We are basically bags of salt water already.

Palworld comes close to what you want. There’s not a ton of story and you can skip all of it if you want, there’s not much gated behind what the main quests are. There’s several different types of random events, you can configure the frequency of some of them as well. It is third person and the tech is more gun focused though.

If you give up the single player part, FF 14 is basically what you want.

There’s not a ton of options because it’s a tough type of game to make, and you have to be better than someone’s experience of yet another Skyrim run.

Transistor and Bastion are similar games that can be chill with combat.

Thomas was alone is a chill platformer with a nice story.

Or maybe don’t pick characters that three minutes of thought would reveal massive problems with swapping them.

My state repealed a law a few years ago that required holding kids back who failed the 3rd grade test.

There already is a blood spot test for rare but serious diseases that states do. It depends on the state though for a specific list of what gets tested.

Math should be taught with postix or reverse Polish notation. It removes this ambiguity as the order of operations is left to right.

Housing isn’t in a bubble. Construction hasn’t kept up with demand in most areas, and even though COVID was a while ago now, the pause can still be felt in housing. COVID also made rates absurdly low which led to less turnover in home ownership, people with a sub 3.5% rate can’t afford an equivalent house elsewhere. Markets that saw massive building have actually seen prices dropping now, markets that aren’t extremely popular are also seeing prices stall or go down. NYC and LA aren’t getting cheaper anytime soon unless millions of people want to stop living there.

To be fair there wasn’t really any evidence. The guard claimed it was a contraband search for a hat the inmate was wearing, but the guard followed the guy back to his cell from a separate building and never actually found the contraband. The guard claimed the inmate destroyed everything after the search. There weren’t any witnesses, and any camera footage that could have proved anything was not retained by the prison.

It’s clear to anyone that remotely understands how prisoners are treated that this was clearly a guard abusing their power, but privileged white women don’t have to face that reality.

I’ve been selected three times for jury duty. Two were county and one was federal. As far as pay went, county payed awful, it was less than minimum wage. Federal paid a bit better, and I got mileage to the courthouse, I also had to front the parking cost and be reimbursed later.

The first time I was on a criminal trial for rape of a mentally handicapped woman, I was kicked off that jury during selection. The second time I had to go in one day, but all the cases for the day ended up settling, so they sent us back home. The third time was a civil case for a prisoner who had his stuff destroyed by one of the guards, I was part of the jury and we couldn’t reach a verdict because some people couldn’t believe a guard would just do bad things.

I just want natural selection 3.

Really wish they could count to 3 though.

There’s technically a spot where making more can cost you money, but that’s well out of reach of normal people. It involves triggering the alternative minimum tax.

Private prisons make of a tiny amount of inmates in the US. Even then they don’t really care, there’s always more inmates.

In the US, probably indefinitely. There’s not communication between municipalities to actually track down someone killing local prisoners. Depending on where it happened, it might not even be noticeable among the numbers that die in prison already. The single most improbable part of death note is the initial speed in connecting widespread events to a hyper localized area.

The police also have a terrible solve rate on murder nationwide. Serial killers have decade plus long active streaks while physically killing and hiding bodies. There’s several that never were caught.

Even with per capita numbers that are way above or way below the norm can skew results.

Not remotely an expert. While the numbers are crazy big, the time tends to be short. The ppe doesn’t have to survive thousands of degrees for more than a fraction of a second. Also it has to route the charge through itself rather than you. Finally, for certain death scenarios successfully working ppe doesn’t mean unscathed, it means still alive with reasonable recovery chances.

It’s great for pretty much any sweet or chocolate based cookie.

Coffee is a superior dunking medium than milk for Oreos.

Ravel and unravel can both mean to take apart something that was knitted or woven.