Uh, also, they’re not “kind of” two different measurements, they are entirely different stats, far more distinct than speed and acceleration. The top one is people filing for unemployment benefits, and the bottom is the number of layoffs some company measured. People can file for unemployment months after losing a job, or not file at all, and there are all kinds of ways to lose a job that don’t involve getting laid off.

There’s probably a correlation between the two, but having the two show vastly different stories isn’t surprising either.

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Yeah idk I feel like this copypasta loses a lot of steam when it’s separated from its satire of the 2nd amendment

Easy, just switch the two. There’s no way we’d all spend years confused about which sport anyone is talking about!

Dang, I’m full of great ideas today!

… does the person have to be alive?

Dig a hole as deep as you can, bury it oriented correctly, hide the burial site as best you can. Sooner or later a landslide or earthquake or flood or something might move it, but hey, if we get really lucky, we might have bought a few million years!

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I really wouldn’t make mind heavier traffic enforcement in residential areas. Seems like across the whole country, we have super low limits on highways, and a super high one in neighborhoods, where it actually matters. Not to mention the enforcement seems to only happens on highways as well; can’t remember ever seeing someone pulled over for speeding through a neighborhood, but I see it happen all the time.

And on top of all that, even though more neighborhood enforcement would be nice… Flock is clearly not the way to do it

“nah :)” -cdpr

I’m torn between being jealous and annoyed because those things are basically motorcycles. There’s a bike/pedestrian path near me that I often use and one of its rules is “no motorized vehicles,” to the extent people get tickets for using those electric rent-a-scooter things on there. But apparently people zooming past at 40mph, 2 feet away from someone walking their dog, is fine, cuz technically it has pedals

Most times this happens it’s just fucked, but once I was able to identify the song by opening up some piano app, tooling around until it sounded right, and then using (I think it was Shazam?)

I wouldn’t excuse the other two either. They’re more quiet about it, but it was their choice to quit and enable Clarkson to take the show somewhere else after he got fired for punching that guy

Yeah, and I’m not sure that a drug that reverses the symptoms is a realistic target anyway. As far as I’m aware, Alzheimer’s ultimately kills neurons. They ain’t coming back without a time machine. A treatment that stops degeneration is as good a goal as we’re gonna get.

Like, if I lose a limb in a car accident, is it really fair to say that the intervention required to let me live on as an amputee didn’t work, since it couldn’t grow my limb back?

oh god oh fuck

Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins

To clarify, by “issues” I mean “system stoppages not precipitated by me fucking with something.” I screw up my own system way more often than that lol

I could see humblebrag, but also ragebait. Mostly because the people using words like that tend to enrage me

This guy also writes the excellent webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons. Hmm I don’t recall seeing any large goblin asses though, mostly just washboard abs…

I think the price difference has more to do with scale than it does data. The main reason good, simple products can’t be cheaper is because the small companies who make them can’t put in the same gigantic bulk orders of raw materials, nor do they have the specialized manufacturing processes or assembly lines.

The data is damn near an afterthought. Putting a touchscreen on a fridge is a great way to pretend a piece of shit is a premium product. If they can scrape your data too, then for sure they’ll go for it, but the main reason the screen is on there is because most people are still buying that shit.

Yeah when I see stuff like this I can’t help but imagine the creep in the bushes taking pics of someone who’s just trying to eat

I dunno, there’s no shortage of people willing to forgo everything for money. I think probably it just isn’t physically possible for even the smallest, most subservient, most complimentary peon to service this moron’s ego the way the an algorithm can