That’s probably the only way to move things forward though. Implement rules that only affect future politicians. Let the current generation have their cake. We can gradually transition to something more sane as they get replaced.

They still use those here. I don’t bother with the tape. Just cut the bag.

• Talking about sex: Perfectly healthy and is something every parent should do.
• Talking about sex toys and flashlights: Also perfectly normal.
• Requesting/offering help in purchasing a flashlight (e.g. take my credit card and buy something under my name or driving them to a sex shop): Normal
• Choosing the fleshlight for them and thus making the decision in exactly what kind of sensations they experience while masturbating: Out of bounds.

If […] youre not trying to save them, what does it matter?

That’s the problem I’m currently addressing, isn’t it?

If you are trying to save youre not keeping hard cash youre investing it.

The general recommendation for savings is to first create a sufficiently large emergency fund. This is meant to cover things like sudden medical bills, repairs, and other things of that nature that can’t wait. This needs to be quickly accessible, so it rules out GICs. I’m guessing a plain savings account would count as cash that can expire, so that’s out. That leaves us with bonds and equity. Both have a fair amount of volatility. This isn’t a problem if you have enough money because everything trends upwards in the long term. If all you have is $500 saved up and you need to draw from it during a market downturn, you’ve probably just lost $50 of your hard earned money. That’s a huge amount when you have so little. If you have $5k and you lose $50? Whatever, chump change.

Secondly, rich people definitely do not hold on to plain cash. The vast majority of their wealth is going to be in some form of investments, so if this is meant to prevent wealth concentration, I don’t see how it’ll manage to take anything away from them.

Most likely you’ll be getting the older bills that are close to expiry if you’re poor. It doesn’t matter how much time they’re given when they’re minted.

They live hand to mouth.

And they’ll stay there if they can’t save up any money.

Besides the temperature differential that everyone else mentioned, there’s also sometimes the need to defrost the outside bits, which means running the heat pump in reverse and undoing a bit of the heating it already did.

It requires a certain amount of flexibility. Some are born with it, others have to work for it.

I like how the title implies that it targets JD Vance rather than all current and future vice presidents. Fuck that guy in particular.

Sounds like something that would be trivial for the wealthy to circumvent while being very expensive for the poor to do the same. Someone with the means can just pay someone to continuously refresh their money with new money. Unclear on how people will deal with transactions when different bills have different values from what’s written on them.

The problem with directly buying them food is that it has to be eaten within a fixed time window. Money can be used to buy food tomorrow, or it can even become food five years from now while being trivial to carry around. Getting money affords you the chance to take some time off from panhandling to attempt to better your situation because you know you have that backup food in your pocket. You’re not going to get out of homelessness if leaving that street corner means you’re probably going to be one day closer to dying of starvation.

Can’t we just stick to pinky swearing that I’m an adult?

What were the side-effects? I was thinking of implementing something that doesn’t directly federate votes, so it would be good to know what problems I’d need to solve before that can be done.

I believe piefed creates fake accounts to do the voting so it doesn’t federate the actual account that cast the vote.

And if you’ve watched any of her content, you’d know her character is probably the farthest thing from dominant.

As a researcher, a good chunk of my work is literally just sitting on my ass and thinking. Or thinking while taking a walk in the park, or thinking while mindlessly chopping wood in a video game. Now with a kid, it’s kind of switched to thinking about what to do for dinner, how I can get the chores done for the day or how to organize my time so that I can fit in a few hours of work. It’s work in the sense that it’s something that needs to be done and it has an energy cost to doing. It’s also not really something you can turn off even if you wanted to.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a food truck drive around looking for customers. They’re usually just stationed in one place for the day.

abc and xyz make sense because they lie on opposite ends of the alphabet, so if you need more variables for either sets, there’s a lot more room to maneuver. If you’re looking for the history of these variables in the context of Cartesian coordinates, I’d start with looking at Descartes’ work. This whole system originated from him, so if he used xyz, then that must be where it came from.

I’ve seen p and q used in various contexts. For example, they could be probability distributions (e.g. KL(p|q)), they could be two points. In these scenarios, we just use p because it’s the first letter of whatever they represent, and q comes after while looking similar so it suggests that they’re the same type of mathematical object.

For indexing, it’s what we commonly use just because we call it an index. You’re not counting or tallying things. It’s a reference to a location in memory. But if you are counting, then c makes perfect sense and I’ve definitely used it in that context. I’ve also used t for indexing if that index represents time. But if there’s no other meaning associated with it, then it’s just an index, hence i.

This had the opposite effect for me. I basically never experienced boredom until I had a kid. The things you have to do to entertain them are so mind-numbingly boring.

It’s not that warm flat sodas appeal to me, but rather that carbonated drinks are painful to drink too quickly. If I have a paper straw, it’s also going to be accompanied by a meal, which takes time to eat. Also, if I’m getting a more interesting drink like a smoothie, slush, boba, etc, then I usually get something fairly large to enjoy over a long period of time.