We had this problem in a communal bathroom in a dorm I lived in. People were practically coming to blows over it. Turns out that when the toilet flushed, it would spray piss up out of the bowl onto the seat. We all thought it was someone else, but it was really every one of us inadvertently.

Every article about him should use this image:

I have a law degree from a top tier school, passed the bar, have practiced law for 19 years, and filed hundreds of lawsuits in my particular niche. I would be scared to file a lawsuit that is not in my specialty or something closely related because I have doubts about my ability to do so competently. There are so many ways to lose a lawsuit that it is very difficult to litigate successfully without years of training. You would need experienced lawyers to teach the classes.

I doubt learning the requisite skills is worth the effort if you are not likely to ever be involved in a lawsuit (most people are not).

All of that said, perhaps the legal system needs to be reformed to remove the complications that necessitate the training, but those complications are the results of centuries of trying to provide fairness and due process to all parties involved.

Defunding is not how, but he is the stupidest person to ever hold the office, so expecting him to know better is a recipe for disappointment.

Not a movie, but the song Jimmy Olsen Blues by the Spin Doctors seems on point.

I have this game in my collection somewhere. Haven’t looked at it in decades.

The baseline stopped in 2020. “Standard deviations from the 1991-2020 mean” The standard deviation is of course dependant upon how many samples (30 per day)are in the data set. The only reason I qualified my statement is we don’t have the actual historic data to say without qualification, and if you went back to the Jurassic or further, who knows with any certainty what to compare with (tectonics at some point mean that the area in question didn’t exist). The data certainly is indicative that the baseline data would be significantly lower, but we cannot say that with the authority that we can for the data collected by satellites which is definitive and pretty much unassailable.

You don’t know what the day of the year is? The chart shows what the standard deviation from the normal temperature is for each day of the year, so all June 30ths show up in the same column for instance. It’s worth noticing that the baseline that they are comparing to is probably already elevated because it starts well after green house gas emissions started because that is when we had the satellites to gather the data. So the 3+ standard deviations is probably under representing the temperature compared to the pre-hydrocarbon economy.

I’ll use a GUI when I grow a prehensile tail to drive the mouse.

I am the age of the target audience for both of these programs when they came out. I found Seinfeld completely unwatchable contemporaneously. It has perhaps the worst laugh track in the history of TV programming. Same obviously fake laughing for stupid stuff that is not even worth a snicker as for the rare thing that was actually funny. I didn’t care for it at all and never understood why it was so popular.

Friends annoyed me for different reasons, mostly because the characters lived so far beyond their means that it was immersion breaking.

They both suck, but Seinfeld sucks more.

Try to address any medical issues as best as possible now.

Adam Curtis’s Hypernormalisation. It is a documentary and does a painful job of examining reality. I was vaguely unsettled before seeing it and after seeing it I have a specific vocabulary and lens through which I perceive current events. I feel helpless to this day. Free on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM

I remembered you want non documentaries, so I will add Basketball Diaries. DiCaprio film about a talented young basketball player ruining his life through drug addiction.

My pacifist grandfather served in the US army medical Corp in both WW2 and Korea. He saw some of the worst aspects of both of those conflicts, particularly Korea. I don’t think anyone would think that he was helping the Nazis by treating the wounded.

No way could fat pedo find Ireland on an unlabeled map. Even less likely that he could find Bulgaria. I would speculate he might not even get the correct continent for Bulgaria.

Dead Internet is a thing for a reason. :(

It is ridiculous. I am interviewing for embedded systems development where we frequently write to specific bits in a register. I am sure these kids have had to learn something, but I can’t figure out a polite way to ask them to give me some examples of what.

I wish it was a joke. Maybe they were deliberately getting the answer wrong to waste our time, but the body language was not consistent with someone fucking with me.

My company probably doesn’t get the best candidates (defense contractor that pays somewhat less than market rate), but yeah.

Two nibbles is an acceptable answer.

Right?