Not quite.

Couldn’t agree with you more, this IS criminal.

I had assumed it was them trying to double their ad revenue.

And a count of child endangerment for every other child they exposed to it.

I don’t like to oversimplify things, but this is pretty straightforward to me. A generation (maybe two or three generations) of people never really saw measles because MMR is so effective. These people grew up and became parents and wondered why they should get their children vaccinated against something that, as far…

The script will be written by several 11 year old boys.

Don’t forget how it also has messed things up making it reasonable for people to work themselves to death in side hustles. Had a coworker who literally was falling asleep at his desk because of it.

Not just the taxis - and they’ve been decimated here in Chicago - but also a related, but totally different industry here (probably other cities as well). All the big banks here (Chase, Wells Fargo, etc) had local offices dedicated to mortgage loads for cab shields, who secondary market costs were often in the 6…

I feel for anyone whose best seafood option near them is Red Lobster.

You. I like you. XD

Especially the ones that dispense all kinds of different flavors from the same nozzle.  If I wanted a horrible artificial flavor in my Coke, I’d buy it that way.  Even Cherry Coke doesn’t taste right out of those things.

yeah the circle guitar and maybe the bone conductivity one were the most “practical” for their respective use cases. the rest were interesting at best. the “babel table” was a joke. like...seriously? that was...not....remotely music. it was a noise machine. and that last one? i am not convinced all that sound was even…

Damn that’s cool. I would totally watch a spirtual sequel to Deep Blue Sea where a scientist is trying to stop the aging process and testing on octopi for some reason. Once they hit ~10 they start talking and it becomes clear they’re intelligent and just never survived past childhood before.

I dunno about your walmart, but the self checkouts at mine are terrible because of the sheer number of prompts you need to go through just to check out. There’s one to confirm that you’ve scanned everything, one to ask if you’d like to donate to the cause of the month, one to ask if you’d like a walmart credit card…

“Also, I have been using them for years and have never stolen a single thing[...]”

I’m not a germophobe (maybe I am), but post-covid me thinks that scanner gun at Home Depot is disgusting.  Especially since it is always in someones hand and its all warm to the touch...  gross.

It’s gonna be great when they start eliminating self check out while also not hiring people to actually run the registers.

its the stores themselves that made it a problem. i dont think people have a problem with self checkout. its more convenient and faster. its being forced to use one with no alternative because they wanted to save money. im not trying to make this a weird generational thing, but a lot of older people dont want to…

Dear God, no. It’s already bad enough that I sometimes have to go to Walmart (small town, so some stuff isn’t anywhere else and sometimes it’s late), but being able to check myself out and not waste time in line is the only saving grace. Being able to look up stuff on the app and get a pretty precise pin for it’s…

I find it really bizarre that evolution would select for octopuses to die upon (or very soon thereafter) laying the eggs. Is the selection such that the mom doesn’t turn around and eat her own young? What benefit does this die-off confer to octopuses? Simple math says longer living = more progeny = better survival....