I'm a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you're an author. Perfect compromise.

My best friend of 15 years told me, when I had a rough patch, that he's there for me just reach out but unless I initiate he would treat any interaction as just a normal day.

Throughout the rough patch I choose not to speak of it and just treated our hang outs as a chance to get away. He choose to support me in the only way he knew how and the only way he was comfortable with. I was not comfortable and didn't know how to ask for more support. It's about 7 years from then and my parents still don't know, I just don't know how to ask for and engage with emotional support. I am completely weirded out by the concept of talking about my emotions and somebody else caring, it gives me a high level of anxiety.

TLDR: small male friend groups with limited experience providing or receiving emotional support are unlikely to provide explicit emotional support and there's a good chance if you're a man who needs it you don't know how to ask

I'm 60 hours in and haven't touched the outpost, ship building, or equipment modding. Main quest and 2 faction side quests completed. I've enjoyed my time and bought the game with the expectation that it would be FO4 with some things improved some things worse and a new setting.

There are definitely failings and it's not a 10/10 game but for a lot of people it's a great game. The proc gen system needs more variety but that can be improved through updates and mods. If you prefer handcrafted content follow the quests and you'll see minimal repeats of the POIs. I don't regret my purchase one bit and would be fine if no DLC, mods, or updates happen even though I prefer they do. End of the day make your own decision based on what you like just realize it's not a dumpster fire and not the perfect game that everyone should run out and play.

Heavy metals and PCBs are most common in my area, various VOCs aren't far behind. Prior to the EPA and associated legislation companies would commonly use waste process waters for dust control, dump wastes in to pits or on the ground, spills would be left to soak away, and general processes were dirtier and uncontrolled.

One terrible example from western NY that bugs me even more than Love Canal is the involvement with the Manhattan Project. Local steel workers rolled Uranium and they were never told what is was, given any protections, or cared for when the inevitable happened. Radioactive waste was later used as fill for residential and commercial properties in the area. These Hotspot still exist and it is a slow process to get any cleanup done.

Engine displacement is measured in liters or cc as standard. Harley Davidson demands in using cubic inches though.

That's how I do my builds, just one rolling bottleneck rather than doing a complete build.

I went to public school in a blue state and it was not far left. The labor movement was taught as a handful of very bad situations that caused workers to strike and peaceful protest fixed it. Things like the Battle of Blair Mountain and the violence it took to get where we are were ignored. Same with civil rights, MLK Jr gave some speeches, some people marched, there was resistance, and then we fixed it.

Any non capitalist leanings were ignored or minimized, the organized violence of the state and those who opposed it was ignored, figures were lauded and their life summaries always left out the part were they criticized capitalism or the complacent middle class. No mention of Mother Jones, Smedly Butler, our involvement in Iran as a pre shah state, or anything that would tarnish America's image as a modern moral state. Hell, they never had the nerve to call what we did to the Native Americans a genocide.

Yup, in the office we regularly hire engineers and scientists with a bachelor's, I've never seen anyone even care what tier of bachelor's. Some people go on to get licensed or a master's on the company dime but we also have lots of unlicensed never going back to school people in very technical demanding and high ranking positions.

I'm just a geologist with a bachelor's and am regularly supervising and training people with engineering PhDs. My work place quickly becomes task specific and degrees are worth less than years in the field a lot of the time, your mileage may vary.

Wetlands and floodplains are very important to mitigating floods, soil retention, and mass filtering. We haven't beaten nature and are spending significant sums of money to revitalize and protect these areas because we have realized that they are just better than what we do.

I didn't take part in the pre release hype and bought it on sale around a year ago. CP2077 is a damn solid game from my perspective. Interesting setting, mechanics, and story.

I'm looking forward to playing Phantom Liberty and want to see a sequel down the line.

I ran medium to high with 2080 super, 32 gigs of ram, and a ryzen 3600. Frames stayed above 60 in most cases drops in the 40s happened in populated areas.

I've got a long haired tortie that scares me. If I take a bath she will try to climb on my chest and play with the water. I don't want to find out what happens if she slips in.

I have a second hand surface still running windows that I draw on. With a paper like screen protector I find it quite pleasant. Mines a 6 I think, runs Krita great I imagine it'd be even better if I ditched windows bloat.

Not a doctor but maybe something I've done will help you out. Stretching my calves everyday and going to a wide toe box shoe like Altra or Topo brought my plantar fascitis to an occasional minor soreness. I get soreness/pain in my left knee inside so I do squats and lunges if my mileage isn't keeping it strong enough, usually in the winter when I get lazy.

I like zero drop shoes a lot but it's recommended you switch gradually to allow your gait to adjust and all the under used muscles develop. Some love them, some hate them, might be worth trying on.

Jump box, dead batteries suck. It was about $100 jump starts my bike easily, even jump started the work F150 3 times with charge to spare.

I won't leave a rider stranded if I can help it but I'm getting to damn old to want to help riders bump start their bikes.

I picked up a 2080 super, ryzen 3600, motherboard, and 32 gigabytes of RAM 1.5 years ago for under $400 used. I already case, PSU, and SSDs so close to your premise.

Picked up a set of Timp 4, my Peregrines left my feet sore on my long runs, 5 miles now. Did the 5 mile run in the Timps yesterday, love the toe room and they didn't hurt my mid foot like Lone Peaks do. I still love the Peregrines they work great on more textured trails when I want to pretend I'm a goat.

I bounced off of book 1 multiple times but just finished it last week and it is fantastic. The book just drops you in the middle of everything and largely lets you piece it together rather than give you a fresh faced character that everyone explains everything to. 50-150 pages was when I started to feel grounded and like I understood the world well enough to say I liked it.

Cyberpunk 2077, bought it on sale and my 125 gb SSD, FX8350 and rx580 weren't terribly happy. Grabbed a used ryzen 3600 and used 2080 super for $200. Board, ram, and m.2 drive for about the same new. Now I'm debating the 5600xcd or just hold off till I want the AM5 chips, that'll depend on how Starfield runs.

Personal anecdote but free base nic 3mg/ml was low enough I quit without withdrawal symptoms. Salt nic, what's in most of the pods, hits harder than standard smokes for me and I had withdrawal symptoms when switching to freebase.