No, at least not beyond a certain point.

Entertainers increase guest happiness. Happiness is part of the rating, so entertainers do cause an increase. Most increases are capped, so you can only get so many points for happiness.

Lost guests lowers the rating directly. As I recall the lost guest penalty is uncapped. Blocking the entrance usually results in a park rating of 0 in the fullness of time, regardless of the park.

There are strange manipulations that allow guests to be trapped without the game realizing, which avoids the penalty. But as a normal player there’s no action that overcomes the lost guest penalty.

Doing so will cause a decrease in your park rating, When guests are trying to leave but unable to find the exit, it lowers the rating significantly. There’s a reason every guest goal scenario has a park rating requirement as well.

It is effective up to a point. It takes time before the guests realize they’re trapped and kill your rating. You have to time it right. The guest spawn rate calculations include the rating, so a low rating also reduces the number of guests who spawn. Trap the guests too soon and you’ll never get enough.

Trapping guests with no entry signs or removing the route to the exit will ruin your park in time. It can be effective in some specific circumstances but not many.

Politicians need to learn to not comment.

Kamala wasn’t involved in national politics at the same time as cheney. When cheney was last in office, Kamala was the district attorney of SF, an local office that only deals with the laws of California. No plausible working relationship between the two. They were not even interacting with the same laws. They worked in entirely different levels of government. There is no need for any statement.

Regardless of politics, any statement like this will sound disingenuous. If she knows Lynne, Liz, Mary, and the entire family well enough to have them in her thoughts, she could tell them directly. Calling someone to wish them the best in a hard time is a commendable act. Making a public statement telling other people that you care about someone else is just weird.

I have no advice, but sympathy. I know what this feels like, and wish you the best. Though I have not yet felt pregnancy dysphoria specifically, I have felt like I’m missing a core part of womanhood by not having periods. And I personally know the sting of invalidation when someone says you shouldn’t want an experience because it’s unpleasant.

Take care <3

I agree. Remove the rainbow crosswalks and replace them with rainbow pedestrian safety bollards.

Rainbows should be a solid barrier to physically protect the vulnerable. No, this is not a metaphor.

Location context for those reading from elsewhere:

Onondaga county is in New York. It is located near the geographic centre of the state of New York, and has a population of around 500 thousand people. Syracuse both the county seat and only city in the county.

how dare you now I’m not going to all tell you about my products that you don’t want to hear about at all.

I just got my blood taken. It sucked. It hurt a little bit but now its over, and I’m fine. I have a phobia of needles. It continues to be difficult every time I need it done, but I can get through it. You can too. It will not be easy, but it is worth it.

You are strong you can overcome your fear. I believe in you! <3 <3 <3

I love the outfit, but those shoes especially!

In a negotiation its important to ask for more than you want. Compromise is what you reach during negotiations. If you start your negotiations from a pre-compromised position, you’re just ceding ground to the other side.

Support the extremists. Support those who go too far and ask too much, as that’s the only way to reach a fair and reasonable compromise.

Walmart and many other companies underpay workers enough that they have to rely on food stamps. They use food stamps to subsidize their labor costs to avoid paying their workers enough to buy food.

You seem naive believing that corporations in other countries operate with restraint.

I agree with you that both modern tech and china are bad. However, these things are not related. You seem blinded by anti chinese prejudice, which is leading you to conflate these two issues.

If china imploded and stopped existing, modern tech would still have all the issues we discussed.

If Canada were able to implement a perfect data security law that was fully effective in banning all of these technological bad practices we discussed, it would not change china’s position in the market.

That has been my point this whole time. These issues are unrelated. If you disagree, please address my point directly.

Korea is a major world player with aspirations to dominate the world economy. That’s kind of the premise behind capitalism. Samsung isn’t content being a small company, they are a megacorporation involved in pretty much every part of Korean society, from heavy machinery, to insurance, to medicine, electronics, capital investments, construction and more. Your assertion that only china wants to dominate international markets is patently untrue. Capitalism is defined by endless greed. No corporation would turn down domination if it has the means.

Corporations are not democratic. Korean citizens do not get to vote for the samsung president. Corporations are the ones doing these things, not democratic institutions.

Security and privacy are issues that matter. Violating privacy and making devices less secure isn’t only a problem when china does it.

oh no :3

HRT for cis people is pretty common as far as I am aware. Medicine that affirms your birth gender are readily available. Estrogen for cis women and testosterone for cis men is common to treat deficiencies. Many women take E during menopause.

I think our societal concept of gender is harmful. Men and women are not fully distinct classes with no overlaps or commonalities. Adult sex hormones are not innately gendered. Everyone has a mixture of hormones.

I think it is harmful to reflexively dismiss testosterone for cis women and estrogen or progesterone for cis men. If changing someone’s non-dominant hormones levels could give a benefit, it should be studied and considered.

You’re completely right. There is no such thing as trans men, only women. And after transitioning trans women are measurably happier. This just goes to show that our society is disproportionately supportive of women and hostile to men, which is why misogyny is good actually.

!the above is satire in case it was unclear!<

A subway is a metro line located underground. Throughput is the same. Its just more expensive to dig the tunnels

Yes? And what is uniquely chinese about this issue? Samsung, the korean company pushed ads in an update to their smart fridges. That channel could just as easily be used to brick the fridges, by the manufacturer or another malicious actor.

Nothing about any of this is china specific. None of these issues can be solved by sanctioning one country. There need to be laws to prevent any company from selling products with these problems. That is the only possible solution.

Mozilla did a study on cars and data collection. They found it was an industry wide problem. Every manufacturer tested collected tons of personal data and didn’t keep it secure or private. Their writeup does not mention EVs, and it implicated brands like subaru which does not sell an EV in Canada or the US at time of writing.

This is not an EV problem.

Most cars have an internet connection. Many have a cellular modem built in. Modern infotainment systems use the internet and upload the data that way. Many cars also store data internally that is only accessible to authorized service centers through a proprietary tool, which will upload the data when serviced by a dealer. Data is valuable. Companies don’t just refuse to exploit that value on principle.

I don’t trust the laws as they currently exist, which is why I am advocating they be changed to stop this data collection.

All cars have this problem. EVs are not the issue. But not just cars, any device with a computer and an internet connection does this exact same thing. You can’t play whack a mole banning countries in specific industries and do anything. The only solution is broad data protection laws.

The OTA updates thing is mostly the result of tesla’s ineptitude and willingness to ship a defective product in the hopes they can fix it with a patch. They are not the only cars with internet connections.

Chinese social credit scores are a myth. The sesame credit thing was a study run by one company temporarily and then stopped. It was never implemented widely and does not exist now.

Every country seems bad if you cherry pick the single worst thing you can find and attribute it to the entire country. Which is where the idea of chinese social credit came from. Its a myth.

American social credit scores encourage engagement with capitalism. They lower your score for not having debt or paying it off. The goal is to shape behavior. If you want to own a home or rent an apartment you have to buy things you don’t need.