the owner has to hire someone to clean it off and that comes from my rent.

Rent has little to do with maintenance. If it did, it would mean that higher rent lead to more maintenance. This is not the case. Landlords are incentivised to maximise margins (rent minus expenses). If they don’t have to pay for maintenance while getting a certain rent level, then they will opt for not maintaining.

Rent level is the maximum level that landlords will set to drain from their tenants. It has little to do with the maintenance or condition of the residence. There are plenty of examples that show poor housing standards being expensive.

The solution: Land Value Tax

Here is the paper:

https://jabde.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TiffanyWormLoveAritlce.pdf

Therapy is maintenance (at the very least). If you haven’t ever been to therapy, you’re driving around without an oil change.

How is this meme about science?

I tend to observe other cyclists when I’m driving.

So I guess I’m saying that I’m surprised by the results of this study.

That’s because you’re using anecdotal evidence. If you are looking for cyclists breaking the law, you’ll find it because of your inherent bias. This is precisely why studies are needed to back up what we think may be true but aren’t sure of. We have to cut away our biases.

Overweight can mean “over the weight that is healthy for this individual”.

No need to post gibberish. Just post AI generated content.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

We use the AI to destroy the AI.

Maybe it wasn’t about the houses, maybe it was about the class divide that we made along the way.

It was the “no meetings before 2pm” and “3 hours of no distraction” that gave it away for me.

The world is lucky that New Zealand is an island nation.

I like the imagery of the last post because it was tapping into the idea of waves and how sub-atomic particles behave like waves.

However, erm actually 🤓 …

you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur

No, they don’t overlap. Electrons are negatively charged, and like repels like. The orbitals will repel each other. This repulsion is the reason why you can feel the fur.

Edit: I’m getting nay-sayers that reckon they do. Please provide a reference that explains inter-molecular orbitals that cause bonding for a hand touching fur. The only thing I can think of this happening is for transition states. This would require a chemical reaction. I don’t think we categorise “touch” under “requiring a chemical reaction”.

Because the structure of the transition state is a first-order saddle point along a potential energy surface, the population of species in a reaction that are at the transition state is negligible. Since being at a saddle point along the potential energy surface means that a force is acting along the bonds to the molecule, there will always be a lower energy structure that the transition state can decompose into. This is sometimes expressed by stating that the transition state has a fleeting existence, with species only maintaining the transition state structure for the time-scale of vibrations of chemical bonds (femtoseconds).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_state

OOTL:

Jeremy Vine

On August 2016, a car driver threatened and was abusive to Vine while he was cycling along Hornton Street in Kensington, London. Vine captured the encounter on his helmet camera, later broadcasting it on YouTube where it was viewed several million times. Vine also reported it to the police. On 18 April 2017, the car driver was jailed for nine months for threatening behaviour. At the time of the incident, she was subject to a suspended sentence for various other offences.

Here’s the video, it contains road rage so don’t watch it if you have high blood pressure.

Exactly.

Oh, I thought spacecrafts were wombs. It has to provide all necessary elements to sustain life. The astronauts even have “umbilical cords” attached to their spacesuits.

and you’re not hurting anyone else in doing so

Evaluating this condition across all levels of your community is almost impossible, from the individual level up to a global level. It can also be evaluated across time. The total sum effects of actions (and inactions) are incalculable.

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“Hey, Disney. Can I tell you to suck my dick?”

“Will it make me money?”

“Yes, lots of money.”

“Will I have to actually change my practices in a meaningful way?”

“No”

“Lets do it. Now will you excuse me, I have legal battles to fight with the poors.”

Astrology and Scientology want to know your location.

people with increased serotonin levels had reduced sensitivity to punishing outcomes (for example, losing money in a game) without significantly affecting sensitivity to rewarding ones (winning money).

Wake me up when the fines overshadow the profits.

Wake me up when September ends.