Just checked and I can get a ticket to his nearest show for $29. That's cheaper than any other mental health services I know of, not a bad idea.

I imagine for a lot of people this would be the first and only exposure they've had to any kind of mental health care. Lots of people everywhere and in general need some help. When everyday life can be overwhelming, you better bet that an intense experience like a crowded concert can be even moreso.

I've been working on my chewing muscles lately.

Yeah but thats for super mega yachts. There are tons of folks sailing around on "house in the suburbs" yachts who are using the RV starlink. Pretty much all the sailing youtube channels have it now, with boats all around the world.

The housing crisis is caused by corporate land lords, wealth inequality, robotic AI house investors, speculative capitalism, codes and zoning that penalizes affordable housing and stagnant wages. It has absolutely nothing to do with the speed of construction or how gadgety it is.

I personally don't "believe" in the big bang, or any science. So far as I can tell the point of science isn't to tell a story to believed. It's to tell a story that best fits the observed facts in repeatable ways. I don't "believe" in Newtonian physics as some fundamental truth about reality. I just use the model to understand reality. I use the model to make predictions. And I abandon the model when it doesn't stand up in face of high speed or gravity and use the story (Einstein's relativity) that best fits the observations. If I need to graph a tennis ball, Newtonian phsyics works 100%, whether you believe in it or not, whether we know it's wrong, incomplete or outdated. Doesn't matter, it still graphs the tennis ball just fine.

So saying things like "truly believe in the Big Bang" seems silly to me. We have a process where all the smart people in the world refine the best stories possible to fit all the observations we collectively make. That's not something you believe in, it's a fact, people do it, you can participate. And whether you believe their story or not does not change the fact that it is the best story we've got that can explain the facts we can observe. Belief is irrelevant, unless you are trying to use science the way people use religion, but that always seemed like a silly thing to me.

I'm a scientist, and I'm saying that you are made of wonder bread so.....

Some scientists can say anything and have zero effect on science.

/makes silent obscene hand gesture that would be obvious even in a space suit

Dick in the Air - Peaches

Bullshit, there is no "qualified to make it" police and even if there were there isn't a "qualified to make it" standard for the non-existant "qualified to make it" law to require.

It's really not that hard to understand and you absolutely do not know anybody who this happened to.

The internet has been saying this kinda stuff for decades and it still isn't real. My insurance does not require that everything I use be UL approved, and I doubt anybody else's does either.

My insurance covers me if I get hammered and get in an wreck and kill people. And y'all think a series of UL listed devices connected together is gonna void an insurance policy? Folks build their PCs all the time, you think that will invalidate an insurance claim?

Could you be sued? Of course you can. Duh. You can be sued for NOT giving someone this awesome gift if they end up needing it to plug in some life saving doodad, but they couldn't because you never gave it to them. Anybody can sue anybody for anything else. Duh. I can sue you for making dumb reddit comments. So what?

I can see over a dozen animal species and hundreds of non-animal species at this very second. Guess how much brutality I see?

But by all means, keep anthropomorphizing nature and pretending you are better than people who do it slightly differently than you do.

And my examples were similarly exaggerated examples of symbiosis. But have you ever been in nature? What is trying to dominate you on even a semi regular basis?

I yelled at a bear once in 4 decades. Does that even count? Yes I carry spray and/or boomsticks for the .01% of the time you might really need to exert some power, but that's pretty much my point. Actual conflict is rare and brief. Think of bunnies. Do they occasionally get disappeared and decapitated by death on wings? Yup, 2 seconds of terror out of 86,000 seconds in their final day. Do they get spooked and run like bunnies from any imagined threat? Sure. And they still spend 99% of their lives asleep or hippity hopping along eating from nature's bounty.

You've never seen a nature show about clownfish and sea anemones? Mycorrhizas, nitrogen fixing bacteria, or pollinators? No cleaner fish, probiotics, or even just a coral reef?

I'm widely regarded as an authority in the design of smoke detectors. Yet nobody regards me as the smoke detector authority.

Also, I'm not really an authority on smoke detectors, but I have used it as a disguise before. Turns out most people really don't know anything about smoke detectors so you can sound authoritative with a minimum of research.

>nature is nothing BUT domination—strength having its way with weakness.

lol, did somebody drink too much redbull and listen to too much black metal today?

Don't forget whether you run out of TP or not, if you steal a roll from Krispy Kreme your butt will smell like a scratch N sniff glazed donut cuz their paper gets permeated with the smell.

Doesn't it raise the grain and kinda anti-sand it though?

Le sigh

Norway Population 2022: 5,518,814 (Source)

Chinese Cities by Population (Source)

Largest Cities in Mainland China by Population of Urban Area
Rank City Province Latest Estimate[3]
1 Shanghai — 24,870,895
2 Beijing⍟# — 21,167,303
3 Guangzhou#* Guangdong 18,810,600
4 Shenzhen#~ Guangdong 17,633,800
5 Chengdu#* Sichuan 15,025,554
6 Tianjin#† — 13,929,152
7 Chongqing#* — 12,313,714
8 Nanjing* Jiangsu 9,320,689
9 Wuhan#* Hubei 8,546,775
10 Xi'an#* Shaanxi 8,438,050
11 Hangzhou* Zhejiang 7,969,372
12 Shenyang* Liaoning 7,469,474
13 Dongguan Guangdong 7,489,198
14 Foshan Guangdong 7,462,797
15 Harbin* Heilongjiang 6,612,795
16 Dalian~ Liaoning 5,871,474
17 Qingdao~ Shandong 5,818,255
18 Zhengzhou#* Henan 5,621,593
19 Jinan* Shandong 5,606,374

"19 cities in China bigger than Norway"

Total in these 19 cities = 209,977,864

209,977,864 (cities) / 5,518,814 (Norway) = 38.04 Norways AKA "Those 19 cities are almost 40 Norways between them" 38 is almost 40, no?

China 2022 Population = 1,452,250,110 (Source)

1,452,250,110 (China) - 209,977,864 (19 cities) = 1,242,272,246 (rest of China)

1,242,272,246 (rest of China) / 5,518,814 (Norway) = 225 Norways

"And then the rest of China is still about 240 Norways"

Dang. Got me. Doing multiple steps of 10 digit math in my head I was off by 6%. 6% is not within the universal standard for the definition of "about". Everyone knows the internationally accepted maximum margin of error is 5% when used on the internet to support the statement "Big China is big". I will now hide in shame and never do hand wavy math on the internet again for using the Imperial unit of 6% "about" rather than the ISI sanctioned metric 5% "about".

The only thing I can say in my defense is that Big China is so fucking big it's easy to lose an extra 15 Norways and not even notice it.

I checked wikipedia and there 19 cities in China bigger than Norway. Those 19 cities are almost 40 Norways between them. And then the rest of China is still about 240 Norways.

Big China is Big