Went to Dollar General for a few things, refused to pay for coffee. I’d rather do without.

Said much the same yesterday. The poster child for narcissistic personality disorder getting on his knees? LOL. No fucking way.

The harm in OP’s example is immediate.

Bad logic, yes, but it stands in this case because the harm is immediate, not in some future decade. Given such widespread use, headphones must be OK or doctors would have been sounding the alarm decades ago after seeing young people with blown out ears.

Silliness aside, old rope kinda fascinates me. Some lasts forever, some is rotten beyond use. I have a giant sack at camp, all kinds. Interesting to see how different materials last, stretch, rot, etc.

Friend gave me quite a bit of the thickest nylon rope pictured. Made a shitty rope bridge out of it that might outlast my old carcass.

No one has bought it for £1m.

Yep. They have sharp enough pattern matching to remember human faces. They register eyeballs = threats. Don’t stare and spaz out while doing so. If you make yourself a threat, gonna have a bad time.

Had a nest over my door last summer. They never bothered me or my pig. We ignored them, they ignored us.

This business will get out of control.

Somebody clue me in on Typescript. I’m somewhat familiar with scripting, PowerShell guy here.

Isn’t there something about Phelp’s weirdly long torso?

Fun, aren’t they?

Then boil the soup leftovers into stock and freeze it!

And deep soil sampling should have caught that. I’m sure there are many methods I’m ignorant of that could have foreseen this.

Even America’s crumbling infrastructure doesn’t see monstrous failures like this. China: Is it Wednesday again?

I live in Florida, flattest state in the Union. We still have to have professional soil reports to build anything. The is 100% a construction failure.

They should have detected the likelihood of landslides, maybe dynamited the mountain to mitigate.

Yes. We know. Because this pic is in every fucking thread.

Just said that in front of world+dog? 🫨 Even saying that on air would be shocking, but in an official government journal?! Meanwhile, in America, no one in government would have the balls to say such a thing and would be immediately removed if they did so.

One reason I like living around rednecks. After the last hurricane, which didn’t really touch our hood, dudes were patrolling the streets in pickups, hunting downed limbs.

There was a sandy patch on the way into our camp where cars would get stuck. One day I pulled up on 3 with 2 vehicles and a bunch of neighbors working on getting them out. Parked up the street and walked down, “OK. Who we getting out first?” I’ve been towed out myself on 4-5 occasions.

Coolest thing is that all those dirt roads are private. Somebody put their own money into upgrading and fixing the whole mess. There are at least 2 guys that cruise around on their little tractors and grade the streets now and again.

Thought on this before. I don’t think any of us could take the change without going insane and likely catatonic.

It’s not just about learning coordination all over again, getting used to new physical quirks. Different hormones, reflexes, nerve wiring, gut bacteria, senses, just too much to handle. Hell, I’d go into shock if your dropped me in my own body from 20-years back.

Interesting! Still, the comments seem on point to the OP. Maybe LLMs are more convincing than I understand.

What’s the agenda here? That’s what puzzles me.

China is playing catch up. There was a great NPR series on American pollution, how we built industry, how we dialed it back and how China is doing the same, but accelerating the dial back.

Now American’s are screaming, “Stop that!” Well, we did it first, got where we’re at. Reminds me of America wiping out malaria with DDT and 2-seconds later telling the rest of the world we’d cut trade if they didn’t also ban it. See how that works?

When I was a kid, the smog in Los Angeles was nationwide news. I was a child and knew about it in Tulsa! Leaving Manhattan in 1992, we all saw a brown cloud over the city. Thought it was rather cloudy until we got across the bridge and into the countryside.

Anyway, China is still building coal plants, still a monster polluter, but I see light at the end of the tunnel.