Setting risk aversion to 11 and still losing

That’s car as transport versus car as status symbol. Did you know rich people had large lawns as status symbol back in the day just because they were expensive to maintain? An expensive car in the driveway next to a small patch of grass in a desert climate does the same.

On the other hand, there’s surveillance specifically for organized action while unorganized action is much harder to police.

And if you’d use yard, then it’s only 9% off. One kiloyard is 0.91 kilometer.

I just switched off history and with that the recommendation screen. I only work with subscriptions on human made channels.

I guess then it’s time for Leisure Suit Larry on a secondhand Raspberry Pi.

USA has school shootings to remind the rest of the world they do have some form of education.

No, it’s money. Running a smart AI uses much more resources, so they’re trying to keep consumer AI as cheap and dumb as they can get away with and put the smarter answers behind a paywall.

The cat knows that’s where the oranges are stored and avoids that area. She hates the smell.

lots of time after work for outdoor activities

Outdoor activities get cancelled more and more because of the heat this year. People not showing up at events because they don’t like a heat stroke. It’s a bit too much summer.

I’ve got no time for grinding at my age. Single player game, some cheat engine, and skip grinding when it gets boring.

That’s how local government ended up giving free smartphones to homeless because services moved online.

And soon thereafter we see articles of corporations freaking out customers went back to bills on paper in the mail, written cheques, cash deposits and lots of manpower to process everything manually.

For space colonization, it’s usually said to go big or stay home. You’re not going to send a dinky probe to another star, you’re sending something the size of the death star with the population of a small country, at least.

But you don’t switch in one go, so costs can be spread out over years. First you would do double labeling, roll that out slowly, and with time the customary units slowly fades out.

If they’d just standardized on one unit per measurement and apply si prefixes it’s still an imperial unit but easier to work with. Say a quart for volume, and a yard for distance, because they’re close to liter and meter. But I guess a kiloyard and a deciquart is taking it too far.

Yeah, you just remember 0/20/40 °C close enough to 30/70/100 °F is freezing/good/heat stroke.

Thermostats are not exactly calibrated machines unless you spend for a high end model. Put a few next to each other and they might differ 1°C, 2°F. Worse if you take the really cheap stuff.

You know you’re almost home when you look down from the plane and see a patchwork of fields and houses with barely a straight line on sight

Within the TMZ, thirty mile zone, because union rules say you have to pay transportation time for workers above that limit.