Yep, WWI was the result of a bunch of inbred rulers turning family disagreements into a war because they could.

There’s technically a spot where making more can cost you money, but that’s well out of reach of normal people. It involves triggering the alternative minimum tax.

Private prisons make of a tiny amount of inmates in the US. Even then they don’t really care, there’s always more inmates.

In the US, probably indefinitely. There’s not communication between municipalities to actually track down someone killing local prisoners. Depending on where it happened, it might not even be noticeable among the numbers that die in prison already. The single most improbable part of death note is the initial speed in connecting widespread events to a hyper localized area.

The police also have a terrible solve rate on murder nationwide. Serial killers have decade plus long active streaks while physically killing and hiding bodies. There’s several that never were caught.

Even with per capita numbers that are way above or way below the norm can skew results.

Not remotely an expert. While the numbers are crazy big, the time tends to be short. The ppe doesn’t have to survive thousands of degrees for more than a fraction of a second. Also it has to route the charge through itself rather than you. Finally, for certain death scenarios successfully working ppe doesn’t mean unscathed, it means still alive with reasonable recovery chances.

It’s great for pretty much any sweet or chocolate based cookie.

Coffee is a superior dunking medium than milk for Oreos.

Ravel and unravel can both mean to take apart something that was knitted or woven.

For a family of 4 insurance is about 3k/month split between employer and employee. The amount that would cost is largely unknowable. My insurance has a $500 deductible, so I would definitely pay at least that much, probably more. After that insurance would cover 80-90% of the cost until an out of pocket maximum, which is 3k/person or 6k/family for me. A final cost around 1k would probably be a good deal, and up to 4-5k could happen depending on out of network fuckery.

It will probably be fine. Ammonium nitrate isn’t really needed for a garden, at least not in concentrated blends, unless your soil is fucked. Shitloads of nitrogen just makes plants bigger, which isn’t something you normally want for most vegetables.

AI is a lot closer to a revolution than to a bust. It’s already likely going to remain an established tool for software development and process automation.

It still remains to be seen if a company can be a single person managing an army of agents can actually become a sustainable company. This would be an industrial revolution on steroids type change that’s honestly terrifying.

An equally or even more likely scenario is we get most of the way there, but it only reduces the need for developer type jobs by 20-50%. From here lots of things could happen. The job market could stay somewhat stable as while companies hire less people, there are more smaller companies with direct hires as the barrier is massively reduced. The job market drastically shrinks and software becomes a less attractive discipline compared to other types of engineering or office work. An industry wide Cobol type situation happens as those that survive the job losses retire and laid off workers have moved on to other industries and no junior positions exist.

The Alaska one North and West are obvious, but there are some islands that cross the date line, making them technically east.

Someone else posted a graphic, but basically Maine is significantly farther east which cancels out the North/South difference of other states.

I wouldn’t be surprised if drugs that failed quality control were labeled for animal use.

Some fun geography one’s.
Maine is the closest US state to Africa.
Alaska is the northern most, Western most, and Eastern most state in the US.

P is for Pterodactyl.

Maybe you found a stupid expensive one or it was real and made to be non firing. This looks like the same price range as an airsoft version.

They had an effect because they were invited to the party. A VP of an opposing party wouldn’t be in the room. Instead of VP Cheney orgastrating a war it would be Chief of Policy or secretary of presidential affairs Cheney doing that.

The VP being a prominent figurehead of workgroups or policies only exists because the president allows it. A non aligned VP wouldn’t be any more impactful than a current opposition party leader.

A president doesn’t have to share everything with a VP, famously Truman was never informed about the Manhattan project until he became president. That would likely be the norm in a case where president and VP were opposed.

Imagine what? The vp then lives in their own residence and likely isn’t part of policy meetings. Instead it’s a nameless faceless advisor.

There’s maybe some minor chaos when the vp becomes active president for a day due to a colonoscopy or something, but that can mostly be undone or planned around.

That’s still not a big deal. The only difference is bills that pass the house and tie in the Senate could become laws instead of vetos. It’s a very low possibility.

The expansion of presidential powers and the willingness of Congress to abdicate their responsibility is a far bigger problem.