It’s only fools and the rich who peddle the narrative

FTFY

A market economy cannot work with hoarding, the money needs to circulate.

The money is life. The money must flow.

There were Republicans decrying the attack on Pelosi. Of course there were people saying stuff like “Democrats had it coming,” just like we have people saying “How could you miss” about this.

Cheeto-Benito Mango-Mussolini.

According to Emily Post that’s perfectly acceptable for an informal setting.

Most people answer teacher, but the answer is that Paige is overwhelmingly more likely to be a farmer. Simply because there are orders of magnitude more farmers than teachers in the world.

But are there more farmers named Paige or teachers named Paige?

I can’t imagine Paige is a common name in many of the countries which still rely on subsistence farming, where farming will be a far more prevalent occupation. In the US, where Paige is a relatively common name, there are around twice as many teachers as farmers according to my very brief (and probably not super accurate) research.

Also I imagine that worldwide, farmers will skew male more than female. Just like how teachers probably skew more female than male. Note I didn’t bother to look for statistics for this, this is just a guess.

If you were to not name a person or gender and just say “is this person more likely to be a teacher or farmer,” then sure, farmer. But we’ve limited our base group of people to women named Paige. Surely that adjusts the probability.

To make it even less likely that someone will be able to get it unscrewed without having the right set.

They’re not perfect, obviously, but they do harden a target more than regular Torx.

I use tamper resistant screws to keep an AirTag on my eBike to discourage its removal. Obviously a determined thief could remove it, but lots of stolen bikes get abandoned anyway. My hope is that if it gets stolen it gets abandoned and I can find it then.

Honestly, the screws and killsaws don’t do much in Battlebots anyway.

Never go full Alex Jones.

Coco is probably my favorite Pixar movie. My grandfather had Alzheimer’s and near the end he was largely unable to communicate but still knew how to sing and remembered words to songs.

When Mama Coco sings at the end it broke me. I cried harder than I’ve probably ever cried in my adult life. It felt incredible. I realized I hadn’t really ever mourned my grandfather, because his death was years of slowly fading away. Such a powerful catharsis.

I’m using ATC as a blanket term. I’m not 100% sure if that’s accurate, but I would think ATC includes like, tower controllers and approach controllers and ground controllers and en route controllers and whatnot.

Have you ever wondered why restaurants on or near mountain summits don’t offer pasta? That’s because while the cooking water up there is boiling, it is not hot enough to cook pasta.

I did not wonder this, because I’ve yet to eat at a summit restaurant, but that’s fascinating. Does this matter much in a town like Breckenridge (9600ft) or Aspen (8000ft), or does it only really become a factor once you get up to the summits?

Can a restaurant in Leadville, CO (elevation 10,158ft or 3,096m, highest incorporated city in the US) cook pasta? Or would it require an unappetizing amount of salt?

Does season make a difference? Like, the density altitude is surely lower in winter than it is in summer.

I have so many questions!

Edit: okay it sounds like you just have to boil it longer because the water isn’t as hot. It still cooks, just takes more time.

This really should be the Marge Simpson “force of habit” meme. 😂

Runway incursions have become more and more common. We don’t have enough ATC, and the ones we have are overworked, stressed, and tired.

If things keep up this way it is a matter of time before a major incident happens on a runway. Fortunately we aren’t generally operating many jumbos near one another, so it’s unlikely to be as tragic as the Tenerife Airport disaster, the worst aviation incident in history, which involved two 747s colliding on a runway. But it will still involve significant loss of life.

I read this title in Ian McKellen’s Magneto’s amused, disdainful, dismissive, disgusted tone when he talks about guns.

(The line “You Homo sapiens and your guns.” is so beautifully delivered. It conveys so much meaning in sheer expression and tone. Ian McKellen is such a phenomenal actor.)

Edit: Given the replies, it appears that I may well be wrong, I remember reading it somewhere but I can’t find the source nkw. I’ll downvote myself but leave the comment up because it enables others to learn from my mistake

The world needs more people who behave this way when shown they are mistaken. Good on you!

He’s just straight-up wrong. See my post replying to his.

It’s a sensitive topic but white and black people are genetically much more seperated than black and white rhinos which we are happy to describe as separate species.

That is simply not true

85% of human genetic diversity exists within local populations. White and black people are genetically less separated than white and white people or black and black people, depending on the specific people. There is much more genetic diversity within populations than between them. A source

There is essentially no genetic support for the idea of races. They are purely a social construct based on some shallow phenotypical differences, culture, and the prejudices of a given time.

Same happened to me a few weeks ago. I accomplished pretty much nothing that day. Just spent the day reading through that story.

Is it? I’ve never had a problem with them, but I’ve also never used anyone else.