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No. Being able to do that was why Martin Luther had the whole problem with indulgences.

You could pay the church to forgive a sin before committing it.

Another victim of the high blood pressure epidemic 😔

He should’ve tried eating less salt.

I thought they got put together like a tapestry?

That’s why they have looms or something to knit them up.

There’s a fair bit of nuance around the topic of whether honey should be vegan or not, since honeybees also overproduce, and that is its own problem. Like with sheep’s wool.

Although crude oil has the additional complication where it’s an incidental post-death product, like fertiliser, and from that viewpoint, it would be about as ethical.

If you have a chronic health condition, are particularly ill, or have a disability, good luck. You’ll need it.

That’s not how LASIK works.

It seems like the kind of thing that would give rise to the ~ Earth movement

Although that really only works as long as the camera doesn’t have an IR filter in place.

Do people even focus on their body parts that much on the day-to-day? It seems like something that you wouldn’t think about usually.

Or that someone could shoot the drone.

Very confused about what the point of this would be. People don’t use their cars enough to justify having something like that installed, and it seems like it would just make things more expensive for xAI for not much benefit at all.

Would he not be considered an illegal alien? It’s not like he was sent to the US under standard procedures. He was basically dumped at a US homestead.

Doesn’t the Congress and Election College have final say? The rest of it could be a sham, but what they say goes.

More or less. It varies a bit, but it extends a tiny bit along the shoulders and down the spine.

The brown fat is basically a metabolic heater, so indulating it will help warm things up.

Socialism as in Norway, not Stalin.

It should be pointed out that Norway is not socialist. It’s a social democracy/capitalist country.

“Drill, baby, drill!” has always been an immensely stupid rallying cry, even if you don’t care about the environment.

But a funny one, if it was in an Austin Powers movie.

Fun fact #2: Not all oil is equal. Refineries are designed to process certain grades of oil into specific products, and different parts of the world have different grades. Refineries also often blend oils from different parts of the world to get the characteristics they need for their process.

And the infrastructure to do that doesn’t currently exist. Even if they could drill overnight, they don’t have the pumps, platforms, and refineries set up.

Maybe if you gave him a wet food diet, like a cat or something.

Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.

I’d honestly argue that we’ve more or less hit it already, since a lot of phones over the past few years haven’t really changed from the template of being a black glass rectangle with some buttons on it.

No. Because any advanced civilisation capable of sending a colony ship across light-years to another planet is already so far outside of our current technological ability that it matters precious little.

We would be easy to colonise either way. Doubly so if they have some form of FTL technology to make that trip in reasonable time.

But there’s also an argument that anyone who can do so would have a much easier time not dealing with all of that and just colonising an uninhabited planet, or outright using materials to make a thing to colonise instead.