Excellent, thanks for the feedback, I’ll give it a go :)

Awesome thanks, I’ll do that.

I’m not really into vampire stuff but it came up when looking for comedy type stuff (because sci-fi has gotten overall quite depressing and I need something that isn’t), so I nabbed it and there it sits.

But I’ll give it a shot with the movie at least. :)

I don’t see how that refutes what I said about why people don’t want to pay for it…?

lol ok, sure.

In what way? Give examples plz.

Nobody wants to pay for all the little individual piecemeal services and shit, because it’s wildly expensive and inconvenient, and because they keep adding ads to the paid stuff anyway because greed, so what benefit is there to paying?

That question has a lot of variables that need to be properly defined.

• How many are in the next generation to inherit? Passing the money/property to the next generation doesn’t actually fix anything, after all.
• If they are already counted as 1% on their own, they must be excluded from the inheritors, even if it puts them in the .01%.
• If not already in the 1%, how many would have their share of inheritance bump them into 1% territory?
• If it would not bump them to 1%, how many inherit full or partial control of anything particularly impactful, like a business, commercial buildings, or huge tract of valuable land? Because that’s likely to put them squarely into the 1% in short order, as well.
• Given the above variables, how much will the 1% figure shift? For example, you have 5 1% people, and each of them has 3 kids, who in turn each have 3 kids. So you off the 5, and now the 1% has fundamentally changed because where -all 5- qualified, now -only 5- will qualify due to the sheer mass of overall population, but you now have 15 people who would have otherwise qualified as 1%. Take those out and you now spread that among 45… and eventually they aren’t rich anymore sure (or more likely the inheritance line dies out), but that’s really complicated math.
• At what dilution point should this stop? There will always be a top 1%, and they will always own disproportionately more than others, so what should we deem a fair stopping point?

My math skills are nowhere near good enough to solve that complex of an equation.

Unless we are talking about outright sizing their ill-gotten gains along with their head… I’m down for that option, as it simplifies the math substantially.

I took a speech class in college and was assigned pro-gun and pro-hunting as my platform for the persuasive speech, something which I am not, actually, in favor of for the most part. I took it seriously, and did a good enough job to get an A. I still don’t support those positions but that’s not the point.

It’s actually really good to get students to research and write things they disagree with to some extent because it opens them up to new alternatives and information, and forces them to really think about good ways to counter-argue their own beliefs. Which imho is super useful long term because it makes people very aware of the… I guess non-absurdity? of their opposition. Like those people often came to their beliefs for similarly logical (or illogical) reasons you arrived at your own.

So maybe them not wanting to argue for the company doesn’t really matter, if you assign randomly and tell them they don’t have to agree with the position, but they do have to make a solid effort to support it. Even better if you give each of them an opportunity to swap sides for another, maybe similar, thing later.

I have that show and haven’t watched it. Any good?

If it makes you feel any better, my STEM degree hasn’t done me a lick of good, either.

Turns out, specializing in the thing academics do after they burn out of, or can’t properly get into, the academic system… not a great path to go down, yeah.

It was a passion degree as well.

I’m super fun at parties, too! ;)

That’s honestly the only argument that matters right now, unfortunately.

Have to disagree that it’s not a one-person hairdo. It’s a simple French braid. If she had the Barbie lay across her head with the legs pulled back so it was bent at the hips, she could very easily have done it herself and then positioned the Barbie, assuming she can French braid. You’d only need a couple rows of the braid in to hold it securely, at which point standing it back up would pull the legs closer together and tighten everything up so she could finish and have it held securely.

Or if it was left loose enough at the top the Barbie could have been added after, which the green says may be the case (or that could be colored hair gel, dunno)

(Source: had Barbies and can French braid my own hair)

Knowing if you are picking up food from a tiny place where one of two people do everything, or a big one with full kitchen staff, is calculus? Around me you can tell by the size of the parking lot so it’s dead simple. But even if not you can absolutely tell when you walk in to pick it up.

I agree that tipping shouldn’t exist, I hate working for tips. But since I do, there are things I won’t do because they don’t pay. Like going above and beyond for to-go orders.

TIL if a camel spider chases me, I should run like the dickens toward a stationary shadow.

I have no idea when I’ll need that information but I’m glad to have it.

TankieYankie sounds extra mocking…?

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You made me curious so I looked it up. Apparently there’s several things classified as “pope’s hat”.

So the specific one you are asking about is called a mitre, and not just the pope wears them I guess? Abbots, cardinals, bishops, and whomever else do as well, and there are lots of different styles for different groups/sects/whatever. It is thus very difficult to sort out what this article is talking about as someone with zero religious upbringing or education.

Apparently prior to 1927 they weren’t using the mitre at all, and were using a papal tiara, which is frankly quite ugly, so it’s just as well pope Benedict XVI broke tradition and went with the mitre.

In 1963 pope Paul VI was coronated with the tiara, and was the last to be so far.

Also gold and silver count as “white” because the mitre has to be white. So that’s weird af.

There are several styles of papal regalia, so I think it’s, like, a choice? It really doesn’t give a lot of detail on the wiki page about that sort of thing but just based on the number of historical options, popes switching things up, etc. That’s about as much energy as I have to read and report back, so that’s as far as I go.

I’d bet they just tailor a stock one or something for the day 1 thing and then do proper after.

Probably just toggles the visual off for normal running around stuff, but the cutscenes show everything due to poor design.

This implies discipline is a chemical of some sort…

Where can I buy it?

Idk if it’s still a thing or how widespread it is, but they sell/sold live fish and small reptiles/amphibians as keychains… basically a small soft plastic pouch filled with oxygenated water so they can get crushed or suffocate in a week (turtles can probably survive a bit longer but… regardless it’s gross). First article I found was from 2015, this one is from 2023…

https://thoughtnova.com/animals-trapped-alive-in-keychains-sold-for-1-50-in-china