loonster

Happiness is not getting what you want. It is wanting what you get.

I would classify the imbeciles in politics as: senile, alcoholic, or corrupt.

None of them were born stupid.

Interesting that those are all high trust societies. Im left wondering if itis the chicken or the egg?

Maybe that is caused by women that would have been unable to be polled actually giving their opinion.

(Not that I believe this. Just giving a plausible counter explanation.)

Not OP, but I do notice that many reality shows like to highlight someone's adversity as major reason that they should win.

>Also life is much better today for a weak, stupid person. 100 years, or even 40 years back, your life would be hell due to people giving you a hard time.

40 years ago, an imbecile could support himself doing menial labor. Now not so much.

Because the goal of boiling water for most cooking is to heat the water to the boiling point and not to make steam.

You also have to deal with cleaning a pan with micro cavities.

I would feel much more comfortable with subsidizing more sustainable practices than the hard handed approach of forcing a great leap forward.

Viruses DNA can be added into animal DNA. Maybe a virus infected a bird, then a mammal that later evolved into the platypus.

Money is fungible. The schools aren't funded that way, it is just how it was sold to the public. Every dollar that goes into schools will be reduced by the same amount in the general budget. The same happened in my state with the Lotto.

It's just as hard to undo something as it is to do something. A proclamation by a president is a very low bar.

A better method would be by law. That would require a future president, house, and Senate to agree.

>I suspect that we are not seeing grave illness anymore in most of the population due to the immune naive population being very low and the few people dying now are in the traditional old age and immune compromised categories that also die by other respiratory viruses under similar circumstances.

I suspect part of the reason is hospitals are no longer killing their patients through ineffective protocols.

Remember the big shortage of ventilators, and how the government is going to get GM to build them. Then it quietly went away because ventilators were killing patients.

It sounds like he joined Starbucks decades ago. Maybe before they realized most people dont care about good coffee.

Calories is a great metric. Better than mass. However, what I really want to see is calories produced per a unit of time. It takes about 8 weeks to raise a meat chicken and about 80 for beef cattle. 1 Cow = 50 chickens.

Another trip down memory lane. Remember when you could comment on other people's amazon comments? Those comments were the best. I would often scroll through comments until I came to one with a long chain of replies. Then I would really have a good insight on what I may purchase.

I think it would be more useful to track weight produced. This statistic is probably hard to track...

A good proxy would be to multiply the number of animals by the Animal Unit Equivalents (AUE).

I miss the comments the most. Seeing why someone rated something a certain way.

No. It's the high profit attracting high incentive to capture the regulation.

The goal of the regulation is to increase prices (profit) while preventing other parties from competing on prices

>3. There is no way to 'prepare' for fatherhood. It is utterly on the job training, and you just have to show up, do your best, and learn as you go.

Yes. You are never ready, but at the same time you were always ready. When my daughter was born, it was as if she has always been a part of my life. All the anxiety I previously had was gone.

I never felt comfortable about holding other people's babies. I always felt nervous like I was going to drop them or accidentally hurt them in some way. I never felt that way with my own. It was the opposite. I never wanted to let others hold them.

In the end, we are just animals. The primal instincts will kick in and everything should work its ways out.

I never noticed it until I bought a bidet. Now I do.

It's amazing to what one can get used to. My washlet has a heated seat, now regular seats feel very cold.

It makes me wonder how many of my clothes already have an nfc tag permanently attached, but I don't know because I never checked.

Doesnt matter how small of a footprint the Ethiopian has. The Ethiopian is an exponential function, and the Westerner is a linear one. The exponential function will always overtake the linear function. Eventually.

For every unit of food, there is a unit of oil to produce food. I'm not sure what the ratio would be, but it surely must be there.

What do you mean by inversion?

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I'm a tool designer for a small company. The company doesnt have the manpower to cover abcenses that long.

I could probably negotiate that if I left for a bigger company. This would also likely require a move.

I hate Twitter, reddit, quora, and a multitude of others because they do not allow you to read comments if you don't have an account.

I've seen the same problem with craigslist mirrors. When an item on craigslist gets sold, the seller removes the ad to stop the spam. The old ads stay up on the mirrors and it's not always obvious how old the ad is for.

The pinterest images sometimes give me exactly what I want, but make it harder to get to what I want. I would loved if the pinterest rank space was saved, but replaced with a link from a reverse image search of that image.

Try Xylitol. Place 1/4 - 1/2 tsp in your mouth. Let it melt and swish it around. Spit. Can also brush with it.