The problem is they end up built into specialised boards with ridiculous requirements, but no good for most tasks.

A few people might get one working, but I can’t afford the power bill to keep one running full tilt 24/7

Think about it like trying to use mining vehicles as a car.

The worst thing is, the format needed for data centres isn’t compatible with home use. A lot of the ram and SSDs will just be scrapped.

Some resort to majority vote, in the case of disagreements. Theoretically, if someone owned/controlled over 50% of the database, they could rewrite it, and have their version seen as true.

For the few valid uses of it, that shouldn’t be a problem. It will also be reasonably detectable beforehand.

There is likely a selection biased. A lot of mental health issues and quirks have genetic components. If you have an issue, it’s FAR more likely your family has issues.

We also tend to be attracted to like minded individuals. My partner tried to tell me I was normal, until I was diagnosed. They were diagnosed a few years later. It turned out most of their friends were neurodiverse too. They were rating themselves (and me) against a bunch of fellow weirdos!

A lot of the problems have always been there. They were just seen as personal failings and hidden. Now we know that they have an adjustable chemical component that can be used to treat them. That, combined with more people being open about issues has created the spike.

A lot of places have a minimum noise value for cars. It helps the blind particularly. Also, a lot of people REALLY don’t like things to be bothered powerful and silent. A company invented a quiet, but powerful vacuum cleaner. It flopped. People felt like it wasn’t working.

The UFO noise seems to have become the default fix for EVs. I’m just glad that no one has jailbroken them to put custom ringtones on them. E.g. crazy frog would be horrifying.

A built in sun hat.

I definitely think there are grounds to the cleanliness hypothesis. Basically the immune system expects a certain amount of activity. If it’s underperforming, the body systems assume it’s a problem with the immune system, not a lack of bugs, because we are too clean. It then racks up activity levels, causing problematic autoimmune or allergy reactions.

I think the immune system can’t see the eye, so it’s never trained to avoid it. If the eye is damaged, the immune system can become aware of it and start reacting. Once it starts, pulling it back is not easy.

The immune response system is simultaneously amazing and insane.

It basically deliberately scrambles part of the DNA in the immune cells that create antibodies. The rest of the body then sheds cells into the blood to move to the lymph nodes. Any immune cells that react then self destruct.

It’s the equivalent of firing a paint blunderbuss at a wall, and creating a silhouette by standing in the way!

I’d guess the flip over point is maybe a bit higher. I can see definite gains up to 500,000-1,000,000 a year.

I suspect the cut off is around there however. Assuming the same base work level to get it.

I could personally live VERY happily on 100k a year, but not afford EVERYTHING I could reasonably want.

A lot of people do exactly that.

Money has a strong diminishing return to happiness. Once you have enough to do what you want, and keep up that lifestyle from investments, you’ve “won”.

Most who goes past that point are self selected as problematic personalities. They’ve figured out that more money = more power = more happy. When they are not happy, they obviously need to work harder to get more money. This doesn’t make them happy and the feedback loop continues.

I would actually be curious if the curve goes negative after a while. There’s a point where more money gets isolating. That is well past the point where the happiness gain becomes negligible too.

It happens in the UK too. Kids play in the street, and get out of the way, if someone needs to drive through or park. Conversely, car drivers keep the speed down and give the kids time to get out of the way.

Everyone wins, and no, it’s definitely a road not a path.

The leopard stuck its face into an industrial cheese grater. Then complained it attacked first.

It reminds me of the ftl core in “event horizon” it also throws the ship through hell (literally).

10m is deep enough to have to consider the bends (decompression sickness). That’s definitely into diving rules territory.

The particular risk is it cutting off, due to the battery dying, forcing a rapid ascent.

“What’s big brown and sticky?”

“A big stick”

“What’s brown, and hurts if it falls on you from a tree?”

“A piano”

It’s worth noting that combining the relativistic correction factor into mass is actually quite problematic. It’s a vector (directional), while mass is scalar(directionless). You suddenly need to ask what direction your mass is. Furthermore, a hypothetical person on the ship will still measure their inertial mass as normal.

As it stands, it would take an infinite amount of energy to reach the speed to light, but you can get arbitrarily close to it, with a finite amount (huge, but finite).

I was more referring to how they deal with the cream. They fully skim it out, then mix it back in to get the various types of milk. That processing is why you don’t need to shake supermarket milk to mix the cream back in before use. The oil droplets are FAR smaller, and it changes the mouth feel of the milt at the very least.

I’ve no proof, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t bother mixing the best parts of the cream back in. At least not in the ratios that came out originally.

They also mess with the milk in additional ways. I didn’t realise how bad it had gotten until I started getting milk delivered from a local dairy. It’s still pasteurised, but closer to natural. I dread to think how bad it must be for you yanks.

I can easily see someone trying “raw” milk and discovering it tastes amazing by comparison. The conclusion that raw is better is wrong, but understandable. The middle ground is where the sweet spot is, safe, but as natural tasting as it can reasonably be.

It gets extra fun if part tries to break away and elect a new spokesperson.

They also happen to be a (retired) nurse themselves. It’s uncommon, but not that uncommon. Most nurses would have seen it before. Its only for 5-10 seconds after waking up. Coming from a relatively skinny woman is quite a bit more unexpected. She also has unusually good aim.