One thing you can do to prevent them from drying out is to fill them with deionized water. I wouldn’t leave them that way forever, but it keeps everything hydrated.

This is how it works in my area. I pay about $12/mo in fees, the rest is handled by solar. They also don’t pay me for excess solar, instead I get credit (in kWh, not dollars, thankfully) for it and any electricity I use at night or in the winter comes from that pool. Essentially, it makes the power company a big battery for me.

That’s not actually how school works until advanced grades. Even in the unlikely case they have multiple teachers, the curriculum is designed to reinforce skills across itself. Math has reading, history writing, etc. etc. It is possible for one thing to be doing multiple things and disrupting that ecosystem can easily break it completely.

Let me ask you something. It is completely possible for a machine to do simple welds, right? Would you say that there is no reason for a welder to practice simple welds since a machine can do it?

To me, the same is true of writing. Nobody cares about the essay that was written, but it is practicing for writing that people do care about You can’t learn skills like this without doing them.

Musk has 850b. Even at 50%, he has more money than he can possibly spend. Even at 90% 85b leftover is unimaginable wealth.

I respectfully disagree. This is clearly hyperbole. You know, exaggerating for dramatic effect.

It seems safer on iPhone than Android. I’d still avoid it due to subpoenas.

Never, ever, cross the personal/work barrier. I have seen so much abuse when those lines cross.

The density of DVDs makes them less resilient than CDs, but CDs will also suffer the same fate. It’s going to be a very serious conservation problem. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot

I actually disagree a bit here, but that’s the genius of the show. I do agree that they are more nuanced than just good or evil.

Each of them represents different types of moral failure. George is scheming and has an inferiority complex. Elaine starts off as a good person, but lets her love for Jerry and her disdain for those she sees as “lesser” than her drag her down to the same level as the rest of them. Jerry is aloof and a real narcissist - everyone serves him or doesn’t exist. Kramer is basically just a child - lazy and chaotic - at best you can say he is Chaotic Neutral in D&D terms.

The show presents all of this alongside a veneer of charisma and humor and dares you to realize just how terrible these people actually are. One might surmise that the writers of the show might be very familiar with this type of manipulation. Heck, how many sitcoms can boast both that the main characters were at least partially responsible for a body count of well over 10 people and also that almost nobody recoils at that fact?