So, about this...
Sumo wrestlers are extremely healthy and active, at a certain age. They eat extremely rich calorie-dense food to gain weight.
When they retire, the level of diabetes and weight related health issues skyrocket. You have to lose weight in Sumo after you retire or you will die young, in general.
Joey Chestnut is 41. I would wager my left nut that this guy will experience colorectal cancer or something else horrible when he gets to a certain age, unless he switches his diet up seriously.
When he's 60, if he lives that long, he's going to have an epiphany, most likely in his own bathroom or one in a hospital, where he thinks to himself,
"I should probably not eaten so many hot dogs. So quickly."

Craigslist has operated for many years doing the same thing, without changing a thing. Challengers have come and gone, and yet here it sits. Since there's no objective definition on "Maximize profits", it can literally just keep doing what it is doing, responding to or positioning itself to deal with challenges, but why do anything else? It's a good service.

The story is genuinely fascinating not just because of the off-the-charts level of hubris displayed by Rush, but because "death by implosion" is a really weird way to die. It's very rare. And it happened on the dive to the Titanic, a vessel on which many others lost their lives. It's morbidly fascinating. If it had happened to a regular scientist on a bathysphere trip to the Mariana trench, it would be just another tragedy, albeit an odd one.

I am reading that 64% of adult Americans wear prescription glasses. And yet they are catering to the 1/3rd that do not.
This is dumb. Instead of coming up with new glasses, why not come up with clip-ons that can attach to existing glasses, like the clip-on sun-glasses I wear all the time. That way you can take them off and put them in a pocket or purse when you don't need them. Have they not tried this yet? For the 64% who wear glasses?

Perhaps it would be better if other companies do what Cloudflare does better, and at cheaper prices. Until then, there's no reason to move from Cloudflare.

Neither does MTG. It's a card game, with fantasy elements.

All of these issues have already been solved by a game that's been around for 30 years: Magic: The Gathering.
It has elaborate and straightforward rules about stacking effects, resolving effects, players with priority, "APNAP" (Active players, or the player whose turn it is, playing effects and resolving them vs non-active players), and Instant-speed spells vs Sorcery-speed spells. All of this is an integral part of the game and a fundamental thing any Magic player needs to learn. The "holding priority" stuff is a bit tricky, but almost never comes up in casual play. Basic MTG rules would solve all of these issues super quick. Mattel should crib from Hasbro and essentially copy the rules that are relevant, give them new names, and all of this would be solved.

Being tolerant and accepting of all cultures doesn't mean being tolerant and accepting of everything in that culture.
For example, I am generally tolerant and accepting of "Southern" culture, which often seems to fetishize things like hunting, NASCAR, and country music, even though I personally dislike those things.
I'm not tolerant of the abject stupidity that often comes with it, such as the denial of the efficacy of vaccines, the general demonization of large urban cities and the people in them, or the idea that women shouldn't be able to have an abortion..

This area is full of incredible fossils of creatures like nothing we have alive today. It's really an amazing trove of animals lost to time. I've read that paleontologists are discovering new stuff there all the time, much of which has not yet been described or will be for a long while, simply because there's not enough paleontologists to do it in a professional way. And often the few that are actively working are focusing on dinosaurs, rather than pre-permian creatures.

Look, I'm an atheist, but ascribing motives to people like the pope with no evidence doesn't really make much sense. The pope is concerned about atheism, yes, but all popes are. It's more likely that he's speaking out against what he feels is the de-humanization of culture and mankind at the hands of AI because he *actually* believes it has the potential to do that, not because the "authority of the church" will be further undermined. He may actually worry about AI's dehumanizing effects because of it's potential to lessen the importance of human contributions to art and science, for example, and that's actually a reasonable thing to worry about. There's no evidence that Pope Bob is speaking out because he thinks he's gonna have less authority over 1.4 billion people in the world in the near future.

Chris might actually have been pissed off. His friends, who thought the best of him, fed into the AI bot that created the "avatar" of Chris, but this is literally fucking speculation on what Chris might have said.

It's quite possible that 15 minutes after his death, 30 minutes, 6 hours, 2 days, he might have actually said, "you know what, even though I walked towards your vehicle, you still had no to right to shoot me."

Also, why is it that being devoutly religious is somehow a beneficial character trait, like in D&D? Who gives a fuck if he went to church?

In many cases, especially for game developers, crunch time *is* all the time; The industry is replete with stories of folks needing to work 60hr weeks or more for months on end.

And those coders would laugh right back at your junior investment bankers if you tell them they aren't working hard.

It means that when there is crunch time for a release of a "product", in this case technical updates to an existing platform, you are expected to work after hours and be ready on a moment's notice to do some hardcore coding for extended periods, which can in fact be considered working hard.

The companies do not follow the golden rule, so why should the employees? The job of the employer is to get as much "production" out of the employee as cheaply as possible. Why should the job of the employee not be the same? To get as much money from the employer while working as little as possible?
Remember folks: The employer does not care about you.

I lived there for 30 years. SF is one of the safest big cities in America. I spent lots of time in the tenderloin; drugged out meth-heads does not equate to huge amounts of violent crime.