Couldn’t you just use an acid to dissolve the hair as well as the other shit that makes up a drain clog?

Mostly because it’s seen as hipster and mostly straight white dudes were the most enthusiastic adopters of the hipster aesthetic.

Plus a lot of different cultures have different cultural traditions related to preferred drink and drinking practices, not all of which lend themselves easily, or even safely, to homebrewing.

Third World is an outdated term to refer to neutral countries in the cold war.

Unless there was a sudden dramatic shift in US geopolitical policy it would literally be impossible for it to be considered third world, as the very definition of third world as the definition inherently implies that the country in question is not allied with the US and the broader Western World.

Austria and Switzerland were third world, technically Yugoslavia was too. China became third world for a decent stretch after the sino-soviet split since the other half of the definition relies on not being allied with the Soviets in particular.

The use of third world as an insult for poor countries is a neo-colonial mindset that just takes for granted that anyone who isn’t an outright ally of the west or of the Russians must just be too poor to be worth considering as anything but uneducated people in dirt houses living subsistence lifestyles and who’s main interaction with an apparatus of state is occasionally seeing a humvee loaded up with the child soldiers of this warlord or that drive by.

Normally I’d be suspicious of these kinds of megastructure projects but Vegas is the city that figured out how to get damn close to net zero water use from the Colorado so I’m willing to start off with the benefit of the doubt for the city leaders that ok’d this.

If they’ve got favorite colors or colors that hold special meaning to them, prioritize gems with those colors over diamonds.

Even elaborate pieces will still be cheaper than an equivalent diamond ring because the prices are that overinflated for those things.

Also if they like purple, see if you can get the body of the ring in purple gold if it’s in the budget, might not be as much of a cost conscious choice as seeking alternative gems but it’ll look sick!

I am shocked! Shocked that the Germans aren’t running that shit on bureaucratic paperwork filing instead.

Twitter’s algorithm, like most social media companies, promotes rage bait on purpose because angry users are users that get into flame wars with other users and as a result, raise engagement metrics to show advertisers.

It might stop if you just don’t engage for long enough, but honestly, just consider a different site altogether if you need microblog stuff in your system, Twitter is going the way of Blockbuster.

Or just the fact that achieving space farring tech in effect makes you a post scarcity civilization.

Thanos wasn’t called Mad because his people deemed his ideas too radical, it was because even the premise of his plan was based on him being as dumb as a sack of rocks.

“We have Thanos at home”

The Thanos at Home:

Simple answer, our sim is an entire universe, so likely it’s being run on a jupiter brain or matrioshka brain.

It could even be possible to run it on a Black Hole computer.

Basically all these options would allow well beyond the computing power needed to not just simulate a universe, but to handle individual people in that universe also running simulations.

In fact it may even be optimized for that to allow scientists to run simulations within the simulated universe for the purpose of experiments that need simulation but don’t require an entire ulta-massive black hole’s worth of computing power to get the results needed.

I think it’s less views specifically and more about how well it does vs how much it cost to make it.

Wildly successful shows could still be cancelled because they went all in on the budget.

Wait did the captain go down with the ship? I thought the crew was mostly able to escape.

King tut was a relatively minor ruler, if that was the quality found at his grave site most other pharos would have destroyed the egyptian economy mansa musa style by being discovered

This would imply that the captain and navigation crew intended to crash, which none of the evidence indicates.

My Belfast Taxi Driver told a story about being a catholic and having to sneak out of town into the woods to be able to hear mass when he was a kid.

I had serious doubts that he was old enough to have been around in the troubles if that was even a thing during the troubles.

Maybe talk to them about how the PDA keeps reminding you of how you found out about the whole thing and ask them to dial it back.

As distanced as you might feel from them right now, that’s still your friend and your sister, assuming they aren’t awful people they’re probably only doing it because they’re in the honeymoon phase and being reminded that not everyone’s comfortable with public intimacy will put just the right amount of ice water over their heads and snap them out of the love goggles.

Probably also talk to your friend about how you feel like he’s never around to see you anymore. Again, love goggles, this kid is probably neglecting a lot of other relationships and needs a wake-up call on that, do not start a fight about it though, be calm and explanatory and express concern for him getting lost in the sauce.

Lastly, adopt a policy of knocking on doors before entering even if they aren’t locked. It is gonna save your life in college.

Horse Race reporting, it’s literally all the mainstream has to say people are concerned about because his performance actually holds up when you check the stats.

But if you dare say that people are literally being manipulated into thinking he’s worse than he is you’re “not understanding the median voter’s struggles”

We need to force the sale of news corporations to the journalists so this profit maxxing bothsidesifying shit can go the way of the dodo.

I’d say it’d depend on the specifics of the result.

Taking the wind out of MAGA’s sails would take a blowout victory and Hillary wasn’t gonna get that without doing some serious full court pressing for the entire general campaign, like well beyond even the “she should have campaigned more in the rust belt!” ideas people have about where she fell short.

How is it even a wine at this point? Doesn’t it naturally become vinegar after long enough?

Nah just get the work certed, it’d be available for anyone, it just needs to pass the “No AI was used at all” test, and that can be done by giving creative software tools the ability to sign files whenever AI or screen shotting tools get used in their making

I think the approach of providing software tools the ability to grant the cert if no AI tools are used will be the way to really spread the practice, can even work with them to create a cert mode that just doesn’t even present those tools to the user in the first place.

The next step would be getting publishing sites to use the cert or signature as a check that either blocks the upload or more leniently get a visual marker that indicates it was not made with generator tools.

Plus checking for the cert also eliminates the crisis of teachers having to outsmart GPT to avoid their students cheating on takehome essays.