... when your acolytes are literally engaging in political shootings.

I mean, that actually is pretty radical, ya know?

I know, right? Those jobs were supposed to be restricted to exploited foreigners. What is wrong with people these days?

Can talk to you, and more importantly listen to you, endlessly, never getting tired. Checks out ;)

Even there, used wisely it can be helpful.

Ever heard of "rubber duck programming"? Try to explain what you are doing to a rubber duck. Just the act of conversing about something can give you a different perspective in thinking about it.

Sometimes it's not even for cost cutting.

E.g. I mean yeah, I get it; you're in marketing/"creative", so your converted-into-an office house in a bad neighborhood downtown is very cool and hip. Yet for some reason, some of your employees just still don't want to go there physically every day.

... despite a full court press to get everyone back in the office physically, they've managed ... a little over half?

Should governments be able to regulate those awful tech bros however they want to, or should we have the ability to choose digital privacy if we want?

The Slash-geist seems to lurch dramatically between the two ...

So the energy that we all - including you - used during those years would have come from ... what instead? Unicorn farts and moonbeams?

If only we had had a Gazprom instead of the companies that we did have?

Not seeing how it's the companies that matter.

So if the energy business had been run by the government during that period, the CO2 would have magically disappeared then?

It's the customers' opinion that matters in the end, not his.

Well, then the glasses will likely help.

"No dummy, that house ... you know, the one with the huge number over the garage and by the door, that matches the number on the package."

... it made the chickens stop laying! And the cows dry up! Burn the witch!

Seriously ... so we're going to build nuke plants now? What's that, no ... we're just going to emote? Carry on then (cracks open a diet root beer) ...

I'm actually surprised that there are not more incidents of serious fires on airplanes.

They are quite a bit like submarines in that regard - contained environments where heat and gasses build up very fast. And it's not as if you can leave - submarine crews are trained to all rush towards the fire (with fire-fighting equipment).

"Rich white people love building on coastlines. Blacks hardest hit."

A close call isn't a collision though.

My take on roundabouts is that they feel less safe than traffic lights, but in reality actually are safer. Which can make them a tough sell.