for the GM to guide their style over time.

Whoops. Should not use social media when tired, I glossed right over that.

Probably circumcision

I love the idea of the danger just being…plants. Invasive species? Although it’s really the humans that are invasive. Sure, there’s a BBEG to defeat, but the problem is much more n existential one of, “The climate is changing and we’ll lose our home and livelihoods” rather than, ‘evil monster over there’.

Obligatory: Starsector

Also Rimworld, Project Zomboid, Prison Architect, Factorio… basically if you like sandbox games, there’s a ton out there.

The third option: “Let them fight.”

Are we talking brown bears or black bears?

Brown bears are violently territorial and will attack you for being in eyeshot.

Black bears are basically giant racoons and will move away from people - especially if you’re making loud noises and making yourself look big - because they don’t want that smoke. They’ll only get aggressive if you surprise them or get anywhere near their younglings.

I’d probably take a black bear over a lot of dudes. As long as we got a good hundred feet or so of distance, Mr Bear and I ain’t gonna bother each other.