So, your best friend in the world. Do you ever see him outside his corner store?

One mistake? Most people are involved in at most one airplane accident in their lives. Ford has been involved in 4 where he was the pilot and a fifth as a passenger. All 3 incidents since 2015 were his mistake. The helicopter autorotation incident may not have been.

There’s an indirect one. The 40 hour week is the result of strikes from unions that are the result of factories which are the result of the industrial revolution which also led to improvements in medicine that massively reduced child mortality.

You’re not including monthly service for your cell phone, the accessories you need to buy (including a case), the electricity to charge it, and so-on.

For the truck, you also need to include the gas, insurance and maintenance.

He who controls the force, controls the Universe, Mr. Spock. So say we all!

Apparently Unilad couldn’t even copy The Hill’s homework correctly.

Somehow they reworded “White House Correspondents’ dinner Weekend Party” as “White House Dinner Correspondents Party”.

Needs more Mar A Lago face.

And they just accepted that only a fraction of their babies would live to become infants, and only a fraction of their infants would reach adulthood.

People are not living like cavemen nowadays. They want iPhones and pickup trucks and air conditioning.

If you’re willing to spend your free time living the way a caveman did, you can probably get by working a lot fewer hours.

In dact, someone who posts about things like this on linkedin is not the kind of person who acknowledges the work that their partner does to make a day like that possible.

Animals don’t want pants. Humans want pants and netflix and adult colouring books. If humans were willing to spend 8 hours a day, every day, lounging on a rock instead, then they could get by with doing a lot less work for money.

And it’s not possible for the Lunatic to live the way they do unless the partner picks up the slack and does everything else.

animal behaviorists are finding that what they first perceived as lack of functional importance often has dazzling significance after all.

the sand scorpion seems to emerge from its burrow and just stand around waiting for a meal to happen by. But Oregon State University zoologist Philip Brownell has discovered that the scorpion has receptors on its feet that sense approaching insects from several inches away by detecting minute disturbances of the desert.

The polar bear often naps next to a seal’s breathing hole with one paw cocked for a lethal swipe. Alligators have floating slumber parties beneath heron rookeries during nesting season, waiting for hapless fledglings and jostled eggs. The female fence lizard, which is “at rest” 98 percent of the time, spends that time in the energizing sun within a tongue’s dart of smorgasbord rest stops for passing insects.

The African lion, which University of Minnesota zoologist Anne Pusey says can eat 66 pounds at a sitting and then lie around on its back for several days digesting the meal, is another strategic loafer: It does most of that lying around in the shade, near a waterhole, with one eye open to potential next meals.

So is there anything at all to animal laziness? Do wild creatures ever just plain loaf? Not, says Cornell biologist Paul Sherman, from the point of view of evolutionary biologists.

It’s not just economic systems. Every animal works under the threat of starvation.

Just watch a nature documentary. Grazing animals have to eat for hours a day just to eat enough to avoid starvation, and they have to constantly be on the lookout for predators. Predators need to take down one of those grazing animals on a regular basis or they starve.

There has never been a way of living that didn’t involve working to avoid starving. When humans developed agriculture, it finally meant that when things were going well starvation was something that might be months away instead of weeks away.

There has never been an economic system where everybody could just be creative and rest all day and not work. That may be true of some elites at the top, but it will always be a small minority of people while everyone else works.

You can always hope that that work will become more pleasant, or that there will be less of it. Work used to be sun-up to sun-down, 6 days a week. Our ancestors fought and died for laws that reduced this to only 8 hours a day and only 5 days a week. Work these days is mostly done indoors, mostly in heated or air-conditioned spaces. It doesn’t tend to maim you, or require repetitive movements that eventually cripple you.

People should definitely keep fighting for more. They should join unions so they’re not having to fight on their own. But, nobody should be deluded into think it’s abnormal to have to work to live.

I guess cross stitching is a new hobby after he got tired of crashing planes?

And the partner did minor things like:

• get his son dressed and feed him breakfast
• give the dog its morning walk
• go to work
• come home from work
• pick his son up from daycare
• give the dog its afternoon / evening walk, bringing the toddler along to spend some quality time in the park
• make and serve dinner for him / herself and the son
• give the son a bath and get him ready for bed
• read the son a bedtime story

But, I’m sure that everything there other than work would have taken what, 1-2 hours at most? Minor things.

Did it though? EFF says that the number of impressions their content received is why they left:

Those [2018] tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month.

Then

Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.

But, I wonder what the real numbers actually are. Do we think Elon is honestly reporting real numbers to people? And, of the “impressions” that are real, how many of those are actually from bots rather than actual human users?

IMO, one of the biggest tricks Elon has managed to pull with Twitter is to convince celebrities and brands that it’s still a thriving site full of other people, leading to them sticking around because supposedly no other site gets as much traffic.

I think you’re missing the bigger issue. They exclusively used rogers. They had a single point of failure. That single point of failure happened to be Rogers, but it would eventually have caused a problem if their ISP had been a different one. This was a national card processor serving 30+ million people.

On Iran specifically:

• When you surround an enemy, leave an outlet free. Realize they have control over that outlet, and you really need shit to pass through there too. Remove sanctions on them because that outlet being closed really fucks with your oil prices and holy fuck are people mad about that and if your enemy can sell their oil prices will come down slightly. Shit, that only gives them more profits, and it helps one of your other big geopolitical rivals whose economy depends entirely on oil. Declare victory.
• If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant – wait, that sounds like something a pussy would do, pretend to be strong, no wait, strong and really fucking crazy, then back down and declare victory.
• If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you can make up for it by POSTING THREATS TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN ALL CAPS.
• He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight and tells his golfing buddies ahead of time so they can make their bets on prediction markets.
• Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical; if details of your paedophilia are coming to light, join your least popular ally in the most pointless war and hope Fox News stops talking about Epstein.

And more generally:

• The most clever of States will spend generations building a military alliance containing the richest countries in the world, and will use that to ensure that all conflicts happen on other continents, never endangering their home. They must then throw that away in a few moons by threatening to annex territories belonging to allies but always chickening out.
• If your State is endowed with wealth, use that wealth to slowly shape the world to your liking over many generations. You may push other countries to adopt laws and treaties that are preferential to your interests. Be sure to squander that in under a year because you don’t understand what a tariff is.
• All warfare is based on deception. Hence, one should lie constantly, about fucking everything. It matters not how obvious your lies are, people donning hats of red will believe and repeat those lies.
• Communication is the key to warfare, so guard well your lines of communication. If you can ensure that the communication of your allies and enemies passes through your territory, use that to your advantage, but draw no attention. Then, one day, just fucking throw that whole advantage away because of some shit you saw on teevee.

I think with a lot of these health trends, it doesn’t take account for the fact that humans are animals.

Animals can’t always guarantee they’ll get enough water, or enough food, or the right kinds of food. Bodies aren’t like a machine that requires specifically calibrated amounts of inputs. Instead if you drink too much you’ll pee out more. If you drink too little your pee will be more concentrated so your body retains more liquid. If you get more nutrients than you need, the extra will be eliminated.

It’s probably true that with many things (except calories) it’s better to get a bit too much rather than too little. Maybe it’s true that for water it’s better to get nearly the maximum rather than slightly more than the midpoint amount. But, it seems unlikely to me.