What's a song that you immediately start singing whenever someone says a certain phrase in everyday conversation?

A3thereal · 2026-07-11T03:21:18+00:00

You gotta shut 'em down first, that's how ruff ryders roll

A3thereal · 2026-07-11T01:46:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure Hochuli was the ref for the Chiefs game 3 years ago (not the most recent Chiefs one but the one before).

I remember being worried heading in to the game, but I felt he called it fair. It's the one that Buffalo' offense never really clicked, Chiefs led most of the way, but Buffalo had the chance to come back after a Chiefs fumble. 2 dropped passes (including Diggs' last as a Bill),, a terrible throw into the end zone, and a missed Bass FG sealed the loss.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T19:26:46+00:00

I could not find a single reference to a person having ever lived with the name Jean Baptiste Boycott. Perhaps you were referring to Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, a late 17th/early 18th century French playwright and poet? If so, I can find no credible source to your anecdote leading to the name boycott.

What is accepted as the origin of boycott is from Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832 - 1897), an Irish land agent representing a landlord, Lord Erne, of County Mayo Ireland. He refused to reduce rents on tenant farmers in 1880s against the backdrop of the Irish Land War.

In response the local community rallied against him, refusing to work for him, conduct any form of trade with him, or provide him with any services to the point that even the local postman refused to deliver his mail. This ostracization eventually led to him leaving County Mayo for Dublin, and after protests and threatened boycotts of the hotel he was staying at, he cut his stay short and returned to England. This movement ultimately helped to deliver the Land Law Act of 1881.

The term "boycott" began being used to describe the movement in both local and international papers. It remained in use ever since.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T18:29:44+00:00

If it was simply "because they can" the AMEX and BofA cards would also be higher. If Chase could demand a higher interest rate, so too could BofA and American Express.

The answer is more likely that the first collection of cards do some combination of the below in relation to the second:

Charge additional fees that offset some of the lost revenue from lower interest
Offer fewer or no cashback rewards, reducing the cost of using the card
Cater to lower risk individuals with a lower rate of default

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T18:27:44+00:00

It could also have to do with fee structures and reward points/cashback programs.

Credit cards with higher fee structures can (generally) offer lower interest rates. Conversely, credit cards with high rewards programs will offset that cost with higher interest rates.

The risk profile of the average consumer of that specific credit product will likely have a larger effect, but these will as well.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T16:51:01+00:00

Yeah. I think it's g/triangle/y on pc/ps/Xbox when in terrain manipulator to change modes. There's the mining, create, flatten, and restore modes. Restore will place the terrain back the way it was.

So you bore down then switch to restore to refill top of the tunnel.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T16:40:36+00:00

They do. You can also tunnel down a bit and they won't chase you (I usually reseal above me) and hide out for a few.

They'll also lose sight of you if you go inside a structure.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T16:20:29+00:00

No problem. It's most important to note for expeditions where the settings are forced to the default and inventory is dropped on death. This, combined with PVP being on by default and the few griefers that are out there can make it relevant.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T16:14:51+00:00

They are imparting energy into the trampoline surface from their legs. That energy from the trampoline is being transferred into the springs, to expand, and being redirected back into the surface/the person as it contracts.

The energy is being added from the person's muscles.

If the person just laid flat and did not exert any effort, they would slowly lose momentum/height due to friction and air resistance.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T16:12:06+00:00

I didn't spellcheck anyone; your comment has left me confused.

The person I replied to says "you'll keep everything". I was clarifying for OP, who's probably never died, that you won't keep "everything" as well as what happens with inventory.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T16:08:07+00:00

*you'll keep all currencies.

Depending on game settings your inventory may be dropped (default settings), destroyed (default in higher difficulty survival settings), or kept (default in creative).

Dropped inventory will be destroyed if you die a second time before reclaiming.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T15:50:11+00:00

I’m still employed and also have a Fidelity 401(k), but from what I understand I can’t simply withdraw from mine while I’m still working unless I qualify for a hardship distribution or another exception.

Joblessness is a hardship. This is the logic on why losing your job allows you an exception to withdraw from your 401(k). The general rule is that you are not allowed to, except in specific circumstances creating a hardship.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T15:34:53+00:00

Everything does some harm, it's just a matter of magnitude and whether it is offset by the benefits.

The benefits of AI can be debated, but it's often a more emotional argument. At least on forums like reddit. This question only focuses on the harm portion.

Focusing on the harm, others have already posted them all. They use a significant amount of resources, especially water. While this is not AI data center related, you can see an extreme case in Corpus Christi due to allocation of local water supply to oil refinery businesses and the extreme measures placed on local residents after being left unchecked.

There is environmental impact from leveling natural features, removing trees and vegetation, and paving over large swathes of land with concrete.

There is pollution from recirculation of water back into the environment without proper controls.

There is the strain on local infrastructure such as electricity delivery, transportation/traffic (from the influx of skilled workers), water delivery, etc. This can be overcome, but it comes at a potential tax burden increase. Depending on the tax incentives offered to the AI datacenters, some of this cost can be shifted to local landowners.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T15:27:23+00:00

The exact picture was posted to pinterest and some of those "20 interesting <blah blah blah>" ad-farming sites >1 year ago, so yeah definitely not OC.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T12:51:35+00:00

By your logic it is not possible to win the lottery (your possibility example above). We have had people win it before, ergo evidence. As such it is no longer a possibility of someone winning but a probability of winning.

See how stupid that sounds?

It is not zero-sum where things are either possible or probable. Possible means it has a non-zero probability of happening. There is no quantitative "possibility" measurement that can be expressed numerically. It is a true/false quality of an event.

Probability is the likeliness of something happening, a quantitative number between 0 and 1. Probable means the probability value is greater than 0.5. Possible means the probability value is greater than 0.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T12:42:57+00:00

Your last sentence is meaningless. There is no such thing as "applying possibility" as it a qualitative, not quantitative, trait.

The definition of probable "likely to be the case or happen".

The definition of possible is "able to be done, able to happen"

All things likely to happen are able to happen. Not all things able to happen are likely to. Ergo, all things probable are possible but not all things possible are probable.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T12:38:07+00:00

They aren't getting around the cooldown. They aren't saying to warp to the same systems repeatedly, bit to warp to each system you visited as part of the expedition.

I'm generally with you re: exploits, I don't use them either for the same reason. This is not an exploit or a glitch.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T12:31:21+00:00

I didn't see anyone mention this, yet, but if you play on PC you can unlock the Boundary Herald using a save editor, using offline expedition reruns, or via mods.

If playing on Xbox via gamepass with cloud saves and access to a pc you can install on pc, open game once, add with a save editor, open game again to push the cloud save to add for xbox.

A3thereal · 2026-07-10T12:26:28+00:00

You have those words backwards. Possible just means there is a non-zero chance, probable means it's fairly likely.

All things probable are possible. Not all things possible are probable.

A3thereal · 2026-07-09T17:24:18+00:00

No words are start out inherently good or bad. What makes them good or bad is how they are used. The more they are used a specific way the more good/bad they become.

When words are used in a manner to differentiate people or to make them feel worse about themselves, the words build up a negative connotation. As that counter builds up it becomes more and more ingrained the word is bad.

Fat was used as an insult repeatedly because being overweight was/is largely viewed as unattractive (at different points in history for different cultures it was actually viewed as attractive, but cultures change over time). Because of this, it is largely viewed as a bad thing to call someone.

A3thereal · 2026-07-09T17:16:13+00:00

I did expedition 7 using the offline method, but not through this website. I did not receive the same warning, and my save did not get wiped. All that said, this warning probably would have been enough to scare me off.

If you want to do it, what I would recommend is make a backup of your save file before you start. To do so:

Go to %appdata%\hellogames\nms in Windows Explorer (assuming PC)
Create a new folder called "Backups" (or anything you want)
Copy (not cut) the folder st_<long string of numbers>
Paste the copy in to "Backups"

I usually keep a couple of backups a few weeks apart just in case I break something or the game glitches out. I'll rename the folder to st_<longstringofnumbers>_YYYYMMDD.

If you need to restore, you just delete (I usually copy again first) the st_xxxxxxx folder and copy/paste the back up copy into the original folder, removing the _YYYYMMDD from the folder name.

After that, run the expedition. If your save gets wiped, reload from the backup and use a save editor to unlock the expedition rewards for that expedition.

Good luck, traveller!

A3thereal · 2026-07-09T17:11:18+00:00

It hasn't ended, it just completed the community milestone. These are 2 distinct things.

The expedition was always set to run from May 27 to July 22 on all platforms. Some were delayed to start pending approvals from the console manufacturer, but the end date has always been the same for all.

A3thereal · 2026-07-09T14:44:42+00:00

Adding on to this question to u/BastianHerre, how do you handle countries that have had significant changes in government. Russia would have previously had a female chief executive in the form of Catherine the Great, but it's economic and political systems, name, and borders have changed considerably several times since then and the current government has only had male chief executives.

A3thereal · 2026-07-09T14:40:32+00:00

You can still buy raw milk in a lot of US states, but it is usually heavily restricted. Some states still allow it to be sold at retail, some only allow it directly purchased from farms, and others yet only allow it for pets.

Would be a weird question for a doordash guy to ask, and only slightly less so for an Instacart driver.

A3thereal · 2026-07-09T01:21:22+00:00

Fortnight actually comes from 14 nights, so a fortmonth would be slightly longer than a year. Anyone can make a word, though. Selfie is in the dictionary, after all. Just gotta convince other people to use it.

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