I haven’t had one in almost that long. Shave my head every night instead!

Started going bald in my twenties, eventually decided to just lean into it.

Closest I remember to her being discriminating is things like this

Not exactly something I’d object to.

I feel like MAGA just runs half molten down by design at this point

…the AI thing is referring to your username.

And what’s wrong with being autistic?

… do they still want it?

A lot of the big media companies have been getting snapped up by billionaires over the last decade or so. The staffers are normal people, but the editors and producers have been either made to toe the line or replaced.

That’s why the reporters aren’t reporting on this. They’re not allowed to.

Oh, that’s what happened!

Fair points, I hadn’t considered the economic side of it; or even the mass beyond how it affects lift.

True, I hadn’t considered the economic angle at all!

Also for unmanned aircraft, using helium instead of hydrogen is just crazy

Is it? Hydrogen is about half the mass of helium, but the trick is what you’re displacing to generate lift.

1 cubic meter of air is around 1.2 kilograms, depending on a variety of factors.

1 cubic meter of helium is around 0.18 kilograms, displacing the atmosphere to generate about 1.02 kilograms of lift.

1 cubic meter of hydrogen is around 0.08 kilograms, displacing the atmosphere to generate about 1.12 kilograms of lift, a shade under a 10% increase over helium.

That can be significant, depending on other engineering constraints; but is it “crazy” different?

(Numbers will vary with temperature and pressure, back of envelope calculations, etc. etc.)

Wish Netflix still mailed DVDs, be nice to have another way to fill in the gaps.

Need to look at what DVDs the library carries…

Ah, yep, I see it now. Could well be poo, but it’s a different shade, and would seem to suggest it’s also on her kid’s feet - I’d guess it’s from the mess in the two panels prior.

Her head is to the left; that’s her bum with poo. Her legs are folded up in a diaper change position.

Maybe - but the marketing that won’t affect you isn’t what you need to worry about. It’s the parts that do still work on you need to be careful of - and if you assume nothing will ever work on you, you won’t even notice when something does take. Whether that’s buying a trinket that doesn’t actually make you happy, or joining a group that turns out to be a cult.

Always better to assume you can be manipulated, and check in with yourself periodically.

This… strikes me more as self-aggrandizing than informative.

Yes, many technical folks are put off by certain marketing tricks. Good marketers just use different techniques when targeting people in this market, when they bother to at all.

We’re not immune to manipulation; and thinking that we are makes us more susceptible to it.

The regime struggles to operate coherently, but certain elements of the regime are certainly capable of this sort of thing.

For instance, Vance has invested in the “AcreTrader” app, which is designed to take advantage of exactly this situation.

Just went through this with both kids… The word “need” always implies a goal. “I need x (to do y)”. Without context, the goal is generally either survival, or more often, comfort: “I need a drink.” “I need a break.”

When you’re speaking in the context of doing something, as superglue was, that becomes the implied goal. “I need those recommendations to automatically populate (in order for my wife to be comfortable using this)” is a perfectly valid use of the word “need”.

Lol, you’re welcome to it! And it’s always fun to see your comics!

Yeah, but they responded to what you said! “Anywhere in their houses” could be just wherever in the house, or any specific spot; as in “is there anywhere to pee in the house?”

The thing that really made my kid anti-trump? When some of his classmates started getting nervous about ICE visits.