If they are actively going for a 4th, then he’s done something right. Raising 3 kids, with an unhelpful husband would be enough to put most women off having a 4th. Hell, even with a helpful husband!

It’s on steam. The challenge levels are great for learning about weird moves and tactics.

Bishops are terrifying in that game. I’ve lost more than a few to a retrograde checkmate.

For those confused, bishops step through 2 dimensions at a time. In a normal chess game, that is X&Y, making them move diagonally. In 5D chess it can be X &T, letting it check a king in the past. Since a king in the past can’t move, it’s a checkmate.

Mice used to have a mechanical ball in the bottom. You needed to remove it periodically to clean out the gunk that formed on the rollers. When optical mice appeared, they steadily replaced the old style. It became an IT joke. Mice with balls were male. Optical mice were female.

Old stock, or is someone still making them?

Computer mice is an area where females have completely displaced males.

I’ve not seen a male mouse at work in a long time.

Older PCs couldn’t always boot from CD. In those cases, you needed a boot disk. It had just enough OS to get the cd drive working and allow for a full install. They also allowed for basic repair or maintenance tasks e.g. resizing the windows partition.

Veterans kept a couple about at home. Nothing like the catch 22. “I need a boot disk to fix my PC/I need my PC to make a boot disk.”

You would still have that issue when trying to inject commands into the fibre.

You also don’t need to target the fibre directly. Just sweep the area with enough focused power to burn one out.

Defocusing would be the biggest range limiter. You could likely get 100m+ with the right setup, and keep it drone mountable. Not ideal, but potentially viable.

The actual power to cut the fibre would be a lot lower than you think.

Assuming a 100um thick fibre, ant heating a 5cm length, it’s a volume mass of around 10e-7kg. That would take about 1.5J (not kJ) to melt.

The catch is whether you can find an efficient enough laser, that outputs at a frequency the glass is opaque to.

We now get milk in glass bottles (extra plus, it tastes FAR better than supermarket milk). We are also trying to phase out plastic use where we can. IKEA is actually remarkably useful for that. They have a lot of glass or wooden kitchen stuff.

I’m also careful to avoid “perfect is the enemy of good” situations. I’m not plastic free, just changing what can be changed without huge disruptions.

I would much rather a FOSS option, that is difficult to tap into. The other option is people using proprietary setups that can be data mined without the user’s knowledge.

Its a classic “perfect is the enemy of good” situation.

Recycling is the final reasonable option, not the first.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

The scam is in the material choices.

Metal and Glass are easy to recycle. It’s also cost and environmentally effective. Particularly with reuse of glass bottles.

Paper can also be recycled. It can also be composted with food waste.

Plastics are the big problem. They can’t easily be recycled, and the resultant plastic is low quality. Any more than 20% remelt is considered unreliable. The only viable options are landfill or incineration.

Recycling plastics is basically a scam. It shifts the blame onto consumers, letting big companies pocket the savings over glass or (waxed) paper containers.

TSA luggage keys are a good counter example.

In theory, only you and airport security can open your case. In practice, you can pick them up off eBay for next to nothing.

The point is that the reasonable null hypothesis is flat. It’s the starting point, before you apply the scientific methods.

It’s quite simple to disprove that however, particularly if you have access to an ocean, or large body of water.

I’ll admit I have marginally more trust in steam for ages verification than a lot of the other options.

As a parent of a small child, I’m very impressed with the options available via steam. Just the fact I can let them play games from my personal library surprised me. I don’t need to buy them a copy.

The gambling thing is definitely something that needs addressing. It’s one of the few black marks I have against valve.

As others have said, you likely have S.A.D. Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Basically, what remains of our hibernation instincts kick in. They want you to eat, stay warm and hidden, while conserving energy. Unfortunately, this is not conducive to modern life!

You basically need to trick your body into accepting its summer.

• Vitamin D helps a lot, though not always on its own.

• Bright, full spectrum light. Normally sold as SAD daylight therapy lamps. Do not skimp on the lumens!

• Heat. A radiant heater, matched with the Light does well. Together, they trick your brain into thinking it’s a good day to be out. Also try and avoid sustained cold, if you can. (Be VERY careful if you put a radiant heater on a timer. They can be a MAJOR fire risk, e.g. with a t-shirt too close from the night before.)

• Good sleep hygiene. Avoid blue light etc around bedtime. Also keep a stable wake time, even if you don’t technically need to that day.

I suspect this would change a bit, if you separate serial killers from mass shooters.

Serial killers need to plan out what they are doing, to not get caught. They can often hide behind a mask of charisma.

Mass shooters fit this quite well. It’s also the exact behaviour I would expect from someone trapped in an untenable situation. The pressure builds until something happens. In a few of those people, it is via anger and rage against those they feel wronged them.

1 group is likely naturally broken, to some degree. The other is broken by modern society.

While china has a lot of issues, I’ve been impressed by their efforts on electric cars and renewables.

I’ve fixed this several times with a bit of thick tape. It wasn’t actually the button that had worn down, but the plastic stub that pressed it. A bit of extra material kept each working for months/years after.

My current mouse has this fix over a year back, and is still working reliably.

In an ideal world, you have conservatives and revolutionaries. The revolutionaries want to make changes to try and make things even better. The conservatives act to maintain the status quo. When they balance properly then you get steady change, but slow enough to detect and fix cascading problems/failures.

In this situation, the centralists act as the balance point, being swayed one way or the other to set the path.

Unfortunately the only place this is actually close to accurate is Sci-Fi novels.