Honestly, most people suck at giving gifts. Most people struggle to put themselves in someone else’s shoes

Your SO probably put real thought into the gift, and paid attention to you to come up with a good idea. And most people think new is better (although I’m with you). They think it’s sour grapes or something when you tell them how you enjoy the fact something has been with you for all this time, and how you’ve carefully repaired it over the years

So all in all, that’s a halfway well thought out gift. More effort than most people put into them, anyways. They were probably really excited and proud of themselves

I don’t know what to do with that information… Personally I’d probably accept the gift and leave it in the closet as a backup. I’m not sure if that’s better or not, but it would spread the experience out

People really latched onto the idea, which was shared with the media by people actively working on how to solve the problem

They do make edible stickers with edible adhesives for produce… They’re usually not that sticky though

Pretty much. It means give maximum output, which can easily be over 100%.

And that means burn out

That’s a download button, an up arrow on the disk is an upload

The save icon is too established to be changed. It can be simplified and become a glyph no one understands the meaning of, but it’s cemented

Fair… When people ask me how I am I say I can’t complain, because I can’t… It’s not socially acceptable

You can have canned questions too, but I find that makes the whole thing feel even more empty. Personally, I like to talk about the weather not being normal, or about store prices rising and such. Just little observations that any sane person would agree is both true and a problem

It’s my own version of checking if they’ll make friendly noises… If you can’t acknowledge the world is falling apart or think Trump is going to magically fix it, we don’t have the common ground to keep talking. I’d rather sit there in awkward silence

I think a lot of social situations become easier once you flip it around and ask what outcome you want out of it.

Maybe it’s ok to have deeper small talk. Maybe when people don’t respond with friendly noises, they’ve failed your friendliness test

Mitochondria are specialized mini-cells

They have their own DNA like bacteria, just floating around inside their membranes. They undergo their own mitosis inside the cell, some cells can have hundreds of them

And they always come from the egg. They’re purely maternal

It helps to have canned fallback responses. Mine is “I know, right?” in a dry/sarcastic tone. It works for any comment and most questions, because it’s a meaningless affirmation

It even works when you fumble, it’s so vague you can use it to reply to a question and recover

It also requires an egg, just with the nucleus removed

We’ve done similar things before, these mice have 3 parents. The mitochondria come from the maternal line and have their own DNA

FYI, ddg initially used Google, and FYI, you’ll get slightly different results because it’s more complicated than that

But none of that was the point I was trying to make. I’m referencing the quality of Bing from a few years ago

Uh… There are open source search engines. They’re about on par with ddg or qwant, nowhere near even Bing from a few years ago

It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low

Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better

This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google

Ah, I see, you are stuck on a pizza of ignorance. You must return to Sandwich

You must stack another pizza upside down upon your understanding

Acknowledge the pizza for what it is, a half sandwich. And how could a half sandwich ever turn into a whole sandwich?

I know, it must be terrifying to have the truth of the world laid out for you so plainly. Terror is a calzone, by the way

Get your binary food logic out of here

Sandwich is something between two similar things

Taco is a thing wrapped around another

Pizza is a thing on top of another

Calzone is when one thing is fully encased in another

This is a settled debate. Hot dogs are tacos

Go back to 2022 and run your search then

He’s not a genuis, he’s smart but very arrogant, he’s intolerable when you get him next to an actual subject matter expert

But he is right about Pluto. We either would need to add a half dozen+ more planets, or demote one into a new category. And Pluto would currently be in the bottom of that category - it’s barely large enough to fit in the new category, so it’s not a matter of where to draw the line

And in his words, if Pluto was between us and the sun it would grow a tail, and that’s no type of behavior for a planet to have

That’s like asking why someone wouldn’t eat a full bowl of mustard

I mean… You can if you want, but people will have questions

No one reads the bill anyways… Especially not the people voting on it

Most bills are insane enough even without history tracking