Getting a dog has helped me in ways I never expected. I just figured “cute, cuddle, good for brain chemicals”. But they HAVE to be walked at a certain time. They HAVE to be fed at a certain time. Regardless of any of your internal issues, you love them and you have to provide for their needs.

So when you are in the kitchen filling their bowl, you make yourself some toast or grab a banana. When you are taking them for a walk, maybe you go a little farther because they like it and it’s good for you. If you struggle to get up in the morning, they look to you pleading to be taken out to pee and you get yourself up and dressed. They need training and that requires being consistent, so you do it for them. It’s so much easier to do it for them than for yourself.

Sports bra season, closely followed by yoga pants season.

I used a convection toaster oven in the kitchen.

That fried the circuits of 1/3 of the house. Some amateur electrician tied in several new circuits into the same kitchen breaker. They used undergauged wire on top of it.

Cost us $6k to fix and that was a hell of a deal from some Covid - unemployed union electricians. They put in 3 breakers where there was one before. The electrician had a hell of a time tracking where all the lines came from. That included a 3ft fireball shooter ng out of the wall because a line was love when it shouldn’t have been.

Yes. When they are cops or being hassled by cops. Next question

I just checked and he was a Jedi but eventually fell to the dark side and took over a planet.

There was even a Hutt Jedi

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Religious views of trans people in Iran are particularly interesting. Though it is an Islamic theocracy where being gay is explicitly against the law, being trans is narrowly accepted. Gender reassignment surgery is legal and formal gender recognition after the procedure is supported by the theocracy. The fact that being gay is potentially punishable by death can lead to people choosing gender reassignment rather than execution. The government’s strict belief that there are no sexual minorities in the country leads to an oddly absolute acceptance of the gender of trans people.

I’ll never forget back in the day when Anarchy Online sold adspace on the virtual billboards in their cities. Fanta bought nearly all of it. The same Fanta ad was everywhere. It was hilarious.

You could, but who is worried a bear will use their computer?

One of my favorite examples of the difficulty in idiot-proofing things comes from a national park ranger talking about the difficulty of designing a bear-proof garbage can. He said “There is considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.”

I had an ex girlfriend attempt to stab me in my sleep. I sure as hell am afraid women will kill me.

It was a lot more like Jaws where the mayor won’t close the beach to save lives because it will mess with the tourism business.

They were also hoping vending machine companies would use them but few did.

They are normal at Renaissance faires for people who like to carry a sack of “gold”.

The history of monuments to this event is a good example of how the fight is still ongoing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments_relating_to_the_Haymarket_affair

These engineers need to watch more BattleBots. You always build in a self-righting mechanism.

This is true. I assume the ceramic heaters also emit light, just not in the visible spectrum.

It depends on the framing of the question a bit. If we are defining 100% efficiency as 100% of electrical energy being converted into kinetic energy (heat) by the device, then that is a no. Some percentage is emitted as EM radiation instead of heat. If they were so then a light bulb or a bomb is a 100% effective heater as well.

You know how you turn on an electric heater and the filament begins to glow? That is energy being converted to light, so not 100% efficient.