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You become biologically immortal, but...
  • It's really not. Even if a camera observing him counts as a person, you could protect yourself, but stopping him from destroying your house frequently would be much harder. The stress and negative effects on your quality of life are too much. Not even close to worthwhile.

  • Anon gets home from a long day at work
  • Fewer than you think, I'd bet.

    This person clearly likes hot sauce, and buys a lot of it. Maybe they just buy literally everything, but maybe they're more selective. I'd bet some of them are fermented, and some are lighter on the vinegar taste, even if they water it down a bit to focus on the pepper flavor. It isn't that hard to make even a cheap sauce not taste too overwhelmingly of vinegar

  • Walmart just leveled with Americans: China won’t be paying for Trump’s tariffs, in all likelihood you will
  • I wouldn't doubt companies would use it any place it's not enforceable, and at least attempt to collect.

    I'm not sure the nuances of it, other than having talked to a couple of people who were in that situation, talked to an attorney, and ended up paying. I would suspect having a valid reason like sexual harassment wouldn't affect if it's enforceable per se, but give you a lot of leverage to convince a company it isn't worth pressing the issue.

  • Walmart just leveled with Americans: China won’t be paying for Trump’s tariffs, in all likelihood you will
  • No, they're actually pretty common in certain industries, and definitely enforceable, at least for sure within the state of California. If you sign a contract that says you get a certain amount of money for starting a job, contingent on working for them a certain length of time, that's typically paid out on day 1, but you have to pay it back if you leave early.

  • Walmart just leveled with Americans: China won’t be paying for Trump’s tariffs, in all likelihood you will
  • I think a lot of their food items aren't from China, and a few random things are even domestic. I think they sell Lodge cast iron pans, which are fully made in America.

    I think his "plan" is a really big tariff on China and a moderate one on every other country?

  • Scientists create the world's thinnest spaghetti
  • At 2mm thick regular spaghetti, and ~400 nanometer thick nanospaghetti, the nanospaghetti is about 5000 times thinner than spaghetti diametrically, and pi times thinner by circumference. That's such an extreme difference it's hard to imagine how small this stuff is intuitively.

    I feel like we need a word that sounds like a pasta name, not a scientific one, to describe this stuff

  • Ain't nobody got time for that crap!
  • There are definitely different workflows for different recruiters, especially across industries.

    Most of the places I applied to in my most recent job hunt had separate places to upload a cover letter and resume. If they didn't ask for a cover letter, I didn't write one, but I do see an argument to append one to your resume anyway.

  • Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks – new report
  • From a cursory examination, it looks like there are at least some models where you can disconnect the antenna, for which you may get a warning you can just ignore. Seems a lot easier than a faraday cage. But a lot worse than a car not outfitted with that kind of tech.

  • Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?
  • Having one name (at least in common, using hyphenation) is easier for legal reasons too. If you have kids, and one parent doesn't share a last name with them, you'll have headaches at school, maybe crossing a border, unless you brought some extra legal documents with, etc.

  • What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for?
  • Not my country, but what immediately came to mind was one that has global name recognition, and minimal population: Chernobyl.

    It used to have around 12,000 population, but now it's technically illegal to live nearby, and up to 150 people are estimated to live there today. It's famous for being toxically irradiated as a result of the worst nuclear disaster in human history

  • "They are Girls, Not Wives": Colombia outlaws child marriage after 17-year campaign
  • It looks like they tried to change it in 2017 and the bill got compromised down to some safeguards that don't amount to much.

    I found some articles characterizing ACLU's position as viewing it as a slippery slope to taking away access to abortion or other reproductive healthcare. I get why that kind of thing is something they're worried about, but I really don't see how it applies in this situation.

    It's still causing harm, and I really don't see who it's helping. Pair the law with strong protections for reproductive rights for people of all ages, maybe even as a proposition. It'd probably be pretty popular, though I also expected the proposition to ban prison slavery to be popular too.

  • Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?
  • Cost cutting has made fast food restaurants worse in ways that aren't essentially shrinkflation. Restaurants like Taco Bell cutting their beef with cheaper ingredients (though apparently it's only 12% fillers). Chipotle giving you more of the cheap ingredients like rice, and less of the good stuff like guac. Even slower service and longer lines because they don't want to pay as much staff during peak hours.

    Smaller (especially privately-held) chains have been able to buck the trend, but cutting quality has been a popular option as of late.