Centuries in the future and government is still using a 25 character maximum for string data. Actually yeah, that tracks.

Honestly, the BBQ is probably quite good, but it's wasted on a cardboard cutout for sure.

Man, the juiciness of the mayoral race almost makes up for how the governor's race was and went. Almost.

I've had a 40 year old body for like, 25 years. I'm not 40 yet.

Same, although might be audio quality since the booing is almost entirely picked up by the singers mic. First hand accounts might be more accurate.

Knowing what I know about the impacts on brain chemistry, yes, you would probably limit your drinking as much as possible. It reduces activity in my favorite part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex. That's the part responsible for your inhibitions, which does include shyness but also a ton of other stuff like judgement, attention, temper, etc..

Like, sure, you can be less shy but you can also become an idiot who falls for scams and lashes out at people because they can't control themselves.

I mean, as a non drinker, I fucking love Martinelli Apple Cider. At events, my alcoholic grandparents would always have it for kids too young for wine (to them, 10yos) and I just kept drinking it into adulthood.

Granted I also found better conversation with my kid cousins over my other relatives, but that's an added bonus.

Maybe I just like being responsible in a way I'm incredibly good at; can't say the same for all my irl responsibilities.

Agreed. I'm glad I'm at least playing the older games in front of my kids. My 4yo loves Swanna, Haxorus and Volcarona from recently playing White and nobody has any idea what she's talking about except me. Lol

Yes but it's generally easier and less prone to issues to just open their PowerPoint (or really, Google sheets) on the podium since I'm already using it. I'm sure the admin uses adapters as their excuse not to update the hardware though... (even if they are still using Win 11 on decades old computers).

I just want to share that last semester, the Windows podium computer we used decided randomly to update during a student presentation. It did not help their nerves, but I did turn it into a chance to evangelize Linux.

And no, they can't use their own laptop, the connections to the podium computer, and thus the projector, use VGA...

I used to use ASCII art to mark sections in my statistical syntax. It's not much but it made me happy when I got to show that to my advisor in grad school.