People don't tip if it's after the purchase/delivery?

I just lost some of the shred of faith I had left in humanity.

Q: What do you call a doctor who graduated bottom of their class?

A: Doctor.

Their app updated and I could no longer use it without logging in. I do not want a Zillow account. Their app became irrelevant to me, and there's nothing special about their web site.

I read this article about Paraquat, a weed killer widely used in the U.S., but banned in many other countries, that has a link to Parkinson's. Sounds like some seriously nasty stuff. So if you farm, live near a farm, or... eat, you're exposed to this.

I lived in a neighborhood built on abandoned military base and my taps were hooked up to the old base wells, which were contaminated with TCE from the army firefighters practicing putting out fires. My family drank that stuff for a decade and I found out after we moved away. Municipal water systems are required to publish water analysis. It's worth looking up.

The day will come when a TV (or dishwasher or refrigerator) will not function at all without an internet connection.

Is it true that sperm donors make money hand over fist?

If for some reason we actually run out of space on Earth, a floating raft on the ocean would be much easier than Mars or Venus or the moon.

There is no logical reason for humans to ever live on another planet.

I get a good 100 yards range with that one.

Keep it simple.

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It's just a popup notice indicating you have free Sirius for two weeks. There isn't even a "Subscribe" button. I don't see why people are so worked up over this.

I'm not an important enough person for Google to care what I'm watching on their platform. Take my data. Use it to recommend videos I might like. Show me ads for things I might want to buy. I'm totally fine with it.

The Chinese motorcycles you can buy on Amazon are 70 year old Honda technology.

When I dry brine a couple racks of ribs and cook them in my smoker, does that make them ultra-processed? It's probably not the healthiest of foods, but I started with fresh ingredients!

I needed a wetlands permit to put a pipe in a ditch because it had a 4 inch trickle of water flowing through it. The federal government made me pay for an archeologist to search the ditch for shipwrecks. Fortunately there weren't any. Also needed an archeologist on site during all ground work because it was within 10 miles of a Civil War battlefield (all of Northern Virginia is within 10 miles of a battlefield - doesn't seem to bother the data centers).

The process took two years and cost $30,000. Good thing they didn't find any spotted owls.

I forget the terminology, but there's a classification where FEMA determines flood risk by a topographical map, and they overestimate. If you buy land in that category, you can pay for a boots-on-the-ground survey and typically get the flood zone size reduced somewhat.