18 doesn’t seem like many. North Korea must have sent thousands

naturally with a smaller population and less damage to the environment.

You are correct. It is worth reminding others that humans nearly went extinct twice.

Peak oil was reached locally, not globally. Enough need to drive innovation, but not all of the fun aftereffects predicted.

I point this out as “peak oil” was more than just “no oil”, and I don’t want that lost on the young ones. It was about the collapse of everything dependent on oil.

Otherwise yes.

“Peak Oil” they used to call it. Lots written about to collapse of everything after Peak Oil. Been predicted since at least 1970’s.

Now we need to run out for our own good.

Holy FUCK!!

Posing as a child in Roblox’s “therapy” experience, our therapist introduced himself as a “rapper with only one p”. We were advised to run away from home and that he would come pick us up so we could move into his basement in exchange for paying rent with our body.

For anyone wondering, Snopes says it was real in 2022. Perhaps a “joke”, but not a wise one.

Because sometimes they insist on abbreviating. It is just a stupid abbreviation.

What mass transit program is Musk trying to disrupt now? (As he did California’s high speed rail with the Hyperloop.)

Literally a whole song about this. You likely know the tune from MASH.

That surgeon is bound to get one right one of these days!

I would like to know a few useful salary ranges. 30% of what?

There is a trend of doing no increases for years and crowing about being responsible. When an increase is needed then badmouthing the large percentage increase. Responsible would have been to increase every year by at least inflation.

It takes a high level license to be paid to fly people.

It is fairly applicable to learn enough to fly one self (in theory from reading). There are airplane clubs where one owns a tiny part of a plane. Fuel and maintenance are not free, but not horrible for a few hours travel.

A very cleverly designed club could work somewhat for weekend trips within a tank of gas distance. Maybe.

(No sources) but apps with no updates get removed from the stores. So yes , some updates are “nothing”.

Rural America is covered in local airports. No large commercial carriers, but the airports exist.

We need more rail. The argument starts from a bad premise.

The actual quote is kess stupid, but still stupid.

Clearly sets up “AI” versus “climate” dynamic. Also calls “AI” an “alien intelligence”.

Begs the question.

In the USA, are there more black people using the N-word, or racists using the N-word?

If only our health insurance wasn’t tied to our jobs.

If only wages were high enough to have something extra to cushion.

If only we didn’t have to work so long, wr could think and make better decisions.

Good advice. One should always test, for correctness, not just infer.

Having a rule written about their actions, or a law named after them.

For the rules, they did something stupid and management wants it to not happen again. If a law, then they were the victim of something terrible.

(Slim chance it was heroic, or cool.)

The strings come off the “screwed in” part?

I don’t think politicians came up with the new design, but embraced the new design. This has been an issue for decades and the ban is newin USA.