A constant 24/7 60 decibel whine would be infuriating. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-center-noise-pollution-dowagiac-michigan-blasts-homes And noise pollution has health impacts, “Due to an increasing number of mechanistic and epidemiological cohort studies, the past twenty years have seen a shift from skepticism that noise could affect non-auditory health, to increasing evidence for effects on cardiometabolic disease, annoyance, sleep disturbance, mental health, dementia, and children’s learning. Evidence for mechanisms via cortical activation and stress hormones leading to increased vascular and cerebral inflammation and oxidative stress has increased.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935126009795

Lakenenland*

I’ll not sure, once I get my hands on them I’ll report back

Nice! Thank you!!

Right?? I’m going to ask if I can inherit them

Ah, that’s a good point. I noticed those at the top as well. He did live in an old house, I can imagine them on each side of a window or something

Same. There are certain parts on the ornamental end that looks like they attach to something else

I was thinking that as well, though wood seems like a bad idea, and not much of a handle. I wonder if it’s notable that the pokey bits are on opposite sides

Nominative determinism

Warren v. District of Columbia “is a District of Columbia Court of Appeals case that held that the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to specific citizens based on the public duty doctrine.” And Castle Rock v. Gonzales, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for refusing to enforce a restraining order, even though the refusal led to the murders of a woman’s three children by her estranged husband.

“Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis also known as “tooth in eye” surgery, is a medical procedure to restore vision in the most severe cases of corneal and ocular surface patients. It includes removal of a tooth from the patient or a donor.” Essentially, your tooth is implanted in your cheek and once it grows a new blood supply it’s taken out and put in your eye to replace a bad cornea. Wikipedia

Look at the common names section of the Wikipedia article, they’re called all sorts of things

Dürer’s rhino is such an impressive instance of that (Wikipedia)

As a USian living near the Canadian border, I’ve been watching on CBC and mostly cheering for Canadians, but this and the men’s hockey players staying at hotels instead of the Olympic village shifted my fluid allegiance for those sports

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/37/

“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.” – Epictetus

Christians use 2 Corinthians 2:14 as an excuse for divorce “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols?” To divorce and remarry is biblically considered adultery; but Erika is a widow, and if Usha won’t convert JD gets a free pass on divorce, and Christians will just excuse it as the righteous thing for JD to do.

Rent parties are back! Just without the jazz, and food, and booze, and community… But at least it’s monetized for a tech CEO! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_party

Aren’t they both into 15 year old girls?

There’s a longer list but I can’t find the original source.

‘FIVE RAPE PREVENTION TIPS’

1. If someone is drunk, don’t rape them.

2. When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone.

3. Use the Buddy System! If it is difficult for you to stop yourself from raping someone, ask a trusted friend to accompany you at all times.

4. Carry a rape whistle. If you find that you are about to rape someone, blow the whistle until someone comes to stop you.

5. Don’t forget: honesty is the best policy. When asking someone out, don’t pretend that you are interested in them as a person. Tell them straight up that you expect to be raping them later. If you don’t communicate your intentions, they may take it as a sign that you do not plan to rape them.”