If you're Muslim, you're supposed to last an eternity in heaven. So what happens after you've plowed your way through the 72 virgins? Or do you never get to actually have sex with them, so they remain virgins? If that's the case, do you have to share them with others? And women can be a bitch to deal with when you only have one girlfriend or wife. Why would you want 72? Also, if you're an army going up against them in battle, why not send a battalion of women after them? Or planes with female pilots? If they're killed by women, they don't get to be martyrs.

Coke tried to do it. They couldn't source enough material to produce the new bottles. I'm not sure why glass can't come back in favor. Wash it, expose it to high heat to kill the bacteria and viruses and it's ready to be used again. Back in the day when this stuff was sold in glass, broken glass did appear all over the streets However, seeing glass on the street seems to be a thing of the past, even with glass bottles containing things that get people drunk.

What paves the path to hell? Oh, yeah. Good intentions.

I've owned 4 Z Flips. The first 3 phones (1, 3, 4) were great. They protected themselves when you dropped them because of the clamshell design, so there's no need for a case. The first was with me in the hospital for 5 weeks while nurses slid my tray and dropped it over and over and over. There's no cracks on the screen. It still works and I still use it. They all fit way better in your pocket than a conventional phone. The 5+ suck because the external screen creates a need for a case, which defeats the purpose of the clamshell design. They are an example of listening to reviewers instead of listening to the people who use them day to day.

I saw BitchAt. It could be a new, novel way to bitch at somebody you're pissed off at.

The purpose is to fund government without destroying people's financial lives in the process, hence tax brackets.

I forgot to bring up the whole thing with sulfur in the exhaust of ship fuel. How far along is the process of restoring the clouds this created, that in turn cooled the earth? It seems the climate change people could learn from software engineers and have a rollback process in place for major screw ups like this. For those not familiar with it, there was an article on, IIRC, science.org in June 2023 talking about this. It may have been science.com, but I'm pretty certain it's the former.

Not only that, in practice, his batting average is also 0.00.

Uhm... no. Temperatures were abnormally cool in the 1960s into the early 1970s, so they're not a good baseline. Mind you, all of that pollution might have actually been cooling the planet, but I digress. Going back to the 1850s doesn't, either. When you properly account for things like variations in the earths orbit and tilt, you get a baseline number, and you need 30 samples to get an accurate sample. Given the tilt and orbit variations, you get one sample every 30,000 years. Thus, you need 900,000 years of data to get that accurate baseline, assuming biology hasn't had a substantial effect on temperature over that time period.

This is and always has been a myth. 5% of $1,000,000 doesn't make much of a dent in somebody's take home pay. They're still wealthy. 5% of 25k is a huge burden on somebody's life.

If there's no incentive to continue to profiteer, there's no need to raise prices. You end the profiteering problem by taxing the wealthy.

It comes down to everyone is getting squeezed everywhere. Wall Street wants more profits and the easiest way to increase profits is to raise prices. Meanwhile, anybody who doesn't have a vast stock portfolio or isn't in private equity is getting screwed. This kind of activity is why we need to bring back taxes on the wealthy. Most of that income doesn't do squat for anybody, including the one holding the money. Also, you can't make money when you're squeezing the poor and middle class to the point that they don't have money to buy anything. It's just a matter of time before the US doesn't have a middle class anymore. Tariffs might help, but the investors are just planning on moving production to countries other than China and Mexico, not bring the jobs back.

Per capita isn't a very good gauge of economics, or is median. Neither account for the buying power of the local population. Wages may be lower, but so are prices.

China has the second largest economy in the world and yet they're still a developing nation? Russia hasn't been a developing nation since the end of WWII and neither has South Africa, though both are working valiantly at reverting to being such.

How are they going to get the money for the golden parachute? They company is bankrupt.