Years ago I saw an article about a robot designed to hunt and kill insects as a healthier pest control mechanism in farming. That robot would put the insects into a hopper where they would be converted to fuel to run the robot.

I figured it wasn’t going to be too long before they’d be eating us.

I’m not sure how you reached the conclusion that they don’t have wood to gnaw on. They do.

Just one?

Well, if you had more than one, you’d find that they are all different, with different personalities, and you wouldn’t be so quick to assume you know all guinea pigs because of your experience with your sole pig.

Naw, the potato has friends. Mental health is still broken.

She’s actually very sweet. She just managed to luck into the discovery that biting gets us to move faster.

Guinea pig bites are the worst.

It’s not the force of the bite, although it does hurt (they bite through wood after all). It’s the humiliation from having one of the most fragile, easy to kill pets decide that it can express its displeasure by biting your hand.

Damn little meat potato. The only reason you can even bite me is because you’re so damn fragile I can’t risk dropping you. Also, the reason I’m holding you is to trim your nails because you don’t wear them down naturally since you live your entire life on padded flannel blankets. Where do you even get off having displeasure to express?

If you weren’t so damn cute, you’d be on the grill.

Florida: “It was really cold that day!”

So is the pond in my yard that I created 25 years ago, but then neglected for most of the last 10 years a swamp or a marsh?

There’s not a lot of woody crap growing in it, but there is a tree that sprouted at one end that I’ve been trying to kill.

I came here looking to see if anyone would point out that they are toy animals, not real ones.

Eyelash bugs.

And she ended up suing

https://www.thethings.com/mel-brooks-was-sued-by-hedy-lamarr-10-million-joke-in-blazing-saddles-how-much-he-paid/

Another article I read said police took security footage as evidence.

There’s a difference between not dreaming and not remembering your dreams.

I’ve heard that you only remember your dreams if you happen to wake in the middle.

If you’re not getting enough sleep, or you’re not sleeping well, you won’t wake up enough to remember any dreams.

Sleep apnea seems to be a big reason for disrupted sleep. You might want to ask a doctor.

I too don’t really know enough to have an informed opinion, but I don’t think “plausible” has much meaning in physics. It’s more a question of whether the mathematics supports the theory and/or if it can be proved somehow.

There are plenty of things that the mathematics predicted that seemed completely implausible, but were later verified to be true. “Quantum Entanglement” jumps to mind as something Einstein dismissed as “spooky action at a distance”, but it has since been confirmed.

I think you could consider all of physics or even all of science to be made up of placeholders meant to keep things moving until a better explanation comes along.

I run Linux on my personal machine.

My needs aren’t particularly demanding. Web browsing, watching streaming services, accounting software, some low impact games, 3D modeling, and running a video server.

I assembled my machine from $500 worth of parts 12 years ago. In between, I’ve added some RAM, and about 8TB of mirrored disk to store movies for the video server.

Admittedly, I’m starting to be concerned about the age of the disks, and I think I’d like a better processor, but money is tight.

Given the age of the thing, there’s a chance that it’s just going to drop dead one of these days, but it’s been running for years without me having to do anything but install updates for the OS.

I’m aware of one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Change

but there are certainly others.

Sentences should be reported like babies. Report them in months up to 23, then years + months until 5 years. Then just give the years.

Is there no one in his life that can tell Elon to shave that shit off?

Because they’re seeing how that “replace you with cheaper and more easily manipulated worked in 20-30 years” is working now. They might try relying on breeding, but when that falls short (like when all the boomers suddenly start retiring), they’ll realize they can’t trust us to produce our replacements.

If they keep the workforce young and immortal, they can have unlimited workers. No one can demand more money because they can replace you with one of the hundreds of drones waiting in the wings. So we’ll all be kept young and desperate.

Edit: gesture typo.

And here am I thinking that I might be living in an age when I can be forced to become young again so that I can’t retire.

Nope, not really:

Bridget Casey, chief of the county prosecuting attorney’s civil division, acknowledged the settlement and said the "county admits no liability … and resolved this matter for a nominal amount.”