Apparently there was a study done and your happiness levels out. Like if you got a big pay bump you’d be happier for a while but then back to baseline.

My boss used this to say that we don’t need raises. I asked if we could prove it and me and her swap pays. She laughed and brushed me off.

Most car insurance covers fire, so i hope the owners can collect and buy a different car.

That’s where the phrase “out of whack” came from. You just needed to give it a whack.

I had a similar thing on an old crt monitor. The screen would start to flicker badly after a while, and 8 year old me found if you banged the side, just right, it would keep working for a couple of hours.

Turns out the circuit board had some dry solders on it and when I hit it on the side where the board was, it got the connection back for a while.

At the quantum level, there is true randomness. From there comes the understanding that one random fluctuation can change others and affect the future. There is no certainty of the future, our decisions have not been made. We have free will.

I know how it worked for a certain European country in the late 30’s and early 40’s.

Yeah, the same way their highest prices are named “Best offer” or “Special Rate”

I recently found out the blood bank has an office near my favourite bar. So I’m going to give blood before a few beers and see how I go. Should be a cheap night.

Bitch Thatcher ruined ice cream.

Not equivalent. Let’s measure the aircraft performance by its ability to carry passengers between capital cities.

It’s baby steps and we need to encourage more investment. Not dismiss the Wright brothers for being unable to fly from New York to London after ten years of development.

Wouldn’t be much of a short story if they did.

I liked the one where the robot could sense people’s emotional pain, and went crazy when it had to deliver bad news.

It’s like people who find I don’t believe in hell asking “what’s stopping you from murdering people?”

If religion is all that’s stopping you, I’m worried.

Slightly related, I tend to look at heavily advertised products as inferior. Because really good things sell themselves, and all that marketing money ends up in the price I pay.

My first thought was the reliability. Can you rely on this new tech in a life or death situation. I didn’t even think of the batteries.

I know from experience that you can cut the tip of your finger off and it will grow back more or less the same. But if you have it stitched back on, it will leave a scar and not feel the same again.

I’ll stop by later then.

I am getting old. My parents told me that I’d understand how the world works when I get older, but I just hate it more and more.

The amount meta will pay is pocket change to them.

I’ll start requesting people to use thee/thou soon.

I can have sauna in the corner?