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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The link now works correctly. Does an extra [] matter?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Fixed, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

Marrero's official Navy profile is still up as of right now. Everything is peachy keen! []https://www.surfpac.navy.mil/Leaders/Biography/Article/3152697/cmdcs-swexwiwaw-grisel-marrero/ EDIT: fixed link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I went to a Republican campaign launch, state level candidates were there to put some sound bites on local TV and get the volunteers hyped. The free lunch was pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Merrell hiking boots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cliffy didn't hallucinate as much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Bagels are a whole different set of data than bread. New bread toasts much more slowly than old bread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It only needs one string of conditions that it can understand: don't catch on fire. Turn yourself off IF smoke.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry. Hope you find a better job, on the inevitable downswing of the hype, when someone realizes that a prompt can't replace a person in customer service. Customers will invest more time, i.e., even wait in a purposely engineered holding music hell, to have a real person listen to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Plus, it's way too cold at her vast and empty warehouse hot desk, because she's wearing at least two sweaters. Please let this lady have a cubicle of her own with a little space heater.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is the visionary we need. Take my venture capital millions on a magic carpet ride, time traveler!

 

How much is 25 lbs. of fuel savings worth to you? How much is it worth to Boeing?

 

In Robert Heinlein's novel "Farnham's Freehold", the protagonists accidentally end up in a very technologically advanced feudal society that depends on a drug called "Happiness" to control things and keep social classes rigidly separated. The hypothesis of this question: the drug is a pleasant tasting drink you take daily. It has no known negative side effects. It rapidly induces a feeling of deep contentment, peace, clarity of mind and general satisfaction with your life. You will not become physically dependent on it. You don't have to pay anything to get it. A small, unchanging dose must be taken every day to maintain this effect, but you don't control its distribution. It is distributed by the ruling class of your society, but no one is coerced to take it, as they are psychologically dependent on it. After many centuries of Happiness distribution, no one has shown desensitization or needed a higher dose. The protagonists in the book rejected their doses, escaped briefly and were recaptured. Would you take Happiness? Why or why not?

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