Rhaedas

Every individual is different than their parents. We don’t see large scale changes from one species to another from a single generation, but from population changes over huge amounts of time.

Sometimes there’s a mutation that allows previous features to come back in an individual showing the history. Look up images of chickens with teeth.

Chickens as we know them now in a farm didn’t exist until we did our own evolutionary selection to change them to something that would have more meat on them by picking the preferred ones. Dogs are another very obvious demonstration of that. Dogs came from a now extinct ancestor of wolves, so you can carry the same fallacy, when did the wolf become a dog? It wasn’t the first ones that were lured in by a warm place and food, was it the second generation?

Evolution doesn’t have clear lines, humans just like to classify things. It’s a lot easier to do that with species separated by millions of years because the details have changed enough.

There’s lettuce on his Big Mac!

It depends on the road and the car. If the road isn’t designed for the speed you’re going, you are risking your life and others. Step it down to more common speeds. Going 60 mph on a highway is actually slow these days, but it feels normal and you have time to react because the road surface, sight distance, and curves all are built with those speeds in mind. Now try 60 mph in a 35 mph residential area. Not only is it deadly if anything goes wrong, the road isn’t as flat and you can’t see as far, plus the room to move is much tighter.

It’s said that one of the fastest cars in the world, the Bugatti, can only be driven at its full speed and for a limited time in certain places because it requires both a very flat surface and other ideal road conditions. It also eats up tires.

Humans are terrible. The human eyes and brain are good at detecting certain things though that allow a reaction where computer vision, especially only using one method of detection, fails often. There are times when an automated system will prevent a problem before a human could even see it. So far neither is the clear winner, human driving just has a legacy that automation has to beat by a great length and not just be good enough.

On the topic of human drivers, I think most on the road drive reactively and not based on prediction and anticipation. Given the speed and possible detection methods, a well designed automated system should be excelling at this. It costs more and it more complex to design such a thing, so we’re getting the bare bones of the best minimum tech can give us right now, which again is not a replacement for all cases.

Real Genius

“This? This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This? This is Kent. This is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated.”

Legend of so many films.

Wow, that must be a very secure password to be so long. :P

Weird. Just like passwords, all I saw for your ssn is asterisks. Must be a Fediverse security feature.

You’re not overthinking, as it obviously means something to you if you’re concerned about it. But in the end it’s about what it means to you two, and that’s it. Perhaps realizing that will downplay what you end up doing, or help you find a solution that works. Others have given some ideas to retain some show of connection, so there’s answers out there if that’s what you need.

For what it’s worth, as a straight couple married for 35 years, I’ve worn my ring for almost all of that time. She stopped wearing hers years ago when it became annoying (probably for a similar reason as you, fitting well). In the past years through age my fingers changed in size and my ring had been there so long it has literally created a small groove it sat in. I could not take it off using any of the methods I found. It didn’t bother me, but looking at it it was a concern, mostly to her as she envisioned a degloving incident at work (which is certain a problem even for rings that fit). Finally not too long ago I decided to go ahead and get it cut off (10 secs at a jeweler, no charge). I could expand it and wear it more, but it’s not a huge deal to either of us and would cost money to…do what? Its absence on my finger (and hers all these years) means nothing to us. I will say it’s been enough time where my finger has recovered and I can barely see where it was.

So…the rings and any other embellishments are symbolic between you two, and can mean as much or as little as you want it to.

It’s been brought up before, but “mitigated” or “adapted for” are more realistic terms to use than the absolute and unrealistic “countered”. Let’s not water down the initial two parts calling for action and alarm by trying to sell a happy solution.

Sure, but OP is talking about fingers as representation, not markings. Your point is exactly why they did it in writing.

I see what you’re saying, using one hand for the entire sequence. XI is still a pain. The real problem is that there is no mention of doing this in any Roman text. A bit of an omission, or was it a state secret?

IV and IX don’t make sense when it could be done more intuitively by IIII and VIIII.

That quiet smile at the end is great. It’s good to have purpose, regardless of what it is. I still have all my old cards for whatever reason, all the way back to the TNT. It will never get used again, but I feel trashing it is disrespectful for all the joy it gave me when it could.

The distance is definitely. Without the federal ties, even in the colonial days each region was its own country and actions due to distance. The rest is fundamental now because that’s how it’s been set up over decades, both for profitability and for control. Sometimes they give a bit to give the image of change, and that settles the public down for a while.

Working is usually a big part. Distance is another. Police state…we’re on the edge.

I think he saw the one possibility early on but because Tony sacrificed himself there, Strange was trying to find anything else. That he couldn’t after so many tries would certainly drive a person crazy, and it’s reasonable to consider that if you only found one and no others, the probability must be virtually zero.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence. Jesus, the incompetence.

Also, thinking things are part of a big conspiracy helps some people rationalize that there is intelligence behind all this chaos. Because if that’s not true, then there’s no one at the helm who has a clue, and THAT is frightening.

Truly random. I would have never guessed that one.

Could have been Reddit data. Stack Overflow is more heavy on the probability of telling them it’s a question that’s been asked before.