Am I the only one who thinks about how they would word the genie's three wishes requests and fix things without unintended consequences/externalities?
Don't want to fix global warming by Thanosing away half of humanity...
Ever ponder the Gore wins the 2000 election alternate timeline(s)?
Maybe instead of waiting until we acquire warp technology, the Vulcans could show up now and give us clean power and/or teach us how to live on a hot and arid planet. wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php…
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The ginned up hysteria over teaching the truth about slavery and bigotry is not just an attack on the truth, it's an attempt to drive Black educators from the classroom. Great story by @isabelaalhadeff : motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Moral panic over critical race theory isn't *just* happening in North Carolina, of course. Still, it's hard not to draw a straight line between the attacks on Rodney D. Pierce and those on @nhannahjones.
1/ ok i'm not going to do an explainer BUT i would guess that it's 40% trying to upsell you insurance and gas, 40% customer stupidity, and 20% dot matrix printers (yes, STILL!)
2/ now, you'd think that rental car companies could speed the process, perhaps by giving people in line tablets to start the paperwork? An app to access with your reservation number to do same? But instead
3/ Rental car companies had the better part of 2020 where their best and brightest could have been concentrating on how to make things more efficient when things picked back up.
From travel twitter I gather this has...not happened.
Just came to rant about boys swim suits being either 10-12 or 14-16. Kid is doomed to a suit that's either too tight or he's literally swimming in it. And who came up with these patterns?