Artrax, please. You have to try. You have to care. For me.

It’s been like two days and already !herps@r1b.it is staging a hostile takeover of the threadiverse

Don’t let the folks from !taneggs@lemmy.ca see this video

I see some DMs with their 400 pages of notes going into session 0, and I’m just like “oh honey.” For me, it’s primarily a cooperative storytelling game, and you’re not being cooperative if you decide the story you want told up front.

Absolutely DMs have limits — I’m a DM and I am acutely aware of my limits. If you can’t make filing the paperwork exciting, maybe the party gets jumped on the way to filing, or the law clerk you have to file with is a vampire, or the inspectors keep getting vampire-ified and the party has to go investigate. But you can be guaranteed that any time you make a plan contingent on the party doing what they’re supposed to, they won’t actually do that thing.

“If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”

If you are DMing and you have an action your players are “supposed” to take, you have made a grievous error.

Realistically, a packet of ramen seasoning is approximately as helpful of birth control as a condom that has been in a wallet for nine years.

I use this system every election cycle and I quite like it. It doesn’t force the city to pay out to candidates we’re not interested in, since no voters would send their vouchers to a campaign they don’t care about. It does seem to open up a pathway to participation for a class of candidates that otherwise wouldn’t have access to funding

Some researchers found that public financing expanded the pool of candidates running for office. A 2022 study of Seattle’s program, which gives each registered voter four $25 vouchers to contribute to the campaign of their choice, concluded that the program boosted the number of candidates by 86%. Another study of Arizona and Maine’s programs found that they “significantly increased competition.”

I have no industry ties and I also don’t like the ultra-processed labelling. Refined white flour is very processed, but when you process it further, by fermenting it to make sourdough, you make it healthier, not less healthy

And then there are the more fundamental debates, including the argument that foods like flavored yogurt and whole-grain bread are beneficial even if ultraprocessed, so it doesn’t make sense to regulate foods based on processing levels.

Yeah it’s tough. Making oat milk is easy enough that it is spoon positive for me – I feel more rested and relaxed because I made something and I feel accomplished – but learning to make oat milk costs a lot of spoons, especially because so much of avoiding sliminess comes down to moving quickly, which is hard to do when you’re first learning. May the spoon gods bless you with many spoons and delicious oat milk lattes.

It’s very inexpensive and not particularly difficult to make your own oat milk, and I like it better than what you buy in stores. I use this recipe.

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His name is Marshawn Lynch. He played gridiron football for the University of California Golden Bears and the Seattle Seahawks. Beast Mode was his catchphrase.

I’m working my way through The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz

Doctors can still prescribe cocaine as a topical anesthetic, and ADHD patients regularly get prescriptions for amphetamines. But I thought you were a nurse?

You do you, but an automated teller machine does not dispense tellers.

So… who’s making the list of fedi accounts that go dark during the Yandex outage?

This study out of Duke University discusses some effects on births of 9/11. As best I can tell, the effects are mostly a reduced number of men relative to the number of women, increased prematurity, and reduced weight at birth, mostly attributed to the stress the mothers experienced during pregnancy.

And relatedly: all politics is local