“Luckily there was a loophole in those rules that I (omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient) made.”

If that doesn’t scream, “made up by the clerics trying to avoid contradicting each other and bringing the whole house of lying cards down as they went”, just keep sending money to your church. Because if a god needs anything, it’s obviously worldly riches and unquestioning loyalty. We need these churches to impress everyone with the power of our god, but he’s sleepy after making it all and throwing tantrums bigger than we can imagine because people were acting like the way he made them capable of acting, like cartoon villains in some cases, like a whole city whose first reaction to seeing an angel was “Let’s all rape it!” So that’s why you need to send your money without any questions!

I’m convinced the superstition is a misunderstanding over time of things that were, on their own, bad luck. Salt used to be expensive, so spilling some was bad luck because you would have rather kept it all for use instead of wasting it.

Mirrors would have also been expensive, especially when they needed to be transported before the time of smooth suspensions. The whole 7 years thing could be from it taking around 7 years for one particular broken mirror to be replaced.

Or the ones that invite accidents, like walking under a ladder (which usually implies someone is working at the top and might drop something, so odds of death are a bit higher under ladders). Or opening an umbrella indoors, where things are more crowded and you might injure someone or break something.

Though the black cat one is probably just racism.

Anyways, I bet that’s where they started and then humans being kinda (or very, depending on the circumstances) stupid and liking jumping on bandwagons they don’t always understand to fit in, left us with some people thinking those things cause ghosts to haunt you or whatever dumb shit superstitious people think happens.

Though I do think it is a bit wasteful to just dump salt out on the ground.

It’s not even the squirrels you need to worry about directly, it’s any fleas or biting bugs (can ticks carry it?) that have recently bitten one of those squirrels.

There was a series on Netflix that used this. It was alright though probably got cancelled. Can’t remember the name of it.

Unless it’s to give them physical support getting through a voting line designed to make people wonder if they should leave the line for survival sake. In which case they don’t want anyone doing it, homeless or not.

He was getting paid peanuts for designing and building an essential system for the running of the park all on his own, working for a guy that constantly bragged about sparing no expense.

IIRC the only interaction between Hammond and Nerdy went something like “you should have negotiated a better contract! Stfu gbtw”, which can pretty much sum up the whole wealth divide between the owners who gain most of the benefit and the workers who actually do the things under capitalism. Except if they aren’t getting the better of everyone on average, they just shut the whole thing down or find others that they do get the better of.

My mom would always tell me that I wouldn’t like the baker’s chocolate she would use in baking when I’d ask to try a piece.

Then, one day, she decided to just let me try it, probably expecting me to be grossed out or something. But I love dark chocolate and liked it anyways, even if it didn’t exactly match my expectations at the time.

I got my daughter some Percy Jones (Jackson? The novels that put the greek pantheon in stories set in this day) as novels for her to read with me during bed time reading time a few years back and holy shit @ the number of references just peppered through the thing. I’d have to spend 5 minutes explaining things for her to fully understand each paragraph, even ignoring the tough words to sound out. Maybe she was just too young (she was 8, just when her reading really took off), though I probably would have missed a lot of them when I was a teenager. Especially the ones referencing life in NYC.

It came off as pretentious, like the author wanted to show off knowing about a bunch of things more than he wanted to tell a story. It was exhausting and we didn’t get very far into the book.

None of the references were internet ones, from what I recall.

I am highly skilled at pedantry and enjoy challenging arbitrary lines. I bet there’s even a way to argue that we’re all stones or made up of the same stuff as them.

Does sand count as stones?

Glad you’re still alive, bud.

Yeah, the showing off is what I was getting at. The first experiment seemed more like an experiment and an accident but the demonstrations with the screwdriver seemed more like someone doing pull-ups over a fatal drop just to show how badass they are and accidentally landing on other people on the bottom when he slipped.

Thanks for the in depth response though, this gives more context to this than I’ve had before.

And just guessing on the other two attitudes before looking anything up (haha maybe wanting to challenge my intuition like this instead of just looking it up is one), one is probably related to laziness (eg assuming something is fine and doesn’t need to be checked when going through the pre flight checklist). And maybe the other is being too trusting or not assertive enough (eg colleague says something is OK, you don’t fully believe them but don’t challenge them on it). Am I close?

Probably an attempt to avoid repeating the mistake and letting gen alpha see how easy millennials and gen z have it compared to what they’ll have. Gen alpha monopoly will probably involve watching ads to stay in the game because they don’t have any money in the first place.

Makes me wonder how they think elections changing the party in power works if they think everyone is blindly loyal to “their” party. Or how an election in one area can go one way for one race and another for a different candidate in the same election.

I remember occasionally seeing a 64k connection speed on the dialup at my parents’ old place before they finally got broadband. No idea if it was accurate, as I understand 56k to be a physical limitation on phone lines, but it’s what windows would claim at least.

What was the point of these approaching criticality experiments anyways?

Has it ever been proven in any of the shows that the transporter didn’t kill everyone that used it and just made such prefect copies that no one realized?

Like it created an extra copy of Riker and there was the tragedy of Tuvix. Though I’d say the former is evidence that it is new copies but the latter might be evidence against it, since they each had memories of their time merged when they separated. Actually, that whole incident kinda brings into question what’s going on for a transporter to accidentally merge two people and not in a “horrible teleportation into a wall accident” way and then somehow de-merge them.

Not in Canada. Unless they want to go out of business.

Rick rolls saved the internet from random goatse/tubgurl/2girls1cup.

So… Did you guys eventually get the kinky glassware you ordered and did they make you return the chemistry glassware they accidentally sent?

Oh no, it shouldn’t take a day to get to the cupboard and back. I think OP is dead or maybe just incapacitated or napping.