D-word, so you’re saying I can play PS5 from a dang steam deck?

Microsoft has a partnership with OpenAI. I’m sure Microsoft is happy to have someone in-house who knows all of those secrets.

I agree this is probably an attempt at veiled layoffs.

But I wish I could understand why executives are so desperate to have people back in an office. It’s like class warfare or something.

“Don’t let the proletariat spend more time in that box they already overpay for; make them come to the box that WE overpay for!”

Good reasoning, but unfortunately that’s not why they discarded clothes. You’re close enough that I’ll give it to you, though.

SPOILER:

Here’s the narrative: A group of friends were taking a ride in a hot air balloon one day. After some time, the igniter which gave their balloon altitude broke and they began descending faster and faster. After dropping all of their sandbags, the descent was only marginally slowed. They came to the conclusion that one of them must jump in order to save the rest. The leader tore off sticks from the railing of the wicker basket that made up the cradle of the balloon. Everyone drew straws and the subject of our story was the unfortunate man to lose. In order to give the man the best chance of survival from the fall, each passenger removed their clothes and tied them together to lengthen the rope they had aboard. They lowered the makeshift rope overboard. The group waited until they were close enough to the ground to hopefully allow the man to survive the fall. The man held firmly to the short straw he drew for good luck and climbed over the side of the basket to begin descending the clothes-rope. As he was nearly at the end, the knots connecting the clothes unraveled and the man fell before he was ready. He landed naked in a field, dead. His only possession was the fateful stick which sealed his fate.

Thanks for playing!

Ahhh, yes, but do you know why they did such a thing?

I’m really nitpicking now, as you’ve already told me how he got into the field, but now it’s just knowing why he’s naked ;P

Yes! The balloon was losing altitude and after dropping all of the sand bags on the balloon, they decided someone needed to exit so that the others might be saved.

They took some of the reeds from the balloon basket so they could “draw straws” to see who had to jump. Our man was the unlucky winner who drew the “short straw”.

Since he is now dead in the field with only his short straw in his hand, we know the fall didn’t work out for him.

But can you tell me why he was naked?

Lol, this comment is all over the place, and you’ve got accurate guess tidbits all through it.

As for your actual question: Yes! A hot air balloon and multiple people were involved.

Not close on why he was naked, tho :P.

It was!

This is a “Maybe, but probably yes”. While he didn’t know he would die, he did suspect he would be at least injured when he got a look at the stick he received.

It was! The stick was used by the man prior to his death. More specifically the man was compelled to receive the stick before he died.

This is why I just play the games anyway. I know I’m gonna find a way to blow the time, so I may as well enjoy it to the fullest.

He was not.

Yes!

In a way, yes.

No. It was sudden :)

Wow. I honestly didn’t think much about microwaving stuff like tupperware before, but I think this convinced me to switch to glassware.

How easy should it be to solve?

My favorite longer puzzle is “there’s a naked man lying dead in a field with a stick in his hand. Asking me only yes/no questions, tell me why he is in the field and how did he die?”

The trick? Chug water and coffee all day after that 3 hours of sleep.

I do and it means they get paid large amounts of money and that they can translate a very select list of words from German to English.

Google is rolling out a new feature called “Privacy Sandbox” that also enables websites to use Google’s new “Topics API” to view web addresses in your browser history.

People are generally concerned because it allows a site like Petsmart.com to learn that you bank at WellsFargo.com and that you also visit Nickelodeon.com frequently. Petsmart may then use this information to target ads at you.

The larger concern is that just about any website can learn this information (so not just Petsmart.com, but SouthernRecipeMamaOfFour.net can also get this information, which is excessive access for a site like that to say the least). The fear is likely overblown, though.

What can you do to protect yourself? Don’t use Google products or Chromium-based web browsers.

Edit: Looks like my understanding was off. Shout out to NicoCharrua and a couple other users who clarified that Topics API doesn’t expose URLs, but instead looks at the URLs in your history to create topics (kind of like tags) that other sites can see. Hope my potential employer doesn’t find out about my love of large ethnic butts!