Glad to see sanity win out on this one. It would have created a food monopoly on a lot of areas.

What about Unicron, but pre-destruction? He’s basically planet sized.

Would I know everything I know now? Cause if not, then what’s the point? I might as well be a completely different person (because I would be).

If I do know everything I know now, then would I retain that intelligence if I was another creature? Like could I come back as a chimpanzee with my full current intellect? What about an octopus?

Could I come back as a 90 year old billionaire’s only heir, and be born with my complete current knowledge? Then I can just use the cash to help people?

Since this is fantasy anyway, could I come back as a Viltrumite? What about a Kryptonian?

Could I be Cthulhu?

Could I just be me, but reborn with my current information?

WHAT ARE THE RULES???

Except that’s now how people work. You get increasingly less efficient the longer you work, so someone working 32 hours puts out more output than someone working 40 hours.

Companies that switched to 4 day work weeks saw sustained increases in productivity and satisfaction.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1234271434/4-day-workweek-successful-a-year-later-in-uk

On the other side, companies that push for longer and longer hours tend to get people zombie-ing through the week and do less work. They just LOOK more productive cause they’re physically present at their job and respond to messages beyond the work week.

Fired and laid off are two completely different things. Quite a few folks have been laid off and find other jobs, but it’s always easier to find a new job while you have a job.

Don’t wait to get laid off to start looking, but don’t quit without something else lined up first either. It’s better to ride the job out to the end if you don’t have something else first.

I mean… Contrails are bad for the climate and should be avoided, and it wouldn’t cost that much more.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/12/1089620/how-rerouting-planes-to-produce-fewer-contrails-could-help-cool-the-planet/

Tho we all know that they accidentally stumbled into maybe a good idea.

I can’t wear them in vehicles because the polarization of the glasses through windshields make me car sick.

I don’t normally get car sick, so it’s only if I wear polarized lenses. I speculate it’s the light being changed as it goes through the tempered glass.

Did they finally figure out they just need to give him some fake compliments and he’ll do whatever they want?

A hard disk uses spinning magnetic disks to store data.

An SSD uses flash memory to store data.

Since it doesn’t have moving parts, it can access the data faster and with fewer parts.

At current prices an SSD is more expensive for the same size storage, but most people don’t need 10TB on their laptop.

Smurfing hell… I thought I was going to be the smartass in this thread.

I 3d printed a dongle that has a Logitech receiver in it. All their design files are online, so you can make your own pretty easily.

My county flipped blue. Democrats didn’t even have someone running for the house seat here, it was uncontested.

They probably wouldn’t have won, but they didn’t even try…

This is why he moved to Texas

Pritzker has been very outspoken about defying national orders, and even protecting the vulnerable in other states.

I’m not surprised he’s leading the charge.

I thought he was going to be another shit governor in a long line of shitty Illinois governors, but this guy is knocking it out of the park.

The supreme court has no ability to enforce their decisions. The states can and have ignored their orders in the past.

If an order comes back that’s blatant enough, there will be pushback.

https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2024-11-13/jb-pritzker-and-colorados-jared-polis-launch-governors-coalition-to-protect-against-threats-of-autocracy-under-trump

The states control the elections, enough of them could literally just refuse to put him on the ballot.

Yup, sometime in the next year or two I’ll get laid off, then I’ll just mooch off my spouse.

Because no matter how prepared I think I am, there’s always at least one item on the ballot I didn’t expect to see.

I can sit down at my computer and look up everything on my ballot and make better informed decisions in the comfort of my home. I can lean over and ask my spouses opinion on what they’re voting for and we can decide what we want to do. In the end we each make our own decision, but at least we can discuss it.

I have a QR code on my envelope that shows that I can track my ballot from end to end and ensure that it’s where it is supposed to be. If it never arrives, I can go vote in person and have a provisional ballot to ensure I didn’t vote twice.

There’s a saying you might want to get familiar with

“If everywhere you look, all you see is assholes, maybe you’re the asshole.”

it’s much harder to prove because the official acts part also includes all the evidence and testimony needed to prosecute.

So if you can’t use evidence from official communication to prove that the treason happened. That makes the prosecution of presidents very difficult. It’s going to be extremely difficult for a prosecution to tell a coherent story to a jury without including any “official” acts as part of the crime.