So, you’ve already tasted lab-grown meat?

Makes you long for golden parachutes that don’t open when their 737 Max loses an engine or two

With Product Placement!

Cuts like a knife, don’t it?

Someone would just release a mod that replaces the ads with Monty Python sketches.

I gotta have my naturally sparkling Perri-air

Democratic Order of Planets?

I see the love thing as creating a kind of resonance, such that things that resonate together are drawn to one another, and can sync up.

That’s how, when he’s inside the event horizon, he can jump to the right moments to create the effects he needs to create. Those moments “resonate” with him, and the love between his daughter and him is that resonance.

Could you imagine forgetting The Matrix, but not the sequels?

Resistance is futile. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist)

Distilled water is safe to drink, as long as you have a balanced diet that includes all the vitamins and minerals your body needs.

The claim that it “leeches” those minerals out of you isn’t supported by any real evidence.

I used to drink distilled water at home for years with no side effects.

Unless you turn on “original sound for musicians” Zoom uses AI to filter the audio for voices mainly. I rarely if ever hear any keystrokes or mouse clicks anymore… Lots of other non voice noises get filtered out.

If the deflation is just a market correction after exaggerated inflation (retailers raising their prices more than general inflation to increase their short term subs) then it’s no big deal. Prolonged deflation can be bad, as that causes too much saving and not enough spending, which can really hurt the economy and people because of how it takes money out of circulation.

In an economy, the more money can circulate, the more good it can do. I use my salary to pay for for and things, that money then pays the employees of the businesses I went to, and those employees also spent that money, and so on. At each step, both participants normally get a net benefit: I can eat, and the employee can also spend the money they get from me to eat, etc. As long as the money circulates, it keeps doing good. When it stops circulating, due to being put into savings, investments or real estate, it stops doing good (or it does less good). The cycle slows down or stops.

That’s why a small amount of inflation (maybe 1-2% ? Not sure what’s optimal) is actually healthy, because it puts pressure on people with money to spend it before it loses its value, instead of hoarding it.