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@alis distressingly plausible — and it incentivizes them improving their benefits packages because they have to pretend to loose against the the next rescue mission anytime someone wants out (which is fun in moderation! but a lot more work than just winning if you’re trying to keep casualties down)

@alis split the difference and still do kidnappings but you only take the people on the signup sheet

its such a hassle kidnapping people who are going to say no, then you have to figure out how to put them back!

@alis you could probably even skip the kidnappings and just have a signup form if the muffins and comprehensive health and childcare policies were good enough

@packetcat sodas originally evolved from “health tonics” where the presence of stimulants was the main point (sometimes much stronger ones than the caffeine + sugar combo of modern sodas!) Eg. the cola in coca-cola comes from the name of the kola nut (which has a high caffeine content and had originally been popularized in Europe & the Americas through those aforementioned health tonics). Early soda advertising was quite similar to that of the older health tonics, putting a high emphasis on the stimulant-containing ingredients they used and their “invigorating” nature.

So kind of the real question is why we got so obsessed with making something who’s main point was being a questionable health drink chock full of stimulants delicious enough that a subset of the market wants to drink it completely stimulant free (a trend which is also evidenced with tea and coffee tbf)

@The_T margo blames whatever library they’re using for json decoding, which apparently commonly default to windows if there’s no encoding specified

@The_T ~legacy systems~ presumably tho i agree thats much weirder for an android app than desktop

@The_T Windows-1252 decoding alert 😂

@gaditb that sounds interesting, almost like an echolocation sim!

@gaditb is minimally-multi about the number of players per server or the amount of potential interaction between players do you think?

@gaditb minimal/no js and styling should straightforwardly reflect the semantic tag structure of the page but it doesn’t need to be monospace or b&w

@RachelThornSub yeah ours are computer fan style, in part bc the square filters are so hard to get and that lets you use whatever size/shape of filter is easiest to get but maybe doesn’t fully meet the “cheap” criteria in terms of up front cost (i mean, in comparison to a hepa air purifier they’re still much cheaper but the fans definitely cost a bit more than the cheapest box fan)

@alis and it introduces more failure points for no reason too

sooo evil and gross

@SocialGaff looks kind of pumpkiny — does it have a firm rind or just a thin skin?

@alis we’re running into this with dishwashers rn like, i am going to have to go down there and physically put the soap in and close the door, even if i don’t want it to start immediately why can’t i just use a regular delayed start, a feature which has existed for ages??? this is such an unnecessary complication to a solved issue

@alis its esp weird because i feel like summary then quote used to be the more common order too??

@transfemwulian the guqin is a fun choice! gives you a big scale to work with AND you can do chords so theres lots of options

also, they sound really pretty

@transfemwulian not to derail into a different fandom but it occurs to me this is basically how inquiry works in mdzs

@pho4cexa in the sewing communities defense, both of these terms predate the slurs by several hundred years