Caring about other people

1)Antarctica has solid land below the ice 2) there are currently zero nations from Antarctica in the United Nations

It officially fits fifteen. . . passengers. But normally we have two seats removed for cargo space. So, 13

I have a large family and we drive a Transit 350 van.

One day we needed to move a pair of beds and mattresses. We asked my father in law to help us since he has a F150. But it soon became apparent how much more we could fit in the van (with the two back seats removed) than we could fit in the truck, which couldn’t even fit one mattress in the truckbed without hanging out the back of the tailgate.

From what I’ve seen my van is far superior to a truck in almost every need I’ve had. It can carry more stuff and it can do so in the rain keeping the cargo dry.

The one thing a truck could do that my van can’t is pick up a scoop of mulch or gravel dumped from a loader.

This sounds nice for someone who needs a truck. But I have lots of kids. Why can’t I get an EV minivan for under $50k?

This is how things widely work in nonprofits, churches, and HOAs. Your complaint is interpreted as you volunteering.

Similar experience here. I corrected some wrong statement made on a right wing subreddit, the next day I’m banned from a handful of left wing subreddits.

I have a stay at home wife and a flexible employer.

I always default to DDG, and it gets me what I need 80% of the time. If not, do the search again with !g at the end and DDG will forward the search to Google

Seriously, http://www.ebay.com/

Not always, but very often in my experience, the manufacturer’s own website is more expensive than Amazon!

On my work laptop, Notepad used to have Copilot built in but now it doesn’t. So that’s a little scaling back

The 1GB Gmail storage was initially announced on April Fool’s Day and it was quite the topic of discussion whether it was real or not.

A year or two later they upped it to 2GB and also announced this on April 1

Large News orgs like the NY Times and kind of indie news like The Intercept have official encrypted channels for sending tips. I would send to 2-3 large news orgs, maybe a half dozen small ones. Tell all of them the whole thing will be dumped on Twitter in some time period so they should rush to get ahead of it.

We should explore space with semiautonomous robots. We can do space exploration at maybe a quarter of the cost of sending humans to do it.

Flood Mars with exploratory rovers for years. Then mining robots. Then manufacturing robots. Have them build facilities that build more robots to expand the process exponentially .

Then, if we decide it’s even worth it at that point, have them build a city and send people.

I find it very unlikely the US could keep a lid on 200 deaths and saying it’s six. Not for more than a week or so. People’s families are going to wonder where their loved ones are. Hospital workers, morgue workers, life insurance companies, flight crews, people are going to talk, and share pictures.

I started watching a lot of home-improvement type videos on YouTube, and suddenly since then all the ads now assume my dick is horribly bent and doesn’t work, and that I uncontrollably shit and piss myself.

It’s so pervasive I can’t even watch YouTube on my living room TV with my young kids around because I would have to explain way too much to them.

I deleted Facebook maybe two years ago. One of the last things I saw was a very obviously AI generated image of six or seven soldiers that had lost the same leg and all had it replaced with a prosthetic at exactly the same point, with some caption about “let’s get some likes for our wounded warriors!” Followed by dozens of comments in support, I assume all were bots.