It’s the Pareto principle, numbnuts.

Tonyn’s Conjecture

I think we’re saying much same thing. If she isn’t fed into a woodchipper, saying “she should be fed into a woodchipper” is obviously hyperbole, not incitement.

If she is actually fed into a woodchipper, it’s not obvious hyperbole anymore. Someone hearing you say “she should be fed into a woodchipper” and actually acting on that statement is pretty much the definition of “incitement”.

Technically, the prosecutor has to prove that your statements were proximal, and that you reasonably believed they could induce the act. But, the jury is weighing that proximity and belief with 20/20 hindsight and video of the mangled corpse.

The definition of “outlandish” is subject to reality. It is much easier to describe a possible outcome as “outlandish” when it has never occurred before. It is much harder to describe that same scenario as “outlandish” when the jury is retching over the crime scene photos while the prosecutor is saying you are to blame.

I’d suggest a bench trial.

She should be fed feet-first through a wood chipper”, you would probably not be successfully prosecuted for incitement.

This is true, up until the point where she is actually fed feet-first through a wood chipper. That she was actually fed feet-first through a wood chipper is prima facie evidence that your rhetoric inspired the lawless action of which you spoke.

Wait: They make non-disposable alarm clocks?

How do they survive the throw?

Sorry, Pope “Badassmotherfucker” is reserved should Samuel L. Jackson ever run for the papacy.

DST is the bigger pain in the ass, but there really is no need for timezones.

Sunrise in my area is currently around 1100Z. Pilots around the world get their weather reports and plan their flights with Zulu (UTC) timestamps.

China uses a single timezone for an area where the rest of the world uses five.

Elder millennials are the last to remember what smoking actually was. We remember restaurants with smoking and non-smoking sections. We remember a time before the “smoke break”, when you didn’t leave your desk to smoke, you just lit up and continued to work.

Millennials smoke in designated outdoor smoking areas. Boomers smoked in grocery stores.

A server farm might serve hundreds or thousands of web applications from a few dozen physical machines.

A data center uses hundreds or thousands of physical machines to provide highly intensive compute services to a few dozen applications.

The wasteful part (in my opinion) is that these few dozen applications are producing content that is not tied to reality in any meaningful way. Where they lack information, they don’t seek it; they invent something that sounds good. Until AI is capable of accurately identifying and citing its sources, everything it says is gossip.

Another waste: We have applications converting a few pieces of data into lengthy reports. We have applications summarizing lengthy reports into a few pieces of data. Both applications are turning electricity into heat; neither one is needed, and both are regularly caught inserting their own gossip into the process.

They do, actually. The direct effects of the earths rotation on an aircraft are much smaller than the effects of localized aerodynamic forces: winds, updrafts, etc. You mentioned pendulums: the pendulums you’re talking about are swinging indoors, protected from the wind. Imagine trying to observe the rotational effects of the earth on a pendulum exposed to hurricane-force winds. Such winds will have a far greater effect on the motion of the pendulum, masking any rotational influence. It still exists, technically, but it’s a relatively minor effect.

However, indirectly, the earths rotation causes “Coriolis effects” on air masses moving toward or away from the poles. This influences weather patterns at all scales, which has massive influence on air travel.

Notorious copyright troll impotently whines to Felon and Friends.

All the major chain stores have loyalty programs. They’re really for tracking and marketing purposes, but they give discounts to incentivize participation. Most people just use the fake number for the regular discount.

But, these programs they also give rewards after a certain amount of spending. Rewards like 10c of per gallon of gasoline, or a free candy bar. With enough people using the same number for the discount, there are often a lot of rewards built up just waiting to be claimed.

Why? To make you ask that question.

They want you being appalled about what they are doing, so they can go tell their base that you support a Muslim terrorist and murderer. They want to portray you as a deranged sociopath, more concerned about the killer than his victims.

All they have to do is commit an atrocity against a despicable person, and our outrage at the atrocity can be portrayed as treasonous: We are providing aid and comfort to an enemy. Their base gets to be disgusted by us, and driven to support them.

I had an ex that identified as a refrigerator.

I took up blacksmithing.

Midwest/Great Lakes, US. I don’t think it originated here, though. I’ve heard it often enough to recognize it, but it’s not common.

https://grammarist.com/idiom/gin-something-up/

I hear it occasionally. Seems to have a meaning comparable to:

• Cobble together
• Jury rig
• Hammer something out
• Slap something together

Basically, “to construct something in an improvised manner”. As opposed to careful, calculated, methodical planning and meticulous craftsmanship.

Every real estate agent, every mortgage broker, could see the fraud in the housing market long by 2003, but either didn’t recognize it as fraud at the time, or didn’t care. They were all making money hand over fist to prop it up.

Zero down payment, 110% LTV mortgages, seller-paid closing costs, buyer is receiving a $3000 check at closing? ARM set to triple their rate in a year? Completely absurd, but the agent is only getting paid if the deal closes. The mortgage broker is only getting paid if the deal closes. The lender is only getting paid if the deal closes. The seller is only getting paid if the deal closes. Everyone needed this deal to close, so they did what it took to close the deal.

Lenders were offering “Continuing Education” credits that RE agents needed for their licenses. That “continuing education” consisted of seminars coaching agents to encourage these deals.

By 2003, buyers were underwater with their mortgages as soon as they signed them. Yet it took 5 more years for the bubble to actually burst.

The circular financing ponzi scheme behind AI will survive until someone can’t service debt. What happens then is either the collapse of the whole scheme, or the government declaring them “too big to fail” and allowing them to reorganize into a single corporate entity.

Weekly and bi-weekly pay cycles are much more common than monthly or semi-monthly. It would be easier to budget if bills directly corresponded to pay cycles.

Yes. You’re absolutely right. Have a nice day.