“Common sense” is a colloquial term for knowledge that should be obvious.

Don’t sleep on the train tracks.

Don’t tease a bull.

Don’t drink toilet bowl cleaner.

Things that you, a thinking human with a functioning brain, should be able to just know without having to be taught specifically.

Of course it’s frustratingly uncommon sometimes, as the number of non-suicide train related fatalities would suggest.

You burn a certain amount of chemical energy in a day. If you eat more than that, it gets converted into fat for long term storage.

Do this repeatedly for months or years and you’ll end up obese. The consequences are as vast as your waistline - premature heart wear, joint damage, circulatory problems, hormonal issues… nearly every health issue in the book is caused or exacerbated by excessive body fat. It’s catastrophically bad for you, and strongly contributes to heart disease being the leading cause of death in the US.

Fancy pants richers with their DSL modems.

Internet service speeds in 2002 were also pitiful by modern standards. You weren’t walking around the house streaming video on a 56k modem.

Homes had one computer and it was hard wired to a phone jack. There was no use case for a wireless router.

The government can print money indefinitely, and so has the ability to basically spend whatever it wants.

The problem is that money is ultimately just numbers on pieces of paper, and if you make lots of money without making any actual stuff to buy then all you’re doing is making the existing money worth less - a process called “inflation.”

As expected, churning out $2T without any actual economic growth did cause inflation, and now all your money is worth 10odd percent less than it was is 2020.

They can also cook up $2T more to cancel debts, but you’d expect the same inflationary results.

That debt isn’t just imaginary, real people at real banks sent real money to real schools to spend on real things. It can’t just be zeroed without economic consequences.

It’s not the same cold, it has wandered around Brazil finding itself all summer and has mutated into a slightly different strain. Same symptoms, but different surface markers.

Now it’s back with a fake mustache and your immune system doesn’t recognize it anymore.

People retire and lean on government services for healthcare and supplemental income - money that has to come from somewhere.

These systems rely on there being more workers paying taxes than retirees, and can’t survive when there are more old people than young people.

There are also broader geopolitical concerns - working age people form the core of your nations economic and military might. As that core shrinks, your nation becomes weaker in both a literal and economic sense.

For an island nation with a literally and economically hostile authoritarian power right across the pond, this is a grave concern.

If you’re asking about nuclear fusion, the process actually begins with four hydrogen atoms, two of which end up converted to neutrons during the reaction.

Two electrons and two positrons are ejected and then annihilated along the way, releasing a considerable amount of energy.

A fishtank full of rowdy corydoras catfish! …and a background in chemistry.

Mad Max for $5

Big discounts on Kingdom Come: Deliverance and RDR2 right now.

People do try to dump exposition on the Doomslayer, but he actively ignores them.

Yes, but it’s a long time horizon thing that investors and corporate leaders sometimes ignore.

Sure you can sell this turd with a huge marketing budget, but consumers won’t be fooled repeatedly by the same franchise.

Look at a recently perennially bad franchise like Need for Speed. Steaming pile after steaming pile selling on the nostalgia of Most Wanted and finally sales collapsed. The IP is badly tarnished and now even a hypothetical good NFS game has a low sales ceiling because nobody trusts EA to deliver.

Two things

First, humans are simply much larger and heavier, and have much more mass per surface area to try and oxygenate - and it must travel much farther to reach the critical organs. It’s not a very efficient system so most amphibians are very small and many supplement with lungs, gills, and/or tricks to increase surface area.

Second, if you’ve ever met a frog you may have noticed that they spend 99% of their time motionless staring into the abyss. They’re cold blooded and have poor oxygenation capacity, and so have very little metabolic energy reserve to spend. They move infrequently and tire quickly. Humans are tireless hyper-endurance athletes by comparison. We can move all day and burn oxygen at a much faster rate - but need much more food to do so.

That’s one of our evolutionary advantages, even by warm blooded mammal standards humans are tireless athletes. We’re not the fastest or the strongest, but we can pursue for hours like a horror movie slasher until any prey is absolutely gassed.

Mudskippers have more rigid gill plates that don't collapse, and do the whole "breathe through my skin" thing that frogs do too.

Bettas have an organ called the "labyrinth" behind the gills that they suck air into like a false lung and then bubble out later.

Corydoras Catfish eat the air and absorb oxygen in their digestive system.

And of course lungfish are close relatives of our own ancient ancestors and straight up have lungs, but decided against the whole land thing.

Nope, they're extracting oxygen gas that's dissolved in the water, not the O from H2O.

That's a much more difficult process.

Gills function by having a very high surface area with a bunch of “plates” that are stacked on top of each other. Water flows in between all these plates fully wetting the top and bottom of each for a huge total surface area.

Out of the water the plates stick together like wet leaves and the fish suffocates with 90+% of the gill surface now blocked and the exposed area dangerously dry.

Some fish do have some creative solutions to breathing air though, as an adaptation to nasty swamp water or low tide.

Make sure your drivers are all current, sometimes they chew up RAM like mad when they’re not.

Then Windows has chewed up 8gb with background processes and nonsense.

Hit ctrl+shift+esc and see what’s hogging all your RAM.

You only have a 16GB hard drive?

Or is it talking about RAM?

Neither political party seems particularly interested in dismantling the deep state.

Yes.

Hi NSA agent reading this.

Counteract the spying or counteract more Snowdens trying to leak classified documents?

The NSA has taken a lot of steps to get ahead of other possible security breaches.

They’re still reading your emails.

These games want to monopolize your time, which is fine when you have more time than money and can only only afford one game to play all summer. When you’re a broke kid you’ll play a game you don’t even like for 400 hours because that’s all you have.

As an adult the situation is reversed, you have the money for games but not the time so grinding through the same fuckin’ maps on the same loop over and over again is the worst use of your gaming time.