Per my quick research, 1 Dum Dum is about 25 calories, if we assume he eats 1500 calories per day, he’d die of malnutrition before he finished eating them over 3 years.

It’s an evolution of their 4 for $4 deal they started about 10 years ago, pretty sure it’s national. It’s just not well advertised compared to the more premium stuff.

With Wendy’s, if you’re looking for cheap, gotta skip their premium meals and go to their Meal Deals, Sandwich, nuggets, fries, drink for $5, more if you want extra meat/bacon.

See, people say that ad companies can use all this information they gather to better serve targeted advertising, but that’s just not my anecdotal experience.

I get served ads all the time in languages I don’t speak, for VERY specific job related audiences that I’m not even close to related to, state politics that I’ve never lived in, services that I’m already actively subscribed to, just the worst targeting ever.

If I have to get advertised to, I’d so much rather get an ad that could actually be at all relevant to my life, or even some generic ad over the total misses.

Like, if you’re going through the trouble to do all this shady shit to get my data at least be good at it using it…

If your adversary says you better not do something, you should probably heavily consider doing it.

They probably asked him something like “Did you use an official checkpoint to get into the US from Mexico?” And he said “No” because he didn’t enter at all, but they interpreted it as he crossed illegally.

Also, lighting up a cybertruck is probably making them money on an insurance claim, because they’re so overvalued by the corpos.

You’re already jumping to conclusions, specifically that he was definitely in the cell with his wife when she died and that she was killed.

There’s still some doubts that can be cast, especially given the few details we have.

He didn’t have control over who could enter or leave the cell, it’s possible someone else did the murdering.

Heck with the evidence we have access to, it’s possible she never entered the cell alive.

It could have been accidental as the result of something consensual.

It could be coincidental that something consensual happened and after which see died of an unrelated cause.

It could have been suicide, where she wanted to be with him at the time.

Settings is the bloat. Control Panel reigns supreme.

Ok, this is a dangerous idea. Make your own.

You get an ice cream maker/mixer that turns a frozen bowl.

In a separate bowl mix 1 quart of light cream, 1 can of condensed milk, 1/2 cup of sugar as the base (add vanilla for vanilla flavor, melt some real chocolate with enough cream that it’s liquid for chocolate, etc, play with it, nothing solid yet)

Pour half into your mixer, let it go for 28mins, add any solids you want (if you’re planning to add a lot, you could pour less base in). 2 more min, scope it out into some containers. Repeat for the rest of the base, you can do different flavors/mix ins if you want).

My bowls are good for 2 batches before they don’t freeze enough. If you need more, you can get and freeze more bowls, or just make batches up to like every other day or so, as the bowls need to freeze.

That’s because we aren’t even 4% through.

The only 100% effective method I’ve found is pulling the plug.

Idk about anyone else, but my struggles to even just execute the command to shut off a timer/alarm…

Right, if you keep the water at the temp you want what you’re cooking in it, as heat transfers from the water to the food, you just heat the water a little more. Eventually, the food is entirely exactly the temp of the water, with no possibility of getting hotter, so the food can’t get overcooked even if it sits longer than necessary. Usually, you’ll quickly finish something after it’s done, like less than 1 min from sous vide to plate. It’s good when you have time to do the prep work but don’t have time just before the meal to do all the cooking, especially if you wanted to serve a lot of guests. Also, if someone likes food cooked to a certain doneness but is bad at judging it.

Contracts are no where near that standardized, it might just come down to the specific language/clause that was used, either done deliberately or just some lawyer group’s normalized process.

Can we channel Hideki Kamiya and wish they “will be cursed for the rest of their lives to always have poop on the soles of their shoes when they get home.”

Just putting this here if anyone is interested in someone actually trying to have done something similar.

Some human ones are also just actively really bad at it. As both a manager and applicant, I’ve seen they can hinder hiring good candidates.

Science Fiction is largely used as an allegory to explore the real human condition in a way that is parallel to political and cultural topics of the day without the inherent baggage that people would bring to exploring the real topic.

While the original quote and topic is about deploying a military as a policing force, it actually also holds true in the reverse as well, as policing forces shift towards an adversarial militarization against their community, leading directly to the issues you raised in the first comment about the failure of them to live up to the “protect and serve” motto.

While fictional events aren’t real, they are written by real people with views, desires and goals. Good writers will have internal consistency for their characters and try to ensure their external interactions have the authenticity of the ring of truth, because that’s how people will relate to the characters and story.

Good fiction is just a random meaningless story, it’s a platform for education and safe exploration of the real human condition.

Other than meeting rooms, I’ve seen some with the little privacy pods too.