Actually, real answer is that fears of that are already lowering oil prices. That and OPEC manipulating it again. It’s not so much the ships but the transit after; also less people buying things, typical recession stuff.

Lower prices on gas tends to be seen as a win, although ironically the US is the biggest oil supplier so it hurts the economy here too.

Chevron Shakur subbing in for morning edition. First up… just how many gummy bears can one put in their mouth? Scientists find out.

Or hungrier kids (aka poorer kids) get the marshmallow first. Or those in greater need of serotonin (at least I think it’s serotonin) you get from sugar, etc. There’s a variety of issues here, but that’s true of most “experiments” that aren’t actually randomized controlled trial experiments.

No, it makes very very little difference, I graduated late by about two years and took a gap year after that, too (most people getting PhDs take a gap). People getting into the workforce immediately usually don’t have a huge advantage, either, although they go get a little more pay since they work slightly longer in their lifetime.

What’s generally more important is how you position yourself after graduation. Internships if business, lab if grad school, etc. It’s very easy to shoot ahead or fall very behind, though, as life after graduation is pretty much a matter of luck.

My brain did a weird thing reading this headline: “Michael J. Fox is confirming Marty McFly and Alex P. Keaton are the same character because of time travel?”

Yes, as absurd as that is that’s how I read it initially.

Always have been, as I’ve seen during my UCLA days of people buying exam answers from previous weekends and paying for papers, etc… I’m glad I never bothered, mostly because of dignity but what because I was poor (although those correlate). Rich people have plenty of ways to game the system, though.

It’s them! They’re the ones who traded away my high class stock exchange lifestyle for that it a lowlife bum over a one dollar bet!

I’ll say life-crippling debt roulette is certainly one of the more frustrating aspects of our system, yeah. Non-labor costs are a hit or miss of rejections, especially, since you don’t have the same protections.

E.g. Indiana friend owes 40k for a 15 dollar mandatory procedure, for instance, and he has to fight it since it’s clearly a random rejection. It’s very upsetting. I just don’t want to paint the picture it’s always life-crippling, just… very random.

Let’s not spread incorrect numbers, our hmo made the cost of labor about $100 (maybe because of California). Childcare, formula, etc is still way more than $5k but labor is only expensive with bad insurance or no insurance, which is actually kind of more ironic since that applies more to MAGA than the rest of us.

I find it funny Microsoft gave me a survey on my work PC asking about how I’m enjoying its products (I laughed in Linux, “how do you like windows customizablity” let me go off about KDE lol)

But back to the subject. Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit — I wonder what kind of survey feedback are they usually getting? “Oh, Skypes cool but I really like Teams”

Funny how, despite corporate trying it’s hardest to kill it, we’ve only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).

To be fair, most states are non-voting.

A reminder that Trump voters have barely moved on approval; this is what they wanted. Be sure to treat them the way they deserve.

A tool is a tool. Main problem are the tools using the tools, usually.

Yes, and that’s why Dark Souls is fun. Lol

That sounds like a fun time. In modern day though I’d hope the selected representatives would have professional aides, especially where I am given your average American is practically illiterate. (It’d probably work better in Japan, lol.)

Well, we do know C’thulhu outranks Yahweh so that’s probably him. Jolly guy in the left looks like a post-ascension Buddha (judging by those ears).

Fellow on the right eludes me, though. Reminds me of God in Futurama whom Bender meets, but that could be based on even something else from sci-fi I’m spacing out on.

To be fair, Tiramisu should be America’s favorite dessert.

Reminds me that just recently I heard they equipped busses with automatic “AI assisted” detection in their lanes. In very little time they’ve issued 10k tickets, though.

https://laist.com/news/transportation/la-metro-bus-ai-cameras-transportation

This is the main reason in OG sci-fi RPG games with cloning as the “resurrection”, I try to ironman my way through without any deaths.

You aren’t my real Rolf, Rolf. The real Rolf died 5 minutes into the game while I was grinding levels.