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Paul (the chicken) starved while I was trying to find the YouTube video. I’m sad.

I tell myself this every time I buy food.

If I paid $20 for a plate of food at a restaurant, eating it is the second half of the price. If I eat too much (don't take a box) I pay the second price. If I only eat just enough, the second price is much lower.

I also take issue with the statement early in the article that only paying the first price is the same as putting money in the garbage. It's not wrong but that mindset will lead you to becoming a victim of the sunk cost fallacy. If you've already paid for the thing but you no longer want it, get rid of it.

Right on. If the waiter brings me salmonella, he should pay the price.

I wanted this story to be interesting. But it wasn't.

No.

Came back five days later to say this: I understand that the problem is these cops being criminals. That's unacceptable. Full stop.

My larger point was that apparently people without morals or ethics are being attracted to the police force for some reason. And that could be because there's no way to attract moral/ethical people to do that job.

I know we have to hold law enforcement to very high standards but maybe the problem is that we are asking them to do an impossible task. How do you convince a group of highly ethical, moral people to police communities with no ethics or morals?

Communities have to police themselves first.

Those "inoffensive boxes" look to me, like stuff I would expect to see being built in Russia. I'm offended by them.

I've always had trouble with the speed of light and frame of reference examples.

The light moving inside the train is moving from the person on the train to the mirror and back again. That is a fixed distance inside the train.

Why does it matter what the observer outside the train sees? If a person on the train threw a ball in the air and caught it, to an observer outside the train it would also appear to travel a further distance in the same amount of time. But we would say that it's because the train's speed affects the ball's speed. But we don't say that about light.

Explain like I'm five ?

Unless you're trying to save time in the woods but also don't care about future rashes.

It's amazing they survive.

On the word “consider”: A friend of mine tells a story about his dad and his appreciation for the practicality of a brick house.

Someone once asked him “Would you ever consider putting any other siding on your house besides brick?”

His answer: “I’d consider it. And then I’d brick it.”

What about their parents??

It’s funny. If you talk to teachers the problem is the 10% of students who make the whole place miserable and no parental support. In fact, the parents make the problem worse by siding the problem students instead of helping the school fix the problem.

And Europe too.

The below article seems to indicate and average of around 700k in the EU.

https://www.greaterchange.co.uk/post/does-europe-have-a-home...

Off-topic but this article describes pretty much all politicians.

You would only watch sport in person if it wasn't for ads. ESPN and TNT ain't paying the NBA billions for the TV deals so they can not sell ads.

It's past the toddler stage! Congrats!

If information can only go out and not in, maybe?

This doesn't even remotely line up with the data they cite.

Can Apple comply with this by simply including an adapter in the box?

This is so cool. Also I can't wait until a headlight goes out and it costs $2k to replace it.

Prevent what? iOS being updated?

I love this little fact but stating, "It is possibly one of the greatest innovations of the 18th century" is ridiculous hyperbole.

Or maybe the 18th century was severely lacking in innovations.

Your reaction is a somewhat natural push back against the prevalent idea of selling people on things they don't yet have.

But you probably need to temper your reaction. Surely you would expect someone to work on improving themselves. That's what education is. That's how people develop skills.

James Clear in Atomic Habits is definitely not just talking about productivity. He's talking about your health and fitness and your mental health too.

Also, why do you have become "someone else" to be a better version of yourself?

I don't think you can infer from this article that Meta isn't setting new, measurable and actionable performance expectations internally.

Though you could be inferring that from working there or from all the other news about them.

Steven Wright said, "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

When I told this to a friend he answered, "Everywhere."

I agree in principle. But it depends on how much spam and what the corporations are allowing.

Probably not. What if you're having to wait on 10 other Ioniq drivers to refuel their cars for 18 minutes each?

This sounds like a possible next step for your app: “unblah” for teams.