This seems hard to believe at first. Why would anyone keep doing something that harms them? Then you realize that this pattern appears in so many places. People are still smoking and voting for politicians who make their lives worse, despite ample evidence they’re harming themselves. And they’re likely to keep doing it.

Congress does so little now, what’s one less thing? They can stay on recess forever, while still getting paid, of course.

I won’t say how long it took me to get this one.

1. Get sick
2. Take out loan (AKA payment plan) to pay for it
3. Die before loan is paid off

This is spot on. For MAGA, it’s not that Trump is on the list, it’s that the Democrats and elites are. He can do what he wants, they can’t. For the rest of us, though, all the names on the list matter.

TACO

It’s a nice start.

Almost makes up for the glee he had in raping children.

It’s certainly a puzzle.

Dogshit? No. Different? Definitely. The wild yeasts on the skin weren’t cultivated for alcohol tolerance, so ancient wines would tend to have a lower ABV. They might have some sourness from bacteria found on the skin along with the yeast. Whether or not they’d be sweet or dry would depend on the yeasts and the grapes themselves. There would be a lot of variability from year to year. The Romans, for one, preferred sweeter wines and would add grape syrup, defrutum, made from boiling down grape juice, if the wine was dry. Other cultures might do something similar or just grin and bear it. There was a lot of variety across time and place.

It should be noted that the Romans would sometimes use lead vessels for making defrutum. This would add lead acetate to the syrup, which has a sweet taste, and make it even sweeter.

Erythritol, like other sugar alcohols, is also bad for folks with IBS. And it seems like they’re in everything.

I take a lot of photographs in abandoned industrial sites. Tires are the most common thing I run across, by far. Besides being a source of pollution they make excellent mosquito breeding grounds after it rains. We really need to make recycling them a lot easier than it seems to be currently.

Just go away. There’s enough creeps in government as it is.

Ernie is committing a mercy killing. The hate crime is mustard on watermelon.

Maybe.

It’s not an AI anymore, just a search engine. And a crappy one.

I don’t know if anyone could have predicted that the ARM architecture would become so dominant, but it certainly seems like Intel missed the boat on that one.

Same here. It’s been trained on so much of that kind of code, you have a much better chance of getting useable code on the first prompt.

Ignorance is bad. Willful ignorance is deadly.

So, sauntering is out?