I find myself pulling in things from all over the place. Worlds Beyond Number has great generator tables to build adventures from, and Dangerous Destinations etc are great for scaffolding locations on the fly. I also use the interlinking utility of OneNote for my GM notes, which helps a lot in my sandbox games to remember who did what, where, why, etc.

Dr Angela Collier has done a video essay on why aliens won’t be silicon-based. She’s not a biologist but an astrophysicist but the focus of her video is mostly about how carbon chemistry and cosmic abundance is better suited to producing life.

Biden is still the president

The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.

Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.

The economy is all vibes anyways so if enough rich people decide it’s time for a stock crash it’ll happen

The GOP is just as much a big tent as the Dems but there’s a bigger fraction of rabid hogs that can’t cooperate on anything but blocking actions, so we’ll see

Arkankansasas

It originates with chapo trap house podcast iirc

No, there’s a significant amount of oil infrastructure locally. They’ve even got a colonialist extension with Canada: crude oil crosses over to be refined and sold back to Canada

There is more urgency to find alternative revenue sources

What revenue, they’re a government

Gin specifically has a long and torrid history as the Drink That Brings Men Low, with propaganda pieces about the dangers of gin specifically, not alcohol generally. The UK Gin Craze was a full blown moral panic

At least AI is a nonstarter and we’ve reached the part of the bubble where they’re trying to cram it in everywhere possible to try and figure out a way to break even on the cost. AI is $600 billion in the hole

Good vapes don’t get hot enough to be harmful and don’t contain combustion products. Really good vapes have as little as possible besides the concentrate

Every time I’ve done shrooms I’ve been stuck awake for hours with my brain full of angry bees that won’t shut up

Same, it’s lost something important

Is that independent people hawking drop shipped garbage or is it people working in marketing more generally?

Technical aptitude is born of need. Of course this will limit most, but at least some will figure out bypasses.

“We’re putting a moratorium on doing any space science with you, we will never cooperate.”

“Ok, we’ll make our own space station then. By the way, we just brought back some moon rocks from our moon return mission.”

“Oh cool! Please share them with us. We’re not making an exception to the moratorium and will not share whatever we learn with you. Fuck you.”

“Nah we’re not gonna do that.”