I will not judge you by your indirect association through food. I will judge you for eating Big Macs when there are so many superior burger options readily available these days, but only mildly because I have my own id-driven crap food loves.

Mat 19:24, for reference.

It’s probably not productive antagonizing them like that, but since I’m not convinced you’d get any further being polite, you might as well amuse yourself!

A truly maddening thing is that the other senator from Iowa is a woman (and a horrible person, but w/e) and the state has a rich history of producing badass women. Just a few:

The puritanical, “earned” it attitude is so deeply ingrained in our society

Not disagreeing. Just want to attach some numbers.

NPR had a bit about families making $100k+ who are still struggling. I think it might be part of a series.

I just want to get to the place where I have the income that I owe $1 million in taxes.

Fake news! Those people don’t really exist. If you’re poor, it’s because you haven’t pulled up hard enough on your own bootstraps. /s

There have been proposals to grow human-compatible organs in pigs, so I’ve always assumed we’d be closer to pork. I suppose you could experiment with hufu to get the flavor right.

Probably thinking of this:

NPR had a nightly show for the first 100 days after the inauguration where they were actively trying to get people from different backgrounds to call in and discuss things. On one of the first shows, they asked for callers with something like, “If you voted for Trump and don’t believe it’s in your own personal best…

The Big Three seemed convinced the Japanese were doing magic back then. Reminds me of this story.

Tesla keeps pretty close track of their cars. If they know someone bought one to reverse engineer it, they might disable it.

Probably, but I think Tesla still wants the buyer’s information for Superchargers, service, OTA updates, etc.

Wages have risen so much in China that it’s becoming less economical to build shit there than to build a heavily automated factory in the US or EU. I’m sure that will swing around again as the balance in China moves even further towards consumption instead of just production.

I’d say bring on the asteroid mining, but we all know where that leads on this front.

That’s... really weird. I essentially just told exactly the opposite story about the Subaru meet I went to last weekend.