Fewer vacation days? Heck no. If I wanted to burn vacation to get a 4 day week, I'd do it already.
Longer commute? Heck no. WFH or I walk.
Pay cut? Heck no. You KNOW that 99% of people will be just as productive with a 4 day work week as a 5 day, so why take less money for the same output?
Taking a step back in career? Not like I'm shooting for being a VP or anything, so I guess I don't care if I don't get promoted to senior middle manager meeting organizer, so who cares on that one.
Each fuel has it's own use case, but in the case of reusable rockets...
Hydrogen is harder to store, it leaks out of everything. Methane can sit in a tank for a long time. Holding a tank of methane so you can relight a rocket and land after being in space for a long time is a big advantage, and keeps you from having to throw away everything each flight.
It's pretty unique in that for how outlandish and crazy the events are, they're portrayed in an everyday, boring way. You have this crazy caper, people getting shot, kidnapped, shredded... yet the rest of the world just moves along as if nothing is really different.
Frances McDormand's character of sheriff police chief Gunderson is very good at her job, yet it shows as just another mundane daily task to her. She sees all this crazy stuff and just goes back home and goes about her day.
William H. Macy's character is terrible at this plot to earn some money, and instead of pulling the plug, just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper, getting a lot of people killed in the process. And in the end, he just gets snagged at a motel, not a big, long, drawn out manhunt.
That's quite the stretch. Don't regulate the rich cause we might be caught up?
I don't take private flights from one side of a city to another. I don't own a yacht (or 6). I don't own a fleet of vehicles with a staff that drives them around. I don't throw away more food than most people eat. I don't horde dozens of acres of land that contain nothing but wasteful lawn.
There's a pretty stark contrast between the ultra wealthy, and the vast majority of people living in highly developed countries.
I'm not trying to minimize the unfairness of this, but... bond is intended to ensure that a person sticks around until trial. This is all pretrial, so the precedent is that it should not be punishment, it should be insurance.
If they ever lose track of Trump, they can just check Faux News. If he skips bail, they can just pull up that Truth Social and look at what he's posting. He can't run away and disappear, because it's impossible for him.
Illinois has even gotten rid of cash bail entirely, because in this day an age, you can't hide without leaving society. Either you are so dangerous that they need to keep you locked up until trial, or you aren't and shouldn't be punished until it's proven beyond a reasonable doubt that you did the thing.
We shouldn't be complaining that we're not punishing them early, we should be pushing for the same treatment to the rest (like is slowly happening now.)
Depends on what you mean by "all required minerals, vitamins, etc."
If you are including all proteins, fats, and calories, then nothing happens. (assuming you didn't miss anything at all)
If you exclude any required "etc" then your body will try to keep you in homeostasis for as long as possible, depleting any reserve unit it can't anymore.
If you're short calories, then your body will process fats and muscle and you will get leaner until it can't manage.
If you're short protein, then your body will process muscle and you'll lose strength until it can't manage.
If you're short calcium, then your body will process bone until you break something.
Probably, without a very careful regiment, with blood work and doctor's supervision, you'll end up with a deficiency of some kind and could cause permanent damage.
I think your math is wrong, most websites I see say 7 or 8 trees produce all the air you breathe, so that's perfectly reasonable.
Offsetting the rest of your consumption is another thing, but not something a single person can do. An average person doesn't personally produce a crazy amount of CO2, it's industrial and excessive consumption that does the bulk of it.
Messaging apps are tricky, you can't just pick what's the "best" because it's primary function is to message people, so the best app is what can do that.
If nobody you want to message uses telegram, or signal, or matrix, than they aren't very good messaging apps FOR YOU.
You have to start using the app, then start convincing everyone else to use it, and that's quite a hurdle, when most people you know use the "good enough" Whatsapp, or even just SMS, or iMessage.
Let's say you have $100,000,000 dropped in your lap. You now never have to worry about needing money ever again, which in our current society means you don't need to worry about a LOT of problems.
So it's natural that most people want to preserve that security, the best way to do that would be to invest the money in a way that it grows equal to, or faster than you will spend it.
You can just get it all in cash and stuff it under your floorboards, but there's a non zero chance that the money will be physically destroyed or stolen from a disaster.
You can stick it in a bank, but you have very little protection for the bulk of that money from the government insurance.
So the smartest thing to do is to spread that money out to investments that will grow that money in a diverse way to protect your newfound security.
Once that is set up, you create a will (or trust) to handle the money when you are dead. Who gets to benefit from your windfall once you're gone?
Then you have complete freedom to live your life how you want to.
Should we wait until encryption is completely broken before we start this research? Or should we start to study it now to figure out how to keep our privacy and security intact ahead of the threat?
If you lived in a society that had ready access to replicators and holodecks, you'd probably be asking for teleportation and eternal youth.
What's amazing yesterday is boring today. That's kinda part of the human condition.
Being able to fly anywhere in the world with almost zero planning, and then being able to communicate back to anyone at home with almost zero delay, would have been unheard of just two generations ago, but now that it's normal, it's a shrug and look for the next thing.
Baby showers (at least in my area) are done in the last part of a pregnancy. They're used to give gifts and useful items to a new parent(s) to prepare for the coming of the child. (Baby clothes, diapers, stroller, etc.)
It's also a party to celebrate the birthing parent (and more recently, the non-birthing parent) as a last hurrah before they're tied up with new baby for months.
It's also typically a bigger deal for the first child, and either omitted or toned down considerably for subsequent children.
Same reason that we publish the names of people arrested for crimes before they're convicted.
It's not about one specific case, it's the fact that our justice is done out in the open so we can't just make people disappear and have no paper trail showing what happened.
If we didn't have a trail of documents somewhere that can be inspected to show exactly how a person ended up in jail, then we could just lock them up and say "trust us, we did everything right."
Sure, in some situations (especially arresting innocent people, where just the record of the arrest can ruin their lives) it sucks, but if it was all done in secret, it would suck so much more for many more people.
Fewer vacation days? Heck no. If I wanted to burn vacation to get a 4 day week, I'd do it already.
Longer commute? Heck no. WFH or I walk.
Pay cut? Heck no. You KNOW that 99% of people will be just as productive with a 4 day work week as a 5 day, so why take less money for the same output?
Taking a step back in career? Not like I'm shooting for being a VP or anything, so I guess I don't care if I don't get promoted to senior middle manager meeting organizer, so who cares on that one.