Minor nitpick: he was Captain, not Chief.

And him trying to pass for straight was some of the funniest scenes in the show:

Guard: It just seems like you wanna be with Jamie-Lynn. I mean, you keep talking about her thigh gap.

Captain Holt: That’s my favorite part of a woman. There’s nothing more intoxicating than the clear absence of a penis.

sorry all I got is quarters

You’re also allowed to just tell lies on the internet.

Because so much depends on the income tax based on the tax year. We calculate our taxes based on our annual income. Our qualifications for government benefits (subsidized housing, food, healthcare, financial aid for universities) are keyed to our annual income, as reported on our taxes. Many programs, even for richer people, also look to income: tax credits for electric cars, specialized retirement accounts, etc.

And because lying on your taxes is a serious crime, many private banks and landlords use those annual figures as proof of income for loans, credit cards, long term leases, etc.

It just pervades how we think of money, on an annual basis.

It wouldn’t be a 30% higher electrical bill overall. It would be 30% more for whatever power you’re using for this specific device, which, if it’s ordinarily 10W while in sleep and an average 100W while in use, and you use it 50 hours per week, or 215 hours per month, that’s a baseline power usage of 21500 watt hours in use and 5050 watt hours from idle/sleep/suspend. Or a total of 26550 watt hours, or 26.5 kWh. At 20 cents per kWh, you’re talking about $5.30 per month in electricity for the computer. A 30% increase would be an extra $1.60 per month.

That wasn’t the real Tesla, though. It was actually the Goblin King.

Everything in this specific meme is literally true

There’s no contradiction or irony, it’s just how chemistry works

Yes, that’s what makes it such a humorous situation.

Yeah, I end up trying to run to the cadence of music, and so I don’t run to music.

Well you can always just put together a playlist of your preferred cadence for that particular workout. I’m usually a 180 steps per minute kind of runner, so I like 90 bpm songs.

Yeah I always thought that emojis were used most heavily by Gen Z. Millennials seem more likely to use abbreviations like “lol” and “lmao,” and Gen X seems more likely to just type “haha.” I don’t know what boomers do, send audio clips of them laughing?

That’s basically the joke in this Perry Bible Fellowship comic.

Raw garlic can overpower a dish. It’s a lot harder to do with cooked garlic, though (unless you burn it, at which point it’s not very pleasant in large quantities).

So I had my dick out, which was the style at the time. “Dicks out for Harambe,” you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, I had my dick out, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have any zippers then, because of the tariffs. The only thing you could get were those shitty button fly pants.

Not all kids are “climb into an animal enclosure at the zoo” dumb. That’s a special kind of dumb.

Have you ever had to care for 3-year-olds? I’d argue that probably more than 80% of 3 year olds are “climb into an animal enclosure at the zoo” dumb. And honestly, for the 20% you don’t have to worry about, it’s not intelligence that keeps them out, it’s other personality traits or physical abilities.

Human life absolutely factors into predicted lawsuit losses. Wrongful death lawsuits are expensive.

There’s definitely room for more happy people in the mix. I try my best to inject humor and whimsy here and there, while above all else trying to stay engaged with the types of topics I’m interested in (explaining things I know, asking about things I don’t know, and generally keeping topics alive if they’re good topics I want to continue).

I generally delete my draft comments that come off as rude, before posting them, because I’m not sure this place needs more negativity.

Sauropods had hollow bones and air sacs all throughout for lightweight structural support. You can’t just compare sizes and assume similar density as elephants or other large mammals.

The “mental illness” and “plumber” categories can actually add up to be more than 100%.

There’s always the Japanese method, where the protege being groomed as the CEO’s replacement goes through the effort and legal process of being adopted as the CEO’s son and taking the company name as his own legal last name.

Suzuki has done it 4 times in a row, even bypassing biological sons.

This particular linked study, that is the basis for this thread, limited itself to only unprocessed red meat.

There’s three metrics to think about:

• Actual number of years reduced/increased
• Actual probability of that change in lifespan
• Statistical certainty that the trend we observe is actually linked to the variable we’re studying.

Russian roulette (traditional 1 round in 6 chambers) in a hospice ward (where everyone has been given a prognosis of less than 6 months to live) would be a very high certainty of shaving months off the life of 1/6 of the studied population. In the grand scheme of things, that’s not a very high risk. But at the same time, we can look at it and say “yes, shooting oneself with a revolver is very bad for health.” Putting a more or less deadly round in the chamber is probably not going to be a hugely significant change in outcomes, even if we can objectively say that one is better or worse for the person’s health than the other.

Almost all dietary/nutrition studies involve much smaller swings in lifespan or health conditions, probabilistically over a smaller portion of the population, with less statistical certainty in the observations. But the science is still worth doing, and analyzing, because that all adds up.