"Cooking" (i.e. reheating) a city ham (i.e. fully cooked , Easter-style ham) sous vide this year. Just me and the partner this year,so a turkey doesn't make sense, especially since I'm usually underwhelmed with turkey anyway.

Man, the wealth tax ban is mind-boggling to me. I can only imagine what marketing they must have done to convince the average voter there was any downside to the POSSIBILITY of taxing high net worth individuals, without any specifics.

When I started playing VS, I was struck by how much the chest opening animation FELT like a slot machine - it was weird to encounter what normally feels like a predatory experience and have it NOT be trying to take your money.

I'm torn on whether it'd be good for more games to do this (mimic gambling without the predatory pricing associated with it) - on the one hand, it would provide alternatives to actual predatory games, like Gacha games, that won't leave people poor, but on the other hand it also normalizes the concept as a legitimate gaming mechanic. This not only opens the door for more publishers to utilize the mechanic maliciously, but I also worry about what it might do to our brains to be constantly exposed to slot machine equivalents (moreso than they already are with gaming).

As of right now, the button is just a toggle that will turn on the feature to hide read posts in your feed, but won't restore hidden posts (as you found). If you want to see your hidden posts, you can go to your profile (center button on the bottom buttons) and you can unhide a given post from the post itself.

According to the video, the original effort to get this passenger rail set up died in 2016 because Union Pacific wasn't interested and that's (theoretically) changed now. I wonder if it's just a change in management decision makers or if UP's business is down on those routes and it'd actually benefit them to get a slice of that traffic.

I do wonder what the projected cost might be to make this a reality - the rep from the rail line project said a study projected a 20% in traffic on 35 if the rail line were to be completed. I'm guessing that's the optimistic number and it doesn't feel like 20% would be life-changing necessarily, so it's a real question of whether it'd be worth whatever the cost might be

Cautiously excited for this. I enjoyed Castlevania quite a bit, but thought the ending was a little half-baked. I'm curious to see if the IP is improved or struggles without Warren Ellis as a show runner. I've assumed he was the driving force behind a lot of what made the last one great, but the reason he got dropped (sexual coercion allegations) could also explain some of the weirder sections of the show, so might be nice to get some fresh blood.

Started a fresh play of Mindustry this week and forgot how much I enjoy it. I play primarily on PC now to save my hands, but the mobile apps are free if someone wants to try it out!

If you go to your profile (middle button on the bottom), there's an option to view hidden posts there. Don't think there's an option to filter by community though, which can be tough if you're looking for a hidden post from a day or two ago.

The Florida Department of Education says the new standards don’t teach that slavery was beneficial.

However, one of the benchmarks (SS.68.AA.2.3) states students will be taught, “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Anyone able to think of a good argument for explicitly requiring this? I'm having trouble thinking of why you'd call this out in the standards unless, you know, you are a fan of slavery...

Edit: This was supposed to go here, womp womp

I think the compromise of requiring the historic facades and setbacks from the facades is a good way to not lose history while also turning Dirty 6th into something approaching usefulness.

I think the whole focus on small buildings and maintaining sightlines to the capitol building is stupid, honestly. If we want downtown to support a big city's level of people (and not be a dead zone), we have to build it up like an actual city.

So she got BS from BS

To be fair, my guess about the source of those claims is also totally unsubstantiated and quite possibly bullshit 😉

Does she hold any investment in BlueSky?

Imo, it's way more likely she got her information about BS from the website/a press release/a contact at BS and like you said, didn't bother to get a contrasting opinion from anyone associated with Mastodon (probably because it's a lot harder to get ahold of someone from a distributed project like Mastodon).