Eventually any actual websites will be difficult to access, all information will be filtered through LLMs, centrally controlled by a handful of megacorps with the final say on the information you find.

Now that we have a president threatening to invade NATO members, we’re about to have the nuclear threat back.

The fact that Windows hides file extensions by default is just absolute insanity to me.

Better do 3 more to make it a nice even 20.

15 year generations don’t really make sense though, the whole concept of a generation is that they’re the previous generation’s kids.

You have one of each number except 7, and you’re deliberately avoiding doubles and runs of consecutive numbers. Human attempts at randomness tend to be very idealized in that way, and as a result, less random.

Unless the government collapses in the next 20 years and can’t pay it.

Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men;—this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of, and required to cease from.

Thomas Ellwood, ca. late 1600s.

Conservatives believe there are only 2 possible roles for a father, absent or abusive.

Mike Johnson, the previous and likely current Speaker of the House, believes the Earth is 6000 years old. Yes, it’s exclusively the crazies that believe it, but there’s more of them than you’d hope.

The stated jackpot isn’t just before tax, it’s the future amount that it would be worth after collecting interest for 30 years.

Trains are extremely convenient. You optimize them for convenience by adding more trains.

You’re already doing that with insurance premiums. Universal healthcare is that but cheaper because the government doesn’t have a profit incentive to price gouge.

Rentals and used games had no such guarantee.

The worst was if it was a multi disc game and the broken disc was the last one. You’re invested, excited to see how the story ends, ready to smash Sephiroth’s face in, and it all grinds to a halt.

Part of that is just selection bias. Very few people would post Amazon reviews for their shoes unprompted. But if something unexpected happens, like if they have a defective pair, they’re quite a bit more likely to go back and write something.

However, in Spanish, which is the name’s language of origin despite being a German car, they’re the same. All e as in red. Mercedes.

That and the lead poisoning.

Depends on what you mean by help. Yes, it would communicate the point better, but it’s engagement bait, so the ambiguity is a feature rather than a bug.

This is a fair bit worse than poor use of money.