Tricky, as the Tesla would also have to be stopping/stopped for decent impact. Better as a cure for a tailgater, maybe.

Except I think it’s interesting this was not generalizable. The Spanish were looking for people, just different people at first. Cortez for example landed and immediately “employed” hundreds of native people to come up with some wealth to pay off the exploration debt. The friars were specifically there to convert people to Catholicism.

The British puritans were looking to build their personal Utopia, but the Spanish and others, it seems to me, were looking for a populated colony from the start.

Thank you so much, I’ll check it out…

Wow, ok you said that and I was like I’ve totally seen that price on the regular, which is why I stick to gala, but I went looking and can’t find anything over $2.49, so, way to go, you fixed inflation! What else don’t you believe?

This is what I’ve heard, that basically if we were stomped back to single celled life today, evolution would not have time to bring back visible plants and animals before the earth became uninhabitable. So there’s no starting over. I admit it kind of depresses me.

Yeah, I would count that as ready to math in real time. I don’t trust myself to do much in my head anymore.

I’ve heard complaints of senior software engineers who, though they do all carry calculators in their pockets and even usually have laptops open in front of them in the meetings, avoid doing math of any kind (simple order of magnitude multiplication, for example) in front of other people. Which makes group decision-making super obtuse.

So, maybe there is something for teachers to do along the lines of let’s get confident and quick at doing this math however you want to do it. I hope things are changing in this direction.

I like the desert :)

Yes, the yellow is the good part and you don’t even have to be driving anywhere in particular

Is she carrying a bunch of 2x4s out of the woods?

Except that second button won’t be there. There’s something weird going on in our economy where the customers can’t actually afford the products but somehow their attention/data is still valuable. I don’t get it

We lived in a city where high schoolers take public transit and that worked well for them, but the district could never hire enough drivers for the elementary and middle schools. Even with the drivers they had, they had to stagger school start and end times so that buses could do multiple routes. Some schools started at 7 and others at 9. Then the problem you highlight comes up, that there are only a few hours between shifts, so it was harder for drivers to have a second job. Many drove Uber between.

Gaslamp district in San Diego had a cafeteria like this years ago, guessing it’s no longer a thing, but simple cheap menu would have steady customers, maybe profitable, it’s the business development people who would oppose.

It usually says price per total area, but this whole thing is why I just buy the recycled ones. If someone’s going to cheat me it may as well be for a good cause.

Haha, I thought you meant the loopmas, which is funny, too

I respect things. And places and plants. I don’t know what you’re talking about

Yes, this is the key. I don’t think she was making a point and even at the end it seems another girl also didn’t get a medal because the judge ran out, so probably not intentional. BUT, the effect is so much more damaging because these kinds of things ARE sometimes meant as signals and so it should have been dealt with directly. If she had immediately acknowledged that it could be felt that way and said “racism has no place in gymnastics”, you still wouldn’t know if she was lying but at least racists could not take comfort from the organization’s tacit acceptance of how racist it looked.

$16-20 here, but yeah, that’s sort of my point I guess. I mean they’re renting a studio on 25 hours a week and still hate everybody, so my thought was in their case less human interaction is the true solution. Of course they hate self check, too, for same reason as half this thread which is that when you do have to interact it’s more awkward.

The only cashiers I know would rather not ever have to talk to customers either. But they are pretty sour people in general and I don’t know if that’s common and of course it’s basically saying they wish they had a different job. So I’m with the automate whatever you can just pay more taxes crowd. There will always be a place for human customer service, but now we have choices.

The first time I heard “raw-dogging” used in non sexual context I wanted to erase my memory, but have to admit I’ve done it myself now, even out loud.