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What kind of updates are they posting on X and what is the propaganda?

A stated core purpose of the second amendment is for ordinary people to be able to keep a government in check by force or threat of force.

Some people view the actions of ICE, like in this article, to be crossing a line that would normally provoke a response from second amendment types.

Yes, of course there's the financial performance of a studio and then the identity of a studio that people get attached to.

I didn't get into Blizzard games because they were a financial powerhouse, I got into them because they were fun as hell and the identity of Blizzard at the time gave me faith that their next release would be just as fun. That faith started deteriorating around 2005/6 for me, and was gone within a month or so of SC2 releasing. The identity of Blizzard of the 90s and early 2000s that I fell in love with was gone by 2010.

I can go into more detail about the shortcomings of all of the games from 2010 on (IMO, obviously), but the overall point is that they are fundamentally different than their older games and might as well have been from a different studio.

The book Careless People paints a picture of Zuck & Co that should cause anyone to hesitate to touch any of their products. It's a shame so much of the world runs on WhatsApp. It's a bigger shame that they were ever allowed to acquire WhatsApp in the first place.

I like Jason Schreier's take that the end of Blizzard began as soon as WoW blew up in popularity.

"Imagine a Blizzard that never made or never found the success they did with WoW and continued on the path of boxed releases every couple years."

I did find myself rather salty back then that it felt like Blizzard abandoned anything outside of WoW until 2010. WoW wasn't something I ever grew an interest in, yet I played an absurd amount of SC and WC3. Then SC2 was a huge miss for me, as well as every game after it.

And his potential pay for the next 3 years is in that range as well. Was 2025 specifically a cherry-picked off year for him? Or is the $10.5m simply false?

It is slightly acidic, so it can still be used to rinse away most "acidic" foods and drinks and be better off. And it's probably always better than leaving sugar in your mouth.

I'm not sure how common it is, but I almost always drink water after coffee.

Do you have room to put up a fence away from the treeline?

Try to build an understanding of which foods/drinks are acidic, and always have them with something that can wash your mouth out right away. Or reduce/stop having them.

Then also build an understanding of which foods/drinks are sugary, and similarly have them with something that can wash your mouth our right away, because sugary things sitting in your mouth makes your mouth acidic. Even more than acidic stuff, try to reduce how much you consume. In US grocery stores at least, it is incredible how much sugar is dumped into everything, and there seem to be general health benefits to reducing sugar intake.

I'm not sure how this applies to things that break down into sugar (carbs). I don't think they start breaking down until they're being digested, but I'm not positive on that.

But yea, overall it's fairly simple. Minimize the time your mouth is acidic based on what you eat and drink by washing it out soon after having anything that makes it acidic. If you have sticky stuff that doesn't dissolve or wash out easily, brush/floss afterwards. It's all about minimizing the duration.

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I have no idea if drinking alkaline water can help at all. Kinda makes sense? Hot water seems to do the trick for me though, just dissolve/wash out the sugars/acids. Anywhere alkaline water will reach, hot water will reach as well, and almost everyone has access to hot water.

I don't have enough sample size to say this is a rule, but a potential strategy is:

Shop around for dental insurance that has good coverage at a low price and find a place nearby, with good reviews, that happily takes that insurance.

The reasoning is that it's fairly easy to do, and it excludes most dentists that are attempting to maximize revenue. You don't need a spa-like guest treatment, or awkward fake family friendliness, etc. You just need someone who is qualified and fine performing their services at a comfortable level of payment.

Makes you feel mighty stupid when you realize the sort of "luxury" place you were going that only accepted an insurance plan that climbed towards $37/mo actually provided worse overall dental services than a place that accepts a (higher-coverage!) $16/mo plan. No, they don't try to put on a facade of being "family". No, their waiting room isn't quite as nice. The cars outside aren't as fancy. But they're more to-the-point about dentistry and the whole thing feels like a more "normal" transaction.

I went my entire childhood and into early 20s before a new (to me) hygienist explained that most tooth decay is essentially an integral of PH level. The accumulation of how acidic your mouth is and for how long. They also explained that avoiding acidic foods and drinks is not enough, because bacteria that feeds on sugar produces an acidic byproduct. I adjusted my behavior based on that (consume way less sugar, and when having anything sugary or acidic, have it with hot water/tea/coffee) and my dental visits changed entirely since then.

What do people do for search results nowadays? That's the one area where I find my ability to persist declining. I used to be able to use ddg and/or google and find quality results fairly reliably. Now, unless I already know the specific site that I want to search for, the results are filled with garbage. I get frustrated after a few minutes of going through garbage LLM-generated sites, and reach out for an LLM myself to ask or perform the search for me.

I've tried blocking specific sites from search results, but it's an unwinnable battle.

Leading company calls for regulation: "They just want to build their moat." (inexplicably)

Trailing company calls for regulation: "They just want time to catch up."

I was checking openrouter a few days ago to see if they provided that information yet. Would be a really nice breakdown to have under total task price. Doesn't map to every task, but averages would still be nice.

For Anthropic's reported benchmark numbers for Sonnet 5.5, when running terminal-bench 4.0, they had a comparison between $0.10 and $0.20 cache read for total task cost. That 50% cost reduction resulted in a 20.9-26.2% total cost reduction. Pretty specific though... single benchmark, model, harness, and provider. Cache reads make up ~42-52% of the total cost at the standard $0.20 price.

I have a B7 from 2017 with a similar usage pattern as yours and it still presents movies and shows wonderfully. I think most people use theirs quite a lot more though.