THE SKEPTICAL HULK

- about 582 BCE

The last part about Jerusalem has been recited in Jewish weddings, the earliest document example of that is from around the third century and has lasted till this day.

My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west-- How can I find savour in food? How shall it be sweet to me? How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains? A light thing would it seem to me to leave all the good things of Spain -- Seeing how precious in mine eyes to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary.

Was written during the middle ages

Thomas Midgley Jr invented a lot of fantastic products that solved a lot of problems and unfortunately those inventions were dangerous. the alternative to chemicals like Freon are a little bit shittier for the end user but are better in the long run

Uber/Lyft/Doordash/etc were dirt cheap for the first couple of years of their existence because the companies were actively losing money on the service. they were being kept alive by constant infusion of venture capital during zero interest rate periods because the idea was if they obtained total market domination, they could then safely raise prices. which is, indeed, what happened.

TVs have become so stupid cheap because all your user data is being sold by the manufacturer, which allows them to sell the TV to you at or even below cost. a TV that does not sell user data will necessarily be more expensive than one that does, because you will not be benefiting from the subsidy.

apps are free because you are not a customer, you are the product: the customer is advertising platforms and data brokers. if you want an app that is free, where you are the customer, your options are 1) paid service where the costs of building and running the app are funded directly by you, the user, or 2) completely free software run by unpaid volunteers in their spare time where new features are limited to how much free time Anders or Lunameow0 have that month. you can complain about how much those alternatives suck compared to Profit-Driven Platform but hosting 4k video for all of your friends gets really expensive fast. part of the cause of the data center explosion is due to the significant storage+delivery demands of 4k video lol

The settlement gives Tumblr 180 days to hire an expert on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) issues and provide related training to moderators. It must also hire someone with experience in this area as well as expertise in image classification, who will review Tumblr’s moderation algorithms to see if they’re more likely to flag LGBTQ content. As part of an overall review, Tumblr will reexamine 3,000 old cases where a user successfully appealed a takedown, looking for patterns that could indicate bias.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.