Start it at like, 7’, but have it slowly lower at a rate of, say, 1 inch per 5 minutes. See how long it takes people to notice.

This is interesting; specs look pretty solid for the price. Notably this uses DDR4 ram vs. the DDR5 in the Steam Machine which, given the current… situation… probably contributes a lot to the price point seeming reasonable.

I’m not sure what ‘pay what you weigh’ entails, but I’m also not sure where you’re seeing any indication that that’s what this is. By my read, it’s just a grocery store that sells essential items at an affordable baseline price. I would expect the result to be that those items will become cheaper elsewhere in the city, too (as other shops adjust prices to compete), while items that aren’t stocked in the new stores (e.g. cigarettes, lottery tickets, liquor, etc.) will become more expensive as they need to drive profits at those other locations. Personally, I’d call this a major net positive.

This is me any time I’m going somewhere. If I have to get on a plane at 1PM, I’m arriving in the airport at 9AM at the latest. Otherwise, I just feel increasingly anxious the longer I wait. I’d rather spend three and a half hours sitting in a terminal than be stressing out about whether I’m going to make it in time.

“Won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome pope?”

Not to mention, if you miss a payment, you typically have to pay interest on the full original loan from the date you took it out, at some egregiously high interest rate.

More of this, please.

I am quite familiar. Relatively few comics make me actually tear up, but almost all of hers do (as does this one).

Credit where it’s due; his work is excellent.

Not sure why that is! Maybe try copying / pasting the url?

Comic as a whole: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/pet-foolery/list?title_no=691801

This episode (part 1): https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/pet-foolery/big-jack/viewer?title_no=691801&episode_no=94

Part 2: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/pet-foolery/big-jack-2/viewer?title_no=691801&episode_no=98

Artist is Ben Hed; he has an instagram, as well: https://www.instagram.com/pet_foolery/

Sam Altman’s appeal to humanity is pretty weak. Dude directly took actions that made life worse for a huge number of people, whether because data centers are being erected in their communities, because their friends and loved ones are being victimized by AI-originating scams, because the jobs they went to college to get are being lost to AI, because the internet is being overrun with slop, or simply because they can’t afford ram and storage anymore. He shouldn’t be surprised that, when he antagonized hundreds of millions of people, some of those people are going to take their frustrations out on him. Maybe he should have thought about those potential consequences before he acted - but no, he saw the dollar signs and just couldn’t resist. Now he gets to live in fear.

All jokes aside, there’s evidence to support the hypothesis that groups of “regular people” putting their heads together can solve the world’s problems more efficiently than the people whose jobs it actually is to do so.

So you’re saying he has a future career in government?

Even just like… hitting a speed bump would be pretty bad.

I think about it every time I pay for health insurance, personally, which is every paycheck.

Yeah, I mean… Steam holds the vast majority of the market share, but they got there by… having a good storefront that people actually want to buy from. Any of the others could compete on this metric, too, but they choose not to. It’s like a store surrounded by barbed wire and landmines and caltrops complaining that another store gets more business.

No quicker way to negatively influence a friendship than loaning money. Doubly so with the expectation of interest.

Yeah, unfortunately you can get a DWI for pulling over and napping in your car on the side of the road because you didn’t feel safe driving. Because they argue how else did you get there if not by driving. And I suppose no one sober would choose to start drinking on the side of the road in a car.

It’s even worse than that. You can be parked right outside of a bar and still get a DWI, because if you’re in the driver’s seat and could conceivably access the keys, you’re considered to be ‘in control of the vehicle’, which is all it takes. So if you’re going to do this, make sure the car isn’t running, the keys aren’t anywhere near the ignition, and you’re in the back seat.

Ooh, this looks great!

This has to have been a joke, right?