https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html

Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Flourine, Oxygen, Iodine, Chlorine, and Bromine

How would this work though? You’re not ordering your food via the QR code link, you’re telling the waitstaff. Unless they ask you what price your saw, how are they going to correlate their variable price to a particular customer?

However, this would make it a lot easier to implement “peak pricing”. Their menu could automatically update based on time of day, or day of week, and certainly holidays.

To specifically answer their question: No. There is no state that will allow your family to euthanize someone who currently objects, just because that person, while younger, signed a will stating that was their wish.

Personally, I find all the other eschatological possibilities much more disturbing. The heaven/hell dichotomy is unnerving on a lot of obvious levels. Reincarnation seems fraught with neverending suffering. And the idea of becoming a “ghost” or a spirit, forever consigned to haunt some old place is as terrible as it is ridiculous.

I’m looking forward to my hard earned non-existence, thank you very much.

Not on a “per calorie” basis they aren’t. And I’m not really sure by what other metric you can compare them. But look at how many calories of broccoli $3 gets you compared to potato chips. Then you have to add in the time of preparation.

Additionally, many impoverished people tend to live in “food deserts”, areas without grocery stores, but many fast Food locations.

The deck is definitely stacked against the impoverished.

Because the major export product of the United States is American culture. UFO/alien abduction/government cover-ups are kinda baked into American popular culture at this point. Just the idea that the government is simultaneously incompetent yet able to successfully hide far reaching evidence of alien visitation is as American as baseball and apple pie.

I’ve no doubt people are looking up at the night sky all over the world and seeing things that they think are possibly alien craft. I’ve also no doubt that there are stories and folklore about abductions in every country on earth. But American culture is insidious and infects just about everything. This forces every other event to be reframed in reference to the American UFO phenomenon.

I don’t think mrmanager missed your sarcasm. I think they were saying that they enjoyed the movie precisely because it took such an awkward and unpleasant premise and managed to make it funny.

I agree with you both. Damn it was dark, but holy crap was it funny.

That scene at Medieval Times when Carrey does that great rendition of the fight music from Star Trek. “Come hither, so that I may brain thee!”

This would be kinda fun to play with from a “game theory” standpoint too. Unscrupulous people could attempt to maximize their pizza consumption and minimize their capital investment by claiming to not be very hungry and being willing to eat the most common toppings.

Perhaps the app could have a function at the end to “rate” the participant diners? You could pass your phone around one more time and people could assign a “trustworthiness score” to one another.

That’s kinda genius. I never would have thought to use my soldering iron for that. (Of course, I am big dumb dumb.) I’ll grab a sacrificial tip and give this a shot.

That’s very cool. I feel like it would have been slightly more “welcoming” looking if you’d been able to keep a little more detail around the mouth, maybe even just a line intimating lips. But this was a very cool project.

I have fantasies of getting a copy of the file the next time my dentist does a 3D scan of my mouth for a night guard or something. He confirmed it will output an STL file. (But he wasn’t willing to do “just for fun”)

To be fair, that scene was just as much an attempt to parody the scene from “The Crying Game”, as it was straight up transphobia. But regardless, it doesn’t sit right today.

There have been three accidents related to nuclear power generation, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukashima. There were a total of 33 deaths attributed to those three incidents (32 from Chernobyl and 1 from Fukashima.)

There are 58 deaths per terawatt-hour attributed to coal alone, mostly due to air pollution.

I’d say that nuclear power is very close to completely harmless in comparison. Certainly in contrast to its perception among the general public.

Thank you! I thought I was going insane. And thanks for the workaround.

I’ll be a lot more willing to trust them when they have completely released their code base as open source. They said they’re going to, but so far have only released the code base for their mobile apps.

After all the crap with Last Pass I’m not trusting my password vault to anyone not willing to submit to security audits.