That is obviously not a reason why, considering the place where I've seen those listings is Amazon.

Well, yeah, they’ve got a system. Their system is selling hope to schmucks like you. Their seminars, their self-help books, their crazy diets and exercise plans? That stuff doesn’t help you. It helps them.

This text can currently be found in the blurb for a shirt at https://shirt.woot.com/offers/steamworks-operatica .

It's possible that's where I found it originally, but my memory suggests to me that I found it somewhere else, on a blog, and that the continuation was different.

It was pretty easy to imagine 50 years ago. For example, Star Trek started airing 60 years ago. The Jetsons started airing a few years before that.

> [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=USS+Liberty&ia=web

Hmmm.

Someone with the barest modicum of honesty might have noticed that the comment above you was talking about searching on TikTok, not on DuckDuckGo.

You're half right. I was wrong about Tauros and Miltank.

But Volbeat and Nidorino are male-only species that don't need to be bred via Ditto. You can breed Volbeat with Ditto and get an Illumise. You can breed anything with Illumise and get a Volbeat. You can breed anything with Nidoran-female and get a Nidoran-male. You can breed a Nidorino with Ditto and get a Nidoran-female.

Outside-of-universe, this is obviously because the technology of representing Pokemon within the game has changed over time. Later male-female pair species are given the same name and the same Pokedex number. But within-universe, that explanation isn't available.

This is incorrect; male Kirlia evolve into Gardevoir just as females do. You can evolve a male (and only a male) into Gallade before that happens, but there is no restriction on Kirlia evolving into Gardevoir.

> in real life a maturing animal becomes the same thing no matter where it grew up or what it learned to do

This is false too. A maturing animal in real life may have its sex determined by environmental factors. (And to complete the analogy, there are paired Pokemon 'species' that differ only by the fact that one species is the male or female version of the other one. For example, female Tauros are called Miltanks, and male Miltanks are called Tauros.)

Similarly, ancient Greek "p" corresponds with modern Greek "f", and ancient Greek "b" corresponds with modern Greek "v".

We may have done it first, but the sound change is pretty common. "B" -> "v" is arguably in process in Spanish. Something similar had already happened in Latin; compare Latin "frater" to English "brother" or Latin "fero" to Greek "phero".

The Internet Archive claims to have Sears Catalogues from many years including 1970. If we check out Spring/Summer 1970, we can see that they actually have the first 33 pages of a catalogue that prominently advertises "index begins on page 391".

Disappointing.

That said, a women's dress from those first 33 pages costs $11, or about $100 in today's money.

Yes, that's what free-riding is.

And the major problem, which the article touches on but doesn't do much to explore, is that if you characterize this as "responsible behavior", it will automatically cause itself to fail, because all of the benefits come from free-riding. The only benefit of waiting is that other people might not do it, and those people will drive improvements. If everyone waits, the only thing that happens is that (1) improvements will take longer to be developed, and (2) everyone experiences exactly the same problems as they would have if no one waited. There's no benefit, but increased cost.

Imagine you and everyone you know are inside a minefield. You need to leave, because you have no water.

Does waiting until enough people have killed themselves to establish the outline of a safe path out make you a free-rider?

What is there to be gained by instituting a waiting period before any attempt to leave?

> Can't solve the differential equation y'' = -y? Why not just introduce a function sin(x) as its solution! Problem solved.

But that's not how sine was introduced. It's been around since classical geometry. It was always easy to solve the differential equation y'' = -y, because the sine had that property, and we knew that.

Heck, you can tell this just by looking at the names of the functions you mentioned. "Sine" is called "sine", which appears to have originated as an attempted calque of a Sanskrit term (referring to the same function) meaning "bowstring".

"Square root" is named after the squaring function that was used to define it.

Introducing an answer-by-definition gives us negative numbers, rational numbers, imaginary numbers, and nth roots... but not sines, come on. You can just measure sines.

There appears to be a typo in that example; I assume "Essentially elementary functions are the functions that can be built from ℂ and f(x) = x" should say something more like "the functions that can be built from ℂ and f(x) = y".

But also, threshing flails were used outside of rice-growing regions.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Battage_...

Considering that they must be hundreds of times more expensive than long sticks with no hinge, I would say the reason must be that they're better at threshing.

> It isn’t. It’s a group of people, some of whom are country-music-loving Republicans who hate them black folk, but who also include a lot of them black folk, a lot of Democrats, and a lot of people who hate country music.

But... that is what most political opinions are like.

https://docs.polymarket.com/market-makers/overview

https://docs.polymarket.com/market-makers/maker-rebates

Because it has to be released at some point, and without picking a point in advance, you can never reach it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

Several beverage factories proposed to rework themselves to produce sanitizer instead, which would have been good for everyone.

But they couldn't, because federal law would have required them to poison the sanitizer, which would have contaminated their machinery so badly that they would have been unable to switch back to producing drinkable alcohol afterwards.

So - even if we ignore the idea that intentionally poisoning people is wrong - there was a serious cost to the legal regime, one that still exists.

Are there any benefits?

We still do this now. We don't do it because alcohol is illegal, we do it because we levy higher taxes on non-poisonous alcohol, and if someone decides to drink the poisoned alcohol, they deserve what they get.

But Raich is significantly more egregious: the theory on which the government won Wickard v. Filburn, that private consumption of wheat could affect the interstate market for wheat, doesn't even apply, because there can be no interstate market in a substance that is illegal to trade.

The location isn't just embedded in the EXIF tags. It's also embedded in the visual content.

I imagine people will get tired of their image uploads being blacked out pretty quickly.