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Whatever life evolves sentience after humanity is gone will hopefully have better self-control than us.

I pity the fools that invested into dracoinic during the bubble, now sitting on their horde of coins thinking they'll one day be valuable. Everyone knows the only value of commodities is in their trade.

I'm getting a real Game of Thrones vibe from the way the US is handling the pandemic.

Here in kangaroo land, things are looking up!

We're loosening the social distancing restrictions, which is great news in my book. Soon you can once again go visit your local pub, cafe, church, or brothel.

I'm particularly pleased to hear we can have up to five visitors from various households at a residence together, meaning my weekly D&D game can resume!

We're working out a plan with kiwi land to allow the exchange of various sorts between us, since we're practically their west island anyway.

China's got the shits with us about finger pointing, so they're jacking us on trade tariffs. Sucks to be a farmer right now. Time to find someone else ready to take some damned good quality resources off our hands, I reckon. Anyone here need 30 million tonnes of beef and 6 million tonnes of barley? Going cheap!

Isn't hiring an unskilled laborer only something in the range of 2 sp per day? Assuming they have average scores for strength, for the cost of one elephant you can have fifteen laborers carrying 150 lbs each. Since one elephant doesn't have fifteen times the strength of the laborers, I'd assume laborers are more cost effective when transporting equipment, until you consider cost of feeding them. Then you'd need to calculate the total distance you intend to travel, divide that by the movement speed and extrapolate the cost of food for your minions.

As usually occurs on a public holiday, some asshole drank all my booze.

Considering I haven't had anyone over, I'm pretty confident I know who did it.

Past-me is such a douche, leaving nothing for future-me to enjoy.

Reminds me of one of my favorite ice-breaker game questions I use for new characters in an adventure. I ask them about their toughest battle.

Since the characters are new, they have to improvise about their background. It's a great way to get the players into the mind of their characters.

My own offering from an NPC to kick off the exchange is usually some form of battle in the frozen north, where my character was hunting an ice troll. The troll knocked him out, dragging him to its ice cave lair. It hung him from his feet from the ceiling of the cave, but my character, through either magic or strength, freed himself and slew the troll. Unfortunately he was caught in a blizzard on his return. He ended up having to kill his mount and take shelter inside its carcass from the cold.

The story never fails to get a laugh from the table, along with a few contributions to embellish the details, and serves as a great starting point for inspiration for the group's stories.

I'm pretty sure anyone from the healthcare field recognizes this effect.

Take an elderly man with poor health literacy. Add a stressful situation. Try to give him information about healthcare facts. Watch as those facts get mixed up inside his head and come back out in completely the wrong way.

UV light and disinfectant can be used to sterilize contaminated surfaces. Unfortunately, this old man confused that with using them in infected patients. Not a big deal when you're able to just correct the old man's misunderstanding. Very hard when the old man happens to have a pulpit to share his poorly understood information without any filters to a bunch of other stressed people with poor health literacy.