My dad was born in 1943 and contracted polio (as well as whooping cough and the measles - all at the same time) in the 1950s, and luckily managed to escape relatively unscathed.

Unless your name was Henry Ford.

Considering that there are approximately 50 quintillion atoms in one grain of sand (which is likely equal to if not more than if you counted all the grains of sand on the entire planet) I’m going to guess that day is never going to come, not even with quantum computing.

Didn’t read the write up. Saw the picture on the main page and couldn’t scroll to the bottom fast enough to vote CP.

In short? Yes. Saudi Aramco is the biggest and most valuable company in the world. Because it is state held it doesn’t show up on the lists of “most valuable companies” typically. No one exactly agrees on how much it is worth, but somewhere between 1 and 8 trillion dollars. https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2017/06…

It means that if you could extrapolate the precision which it exhibits at marking the passage of time over ~15 billion years (maybe much more?) it would be accurate to within 1 second. I don’t know how this compensates for gravitational fields, etc. But the clock can only run for 10 seconds at a time, but over that…

Sorry, Black Mirror already did this better.

FIE ON THEE SATAN!!! HOW DAREST YOU BESMIRCH THE AMAZINGNESS OF OREO COOKIES!!!!

One big hit against these - they are some of the most unsafe vehicles on the road.

Odyssey - and there is one really big reason for it with that many car seats - it is the only one of ANY of those vehicles (including the Sedona and the Sienna) that has an actual LATCH connector on the middle seat, plus with the ability to move the two outboard seats two inches out, you have space for three seats…

Well I nearly lost a lung laughing at that description....

A nurse is paid between $30-$50 an hour. Don’t think they need the tip. Now the PCT could probably use one.

Please explain to us in detail how you supported your family on minimum wage. Do tell!

There’s tons of great music today, and this is the example you posted? lol. I’m not saying it’s bad by any means, but it sure isn’t what I would link to to convince someone that they’ve been missing anything.

Congratulations on writing one of the most tone deaf and patently ill informed posts I’ve read recently outside of a political thread. I won’t even bother to comment on the climate change part of your statement, other than to say that when the planet gets hotter, which is happening - this is irrefutable - that it…

There are tons of really good tunes put out by female singers, but they don’t always crack the billboard charts. Your statement is incredibly dismissive and broad-sweeping.

“I did not expect the photo to be shared as much as it was,” Cvjetanovic said. “I understand the photo has a very negative connotation. But I hope that the people sharing the photo are willing to listen that I’m not the angry racist they see in that photo.”

I know someone who will sell you a 2007 IX MR with ~18,000 miles on it that has never been over 75 MPH for $25K if you want it. Absolutely bone stock, never been raced, modified, or abused in any way shape or form. I don’t know why this guy buys fast cars, but he does and then babies them.

Codex Alera is actually really, really good once you get into it. It took me a while to start it, but overall it is the best fantasy series I’ve read in decades.

Bullshit. This is not a mental health issue. You don’t have two other kids you care for in the house but let the disabled boy starve on the carpet because of mental health. That’s the biggest fucking cop-out excuse I’ve ever heard.