In addition to what everyone else is saying, a really good reason not to have energy drinks on a soda fountain, aside from the fact that the energy drink soda would cost far more than a regular soda, is that energy drinks contain a lot of caffeine and if they were on dispenser some idiot would go and fill up a 64 Oz energy drink and drink the equivalent to 5 to 8 Red bulls in a single sitting.

No gas station wants to deal with the legal ramifications of “exploding people’s hearts because they are too stupid to understand that these things can be deadly”, because if people are dumb enough to chug Red Bull until they die they are also dumb enough to sue because of the deaths.

I have a loops account but I have not been able to upload a video in over a month, it fails on every single attempt.

No I didn’t use an llm and yes a heat pump does use a condenser or a compressor but it’s not the same as a Freon based compressor system.

Yes, heat pumps use probably a Freon based refrigerant but they operate in a slightly different manner.

In addition to advances in fin design and compressor and motor efficiency and materials, there’s also the option to use things like heat pumps instead of traditional compressor based ac systems. They tend to be more efficient or for the same size to produce more cold air for the same electricity.

Due to the fact that a heat pump moves heat and it is not a unidirectional process like a traditional compressor system is, heat pump air conditioning systems can be both heaters and coolers at about the same electrical efficiency.

We’ve gone as a society from playing board games with friends to playing video games with friends to watching people we don’t know play video games to watching video games play themselves.

They just really don’t want people in the equation do they?

No.

Everyone has their own opinion about it but I don’t think that there is any eternal consequence to it.

It’s just a really shitty thing that people have to go through sometimes, either shitty that they prevent the child from being born and then have to live with their own guilt about it, or shitty that they let the child be born regardless of their feelings and then have to deal with the consequences.

It’s a bad roll of the die anyway you look at it

I think it was Alan Dean Foster who said (paraphrased) that time travel is impossible not because time travel is impossible but because there’s a certain point where all of the time traveling that can be done will have been done.

The only downside is that you never know if you’re on the final loop or not, so everything you do may be the most important thing you will ever do, or it may not matter at all.

For me it’s not so much that the price increased. It’s that what you get for the money vanished.

I’d pay $40 a month to have a modern version of the Netflix that existed back in 2013.

Now if you want to have that you’ve got to have netflix, hulu, HBO Max, Showtime, peacock, and 15 other services and spend $35,400 a month for all of them and it’s just not worth the money, time, and hassle.

If they really wanted to make money off of this, they should have made it so that you can connect multiples together. That way your anime vtuber harem could interact with each other.

Fuck, if y’all got this kind of money hire my ass and I’ll make it happen.

We’re going to need his full IP address and browser history stat

I’ve played both but every copy of mouse trap I’ve ever had either didn’t work or worked very shittily. Massive disappointment all the way around

I’m pretty good.

Worst case my family finds out I’ve been talking shit about them behind their back, but they’re all a bunch of fuckers except for my brother and even he’s kind of iffy.

Other than a couple of questionable porn likes I don’t really have anything I would be embarrassed to have publicly known about myself.

Yeah recently heard a sports announcer saying that it was amazing that a 31-year-old was playing at the level that they were.

I was like, bro, he’s 31. What the fuck.

In some ways I understand it though. I’m sure the pecking order and bragging rights of being one of the only fans people that makes enough money to classify yourself in like the top 5% of income earners in America is probably more thrilling and exciting than having a PhD.

Plus, if she’s going for her PhD she probably already has her master’s degree so it’s not like she gave up academia entirely without getting anything from it.

That being said, I still agree with you. If you were close enough to be in the program you might as well just finish it off. What’s it going to do, stop you from posting your photos on only fans?

Amazon has become really bad.

Amazon is like that Stoner Uncle that says shit like, “just trust me bro, you need the DKAIRBGAUENBSHDBDJS 17-IN-ONE BACK MASSAGER TAX CALCULATOR LEFT SIDE ONLY LETTER OPENER CAT FOOD DISPENSER!”

And instead of providing said Uncle with powerful psychotropic medications and 24-7 supervision we made him into a multi-trillionaire.

I think Amazon didn’t care, so even if someone inside the company figured it out Amazon was just like, it’s not our problem to deal with.

I found where one of these were installed in my house after I bought it.

Former owners were freaks, lol.

I can see how it happens though.

No one was doing any oversight on their practices. If you were running a referral affiliate link system, it must have seemed like honey was doing a really good job bringing customers to you.

I’m just kind of disappointed that nobody inside the company ever spoke up or blew any whistles and said “Hey, this is at best unethical if not entirely illegal and either way exposes us to the risk of a massive lawsuit, maybe we should just actually do our jobs instead of stealing the work of other people.”

We would just replace hate with something else.

“I love you so much that I’m stabbing you with this sword so that you are spiritually preserved at your current status for all of eternity”, something like that.

You do realize they’re going to ask you for a demonstration of your power before they’ll ever kowtow