That’s an interesting idea. I can see local businesses having a whinge about it for a couple reasons: 1) people less likely to buy snacks/drinks on the go and 2) the business now has to deal with lots of extra rubbish that used to go in the public bins outside. Was there any push back? People were a bit whingey about the plastic bag ban here at first but I think most people have accepted it now (although I do forget my reusable bags on an annoyingly regular basis).

The bug was deliberately put there after he was born so he could fulfill the prophecy.

Mechanical keyboard users unite!

Pulling Your Own Strings by Wayne Dyer gave me a lot of confidence. His other books have a spiritual bent to them, I believe (I haven’t read them), but the above book is just straightfoward advice.

There is a search engine for Lemmy https://www.search-lemmy.com/

Not ideal that it’s outside of your preferred search engine, but it’s something.

There’s another way, if we can just entice the jerky surgeons to eat some bovine tuberculosis.

why would a good scientist stop researching?

Probably when you start to wonder if all your research is for nothing since nobody seems interested in enacting policy grounded in science.

It makes sense that boomers had more jobs over their working life, they lived in an era where they could quit one job and have another job by the end of that week without any pre-planning.

Contrary to popular belief, sometimes shit doesn’t happen.

If it’s not too hot outside, sunshine. It helps get rid of that icky, germy feeling of being cooped up inside and the vitamin D doesn’t hurt either.

If they became more intelligent than us, would they pick up our poo?

The link goes to a 5 second, mute video for me for some reason, but going by the thumbnail, isn’t that the same stuff that turned this guy blue?

You can plug it in yourself but you are obligated to have the following conversation every time: https://youtu.be/FzAb8rVqDkY

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Yes, they attach them to their bicycle handles.

In a way, Buddists don’t want to come back either. Reaching the goal of enlightenment means that reincarnation ends for you.