Most appointments get handled with sick time or talking to the manager to see if they will let you adjust your schedule to accommodate your appointment.

Russia is already sanctioned/sanctioning due to the Ukraine War. China maybe could, but they are more focused on renegotiating a trade deal. The EU is already in the process is strategic decoupling and can’t go that much faster. Any other country is likely going to either have enough economic consequences that they can’t afford to or are doing so little trade that it doesn’t mean anything any way.

Yeah, it is going to get awkward for FIFA playing in half filled stadiums.

It isn’t like Arlington, TX is going to be that much better.

They are still a union protected job on construction sites and the docks in NYC.

And now there are a lot of laws to prevent it.

The quote comes from the Joker in The Dark Knight Rises, which would have been said during GWOT. The odds of death were lower during those wars/occupations than previous, but the odds were still higher than the civilian population.

The Internet was a place.

Compared to now, you had to go somewhere physical to be on the Internet. That changed the relationship that people had with the Internet, you went there to do something rather than have it entertain you when bored. It also meant you weren’t always available to being messaged.

There were also a lot less videos online due to bandwidth. Animation was a far bigger deal since the bandwidth needed to show an animation was significantly less than the bandwidth needed to show even SD video.

If you have two siblings from a set of well mixed parents, the odds are likely lower because it is likely that only one parent had the gene at issue.

However, the taboo of marrying siblings and first cousins are usually cultural, which means the likelihood of both parents having the same gene which will cause a genetic issue. So, if you have a human population with a smaller overall gene pool and/or families where intermarriage within a family is high, the odds of genetic disease from familial interbreeding spikes.

Not necessarily. If the problem is on a recessive gene or it isn’t a problem with only one out of two genes expressing the trait, the genetic disease won’t get bred out of the family.

It is generally part of the job description. A soldier in a war has a high probability in dying. A soldier’s death is a typical cost to war. A politician, in contrast, doesn’t have death as a potential risk to their profession. If anything, the death of a politician is generally a sign of the state being actively harmed.

It isn’t that surprising. Humans have gotten very good at raising chickens in the past 60 years.

Yeah, but the scale of the current set of data centers has gotten to a point where they are becoming a problem for the communities they inhabit. If data centers stayed at the consumption levels they did decades ago, I don’t think we’d be seeing organized political action against them.

Given that cameras are readily available to the public, these glasses will likely only be banned in specific controlled locations.

Gatorade never had vitamins, even in its original formulation. It was flavored water with salt to help athletes with electrolyte depletion.

Also, Gatorade is owned by Pepsi. Maybe you’re thinking of Powerade, which was crap.

And Meta probably have Luxotica a large sack of cash to make these glasses.

In general, the Wikimedia Foundation needs some reform. This strike feels like the mod strike when Reddit removed API access.

Cuba was being planned well before the Iran War started.

JD did kill the last pope.

Some forms of social interaction are fun for me, others aren’t. I usually do better in smaller groups.