My 2 year old daughter just learnt the phrase “cat, no! You are lactose intolerant!”

Fun fact, “pineapple” was a nickname for a grenade, so presumably you’d want to insert it in such a way as to leave the pin accessible

Recorders are pretty light and hard to damage by mishandling them.

No, I didn’t read past the title - why do you ask?

Financial networks either need “network neutrality” rules or maybe that monopoly needs to get broken up

Penn and Teller do a bit with a nail gun where Penn does a monologue about how they are magicians so there is obviously a trick, and that’s the point - they want the audience to come along and enjoy the show and watch them do things that seem dangerous, while knowing that even if something goes wrong they aren’t going to be complicit in someone getting hurt or killed by encouraging them to take those risks.

Idk, not really relevant to what you said, but I think about that a lot

I’m sure the CEO got a call from the Whitehouse and had a brief, rambly word salad vomited at them over the phone, and replied diplomatically along the lines of “we will absolutely investigate that as a possibility” in much the same way you placate someone elses precocious child

I wish her the best of luck and sincerely hope I am wrong, but I would be completely unsurprised if there was a Tragic Accident in the next 18 months

• Stands on scale
• Presses tare button
• Immediately evaporates

Maybe? It depends on how the laws get written?

This pleases me

Mayor of New York isn’t the end goal

No.

But…

The adage that “the dose makes the poison” is working in your favor here. A large city supply delivers millions of liters of water per day; by the time you dilute your poison into millions of liters of water you’ll either be adding absurd amounts of poison (someone is going to notice massive line of tanker trucks queued up outside the treatment plant), or you are dealing with large - but not unweildly - volumes of something so horrendously toxic that it’s still deadly when diluted that much. There are very few substances that toxic, and someone is going to notice if you start procuring hundreds of liters of botulism toxin or Vx because at that point you are dealing with outlawed chemical warfare agents

Initially I thought “burner kids” ment actual children who were failing school and OP was a teacher

You can’t use logic to talk someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to get into in the first place

https://youtu.be/qw8sTxK6j2I

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by the internet being held together by chewing gum, string, and an informal agreement that the few thousand people who keep the whole mess running won’t all go to the pub at the same time

This only works with rational actors

Maybe don’t engage in a war of escalation with unstable people

Your presence on an illegal, sedicious, and - worst of all - unsanctioned messaging server has been noted, citizen; have a treason star. In addition, it has been noted that you failed to file form TA-616/17B (Official Notice of Intent to Engage in Sedicious Activity) with your local IntSec office before engaging in the aforementioned activity - you are fined 50 XP Points.

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