My wife is a teacher to teenagers (high school). She gets called mom on a regular basis. Especially when she wakes one of them up from a little classroom nap. It happens often enough the kids don’t even give each other a hard time.

Now when they call her grandma… She doesn’t find that endearing.

Corporations lying on their books to decieve investors? Shocking!!!

That only happens on days that end in Y.

So late Sunday.

A few caught fire and are burning out. If you look at a cutaway of most tankers, most of the critical compones are found under the bridge. The fuel tanks, engines, pumping station etc.

The hulls can be repaired an put back into service but it will take time and considerable expense.

I bought a machine right before 7 launched to replace my XP machine. Vista SP2 was solid by then. I ran it for over a year because it was extremely stable.

I waited a bit over a year to install 7 on the machine when it’s SP1 came out.

FYI the bottom right in the picture is a real sunflower call Sun Gold.

https://www.applewoodseed.com/product/sunflower-dwarf-sungold/

Of course only comes in yellow.

Brings me back to how we sung a song in grade school. Edit out Ears with Balls and you get:

Do your balls hang low?

Do they wobble to and fro?

Can you tie them in a knot?

Can you tie them in a bow?

Can you swing them over your shoulder like a regimental soldier?

Do your balls hang low?

His mistakes were monstrously huge of course. He firmly believed that free-markets would regulate themselves and pushed to decrease regulations. His naivety screwed over millions of people and sunk the countryinto a global recession. Even worse he presided over massive increase of wealth inequality that we have never recovered from.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27335454

Reality is often absurd and not what you expect.

Just how much time have you spent in marketing to be such and expert on the subject?

There is a finite amount of manipulation techniques used by marketers and others to manipulate human behavior. These have been fine tuned to the nth degree to target susceptible individuals over the centuries. However they only work on susceptible individuals.

Individuals that differ from the targeted norm can resistant to the manipulation. This can be a instinctive response or a trained one via education. This is why in totalitarian government regimes, there is always a few individuals who don’t fall for the shit.

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The vast majority of ads don’t work. Statistically there is a high probability of a subset of individuals where they don’t work at all. So shitting on anyone who claims they don’t work for them, only shows your own susceptibility to unsupported claims.

Human behavior is a wide distribution of genetic and cultural influences. Any broad claims like “everyone is susceptable to advertizing” is unsupportable.

Likely ate a bit of the paint thats peeling.

Ads are designed to trigger a change in a person’s behavior in the target audience. If you are not the target audience or the ad is poorly calibrated it causes annoyance.

Most advertizing offers very little ROI to the business. This is why online advertisers are so aggressive on how they measure “engagement”. Given that ad revenue is the the primary driver of online and TV, the industry massively overemphasizes their effectiveness. Most advertising campaigns are only marginally effective if at all.

There is always an ad that will work on you but it’s not common. It’s likely less than 0.01% the massive amount of ads you are exposed to. But hey if you see 100 ads per day and one ad every 100 days works. It can be worth it to the company.

My wife (146cm) can confirm that opinion (I am 190cm).

Shifting the bonus compensation to long-term performance instead of “this year or even this quarter” is surprisingly very difficult. People are trained to game the system. It’s how sales forces operate in most companies.

It doesn’t matter what system you implement, somebody is constantly attempting to figure out how to maximize their profit at the cost of everyone else.

The more money involved, the more convoluted the games are.

Oh it’s stupidity that turn the water green.

The decomposing shit in the filtration system from being turned off for weeks released free ammonia when they turned it back on. This triggered a massive algae bloom.

It was easily preventable by flushing the system before they turned it back on.

In order to fix it they need to clear out all the detritus in the pool and add a flocculent. It should then clear up in around a week.

In order to keep it green all summer, it needs a little help.

Want to know how to keep a reflecting pool that size green? A couple bags of water soluable fertilizer (20-20-20) per week. Needs to be urea or ammonium based.

Free ammonia and phosphate in the water promotes the insanelynrapid growth of the algae that cause green water like that.

Also couple hundred people peeing in the pool nightly would also do the trick.

That little bit there is absolutely bullshit.

In France over the last decade, 34%, 37% and 60% of outbreaks of salmonellosis, listeriosis and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections respectively have been linked to the consumption of raw-milk cheeses.

These numbers are absolutely horrendous of you know what they mean.

Salmonella is the most common foodborne pathogen. Most outbreaks are small (due to poor sanitation). They are estimated to happen multiple times a day. 34% means that somebody is getting sick, daily.

Listeria and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli are deadly. Knowing that 37% of listeria and 60% of E.coli deaths are directly linked to raw cheese. Frances cheese industry and government is accepting completely preventable deaths. Simple pasturization can prevent 90-95% of these cases.

People get sick from raw milk cheeses in France constantly.

https://www.anses.fr/en/content/raw-milk-cheeses-what-are-associated-health-risks-and-what-preventive-measures-can-be-taken

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Hmmm… This brings up an interesting question for the physics nerds out there.

The desired termination of the CEO is the sudden stop at the end of the flight.

When using a catapult or trebuchet, excessive force exerted during launch would terminate the CEO immediately. This would deprive the CEO of his last luxury flight. .

What the the maximum distance a catapult or trebuchet can throw the CEO while achieving this result? Assume the CEO weighs 100kg’s and is 165cm tall.