Right next to a bigger poster of Putin riding a horse shirtless

The top graphs really need an x axis. My best guess is that it's each state's index, or something like that? Not sure how that's useful, but that's what it looks like.

I think it might be a bit like phase transitions in supercooled fluids, for example. You drop the temperature slow enough (in this particular case it's interest rates going up instead of temperature going down) that the water ends up in this very precarious equilibrium. The tiniest disturbance or impurity initiates a phase transition to ice, and that spreads across the entire liquid.

Yeah, but if you're flying into Albany might as well fly into Burlington :)

Only to Burlington, not the rest of VT. And it involves crossing the border. Twice!

Boston is way closer.

There's a pretty good crepe place

Nobody said anything about letting people off. But surely mentioning the motivation for their crime is relevant to the case and should be admitted in court. Otherwise why even have courts in the first place? Why not just dispatch justice Judge Dredd style, where the judge decides on his own the guilt and punishment for any action?

Nah, think about how much that tanker weighs full and what that means in terms of inertia, compared to a tiny motorcycle.

Apart from not being able to see the road in front of you (and thus not able to avoid potholes or oil slicks), it's not that bad. Even if the truck hits the brakes hard, as long as you react quickly, you can stop much faster.

I'm guessing he didn't account for all the taxes that child would have paid throughout his life if allowed to live and grow. He thought he was doing a gotcha, but really just showed himself a ghoul

Yep. Although my understanding is that sometimes precedents do get set, because it's basically left at the judges' discretion whether to throw out the case or not. So it's not an automatic loss, just a likely one. I.e. it's worth trying to sue if you have the resources for it, not necessarily for yourself but for everyone else that comes after you.

I think it's the same as "there's no court precedent for tasing a naked man to death on the side of the road so you can't be held liable for your actions" and similarly great legal decisions.

And the governments of all the countries that export their plastics with full knowledge they're ending up in the ocean

No, they do it because there's money to be made from it. In a sense, you could say they're forced into it by the global economy, although it's more like an emergent behavior in response to economic factors rather than true coercion.

Sort of, they're exported mostly as packaging and other short term uses. I keep track of my plastic waste and it's at least 90% packaging, if not more, and that's with me being conscious and trying to reduce it.

So essentially a handful of mostly rich countries generate a ton of plastic waste, then they ship it to SE Asia where it gets dumped into the ocean

This is straight from a Neal Stephenson novel

Funny thing about viewership metrics though, it turns out people aren't very willing to engage with shows that will likely be cancelled after one season. I believe Netflix is doing this to themselves to a degree and they might not even realize it.

Sure, if you define success as not having been cancelled, his statement is correct

I know, right?

Those shrooms I ate 20 years ago are finally hitting.

I had to go back and look to see if she's wearing little cotton socks.

or rather they were included as land

Immigration is broken? No worries, breaking the Geneva convention will solve it!