Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@wallhackio M wants to know why there isn’t just a mod you can download for this

@sissi possibly related, in that nicotine is an appetite suppressant?

@ljwrites @JessMahler semi relatedly, in that this is often my complaint about misunderstanding plots (though it can also come up in other situations) is i really don’t particularly enjoy stories where the expectation is a HEA/HFN and yet one is left with the ominous certainty that while this *particular* conflict has been resolved, a near identical one is likely to pop up five minutes from now because no one’s bothered learning anything from the first one

this is perhaps why i love pride and prejudice despite generally considering myself to dislike misunderstanding plots—resolving the misunderstandings doesn’t actually solve anything! genuine efforts to improve their own characters that are driven by resolving those misunderstandings is what actually drives the resolution.

@wallhackio yes

@Betty @duinath or he was gonna make beaver hats out of the prepared pelts but just never got around to it for whatever reason and then his grand were like “well I don’t know how to make a hat out of this, and also he gave every single one of us a hat for our tenth birthday anyway”

@duinath @Betty maybe PA just has too many taxidermy freaks because this still seems pretty plausible to me as donation material 😅

@duinath @Betty i have some family members who help run a small community museum@and the sheer amount of crap in the world is just boggling. If you express even a whisper of an interest you can get a hundred china cabinets for the cost of having a truck to pick them all up with

@duinath @Betty sure but if its a well known enough org then you can get thirty grandmas old furs and now you’ve got a room with ninety mink stoles in it

@Betty people cleaning out their grandparents estates

@aschmitz @wallhackio generally i recommend aiming for something better than “probably survivable”

@wallhackio getting you addicted to nicotine is probably actually one of the safer interventions when it comes to parkinsons ( dopamine agonists are notorious for their unsettling side effects: https://theamericanscholar.org/the-degradation-drug/ ) but if i did not have parkinsons i would see something being an effective treatment for it as a reason NOT to do the thing as that implies pretty radical changes to ones brain chemistry and neurological functioning that i do not currently want or need

@wallhackio do you guys know someone with parkinson’s or alzheimer’s or is she under the mistaken impression that things which are good for two diseases that have incredibly unusual impacts on how the brain works are good for people generally?

@wallhackio what

@twistylittlepassages good luck with your Spanish endeavors!

@twistylittlepassages good luck! another spanish specific suggestion is https://personal.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.html

the prof hasn’t uploaded the actual lectures / readings so its short on context but the exercises are good if you want a little extra practice in some area

@twistylittlepassages spanish only but i have been meaning to check out https://librelingo.app

also as a supplement to actual learning sites, is this community translation resource: https://tatoeba.org/en/