There was a Heinlein book where, to fight overpopulation on earth, they declared people over 65 legally dead and hence the worst you could be charged with for killing one was littering. I think about that a lot.

Part of me thinks Wednesday. I wouldn’t be surprised to see flex schedules more common in a 4 day work week world

Note that it is literally illegal to pay someone for voting a certain way, so there’s no reason you can’t take the money and vote for Kamala anyway.

ITT: A lot of people answering for people who have diametrically opposed views to them.

The thing with food safety is that the rate of occurrence may be low in some cases, but the consequences can be extremely high or fatal. And eating is an activity that is repeated often. So following safe practices is extremely important.

There are two vectors for food poisoning: Active harmful bacteria in your food, and toxins which are produced by harmful bacteria. When you boil it again, it removes the former threat but not the latter. Yes, this is very dangerous and you could die.

Nah everything is a conspiracy.

I’m pretty sure it’s less that you can crack the DRM on the newer format and more that you can get amazon to send you a version that’s compatible with older devices (which uses the older DRM).

Upvotes on this showing the level of critical thinking skills people here have.

That’s true for the older Kindle format but not the newer one.

Raw Story is a fake news website, always has been.

TL;DR software development is hard.

Hard to respond with anything else since you haven’t really given examples.

Just a few years ago you weren’t downvoted just because someone disagreed with your opinion.

Yeah, no, “downvote is jot a disagree button” has always been aspirational on reddit.

Oh that sounds amazing.

I’ve seen thin slices of apple or pear with something like goat cheese.

Figs are amazing.

Aspirational talk isn’t a bad thing.

Isn’t a party realignment spurred by culture war stuff exactly what trump’s broad strategy has been all along? I’m gonna guess that if you removed the fact that they are in a union, many teamsters members probably look a lot like typical trump voters.

Given that the cost of maintenance on a Lamborghini would be very high, and i drive like 20 minutes a week in a city, I’d genuinely prefer the ereader. Although I’d probably get enough for selling a Lamborghini to buy a few ereaders.

E-ink is fantastic for reading and i wish the technology was more widely used .