Funny how factory farms that started this epidemic (due to their cramped and unhygienic living conditions) now have forced everyone to house their chickens indoors.

What the fuck does "Whose inflatable snowman is still up" mean?

What a load of bullshit. There is no equivalence here: both parties kowtow to corporate interests, but Republicans are FAR, FAR worse in all their policies.

11 billion in taxes out of 75 billion profit: 14.7% ... way lower than my tax rate.

> Or, you can buy those plastic window covers that stick to the frame with double sided tape. Its clear plastic film you hit with a hair dryer afterward.

I highly recommend this for lowering your heating bill in the winter.

Just saw a headline that said 50% of customers don't connect their smart appliances. Seems like a massive market inefficiency here. What would be an explanation for this?

> Lovecraft hates penguins

The funny thing is, so did Herman Melville:

> Let us first glance low down to the lowermost shelf of all, which is the widest, too, and but a little space from high-water mark. What outlandish beings are these? Erect as men, but hardly as symmetrical, they stand all round the rock like sculptured caryatides, supporting the next range of eaves above. Their bodies are grotesquely misshapen, their bills short, their feet seemingly legless; while the members at their sides are neither fin, wing, nor arm. And truly neither fish, flesh, nor fowl is the penguin; as an edible, pertaining neither to Carnival nor Lent; without exception the most ambiguous and least lovely creature yet discovered by man. Though dabbling in all three elements, and indeed possessing some rudimental claims to all, the penguin is at home in none. On land it stumps; afloat it sculls; in the air it flops. As if ashamed of her failure, Nature keeps this ungainly child hidden away at the ends of the earth, in the Straits of Magellan, and on the abased sea-story of Rodondo.

from his The Encantadas (bunch of short stories/sketches about the Galapagos: pretty easy reading for Melville... also, easily found online for free as it's public domain).

Except Apple is still thought of as premium, but Tesla? Less and less so by the day.

The same thing that happened to the Anasazi there (4 corners, northern NM) 800 years ago will happen again.

> i just take my hourly pay and determine what costs more, my time to fix, or a new item.

Your hourly pay is only worth that when you can be available in large blocks of time (9-5), for large blocks of days (M-F), over a consistent period of time. The ten minutes you saved because you decided not to take your nightly dump isn't worth anything close to your hourly pay.

For the record, you don't need anal beads to cheat in chess if you're a top player. Just a simple signal once or twice a game for something like "attack now" or something as simple as "this this a critical point, think for a bit longer" will win the game for you.