I get that that is how management types think, but Minecraft clearly demonstrates that both can exist side by side very profitably.

Is there a reason why any new launch shouldn't have a self host option from the start? Company servers can be used for tournaments, events, ranked matchmaking, anti-cheat, cross platform, etc. But why can't self-hosted servers be an option in parallel? Then it would be a non-issue for when the studio servers go eol.

A while ago, I saw a post recommending people who wanted to try planting milkweed to use a tool that lists nurseries that source local seeds rather than ordering from a national place. This suggestion was made because many plants are fairly well tuned to their local climate. Even if you don't intend to plant milkweed, I think this is a good tool to find a semi local supplier that cares about local heritage breeds. Most of the ones I checked take online orders and will ship. I'll shoutout Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Sow True Seeds.

https://xerces.org/milkweed/milkweed-seed-finder#mwf_tool

The other resource I really love is a college near us has a good botany program and they put on two plant sales a year. Their prices are good, but the quality and selection is what really stands out. Plus most of the volunteers are students or faculty so when you have questions they either have a good answer or can walk you over to someone who does. That hasn't always been my experience at nurseries. I think it would be worth checking if any universities somewhat near you have a horticulture extension office or public gardens program. Try searching for botanical gardens in your preferred maps app and see what shows up.

One last recommendation that perhaps doesn't fit a houseplants community, but you got me monologing... John Scheepers/Van Engelen is my go to supplier for flowering bulbs. They import direct from holland and ship out to customers very quickly after the container arrives. The quality and size of bulbs I've gotten from them greatly surpasses any retail place I've tried.

I'm getting pretty tired of the notion that gambling odds are better predictors than polls.

It's not even just the price of a ship and cargo at risk. Lead times are around 2.8 to 3 yrs for crude tankers and around 3.5 yrs for LNG carriers. That's a long time to not be able to conduct business even if insurance did pay out. It is 100% rational to sit out a few weeks to figure out how to resume operations safely rather than trying to sneak through and hope for the best.

Market cap and realized losses are completely different things. Reporting a change in market cap as a loss is misleading imo.

This dip might drive some volatility for a bit, but gold and silver are still at crazy high valuation. It isn't likely to affect you unless you've been speculatively buying precious metals and panic sold.

Billionaires still don't get that their fear and outrage is a ringing endorsement for someone like Mamdani. Every dollar they spend implies many more dollars available to be collected by the city. Their best strategy would have been utter indifference. I guess now we know who has a terrible poker face.

No surface prep? That will flake off in no time.

Or a chicken drumstick for somewhat similar bone strength.

For anyone who thinks this would be a good tradeoff, this would be the worst sleep of your life.

I've only had sleep paralysis a couple times and it was always because I was stressed about homework/work and my brain kept trying to work through the problems in my sleep. It is a terrible experience. Sleep is about way more than physical rest. Depriving your brain of good sleep will ruin your memory and make functioning during the day exceedingly difficult.

Plus, let's look at what employers did in response to women entering the workforce. Has average household income doubled? No, pay has stagnated to the point of households needing two incomes to meet expenses. Don't expect working through your sleep to mean a life of leisure in the day. You're more likely to see wages fall to the point where everyone needs a day job plus a sleep job.

It's never safe to experiment with replicators. Just ask the asgard how that turns out.

The glaring error is this screenshot is listing an income figure that is comparable to the 2022 total revenues in the 2022 fiscal report.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/ebitda

It looks like Starbucks 2023 EBITDA was $7.3 Billion and the net income was $4.1 Billion.

The post makes a good point, but uses garbage data. Why do they do this? Although an $11,000 raise would elliminate the actual net earnings figure.