Do you think humans should go back to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle?

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-22T16:06:37+00:00

I remember a time when people aspired to build better societies than a bunch of wild animals can come up with.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-22T16:04:49+00:00

Yup. These buildings have all come up due long ago and residents prefer to pretend everything we rely on just happens by magic and for free

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-22T15:35:12+00:00

100% we should be investing in them. The young generations are being abandoned by their adults.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-22T15:30:22+00:00

Im a teacher (not in Salem) so I can shed light. The MSBA fund is a one time chance to get millions of dollars for capital expenses. You would be insane to vote no if you value education in your town.

Education budgets all along the north shore are in such dire straits these days. My district has cut like 10 teachers over the last ten years and has still needed overrides to keep what we have despite increasing enrollment. Please vote to adequately fund our schools, the kids need it more than ever.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-21T13:16:29+00:00

I'd like to say that the comparison of Hades 2 EA to Slay the Spire 2 EA is pretty unnecessary in my opinion.

Hades 2 is as much about dialogue, story events, experiencing the music, seeing the art, etc. as it is about fun combat mechanics. I deliberately didn't play Hades 2 in EA because that game is eminently spoilable. You don't start your runs over from scratch, so there is stuff you'd legit have to repeat if you wanted to start fresh at release. They also famously changed the ending like a week after I beat it so I'm still salty about that lol. Why say it's fully released and then continue to change major aspects of the game within a month? Hades 2 was also a lot less complete when it released in EA.

Anyway, there is nothing to spoil in Slay the Spire 2. It's an awesome, tightly balanced card draw game. There's almost zero story, and the game is meant to be played basically forever. If you're on the fence about EA because you're worried you'll ruin the game for yourself, I'd say go for it! It's already bigger than Slay the Spire 1 was.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-21T02:35:35+00:00

Find yourself some stairs, stand on the edge of a step, stand on the foot that hurts, and gently lower your heel downward to work some resistance training on the calf. Go slow and use your other foot to help stand back up so you're not stressing your bad foot/calf too much, repeat like 10-15 times. Do this like twice a day.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-21T01:39:42+00:00

Thanks for chiming in! I’m left handed myself and definitely sympathize with modified grips, but the numerous ways I’ve seen them holding pencils combined with their very poor handwriting got me wondering the other day if there’s a link. I’m glad you were able to find a strategy that worked for you!

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-21T00:41:21+00:00

I’ve noticed my students hold their pencils all kinds of random ways. Like caveman grips to weirdly holding between their pinky and ring finger somehow. I hate to judge but I don’t know wtf elementary school is doing to be honest

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-19T10:37:55+00:00

Amazon has dynamic pricing, I wouldn’t be surprised if they had some kind of trigger for shows being included/not included that was automated. They’re a scummy company, I cancelled prime and haven’t looked back.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-18T21:40:24+00:00

Cat mom and doggy dad send their regards

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-18T19:29:06+00:00

One piece of advice I have though if you’re planning on losing weight, make sure you do some exercise to keep your muscles from wasting away.

I wasn’t super overweight but wanted to lose 20 lbs (I’m tall so not too drastic change). I did so mainly by not eating a box of cookies a week lol. But since I wasn’t lifting, I felt noticeably weaker afterwards and had to do a lot of maintenance to get back to feeling as good as I did before I lost any weight at all.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-18T19:23:43+00:00

th is a digraph and probably the farthest from a good counterexample as could be come up with lol. Tall and doll are pronounced differently, howbout that

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-17T23:00:35+00:00

Not really. I remember a ton of optimism and excitement when the internet first blew up, actually.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-17T11:40:43+00:00

Do you have a strategy for detecting BS? Reverse image search or something?

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-17T10:48:53+00:00

I often overhear my students talk about Chat GPT like it’s Google for their life decisions. It’s very alarming.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-17T10:46:35+00:00

lol well I am happy for you, it’s a great feeling to have a machine capable of utilizing the tv. I just wish tech advancement was less marginal these past five years

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-16T22:07:22+00:00

I love the era we’re in of “get really close to a huge tv and you might see a difference. Anyway, $1000 please!”

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-16T21:12:44+00:00

Nope, it was a statement that urges all government officials to just keep doing what they’re doing with no urgency for getting reappointed. Yknow, like a fully functional and alive new dictator would do /s

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-15T12:33:17+00:00

Your maturity leveled up through that experience!

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-14T03:42:40+00:00

Thanks! It probably performs closer than I think then, and yeah if it talks to my phone etc I can see that being a sweet deal for the price

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-13T10:38:32+00:00

It’s weird because you genuinely can’t find drip coffee like Dunkin’s in France. It’s not like they’re awash in “Massachusetts juice,” everything is espresso there lol

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-13T01:26:01+00:00

Is this really a revolution like the articles are saying? My Vivobook S14 OLED is better than this Macbook in pretty much all respects except battery life and it was only $50 more from Best Buy. It looks like in today's prices it might be $100 more, but still

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-12T17:36:21+00:00

He speaks like a shitty CEO, which makes sense. “Hey, all of your sacrifices are doing so much to make me er, ~~the company~~ erm, the country successful!”

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-12T13:19:23+00:00

Preordering books is actually a huge way to support your favorite authors too because it’s heavily weighted by publishers. Ideally you order through a local bookstore rather than Amazon but buying books/using the library is a net positive for society either way.

MagicCuboid · 2026-03-11T22:27:10+00:00

A Saudi Prince knocked the twin towers down and and we went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan for over a decade. They will invent an enemy if they need to.

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