I get 3 in 1 but only use it as face and bodywash. I have long hair that doesn’t play nice if I don’t use decent shampoo and conditioner. But the 3 in 1 stuff isn’t any more expensive than other bodywashes and there’s enough fuzz everywhere else that I like a little conditioner in my soap.

[Happy Chewbacca Noises]

So the average college graduate does better than the average non-college graduate if they end up with similar work histories.

OK, but those who start and don’t finish end up in debt without the benefits. So you need to factor in the chance of not completing college and the associated drawbacks and factor that into the cost benefit analysis for deciding to start college. Otherwise the argument is about as valid as saying that playing the lottery makes financial sense given the amount of money that goes to the average lottery winner.

Second, the average outcome isn’t the only metric that matters. The average person who pays for most kinds of insurance will get less out of it than they pay in, that doesn’t mean that it’s always a better idea to be uninsured. Hell, the average player in a Russian roulette game turns out fine. Unfortunately, that’s exactly the kind of thinking that tends to dominate conversations around college and particularly student loans. If the majority are better off after college, great. But if have to drop out due to forces beyond your control, or the degree you pursue suddenly becomes less valuable because of an unforeseen shift in the economy, you can still end up buried to your eyeballs in debt with nothing to show for it.

Third, even if you make enough additional income to mathematically offset the debts you accumulate in college, you can’t get back the lost time. Many people have to delay major milestones in life because they’re weighed down by debts on top of all the other brutal economic realities out there. Good luck buying a house. Hope you weren’t too eager to have kids.

Fourth, college might be a better option than not going to college, but it can still seem bad when both options are shitty due to an economy that exists to enrich billionaires.

I’m not saying it’s a mistake to go to college. I just think the article is glossing over the very real problems that come from our atrocious student loan policies, and that perhaps some of the pessimism around college is a symptom of the economy as a whole being rigged against us.

Real people don’t have scripts to read from.

But seriously, listen to the way people talk. It’s chaotic, messy, often unclear and very inefficient. Conversations meander wildly, with dangling threads that are never concluded and often times with people talking past each other as much as to each other. If you wrote dialogue that way it would just be harder for audiences to follow and waste precious screentime.

Realistic sounding dialogue is about writing what a real person would say if they stopped to think for a minute between each statement.

That’s what he’s doing.

I’ve seen people object to a 13 month calendar based solely on the idea that you can’t divide the year into quarters. But it’s actually really easy to remember. A quarter is 13 weeks, or 3 months and 1 week. So Q1 ends a week after month three, Q2 ends 2 weeks after month six, Q3 ends 3 weeks after month nine, and q4 ends after month 13 aka the end of the year. And since the calendar doesn’t change, you don’t even need to remember it, just mark the quarter ends once and you’re done forever.

Just compare that to the unnecessary complexity of the Gregorian calendar and the effort it takes to remember basically anything that changes from year to year, or what day of the week any given date or holiday falls on, or even just which months have 30 days and which have 31.

Ordering a lot for yourself doesn’t necessarily mean eating it all at once. Leftovers are good too.

That said, there was a time when I worked in a pizza place that sold by the slice. I had to predict what we’d sell 10 minutes in advance without creating too much waste or leaving customers waiting. Sometimes fat people would come in, order way too much, complain about needing to wait for more, and generally making my day worse. I realized I was starting to resent fat people and it was adding to my already miserable mental state working that shitty job. So whenever it came up I started playing baby elephant walk in my head, and I wasn’t so resentful anymore.

For deliveries, the only customers I judged were the ones who treated us like shit, lied to get free stuff, or who were terrible tippers despite clearly having the money.

A manufacturer bricking your device remotely should be treated as destruction of property, no different than if they walked in and smashed it with a baseball bat.

The price has been coming down because the scale of production has been going up, the supply chains have been developing, and because they are being designed to be cheaper instead of being luxury toys for early adopters. Hell, there are engineering teams who are working exclusively on ways to lower the production costs.

And the R&D has not stopped. Billions are being poured into battery technology because everyone wants to be the one that gets the next big breakthrough. We’re not just talking about lab work either, manufacturing processes are being developed and refined to bring new technologies to market. None of that is stopping, especially since improvements in battery technology have applications far beyond EVs.

The loss of tax credits makes it harder, obviously. But the price floor for EVs has been gradually coming down over the years, while car prices in general have been going up. Given the reduced maintenance costs and tremendous savings on fuel, EVs are still a smart option in the long run for a lot of people.

Lying rag using a misleading title to push a false narrative.

EVs have been declared dead on a weekly basis for the last decade. And yet somehow they keep taking up more and more of the market. It’s almost like these assholes are less interested in reporting a trend than in creating one.

Sales dropping after a massive surge is to be expected. This is like predicting doom and gloom for the snowblower market as sales plummet going into summer.

Book 2 in the Children of Time series has a civilization of genetically modified octopuses. They have a sort of dual intelligence, with their more conscious mind handling big ideas and emotions while their arms host a distributed intelligence that handles stuff like math and problem solving, and the two function independently and are only somewhat aware of each other.

They are incredibly alien and yet so very relatable. It was weird listening to the description of how their minds work on two different levels at once and realizing that this was coming from an audiobook that I was using to keep one half of my brain occupied while the other half gets work done.

Am I the only one here who looked at that picture and thought “Oh look, the rhino’s giving birth.”

Chicken is dinosaur meat.

Not to mention that the bullshit in AI videos made by the left would absolutely get called out in every propaganda outfit on the right. It would just give them more ammo (without the usual lies).

But even more important, it will grant legitimacy to everyone who responds to damning video evidence by claiming it was AI. We don’t need to make shit up, the reality is already horrifying. All AI will do is make it harder for people to believe their own eyes.

So if your character is from Alabama it could still work then.

Things that have helped me include:

• an alarm across the room that I have to get up to turn off.
• a light that turns on before that alarm
• an alarm app on my phone that can only be turned off by solving puzzles.
• having an engaging activity that I want to do ready for me and fit into my schedule
• getting up a little earlier so I have time to make a decent breakfast instead of grabbing some trash or just not eating.
• a TV set to turn itself on and set to a channel that shows stuff you can’t easily get used to (the history channel used to show random documentaries in the morning, no idea what it’s like now)
• strict discipline about never sleeping in even when I can.
• avoiding spending time in my bedroom when I’m not trying to sleep.
• setting a reminder to start getting ready for bed
• popping melatonin when that reminder goes off if I’m not already tired.
• drink water before drinking caffeine.
• stop caffeine at least 6 hours before bedtime.
• prescription medication in the morning. Not enough to replace all the other stuff, but definitely something that makes a huge difference with my sleeping disorder.

Because they aren’t just doing nothing, they are actively interfering.

If this became a trend it would probably just push the studios to be that much more focused on big franchises where the director is just doing a job for hire. And of course, their long term goal of being able to replace as many people as possible with AI, just as soon as the slop it churns out is good enough sell tickets.

Turn off the nsfw filter on steam and find out.

In an order issued by a Texas federal court last week

Ah, say no more.