$2.67 Billion doesn’t even shake out to a payment for someone on one of these plans for more than 2/3 of the period covered by the settlement.

Hat das sich wirklich für €1k gelohnt?

It’s probably a kindness he’s not around for the memes anymore

I fit the internet SJW stereotype to an uncomfortable degree, but I don’t really identify with it (which makes sense, given that it’s a shallow idea of a person designed by people who dislike them).

At the same time, I absolutely do not fulfill the stereotype of the American in Germany, and people are often very surprised when they hear that I am.

Do you fit or break a lot of stereotypes?

If 8.1 billion people marched on a government, even with a full array of advanced and nuclear weapons in their arsenal, would they still definitely lose? What about one billion? A hundred million? Ten million? Where do you think the line is?

Caveat: The government does want to be able to live on earth again within their lifetimes, but can spend up to a year in bunkers, and the military doesn’t revolt- given that nuclear weapons can be deployed by one person, the worst option doesn’t even really require the military’s cooperation.

In trying to figure out how to warn our descendants about nuclear waste, even through a possible societal collapse, one of the more fun ideas is using cats that show a visible difference in the presence of nuclear radiation along with nursery rhymes/mythology that tell you to get the fuck out of dodge after your cat turns blue.

Similarly, our mythology about the fae lines up alright with current generative AI: it will tell you what you want to hear, but can’t be trusted; it looks like a person, but might have too many fingers or its eyes are made of stone; something’s just off.

To be clear: I don’t actually believe humans destroyed a previous society with “AI” at a similar sophistication level and coded cultural warnings against it into us, but it’s fun to think about.

James Hart Stern (June 13, 1964 – October 11, 2019)[1] was an African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, speaker, and author from Los Angeles, California. He was best known for his work defusing gang violence through a series of summits in the 1980s and 1990s and for his incarceration with Edgar Ray Killen, the former KKK leader who was convicted of the 1964 Mississippi Burning murders.

They convert energy to movement more than heat, but I don’t know how significant a warming factor body heat is generally.

I’m so close to being done, but somehow this part takes the longest

When did you start noticing a difference?

(I know Whoopi Goldberg is a stage name, but still)

I was recently in England and I was most excited about trying Gregg’s vegan sausage rolls (I’m not classy, but I was very happy with them). Each time I got one, they came in this bag.

Is it just that each size bag highlights one of the baked goods that fits inside it or do they have different bags for every type of item?

It’s not important, but I work at a german bakery chain (so similar work, but very different cultural milieu, if panel shows are to be believed- I get the vibe that Gregg’s is like a bakery crossed with a Waffle House, but I didn't actually witness any shenanigans), and I would be so fucking annoyed if I had to get a specific bag for each item.

The case was later settled in arbitration.

Things like don’t shake a baby (babies love to be bounced and rocked, which are honestly just gentle shaking, but even moderately vigorous shaking can seriously injure or kill an infant and you should never shake a baby in anger or anything like that) or don’t take anything with you when exiting a building when a fire alarm goes off (don’t go looking for things, but you should still put your coat on if it’s next to you and it’s cold out). What other common maxims are generally good to follow, but over exaggerated? Bonus points if it’s only a well known saying because our instinct is to do the thing, like with rocking babies.

(Please don’t think I’m telling you to shake babies or look for and carry huge stacks of files out of a burning building)