I can’t really visualize things in general. Due to that, if you tell me it’s muddy that’s most of the information I get. My brain won’t automatically try to put mud on the horses or add other details.

Here the specifics help a lot and I have a better sense of the muddy day for it.

AI aside, different voices may be immersion breaking. I tend to avoid audiobooks with more than a single narrator.

You’ll love TV advertising schedules. You can buy slots all the way up through 29:59:59

Or just start ordinals with 0th for years 0-99

When combined with other data on the same line and written without the slash, it usually won’t mean not applicable.

If it’s in some sort of published professional context, I wouldn’t read it as not applicable without the slash.

North America is a reasonable guess when specifying region could be context appropriate. Like you said with video game team names, but also company/org names, species common names, or treaties.

It’s not simply a reading comprehension thing with bullet points. If your questions require research on my end having them already structured in bullets does a few things to help with that process.

The asker’s bullet structure gives something to mimic. You can even put your answers directly below the question, so the asker can be reminded of their own questions.

The bullets also help skimming, if I need to see which item id is needed next it’s easier to do so without losing my place.

Bullet grammar structure also allows for much terser sentences. If I need to reread your question it’s easier if I don’t have to ignore a bunch of words that don’t substantively alter the meaning.

Do I need any of these? No. Could I put the questions into bullets myself for the reply? Sure. But it’s easier to spend more time and effort on answering your questions if you save me a few steps.

You don’t give up your right to vote by moving abroad. Your vote in state and local politics is lost. How much of a real impact that has depends on where you live.

This assumes voting continues to function more or less as it has in the past.

We also check to see if the word that popped into our heads actually rhymes by saying it out loud. Actual validation steps we can take is a bigger difference than being a little more robust.

We also have non-list based methods like breaking the word down into smaller chunks to try to build up hopefully more novel rhymes. I imagine professionals have even more tools, given the complexity of more modern rhyme schemes.

Even in fairly sensible states and for egg freezing, they may want you to jump through hoops.

As part of the process my significant other apparently had to either tell them I didn’t exist, or they’d want to talk to me for permission to freeze her eggs. Even if we were married, they’re her eggs not mine. It’s completely inappropriate to need to talk to me.

Of what others have suggested and that I’ve read: the ones most similar to what you’ve finished are:

• The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
• The Expanse series by James SA Corey
• Hyperion (at least the first two books, w/ optional two more) by Dan Simmons

New recommendations:

• Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany (content warning)
• The Baroque Cycle series by Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash and the Diamond Age may both be better starting points for the author, but may fit your other criteria less)
• The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe

Other works that stretch your genre boundary but may evoke the right emotion:

• Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
• Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
• John Dies at the End by David Wong

It’s not uncommon to mention the president who started an agency in little blurbs describing their history. Like with the Environmental Protection Agency & Nixon.

Even your first painting in the series was recognizably him. You’re right about the expression, although I sure can’t point to what tiny detail doesn’t match.

Regardless, you’ve made great progress and I hope you keep sharing with us!

There’s still something to assembling it yourself. Viewed as an educational activity, it easily clears the bar for photo quality.

Yes you can get better photos by buying something else used, but that doesn’t mean this doesn’t have value.

At the same time it’s the map’s job to describe the world. Even for something like nation states where there’s an official name, the map uses the common name. Our maps say France, not French Republic.

Changing the displayed name for a body of water shared by several nations doesn’t make much sense, especially when the common name has yet to follow.

At least that’s from the perspective of one of the goals the map ostensibly wants to serve.

Switzerland is in Schengen, but didn’t join until 2004.

Is that a Vermin Supreme reference?

The weird thing is, equity and inclusion aside: it looks like diversity is a good tiebreaker when you try to measure this.

So even if it were a zero sum game, the right candidate is unlikely to be the one who resembles your current team.

You can also stitch them with ffmpeg if a CLI is more your speed

Not OP, but maybe it’s better phrased as “white Americans have a limited shared cultural heritage.”

Waves of immigration make it hard to tell what of that 5 centuries is actually shared. It’s also viewed as tacky to try and lay claim to the bit before your ancestors arrived.

If your ancestors were Irish and Italian immigrants from around 1850, going off about the Mayflower can be viewed as similar putting on airs

Go to a local music shop and look for musician’s earplugs with a rated dB reduction. At least -8dB, but a bigger reduction won’t make your experience worse, it’ll just make things even quieter.

I have some from a major guitar manufacturer that I’ve been using at the infrequent shows I go to for a decade. They were $10 then, and it looks like that’s still true. I clean after using, but I wasn’t really expecting to get this many shows out of them.

They don’t muffle sounds, it just sounds quieter. Without earplugs I need to stand on the other side of the room/field to be comfortable. I’ll still leave with ear pain and feeling exhausted. With earplugs I’m comfortable right in front of the speaker stack, and leave feeling exhilarated.

They’ve been a huge upgrade in my enjoyment of shows and I’m very grateful to my friend for dragging me to the shop and making me buy them.