A shoehorn.

It’s to keep the exposed surface from drying out.

I was at a picnic where a two-year-old girl holding a slice of pizza took a bite and then offered the slice to my dog so that he could have his turn taking a bite. (He had been giving her the hungry-puppy stare.) It’s a shame that there was no one ready to photograph the look on her face when my dog grabbed the whole slice out of her hands and ran off with it. That experience is going to be her supervillain origin story.

Poking people with sticks was against the rules of recess and I knew that, so I didn’t feel that I was punished unfairly. The teacher did let me know that the way that I did it was especially against the rules, but she didn’t punish me more because of that.

When I was little, I acted out cartoon violence by poking a girl’s butt with a stick and the teacher told me that I was in trouble for reasons that I would understand when I was older.

I don’t know the details of the case but I expect that almost everyone who works for the city is as opposed to sexual assault as any normal person is. The mistake of the city government as a whole was having so little insurance - just one million dollars. I had 500k in liability for my house and I’m only one guy.

They need $7,500 per resident and, according to the article, they intend to raise that money over three years. I don’t know what their property values are like but if I assume an average house price of $300k, a current tax rate of 2%, and three people per house then they’re currently getting $6,000 in property taxes per person over three years (which they need to spend on other things) and so an enormous tax increase really is necessary.

(I’m neglecting non-residential property tax payers. A tiny town like this probably doesn’t have many.)

YTMND from 20 years ago.

Technically it still exists but it’s effectively dead.

Some of those symptoms are caused by the virus as part of its strategy for spreading. They make you likely to leak infectious fluid from your nose and mouth. Meanwhile your body has to learn how to recognize a virus that has evolved to be hard to recognize (and do that without also accidentally “recognizing” some of your own cells and killing you) and then track down every last virus. And there can be billions of viruses, many of which are hiding inside your own cells.

You’d spoil about as fast as food left out of the fridge (but due to bacteria and fungi, not viruses) if not for the constant battle your immune system fights.

You might want to read more about corporate personhood. It doesn’t mean that the corporation is considered by the law to be a person, or that whoever or whatever performs the duties of the CEO is by definition a person. It means that a corporation, despite not being a person, has certain rights usually associated with people. For example, a person can own property or be sued. A cat cannot own property or be sued. A corporation is like a person rather than a cat in that it can also own property or be sued. There’s debate about exactly which rights should be granted to corporations, but the idea that a corporation has at least some minimal set of rights is centuries old and an essential part of the very definition of what a corporation is.

You’re mixing up corporate personhood and the CEO’s own personhood. He isn’t the corporation. Ultimately, he’s just an employee. There’s no good reason for the board of directors to pay him if a machine can do a better job while costing less. I’m not sure why you might think that wouldn’t happen.

So it looks like my policy of “only buy Western Digital” is still the right one. But what’s happening to HGST?

How are Seagate drives these days? I stopped buying them about a decade ago after having several fail and looking up statistics that showed they were significantly less reliable than the other brands.

Why would you want to read a comment by someone you’ve blocked, and why would you want to upvote, downvote, or report a comment that you haven’t read?

You get to control your own experience, not their experience.

Not if they can help it.

I suppose I still want life-extension technology to be developed for the sake of the large number of humans who aren’t Putin or Xi. But for them,

And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay.
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare.
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Hmm, it’s probably several of those things at once. The last time it happened was after I ate a bunch of pancakes for lunch while having a stressful day and not sleeping very well.

Usually I feel a more normal “I’m full but I could eat more because that was tasty.” I have also felt “I haven’t eaten all day but the thought of eating disgusts me,” but that was definitely a side effect of a medication I was taking at the time.

Progress in AI. The sooner we build a machine god to judge us, the better. But seriously, it’s exciting to see something so new and different being built at a time when so much human effort is dedicated to destruction.

Superhero movies in general tend to struggle when they have a main character fight anyone who isn’t another main character. I suppose the intent is to make the hero or villain appear powerful by having her defeat a bunch of badass normal people but what usually ends up happening is that the normal people just look like losers instead. Thor himself had the same problem when fighting Surtur’s and Hela’s minions - they looked scary but they were so weak compared to him that the fights were comedic instead of dramatic. However, at least Thor’s lightning made his fights look cool. Hela’s spikes were the opposite of a fun fight scene.

If I were editing the script, I’d have Hela lay siege to Asgard with her undead army. She actually fights the Asgardians and forces them to retreat inside their fortress instead of just humiliating them and they’re barely holding out while Thor is on his journey of self-discovery. This would also fix the problem with her own undead minions being useless. They’d actually have something to do (fight the Asgardians) rather than jogging around chasing civilians while Yakety Sax plays.

(Oh and what was up with a guy who can beat the Hulk getting taken out instantly by a taser thingie? If those things are so powerful, shouldn’t everyone just be throwing them at each other instead of using weapons?)