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How much evidence do we have for this? I want to believe it since it's my favorite fact so far, which means I should be extra cautious before believing it.

I loved the show, but never would have guessed it was based on reality. Great facts!

I suppose these are a bit less practical now that bolt cutters are so accessible.

I know some people didn't like it, but I thought the resolution to the monorail riddle contest was genius (or technically the opposite). Very satisfying.

In the US? It's never ever going to happen. Even if we had a 100% Democrat Congress it'd never make it through. It would do three things that would individually each be political suicide:

• Topple a 1.6 trillion dollar health insurance industry, including rich lobbyists
• Put over 500,000 people out of work (even if some could be hired into a government-led program)
• Remove the main threat employers use against their employees.

Sure, it would massively reduce costs both individually and overall, and it'd improve the overall health of the US, and it would likely be better for the economy, but I have given up any hope it'll ever happen. It's too entrenched. It would be like erasing the oil lobby or the military industrial complex.

I agree. Several authors and editors I follow have recommended using 'said' and 'asked' for the majority of your writing. They are basically invisible to readers; just subconscious tags at this point. Using different words in every sentence is distracting.

Making your own meaning is Existentialism talk! Embrace the lack of meaning!

I looked around the house but couldn't find it. You sure it's not in your backpack OP?

Mine weren't either. Unbearably miserable for everyone until they got divorced, then it was just regular miserable. Would not recommend.

I used to write extensively with C++, but it has been a long time since speed mattered that much to one of my applications. I still marvel at the cache-level optimizations some people come up with, but I'm in the same mindset as you now.

My workload split of Data Movement vs Data Transformation is like 95:5 these days, which means almost all the optimizations I do are changing batch/cache/page/filter settings. I can do that in any language with http bindings, so I choose those that are faster to write.

For a second I thought you meant that you watched Hacksaw Ridge in class.

Same here. I wondered how that was even possible before discovering my Lemmy client had cropped out the legend. Not a fan of this coloring scheme, especially having white as the median value.