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I don't know, I feel like the agency you get from it being a game was pretty important to the message and philosophy to me, and so was the length. Having to pick dialogue options really makes you think about what's going on more, and for me at least I tend to treat the main character as sort of a projection of myself, which ups the emotional stakes.

Perhaps some mindfulness therapy. Remind yourself how glad you are you don't see Fr*nch people in the mirror.

“We’ve been comfortable for a long time now,” said viewer Leon Yu, 43-year-old semiconductor industry professional, adding Taiwan’s freedom and democracy must be kept.

“There’s still a lot of people out there burying their head in the sand and don’t want to face the dangers of the present.”

Yeah, that about says it, globally.

I've been trying to learn German for a while, making slow progress since I'm unfortunately stuck in the US so I can't be immersed. I just wanted to mention reading this was actually really great for me to help build and reinforce my vocab as a beginner - having the English translation right there is super helpful, and your art style is a great hook to get my brain interested and active. So thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States

In 2009, Congress increased it to $7.25 per hour with the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007.

Man, I had to stop reading this one partway through. It's just too depressing and overwhelming.

It's got that Taskmaster filming location vibe

I think the specific thing they're pointing out is how they say "recently" even though they're always in a weird place.

This is the normal way to talk about changes in deficits and surpluses in English, and it’s not ambiguous, although it may look that way initially. In everyday speech, a “deficit” already means a shortfall or a negative amount. When we say a “surging deficit,” we mean the size of that shortfall is increasing. We generally treat deficits as only positive or zero (never negative), and if it flips, we call it a “surplus” instead.

The phrase that's been rolling around my head is "credible threat of violence".

There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

electroweak unification

Oh, that's easy! Just take your understanding of how spontaneous symmetry breaking works in QCD, apply it to the Higgs field instead, toss in the Higgs mechanism, and suddenly SU(2) × U(1) becomes electromagnetism plus weak force!

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