“bad leaf! bad!” -scold vs. scald.

Just for fun. good comment!

DOJ wants to get in on some of that hot euro DMA action

wasn’t the big deal with the Russians that it was at the level of the entire organization rather than done by limited specific individuals?

Isn’t what’s been happening that corporations buy them for cash they have on hand and now they’re all rentals? It’d have to crash pretty hard to push those guys out I think. [pure speculation by me]

Thank you for your explanation! My head hurts but I think it’s worth it.

I don’t disagree with your logic in general, but Trump isn’t a boogeyman. A boogeyman isn’t real. A boogeyman can’t hurt you. We all saw how Trump ran things. It’s not an imagined threat.

What would it take to be comfortable voting FOR someone and not AGAINST the other one? Easy: ranked choice voting.

I guess I don’t understand. Can you elaborate how that fits the meaning? wikipedia: “Historically, begging the question refers to a fault in a dialectical argument in which the speaker assumes some premise that has not been demonstrated to be true. In modern usage, it has come to refer to an argument in which the premises assume the conclusion without supporting it.”

The article explains it as tagging your own cells in your body with a marker that makes the immune system ignore them. Doesn’t seem like a foreign body encountered sporadically would work. Allergies and autoimmune (like CL IV celiac) are different classifications of hypersensitivity with different mediating mechanisms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersensitivity

I mean, it’s making it to human trials so seems a lot more real than most of these “kills cancer cells in a petri dish” sort of things.

They still can’t come up with anything other than “it’s not safe!” And “you’re so irresponsible”?

Previous articles on this say the water is less contaminated than that which comes out of some of China’s plants.

This article: IAEA says 10,000 becquerels per liter is the safe limit. Japan’s output will be 63 per liter.

In the 2022 Monitoring the Future survey, the largest group of senior boys, more than two-fifths, claimed no politics at all, answering the liberal-conservative question with “none of the above” or “I don’t know.” Nearly one-fifth identified as moderate. Only 36 percent selected liberal or conservative as an ideology, and only there did the trend emerge.

I’m not as sold on “trending conservative” as I am “undecided on political ideology” +/-60% didn’t say liberal or conservative.

aw hell, uniforms by Hugo Boss?

oh the mice were surly alright

Nice!

I was thinking halfway through, “man I’m good if you just want to weigh it…” but the counting out time lapse did add something.

The one with rice I like was for exponential increases in size. Story: guy goes to the ruler of the kingdom and gets the ruler to agree to give him 1 grain of rice on the first square chess board, doubling every square so then two on the next, four on the next and so on. Runs the kingdom out of rice before he gets to the end of the chess board.

Another good one for the 1000x scaling is time. People seem to be able to grasp time magnitudes better than money. 1 million seconds is 12 days. 1 billion seconds is 32 years. 1 Trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

I mean, who invented the weekend? There’s no real reason we couldn’t all be working every day besides, you know, the misery and suicides and stuff (minor quibbles). If there’s one thing I’ll thank (western? Abrahamic?) religion for, it’s an official day off work. Guess the evolution of some of that culture is how we ended up with all this other shit so maybe I’m a little mixed.

Did they have weekends or official off days in China and other eastern cultures before globalization/internationalization? Guess not. China began the two-day Saturday–Sunday weekend on May 1, 1995

Other interesting things there: Ancient Romans had 1 out of 9 days as a market day that at least kids were out of school for, and the French Revolutionary Calendar had 1 of their 10 day weeks off. The French sure have changed! I envy their dedication to not working every minute of their lives.