Even if they just sit outside, having a chair is probably better than not having a chair.

Unless you already have like a thousand of them.

Domions*

It’s kinda funny, the character pictured was a “good guy” lawyer whose tactics frequently included things like extortion, blackmail, and turning favours owed into conflicts of interest.

And on the show, one of the biggest scandals (from the show’s perspective) was that he had hired someone without a law license.

It was the lawyer version of the cop propaganda shows, though more like lethal weapon ones showing them getting in trouble for breaking rules because they cared so much about doing the right thing and the rules were getting in the way.

Oh it also had a huge loser that would betray and abuse his power whenever he was in a bad mood but he’s lore family and really cared about the firm, so it’s OK!

If you want reliable media to last on a timeline relevant to our lives and even several generations, look into M disc blurays. Though, similar to dual layer dvds back in the day, it’s much easier to find a writer than the media itself. But it claims lifespans of centuries to millennia rather than decades usually associated with other disc media. They are actually etched instead of just using some fancy ink. Readable by normal drives, too. It’s just on the writing side that you need one that can specifically handle M discs. It also supports multi-layers, but those are even harder to find and get pretty pricey.

Still not likely a way to pass information ahead to civilizations even tens of thousands of years away, and even before they break down, a new civilization would need to figure out how to read and interpret them (when we had trouble reading hieroglyphs from known civilizations that we could read directly with our eyes).

But at least they should be relatively safe to write, verify, then forget about for a few decades until you find them and want to take a walk down memory lane. Assuming you can still get a bluray reader at that point, or held on to one. Pack them together and future you or your heirs might be grateful.

My routine when I walk into the room where my daughter is playing a game:

1. Identify the game she is playing.
2. Ask her how <activity in game she isn’t currently playing> is going. Like if she’s caught all the Pokémon when she’s playing Minecraft.

I’m not even trying to be subtle about it, but am still not sure she realizes I’m doing it deliberately. Either way, she corrects me with exasperation each time.

It helps you become more innately aware of your speed. Gear (which you know either by remembering which one you last shifted to or by touching your shifter) and rpm (which you know by ear and responsiveness) are enough (once you become familiar enough with the vehicle) to have a good idea of how fast you’re going without even glancing at the speedometer.

Also engine braking gives more control over speed and I’m used to doing it, so can add the action to emergency situations without having to think about it so much.

Though the comparison is different when the paddle shifters are involved. I still prefer stick shift over that semi-auto style, but see that as more of a personal preference than technically superior. If anything, semi-auto is probably the superior one.

Though I’d also add the caveat of the technical differences between all three not being significant overall in practical terms. The biggest difference is probably just that driving MT takes additional skill that not everyone has or is comfortable learning/using. Which is nice as an anti theft feature but can be annoying if you want to trade off driving but the other drivers can’t drive your vehicle.

It’s not like you can use that time freed by automating gear shifting for something else.

It’s a tool, yes, but personally, I like having more control over tools I use. I’d choose a cordless drill that I can set the torque control myself over one that doesn’t have that option.

It sounds like you might have some network places set up for windows to use but that are no longer reachable (or something along those lines) because that shouldn’t be taking so long so you might have things timing out in the background.

Or your internet is slow and it’s taking a long time to communicate with one drive or send its screenshots of your document to their creep department.

Or maybe a print driver that no longer exists still has an orphaned entry in the registry and it spends some time trying to locate it.

Or malware has set up hooks for any new window that pops up but the print to pdf dialog is set up in such a way that it churns very inefficiently on that window specifically.

I joke but any one of those might actually be what’s going on.

I haven’t had that experience with spam/scam calls. Mind you, I’m in Canada and the do not call list has teeth here, though that only applies to spam. But spam/scam call frequency doesn’t appear to be correlated at all with how recently I’ve answered another call.

I kept requesting the transportation subway travel to my stop until one day I forgot to ask and it still arrived at my stop. That’s when I understood what it felt like to fit in.

As much as I understand not wanting to talk on the phone, I don’t get this mindset. Why not just answer it to find out who they are and what they want so you can make a more informed decision about whether you care what they want? You can always just hang up if you decide you want to be doing something else. Or “something just came up, gotta go” and hang up. Why does it need to be such an ordeal in the first place?

And the baby actor is Danny DeVito.

In Canada, there’s a last month deposit that is paid at whatever the rate is when the rental begins but counts at whatever rate the last month ends up at. This is to cancel out the interest the landlord should owe on the deposit.

It’s both sad and hilarious that it’s hard to tell if this is legit or just some fun trolling.

Yeah, that’s why I said might, since any evidence is circumstantial and could have another explanation. I did not intend to present that as fact but merely a possibility of even more extreme environment changes than jungle to grasslands that we might have had in our ancient past.

Depends on how far you go back. Grasslands came after jungles/forests.

Based on some of our traits (nose shape good for diving, can control our breathing voluntarily, fingers get more grippy when wet, lack of fur), we might have even been semi-aquatic for a while.

IMO with the Chinese attitude towards education, community, and government investment in contrast to the US attitude, it’s only a matter of time before they take the lead in many tech categories.

Jupiter would have certainly had countless rocky, icy, and any other category of asteroid fall into it over the last several billions of years, so it’s not all hydrogen.

And I’m not sure if solid is the right word. It’s denser than solids we’re used to, but it’s not necessarily making any bonds between nearby atoms, so they might flow to some degree.

Though even if is solid at some point, it won’t necessarily be a sudden change from gas to solid or even gas to liquid to solid. The pressure is so high it might be more of a gradient than a surface like we’re used to here.

First death is friction heat as you enter the atmosphere. Avoid it with a heat resistant vehicle or suit.

Next death is from extreme vibrations from the turbulence caused by supersonic winds. Avoid it with an aerodynamic and strong vehicle body that can withstand and stabilize in incredibly high winds.

Next death is lack of oxygen. But you probably have some oxygen system on that vehicle anyway just to get there.

Next is the freezing temperatures, around -145 C. Ok add some heating to your craft.

Next is the crushing pressure, passing 1000x earth’s atmospheric pressure and it just gets higher from there. Hope you didn’t use carbon fibre for your vehicle’s main structural integrity!

Then, if you’re not crushed anyways despite whatever you used to mitigate the previous one failing, there’s extreme heat to deal with again, just more of it this time. No known substance can withstand the heat, especially considering the pressure is still just increasing.

Further down is the metallic hydrogen layer. Assuming you haven’t already been converted to plasma, you probably will at this point.

And further down is the core that includes “rock” but I use the term pretty loosely.

Some of your atoms might eventually make it there but will likely spend a long time just blowing around in the atmosphere after they were vaporized.

• Give a condescending lecture about their work but focus on irrelevant things.
• If someone seeks mentorship for what they need to do to position themselves for career improvements, give wishy-washy responses that give the overall impression that you want to set up as many outs to deny the promotion as possible.
• Give them a task about something that is completely new to them and demand results by the end of the week.
• Continue pursuing projects even after their useful parts have been determined unfeasible.