I had to go through the Atlanta airport shortly after the “4 hour wait” stories started hitting. I showed up 3 hours earlier than normal to be safe, and when I got there they had every station manned and ICE was basically just waiving everyone through. Took me about 2 minutes to get through security.
Kind of illustrates how pointless TSA is in the first place, but I’d rather have had that four hour wait than have to be within 50 ft of ICE.
Batman TAS is unbelievably good. Gets a little better every time I rewatch it.
Yeah, the razor definitely matters. My rockwell razor has different bottom plates to slightly alter the angle so you can hone in on a better shave. Some experimentation helps a lot.
Once I was in the bathroom of this upscale theater following a Shakespeare play, when a very sharply dressed older man who exuded an aura of intelligence came in and approached a urinal. He dropped his pants and underwear all the way to the floor, raised his shirts with both of his hands and held them above his exposed nipples, then pushed his hips as far as he could into the urinal to piss hands-free. The incongruity of what I was seeing left me stunned, and made me forget to pee until he had completely left the bathroom.
I remember being taught economics in high school and accepting all of the concepts they taught me without much critical thinking. Things like supply vs demand curves, completely rational economic entities, and all sorts of other idealized notions of financial decision making. I felt like it was all true and the discrepancies I saw were just random noise in the data.
Then, in college, I participated in an economic study where you won $20 if you ended with the highest total fake money of anyone in the room. The original study had a series of variants of runs where you either give $1 to each person in the room, or keep $2 for yourself. Since only the top player got anything, I kept it all the whole time and won. Professor called me up and used me as a poster child to show how the study exposed the inherit rational selfishness of the average person. I pointed out that if he had run the study as originally designed, I would have given the other people $1 every time, but since they changed the rules there was no reason to. He got so angry at me.
Kind of opened my eyes a bit as to how none of what I learned actually holds up. Kroger will raise prices during a worldwide pandemic because they know people will think it costs them more money to source food and accept higher prices, and when the pandemic dies down prices still remain. If you aren’t paying for an app then the developers are making money by selling your data, but if you do pay for an app they are doing the same thing. If you want to watch something without advertisements then obviously you have to pay for it, but if you pay for it you still have to watch advertisements anyway.
So you think the rational consumers continue to use these products because they have no choice, but in almost every instance they do have a better choice, they just don’t engage their brain at all. For example, cartridge razors cost a lot of money. Last one I bought was like $70 with four head replacements. They are always adding another blade, for maximum closeness! What’s the alternative? They’ve long since perfected the safety razor designed back in 1880. You can get one for $20, and a pack of hundreds of replacement blades for $5. I tried ten different blade brands and shaving cream setups, and every single one got a closer shave with less razor burn than the dozen cartridge razors I tried, even with no shaving cream at all. They’re cheaper, more effective, take up less space, and require less trips to the store. So why doesn’t anyone use safety razors? A combination of marketing and the fact that they just don’t feel like trying it, even after being told all of this.
Nothing is rational on either side. Companies charge whatever they feel like, consumers operate on a hair trigger, no one is ever held accountable because “You can’t really blame them” when of course I can. Life is chaos, and we live in a madhouse.
This wasn’t intended to be a long rant, I swear.
I looked into her because of that one lightshow song from the Cyberpunk 2077 DLC and immersed myself in her music for a while. Then I found out about her marrying Musk, and it’s hard to enjoy it any more because I can’t get over her terrible taste. Like, why? She already had enough money, was it worth it?
Yeah, that’s where the kinda comes in. From experience, when you’ve got that much debt you tend to lowkey want to watch the world burn, so you’ve got that going too.
Kinda related: At some point I realized inflation is actually kinda good when you have no assets and large debt, because it effectively shrinks your debt. The problem is, I only thought about it well after paying off my debts and gaining some assets, so now I feel like the guys in the pic if I talk about it.
Huh, didn’t even occur to me there would be trans complications as well.
Again, people should boycott her, convince people to do it all day. However, this demonization is out of line. I’m just saying if this is your threshold for what makes someone an irredeemable monster, then you should make sure your own house is in order before you start lighting the pyre.
What a ride.
I’m sure by 2050 they’ll start restricting airplane travel or crossing the border to people who are chipped. Given historical precedence, I’m sure 5% of the populace will resist for a few months before giving in.
Probably most people will have gotten chipped already for a discount on energy drinks or something, and won’t see the problem.
While I agree it’s logical to boycott her, portraying HP fans as trans abusers is a bit much. If buying the HP books is equivalent to punching a chained down trans person in the face then absolutely none of us, including the artist here, haven’t done worse.
I’d bet anything they have bought products on Amazon, which makes them responsible for Bezos. Does that artist have an X account for advertisement? That gas they buy makes them responsible for violence the middle east. Are they one of the remarkable few who ethically source clothes without child labor? Bet not.
I boycott all kinds of stuff, but demonizing people for not joining you is nonsensical in this consumerist hellscape where complete harm avoidance isn’t possible.
I can’t speak for others, but my bar for installing another app on my PC is pretty high. It’s probably worth it for the number of free games, but I wouldn’t have done it just for the HP game.
RPO tapped into some deep seated fantasy from my childhood. Much like Harry Potter it wasn’t very well written, but that doesn’t matter when you’re half lost in your own imagination the whole time.
Good point!
What context needs to be ignored? Ketchup is a sauce, which when added to completed food becomes a condiment, just like all sauces. Plenty of dishes are cooked with ketchup in the cooking process. The conclusion from the article you posted:
when it comes to the question of condiment or sauce, the answer is “both”.
Obviously it’s a sauce. I looked up the definition to try and figure out why they would say it isn’t, and I still don’t see it.
“a liquid or semisolid food mixture used especially as a topping or ingredient for adding to or enhancing the flavor of a dish”
TIL, double checked an it’s true. I never would have thought it had to be a direct line. My uncle has more of a DNA match to me than my great great grandparents. Weird word.
Everything except a slightly different black.