They did a good job covering that in The Last of Us (season one, episode…4 or 5?): 20ish years post-apocalypse, someone very prepared has kept battery cells in a refrigerator (in acid maybe?) and they have to rebuild the battery before they can use the car, but the battery works.

Sometimes it’s easier to stop something if you understand why it’s happening.

Yeah, we really fucked up making individual wealth so powerful. A healthy society needs at least a balance of collective wealth and individual wealth, and we went way too far. And now they’re trying to dismantle the last major structures of collective wealth we haven’t already ruined.

https://theonion.com/jd-vance-begins-to-suspect-there-another-group-chat/

There are 15,000 McDonald’s in the US and turnover is pretty high. It’s an old stat but I don’t expect it’s changed much over time.

My husband and MIL both worked there so it tracks with my family members at least!

One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald’s, so that’s quite a lot.

Yeah, though clues are few and far between; the

is the biggest clue. From Jordan’s other writings, the

and that led to the Age of Legends.

Losing consciousness for any reason = ER. A friend passed out during dinner and we weren’t sure what to do, so we called the triage nurse and they were like “ER now!” (He was fine, they never figured out what happened and it’s never happened again, but it’s definitely stayed with me.)

Great criteria. Another “straight to the ER” one is loss of consciousness; people get knocked out in movies all the time so it’s easy to assume it’s fine, but it’s not.

Final Destination 2: https://youtu.be/-YoCkWiFYH8

Yep: https://youtu.be/-YoCkWiFYH8?t=38

He’s surrounded by toadies who told him he’d win the first one, and he lost.

Plastics industry: “See?! We told you plastic decomposes and doesn’t just stay in landfills forever. Happy now?”

True: they’re obviously neither a woman nor a man with empathy.

You’re obviously not a woman: if you were you’d know that we talk about this stuff all the time, and that it absolutely is not obvious to women in blue states how scary things are in red states.

And they put the operating rooms on the top floor so nearby pedestrians wouldn’t hear the screaming so loudly.

I thought it meant that all the icons/interfaces for AI seem to have a graphical gradient between colors, usually cool colors like blue/purple/pink. (Like the face in the meme)

It sounded like, from the shooter’s web searches, that if it had been Biden holding a rally hear the shooter’s house, Biden would have been shot at. It was less anything about Trump and more that the shooter wanted to shoot someone famous/important, from what I’ve seen.

Same!