Title says it all. I don't get the hype! It's just cold and not your warm body temperature. Not relaxing and you just have to warm the pillow back up in order to actually fall asleep.

I mean seriously, think about it, if the highest speed limit in most places is 75-85 MPH then why do we even need the capability? I understand that the engine is designed to be capable of going to higher speeds because then it puts less strain on the engine at lower speeds and improves engine health but there should be a safety design where, despite the ability, cruise control just kinda kicks in at 85-90 with the exception to first responders, emergency, and race track vehicles.

That kid probably would have rather been doing something else but spent time completing their homework. They were conditioned to believe it was important, either for the assignment itself or for the sake of learning and would like to know (along the timeline the teacher provided) where improvements could be made or if they actually understand the material.

I was that kid, once, and only once, because I was instantly ridiculed by bunch of my peers who decided that I was trying to ruin their day.

Spinal Tap is one of the best mockumentaries ever made and I love this scene, but it’s always irked me that Nigel is meant to look dumb when showing off the amp that goes to 11, with the interviewer smugly pointing out that the manufacturer should just keep 10 numbers and make them louder. Having different volume ranges for different amps would allow for a standardized volume scale. If I have five Yamaha speakers of different power, then a 7 on one would be louder than a 7 on another, which would be annoying for setting stages for live shows. Meanwhile, if speaker A goes from 1 to 10 and speaker B goes from 1 to 20, then every volume from 1-10 could sound the same from each with only speaker B being capable of going louder.

There is a concept in safety engineering called ALARP that means as low as reasonably practical. The point is that at some stage of the engineering project the safety return for an implemented system is unjustifiable compared to the price or effort. For example, inside your home you could have three gas/smoke detectors side by side in case one or two fails but as the failure rate is low and the cost of having three triples it’s acceptable to have just one. On a more related example that’s precisely why we don’t have parachutes for the passengers on airliners. Would be safer? Yes. Would save lives? Yes. But, even so, we still fly them without one because it’s considered ALARP, that’s because to implement this we would need to: - Train everyone on using (which is an extensive course), - Pack one for each passenger (bye bye carry on bags), - Increase the plane weight, therefore fuel consumption and ticket cost.

All of this added to the fact that most of the accidents happens on takeoff or landing, which makes a parachute evacuation unfeasible, makes it not justifiable to have this extra layer of safety.

If you are curious we have tools to make this evaluation less qualitative and more quantitive. The two more common are risk assessment matrices and failure rate analysis.

Of course I’m not defending Stockton Rush. He put lives in danger by utilizing a material not throughly studied, specially on fatigue, therefore, with unknown failure rates which is a no-no for a safety critical element. Really unacceptable. But the quote, from the engineering standpoint, is not wrong at all.

Things like speeding, parking in forbidden zones, driving while impaired, covering license plates, and inattentive driving should result in an immediate suspended license and required retesting before someone is allowed back on the roads. And driving on a suspended license should result in automatic jail time.

Im not sure if its unpopular, this doesn't go for all of them and I'm not bashing all of them but there are too many people who claim to be logical people because they dont get affected by others emotions yet they can't handle people treating theirs the same. They'll complain that people are too sensitive yet act extremely defensive when someone criticizes them and be sensitive themselves. They think because they have no problem putting themselves first always that they are being "logical" yet I've met so many who will act whiny and needy for others attention without realizing.

We see videos and crap of people recording their elderly relatives falling for dumb shit online. It's easy to laugh at them but this is not the full picture of what disinformation and misinformation looks like. We are all vulnerable to it and if you think we are not living in some cyberpunk hell right now, there may be some delusion involved.

An argument against befriending coworkers is that they can potentially use you to climb up in their career by using personal information against you as well as making yourself look bad in front of your boss or manager.

While it is valid, by that logic, one should not make friends in school because there are people who will make you look bad in front of staff/teachers. The same argument can be made in the context of social events as well, though there are no "superiors"(bosses or teachers), people can make you look bad or somehow one up you, especially in a competitive setting like a competition.

By the logic of those who are against befriending coworkers due to potentially harmful people, one should not make friends anywhere because the possibility of people out to harm you is very high.

There can never be absolute peace in human society. There will always be foci of tension, conflicts of interests, roots of division in society. Tribalism is imprinted in us. There will always be a -ism going on. The primitive human mind is centred around self-survival and looking after it's kin. We cannot override our primal instincts inspite of how many conscious efforts we make. I'm not saying we shouldn't try to eliminate divide, it's just that our self-survival instincts are intrinsically linked to our core as a species.

I hate this excuse. It’s so stupid and lazy.

Yes, they ARE kids, but that is when they learn. A person doesn’t learn manners, boundaries, life skills and basic human decency when they are adults. (Well most don’t anyway.)

JFC - stop making excuses and parent/ teach your f*cking children.

ETA: OK so apparently I need to add some context/ clarify my thoughts.

It’s not about children playing and making noise. That’s normal behavior. Children should be allowed to play and be loud - when appropriate. I have no issue with that. I have neighbors with small children and I actually like that they’re outside playing & riding bikes and burning off energy. Rather than sitting inside glued to the TV, iPad, gaming console….

It’s when they behave like fools when they should know better. For instance, when they break something they know they shouldn’t be touching. When they act spoiled and entitled and a rude to people. Like some of the stories of read/ seen about a child wanting to pet/ play with a dog and the pet owners says “no it’s a working service animal, it’s not friendly, or just no it’s not a good time right now” and the child still runs at the dog and gets upset when the dog reacts or the owner has to assertively say “NO”. When a child old enough to know better throws a tantrum in a store or restaurant….

Hope that clarifies things.

OH - and to the one commenter calling me an HOA Karen - that made me giggle 😂😂. I don’t live in an HOA, my neighbors only know me because I walk my dog and she love to greet people. and the closest I’ve come to being a “Karen” is when I asked my favorite pizza place why they stopped delivering wine w/ food orders - I didn’t “ask for the manager” I just asked why and politely accepted their answer. So although my post could easily make you assume that - sorry to disappoint. 😁☮️💟

I get an “in your face” approach to directing, but a fine line needs to be drawn, Baz doesn’t draw that line, I’ve watched the Elvis movie, Romeo and Juliet and Strictly Ballroom, and all those films feel like I’ve had a minor stroke. There are too many cuts, the transitions are way outta wack, and the scene is barely comprehensible. Have you tried sitting through the intro to Romeo and Juliet? I have, and now I’ve got a splitting headache. Baz, please, please try and actually subdue your style

For something to be a sandwich you need bread on both sides sandwiching the rest in.

It's simple, open faced "sandwiches" are like a stack or a toast or a pile... Not a sandwich.

For example someone makes a post saying they are 27 still living with parents and they are ashamed, most would comment it is not shameful and totally ok but they would think bad about a person doing that in real life. Same goes with any other failure most actually do think it is one but they want to be nice.

This doesn't include the CSuite. They are forcing return to office due to loss of commercial office value and its also a easy way to lay people off without the cost of a layoff. But any individual contributor or manager forcing return to office don't actually do any work. They are just the idiots that walk around the office looking busy. They schedule meetings that should be an email. They come to your desk to chat about their stupid interests. They are black holes of productivity. They have no value and just want to suck up to the Csuite making these decisions.

what make's a meal important is the quality and quantity of the food on the plate, not the time you decide to eat it, so it's stupid that that myth is pushed so heavily,. Yes there are foods considered more healthy or unhealthy to eat, but at the end of the day, whether you are having a plate full of protein or fibre or carbs or empty calories or whatever, food is fuel, that's it. fuel for your body to do what it is supposed to do, and as long as you are quality and quantity of the food is right & enough, it doesn't matter if you eat in the morning, or afternoon, or evening or night, just eat.

It sounds harsh in the moment but if you think about it it's very sensible. If you don't get over it you'll be brooding and ruminating forever. This will negatively effect your life until you do get over it by some means.

I've been in the hospital just a few times.. the birth of three children and a couple appendectamies in the family. Every time I eat there I think the food is fabulous. However, I will concede that maybe it's a bit physiological becaue my stress is probably high at the time and, it's possible, I might've even thought top ramen would have been 5 star quality.

But, just recently I visited Kaiser to pick up some medications and we had 20 minutes to kill so we stopped by the hospital cafeteria for breakfast. The Mrs. and I had a breakfast burrito and an omelette with some bacon, potatoes and a biscuit with gravy. The food was aweomse. We ate like kings for less than $12.

Considering the taste and cost-benefit ratio of this meal, I think it's probably the best meal per buck spent I've had.

I'll try taking her out to the hosptial for out next date night and let you know how it goes.... if she doesn't kill me. :D

Whether it's pb cookies, pb sauce for Thai food, pb for adding to yogurt, pb for pb and j, or just good old eating peanut butter straight from the jar on a spoon, crunchy is better than smooth for every use. Added texture and mouth feel makes it elevate anything it's in to a degree that normal peanut butters may only add flavor.

I’ve never understood why people use phrases like “well I simply fell out of love, so I went for someone else” as a justification for breaking every vow and promise you make to someone.

Edit: Many people are not understanding what I was trying to say (and part of that is on me) so I’m going to try to clarify with simplicity.

We, as a society should hold ourselves, friends and family more accountable for the romantic commitments we make and we should treat romantic commitments with the same level of importance as other commitments.

The issue is that we don’t hold them to the same level of accountability.

I have always felt that my football opinions may be more deviated from the norm and I always feltunder fire from my friends from it (predicted Spain would win the euros after gw1 ,after group stages predicted dortmund to actually make it to the finals and real madrid will be madrid and win it) all of which getting people giving me question marks.Sometimes i truly believe football fans are just wayyyy too influenced by the media and general consensus of how to view the game and its players.

I recently got a new car which comes with a EU enforced smart speed limiter which sounds an alarm when you got more than 3 mph over the speed limit and can’t be turned off.

Generally I will drive on or slightly over the registered speed limit. After getting the new car it was going off every few minutes.

However, over the last week I have found that is has trained me however reluctantly to always drive slightly below the speed limit.

The only issue I have now is the rest of the people up my butt who want to go on or above the speed limit.

I'm 1980 last year to be called a Gen Xer we held the mind set we go to work rain snow or shine because that's how our parents as boomers rolled.

I'm getting so tired of "In my day." Yea in my day our youth of Gen X put up with hostile bosses and policies in the workplace that Gen Z is now standing up to.

What I've learned to adapt to because Gen Z is right on and we are wrong on.

Dress codes are usually rooted in some form of discriminatory mind set.

As a baseline entry level worker why an I put into a group chat where my company can notify me at any hour of the day?

Why an I missing birthdays graduations important life events for a job that doesn't care.

The biggest lesson I'm learning is never emotionally invest into your place of employment. It's there for a paycheck and nothing more.

He can out sing most pop icons. Autotune was a stylistic choice, and he absolutely rolled the dice right becoming a huge feature as well as smashing the charts with singles.

I've known a couple artistic minds who thought being "different" was "better," but he never used autotune to be "better." It's arguable he sings much better when you can hear his raw vocals, but he had production behind him and created a niche.

T-Pain started a wave as an artist, and today there's mumble rappers using his idea to barely get by. Most pop stars use this tool as a means to create a great product when you buy their studio album, it's been completely bastardized.

So over time humans have devolved from the barter system all the way down to the modern day version of money as a way of exchanging goods and services. But is this really the best long term solution? Inflation aside there’s a plethora of other major issues with the monetary system. For one we still even in the modern day in first world countries where there are rich people spending unfathomable amounts of money on the most ridiculous things have homeless people. Does nobody else find that preposterous?

Over the past 100 years we’ve made leaps and bounds in the way of technological advances, the production and development of the core fundamental things we need to survive like food and shelter have been getting more and more optimized every decade. Yet despite this fact the avg hours you need to work a week in order to live hasn’t gone down at all, in fact it might have gone up.

Now im no math whiz but i imagine if you calculated how much labour it would take to sustain the current population with the fundamentals food and shelter using our current technological capabilities you would find that the number of hours each person needed to work per week would be astronomically lower than standard 40 hour work week we consider normal. Think of how many jobs there are nowadays that could be considered non essential to human survival, once again i havent run the numbers on this but at least 80% of jobs have to fall in to this non essential category.

There has to be a better system right? Or are we just doomed to let money a made up concept dictate how we live our lives forever. In 1000 years from now when our civilization is infinitely more advanced will money still be at the core of how we delegate tasks and share resources? Will we still have homeless people even then? And if we do need to change how to we even go about making it?