It's like asking "what makes a person unable to walk?" Arthritis, paralysis, muscle wasting, MS, Parkinson's, a broken bone, an amputated foot... some are temporary, some are permanent.

Walking is hard, even though most of us can do it. Forming memories is similarly hard.

So adding an additional "-es" that can be "-ehhs" or "-iz" gives at least six possible pronunciations.

Many mummies were also made cruelly rather than respectfully. The Maori mummified the fallen as trophies of war. The Inca would leave sacrifices to be mummified by the mountain ice.

So yes, somebody who dies in a derelict building and dries out is a mummy.

I'm reading through the requirements and this is a serious piece of plumbing, expensive to install at home.

But it has such a purifying ritual function that I think showing up at a communal mikva'ot with a toaster would be awkward.

Does everybody expect that some people will have toasters? You take out your dental bridge and your earrings, trim your nails and your calluses, pick up the toaster and walk on in?

These facilities mostly resemble nice spas.

I'm not mocking the belief here, just curious what it's like as a human participating. If I were trying to purify a toaster I'd pour deionized water into a rubber tub but I gather that doesn't count.

Edit:

To answer my own question, it looks like communal mikva'ots are built with separate sections similar to a sink just for the immersion of things like dishes and toasters and don't require as much personal cleaning, so that's simple and human. As these things usually are.

"The Art of Sierra" was started something like 15 years ago and it's been 9 years since their last facebook post. The project is totally dead but they still have all that priceless memorabilia.

Dale Disharoon/DeSharone had an odd insight into textures. Look at the ladders. Look at the vines, both those that can be climbed and those that can be cut with a "trencher beak". Look at the way the trees evoke growing wood. The visuals are much more evocative than should be possible at this resolution.

Dale also did a Disney-licensed Apple II game based on "The Jungle Book" which is similar in character to "Below the Root" and a game based on "Alice in Wonderland". Both are strange and mystical and full of odd vines that remind me of the patterns left by the cellular automaton "Langton's Ant".

All Dale's games were unfair and opaque but that was the state of the art.

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Just logged in, there's nothing left.

I remember being so annoyed I hadn't signed up a few weeks earlier and gotten a 5-digit instead.

Their children suffer for it, of course.

Having a child doesn't fix anybody. Suggesting that it does, through necessity, is nearly the stupidest thing an adult can say.

I would suggest (re)watching Groundhog's Day.

After that I would suggest taking up a hobby that involves actual progress. Music, sketching, dance. Something you can really fail at and that isn't practical.

Cooking and running are practical self-care. Some people elevate them to the level of achievement but you aren't experiencing that satisfaction or drive there.

Reading is just media consumption.

Pick something you can't do but that you wish you could do. Try to become non-shitty at it. Rinse and repeat until something clicks.

Set a schedule. Practice the guitar once a week.

It won't necessarily be a purpose. Most people don't find a purpose, they just arrange a useful set of dopamine pumps that satisfies them. That's enough for a primate, especially in recovery.

Our lives don't mean anything. We're stuck in a pyramid scheme where the only "meaning" is to have a kid and hope the kid finds a purpose. The kid has the same problem so they procreate. Ad infinitum, ad absurdum.

Searching for purpose is futile. Searching for satisfaction has a chance.

Procedural generation has always been Bethesda's goal. They pre-cooked the generation for a while instead of doing it real-time in pursuit of quality. They're just returning to their roots.

It presents the possibility that a woman might just want to have sex, and that not trying to buy her with gifts might be a welcome reprieve from constantly having to negotiate.

The only "pickup artist" trick in the book is that he stops trying to offer women drinks as a social opener. He stops thinking that buying a woman a drink is an exchange that contributes to his chance of bedding her.

This is creepy? Not offering to intoxicate a woman in order to sleep with her is the problem?

At the end of the chapter he says something like "I never tried that again, but it certainly was interesting."

That always struck me as sad. He'd taken a step out into the world where women had agency and he gave in to the cultural pressure to step back.

I'm only addressing the book here. These other questions of behaving well with respect to students or anger are beyond my knowledge.

The Cruise car failed to yield, continued at a green light, and was struck by the fire truck. So presumably it did not detect the truck.

It is sad that automated cars are being asked to detect emergency vehicles at all.

A system that signals the location of any actively flashing vehicles to all nearby automated cars is technically achievable. It should have been one of the first steps in the development of any of this technology.

Unfortunately it requires careful coordination between many different entities so it hasn't happened.

Edit: Rarely have I had a comment so misinterpreted. I am not excusing Cruise in any way. This is a major design failure for the entire industry.

For clarity, automated cars should be required to have a rock-solid radio-based system that is aware of the position of any nearby emergency vehicle.

All emergency vehicles should have a transponder to signal their location to automated cars.

There's no reason to be relying on visual detection of flashing lights for a fire truck. A fire truck costs most of a million dollars and a transponder is not an expensive requirement.

There should be a standard for radio frequency announcement before automated cars are rolled out and there is not.

"Hey, we have a platform that's full of incredibly useful and obscure knowledge. It's so known for this that a video about how useful we are just went viral on another major platform.

So the natural next step is to go back fifteen years and try to redo facebook, right? Let's put more stupid ape stuff on the main page."

It is clear that Spez is furious that he's not Zuckerberg and he hopes he can retroactively become him.