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This is like the on-line game Text Twist.

> Please invest in some happy backyard chickens I guess that depends on your interpretation of "invest." I don't know of anybody who claimed to save money on eggs by raising their …

Two cases when I've received a bank check without being able to choose an alternative: 1) as payment of proceeds in a class-action lawsuit; 2) when I got a refund from my insurance…

> kakistocracy New vocab word, thanks. The word's been around for a while, so I guess there's some solace in knowing that this isn't the first time. Hopefully this is just a speed-…

Understandable. Most wives don't like it when their husbands proposition others.

Reminds me of "Mr. Pine's Purple House"

> Agree with you on the foldables. God, no one wants that. I think there are a lot of people who would love to have a smaller form-factor for when the phone is in their pocket, wit…

> If you want to solve the problem, you need to go to the source. Which is precisely why it's so short-sighted to try to solve your problem by "wiping out the entire Amazon jungle …

> If I had a button that would wipe out the entire Amazon jungle and replace it with a world class high technology industry, I wouldn't even think twice before pressing it. I used …

I think it was "Smarter Every Day," but there's a YouTube channel where the guy went all-out in trying to design, source, and manufacture a simple grill scrubber 100% in the US, an…

Each new fire is a distraction from the chaos created by the previous one.

In the US anyway, calling yourself an "engineer" is only regulated if you sell your services to the public as one. Inside of a business, like a car manufacturer, the position title…

It depends on how you define humanity. The singularity implies that the current model isn't appropriate anymore, but it doesn't suggest how.

> What is the actual use of this? From the article: "Our analysis of road segments in California and Virginia revealed that the number of segments with observed HBEs was 18 times g…

The reality in 2024 was that yes, the alternative was more of the previous administration. Maybe that was never a way to whatever ideal solution or policies might be possible in th…

This kind of failure-to-enforce is endemic to government. Oversight and enforcement are implicitly expected of well-regulated governments, and that costs money that nobody wants to…

I have this setup, and the Firestick UI is horribly slow. Sometimes it takes 30 seconds or more for it to give any response to a button press. It's worst when I'm trying to watch s…

9 May 2012 at about 20:00, a dot comes streaking out of the east, across Africa and into the Atlantic. What's up with that?

And then there's the "nightmare" difficulty, but you have to find that hidden door!

> requiring my team to review their own PRs before they expect a senior developer to review them I'm having a hard time imagining the alternative. Do junior developers not take any…

> We should impose, by law, the following rules on all companies that offer accounts to their customers. When the services that a company provides gets to this level, it starts bec…

I apply my own meaning to the 5-star rating, and find it to work really well: 1 = The movie was so bad I didn't/couldn't finish watching it. 2 = I watched it all, but didn't enjoy …

> Perl is most human-like programming language This claim always seemed bizarre to me. What kind of drugs do you think a layman would think you were on if you showed them a typical…

> You would think Google Analytics would help a lot with this, but they seem to not care. Not just not care, but don't they have incentive to report higher traffic?

Unfortunately, the amount of money invested in something isn't indicative of it's utility. For example: the tulip mania, beanie babies, NFTs, etc.