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Have you been to Burning Man or various Burner regional events that take place all over the world?

I wonder if this is the etymology of the lovely speakeasy "Bourbon and Branch" in SF?

> they've been slashing their prices

And yet still have margins of >20%, dramatically higher than any other manufacturer.

> and they make cars which catch fire

At a rate roughly 10% of gasoline-powered cars.

> they still haven't turned a profit

They've been profitable since Q2 2020.

Artemis 2 is scheduled to send a crew around the moon in 2024 and Artemis 3 is scheduled to land a crew in 2025.

SLS has already launched its test flight. Starship HLS (the lander) is funded and in development.

There is a simple wetware solution, which is that she learns to say your name before saying something she wants you to know.

Douglas Adams on horoscopes:

> In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing their indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.

There are an infinite number of real numbers, and yet "blue" is not a real number.

A set can be infinite and yet not contain all things.

Just give them as much money as you want and don't worry about the tax consequences, since there is no gift tax.

I am assuming you are in Canada.

I tried several times to play chess against it. It made reasonable if poor moves for the first 10 moves of the game. It also gave plausible-sounding if entirely incorrect explanations of why the moves were good, such as "I'm playing Nf6-g8, which is a good move because it defends my pawn on f7 [it doesn't] and controls the center, allowing me to set up an attack on your king".

At some point though, it always got stuck and insisted on making illegal moves, even when I corrected it by providing the current board position in FEN.

Yes, it is indeed how IVF works. You inject fertility drugs using a giant needle. It sucks.

The following FEN is a mate in 4 for black with only 4 black pawns on the board :)

8/3p4/7k/8/8/4pp2/P3p3/4K3 w - - 0 51

I can also make my eyes go parallel, and it's fun to be able to stare into both of someone's eyes at the same time :)