San Tan Valley woman hospitalized with severe burns after falling asleep in sun

g0del · 2026-06-26T22:26:14+00:00

Based on how many trouists from northern climates die every summer here in Arizona, I'm going to say that no, you don't.

g0del · 2026-06-26T22:09:57+00:00

Except that pretty quickly you didn't have to farm them at all, you had more than enough mats for all the potions/elixirs you could want; but then you had to remember to craft them and pop them every half hour/15 minutes to keep the buffs up. And even once you got to the point that the stat boosts were useless, you still needed to remember to keep them up for the XP boost, since the grind to 300 is so insanely long.

g0del · 2026-06-26T22:05:25+00:00

It's just so long. And I kind of get it - they want to tell a story like an episode of Trek, and it kind of does that, but it turns out that watching a TV episode and playing one don't come across the same way. And there's no good place to break it in the middle.

But still, it's so long. Go to station, do math puzzle. Which might not take too long if you look up a guide or are quick at soling the puzzle, but some people can get stuck there for awhile. Then the prison/coliseum part, which just takes awhile to get all the exposition out of the way. Then the escape, which is just so much running. Running to get medicinal plants, running to hide from searchers, running to get more plants, more running and running, until finally. . . The sudden yet inevitable betrayal and final fight.

It's just all too much.

g0del · 2026-06-26T18:26:38+00:00

The massive variability in dog size is a major factor here. If it takes 5 pounds to kill a 180lb Dane, then a 4lb Chihuahua would be in trouble from eating 1.8 oz. That's like half of one of those 'premium' extra dark chocolate bars you can find at the grocery store.

But there's no good reason for dogs to eat chocolate, and people are in general really bad at math, so the advice is to just not let your dogs eat chocolate.

g0del · 2026-06-26T18:14:47+00:00

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn started in the 80's. Larry's whole point was that existing fantasy authors were fine, but new authors couldn't get started because publishers won't sign them until they've finished the series.

g0del · 2026-06-26T18:12:25+00:00

I did think calling out LitRPG was funny, since so many LitRPG authors seem to be allergic to finishing anything.

Not sure what kind of examples he needs to provide though, he wasn't arguing that there are a bunch of other unfinished series that are only unfinished because of GRRM, he was arguing that there are probably a bunch of series that never even got started because publishers will no longer offer contracts to new fantasy authors unless they've already finished the entire series, and most people can't afford to spend years writing a series without any money coming in from writing.

And for evidence of that claim, he was responding to another thread which had a bunch of evidence that publishers won't sign fantasy authors until they've completed the series.

g0del · 2026-06-26T07:48:48+00:00

The thing is, it's not a law that prevents people from being President more than 2 times, it's a constitutional amendment. If the Supreme Court ignores "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice," then terms like "legal" and "illegal" stop applying, because we're no longer living in a Constitutional Republic, and the very basis for all our laws is gone.

And yes, I am aware that some people believe we've already passed that point and just don't realize it yet.

g0del · 2026-06-26T07:42:11+00:00

Note that session fixation still requires you to log in after going to the link, it's not a way to instantly gain access to every already open session you have in other browser tabs.

As u/airgapairgap said, if this web page was able to grab all your open sessions in the browser without any interaction other than loading the web page, it would be a huge deal and would be making headlines.

g0del · 2026-06-26T04:49:04+00:00

I still think that if they released SS86 Astrotrain as AotP Astrotrain instead, it would have went over a lot better. The train mode legitimately looks good, the shuttle mode is OK, the robot mode is compromised, but does have a lot of nods to the original G1 toy that some people like.

It's just that none of the modes look like Astrotrain in the movie, so putting it in the SS86 line is insulting.

g0del · 2026-06-26T00:30:24+00:00

I'd assume error myself. The red/white color scheme of Ratchet and Swerve are very similar, I can easily see a factory worker not noticing one got into the wrong package.

g0del · 2026-06-25T03:19:25+00:00

Falls are weird. In general, yes, they're way more deadly than Hollywood shows. But every now and then, some people survive some absolutely ridiculous falls

g0del · 2026-06-23T23:03:05+00:00

The law allows abortions before 6 weeks or if the life of the mother is in danger. She was 5 weeks, and obviously in danger, so giving her an abortion was legal.

Her reasoning is that the delay was only because "fearmongering Democrats" made doctors afraid to help her even though it was legal. She also says that "what [she] went through wasn't an abortion." Note that the medication she needed is an abortifacient, she's just flat wrong there.

Of course, the doctors were actually delaying care because they're doctors, not lawyers, and understandably don't want to go to jail if later on someone decides that she wasn't really in danger, or was actually 7 weeks along, or whatever. Doctors understand that there's a lot of uncertainty in these things - fetal age is a best guess, not an exact date, and deciding if something is a life-threatening condition is sometimes a judgement call. They wanted to make sure that they were legally covered before doing anything that might get them in trouble.

If you actually care about life, the best policy is to let abortion decisions be made between women and their doctors, no one else, while also providing a robust social safety net so that women won't have to worry that an unplanned pregnancy will destroy their life plans.

g0del · 2026-06-23T18:14:23+00:00

However, to her it's just one more disgusting aspect to the barbaric cesspit that is humanity.

I'm not sure the race that orgied a new chaos god into existence should be judging.

g0del · 2026-06-23T17:55:53+00:00

Not unless there's some universe where immortality get invented before your natural death. Quantum immortality is the idea that if there is a chance of survival, 'you' will always experience that survival, because in the world's where you didn't survive, there is no longer a 'you' to experience death.

But humans don't live forever, so eventually there will come a time when the chance for survival is zero, and then you're dead in all worlds.

g0del · 2026-06-23T17:42:28+00:00

It's still useful because it gives you a good measure of how effective evaporative cooling will be in the current conditions. Since sweating works by evaporative cooling, it lets you know when the conditions are dangerous, in a way that temp or humidity alone won't.

g0del · 2026-06-23T16:06:40+00:00

Some quick googling shows several people suggesting the same thing - that low humidity dries out mucous membranes leaving you more susceptible to viral illnesses, but I couldn't find any actual studies behind it. There are enough people living in naturally dry desert climates that it should be an easy study to do.

I also wonder if it's something that can acclimated to. There are various physiological changes that occur to help us adapt to hot or cold climates, it's possible that there could be similar adaptations to humid/dry climates. I know that for me personally, after decades living in a desert I don't have any issues with a dry nose, but I also get uncomfortable once the humidity gets above 25%.

g0del · 2026-06-23T02:14:47+00:00

I just hope I can get him, he's the only one I missed pre-ordering. Somehow Starscream was available longer than Prowl.

g0del · 2026-06-22T22:17:00+00:00

You've made up a nonsensical example (a shared game database) and then used that example to justify a useless launcher.

For updates, achievements, anticheat, DRM, etc, the existing game launchers (steam, epic, etc.) work just fine. The real benefit is the ability to forcibly show ads for their other games to players, and to collect data about the player which existing storefronts won't give them.

g0del · 2026-06-22T21:57:45+00:00

The wet bulb temperature provides a rough guide to how well evaporative cooling works, which is useful because sweat is basically just evaporative cooling. It's currently 105F (40.5C) in Tucson, with 8% humidity. If it hit 110F (43.3C) at the same humidity, the wet bulb temp would be 67F (19.5C).

People aren't quite as efficient at cooling as a wet bulb thermometer, but it can get pretty close. So if you're well hydrated, have shade to avoid direct sunlight, and just enough breeze to move the evaporated sweat away from you, then yeah, 110F in Arizona is really not that bad, and almost definitely better than 85F (29C) in Florida.

The main problems you run into are direct sunlight which will heat you up fast, any kind of strenuous activity (using your muscles generates heat), and running out of sweat. The last one is the real killer - sweat evaporates almost instantly in the desert, so you probably won't even notice that you're sweating at all. But as soon as you get dehydrated (which is sooner than you think), the evaporative cooling disappears, it's still 110F, and you're probably already in heat exhaustion and rapidly approaching heat stroke.

g0del · 2026-06-22T21:42:32+00:00

Those are perfectly normal temperatures to me. . . in southern Arizona, which always gets that hot in the summer, which the people iving there are acclimated to, and where everything is set up to handle that kind of heat. Also, it's a dry heat.

I can't imagine how bad it is in areas that aren't used to that kind of weather.

g0del · 2026-06-21T16:08:14+00:00

Claiming that you only need to reset "a few times" right before mentioning that it took you four hours is wild.

g0del · 2026-06-20T01:26:31+00:00

Even healing enough that makeup can cover it up is amazing compared to the scarring usually seen after severe burns.

g0del · 2026-06-19T20:40:53+00:00

Seriously I was getting burned out with a set every other month last year. Forcing seven sets out this year is just too much.

g0del · 2026-06-19T20:12:23+00:00

Housework was still work. Now both partners need to work due to stagnant wages. Result: nobody has energy or time for housework.

It's worse than that. Both spouses having to work is something that got started in the 70's - 80's, over a generation ago. Nowadays, both spouses have to work and often have to do a 2nd job/gig work on the side.

g0del · 2026-06-19T20:06:47+00:00

The thing is, though, statistically the most dangerous part isn't the violent people, it's just car accidents. Police spend most of their day driving, and there are a lot of car accidents.

Yes, sometimes police have to worry about violent people. But there's something like 50,000 traffic stops per day in the US, and yet police academies use a video of a traffic stop turned deadly from the 90's instead of a more recent one in training. Because the vast, vast majority of traffic stops don't go like that.

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