Eh, I'd say let people have their fun, there's already more than enough discussion abiut serious issues around these parts and sometimes you just wanna laugh at someone's stupid mistake to feel a bit better about what's going on.

I feel like it'd be wise to wait for further developments. Valve is notorious for being horrible at communication, but even then it's rare that they do something like this without some sort of reason. It still sucks that Valve shut this down after 8 years, but it's hard to know anything for certain until either side comes out with more information, especially with how stupid Valve's legal team can be sometimes. Could be that they just backpedal and say it's alright in a few days, who knows.

Of course, trusting Valve is always as risky as trusting any other corporation, given they have a bit of a track record with tolerating and even outright allowing gambling with skins, but this could easily be their legal team being overzealous yet again as well.

I'm not an expert, but couldn't you pump the brine into a shallow reservoir and evaporate the water off, similar to how sea salt is made? If there isn't a significant amount of contaminants, you could theoretically just sell that as well, but even if not, the solid salt is a lot easier to deal with

Today I learned that Gallagher absolutely cannot draw legs under a cover.

The whole capitalization of pronouns thing was pretty much entirely made up around the 19th century anyway (as well as the capitalizing the word "Lord", which the King James version invented outright), so you can argue that protestant churches are following a woke plot to change the pronouns of the christian god as well.

Falling afoul of the unspoken rule a bit, but this is a lot more social anxiety and/or introvert being forced to go to a social event than autism. I know a lot of people with autism who are very much social butterflies, and just as many who want to be left alone.

You'd be entirely correct, and that's exactly why there's an ongoing debate in physics and cosmology as to why there's so much matter, and so little antimatter in the universe.

Turgidwood

To be fair, I'd be absolutely vibing in a room like this. Probably wouldn't help a panic attack though.

That's true, but sometimes I definitely need a little push from someone in situations like this.

What does that have to do with echo chambers, exactly?

Unfortunately for us, the sun isn't an egg timer, and it's pretty much completely impossible to determine exactly when and how strong the next solar flare is until it's hurtling through space and potentially in our direction (beyond general trends like solar cycles and such). Would be great if it worked like that though.