kryptonicus

Maybe you're right. But I don't really bother to try and read too deep into the motivations of any kind of corporation. I assume they're all primarily motivated by profit. And my point is that individuals who have the capital to buy millions of dollars of real estate are functionally no different from a corporate investor, be it a REIT or a "housing company" motivated solely by "providing service." They're all going to do the bare minimum as required by the market to stay competitive and government regulation.

It should be illegal for LLCs or trust funds to purchase housing of any kind.

I completely agree that LLCs, REITs, and institutional investors shouldn't be able to buy single family homes (and maybe even duplexes), but I don't know about "housing of any kind."

Large, multi family units like apartment buildings serve a vital need in the affordable housing market. Private individuals who have the capital to purchase a multi million dollar apartment building aren't any more likely to be a conscientious landlord than a corporation. At that point, it all boils down to effective enforcement of tenant rights laws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html

How would this work though? You're not ordering your food via the QR code link, you're telling the waitstaff. Unless they ask you what price your saw, how are they going to correlate their variable price to a particular customer?

However, this would make it a lot easier to implement "peak pricing". Their menu could automatically update based on time of day, or day of week, and certainly holidays.

Personally, I find all the other eschatological possibilities much more disturbing. The heaven/hell dichotomy is unnerving on a lot of obvious levels. Reincarnation seems fraught with neverending suffering. And the idea of becoming a "ghost" or a spirit, forever consigned to haunt some old place is as terrible as it is ridiculous.

I'm looking forward to my hard earned non-existence, thank you very much.

some functionality will be restricted without a paid license

I think that's why. But maybe I'm just overly cynical.

This is a minor quibble, but I've never been charged a fee for an extra plate. They usually only charge when you request to "split the order", meaning the kitchen splits the entree onto two plates for you.

Not on a "per calorie" basis they aren't. And I'm not really sure by what other metric you can compare them. But look at how many calories of broccoli $3 gets you compared to potato chips. Then you have to add in the time of preparation.

Additionally, many impoverished people tend to live in "food deserts", areas without grocery stores, but many fast Food locations.

The deck is definitely stacked against the impoverished.

Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no spoon. Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

That's kinda genius. I never would have thought to use my soldering iron for that. (Of course, I am big dumb dumb.) I'll grab a sacrificial tip and give this a shot.

That's very cool. I feel like it would have been slightly more "welcoming" looking if you'd been able to keep a little more detail around the mouth, maybe even just a line intimating lips. But this was a very cool project.

I have fantasies of getting a copy of the file the next time my dentist does a 3D scan of my mouth for a night guard or something. He confirmed it will output an STL file. (But he wasn't willing to do "just for fun")

There have been three accidents related to nuclear power generation, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukashima. There were a total of 33 deaths attributed to those three incidents (32 from Chernobyl and 1 from Fukashima.)

There are 58 deaths per terawatt-hour attributed to coal alone, mostly due to air pollution.

I'd say that nuclear power is very close to completely harmless in comparison. Certainly in contrast to its perception among the general public.