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Is your home connection down that much? I'd think that even syncing once every day or so would populate everything fine, and if you're at home it should update over wifi.

I might just be spoiled because I'm the only one using mine and only for a handful of devices.

I heard of a really cool project awhile ago where they were proudly sparing no expense. Hopefully nothing went wrong.

They have, but it's never really been as bad as "the wind blew the pollen."

The guy intentionally bought what he knew were Monsanto seeds from a grain elevator to plant in order to get them cheaper. That's not a problem of "evil corporation sues unwitting farmer". That's "farmer tries to circumvent contract he signed."

Have a friend that's finishing med school and going to residency this summer. Everything about it is insane and they all know it and power through. If you get accepted you're moving around more than the military and paying through the nose for the privilege while seemingly half the "teachers" (working doctors) are worked to death and the other half are completely checked out.

Would be curious about stats on how many wellness calls end in the person being checked on dying.

Off the top of my head ~50 or less officers in the US die from violence every year if you exclude traffic fatalities. At least according to this (178 killed in 3 years) that means police are killing the people they're called to help at a higher rate. Would seem to point to a person calling the police for help is in more danger than the police are on any random call.

Don't quote the old magic to me @hyperhopper, I was there when it was written.

It's a fun fan theory, up there with Chewie/R2 being secret leaders of the rebellion and pre-prequel theories about "what actually are the clone wars", but it relies on George Lucas being incredibly subtle in a trilogy where every other metaphor is written on giant billboards with spotlights on them. I mean the whole thing is a setup to "Jar Jar is Snoke".

There were similar rumors that Lucas had the entire sequel/prequel trilogies planned out at the end of RotJ from the mid 80s until the prequels came out. Down to the EU books/comics (which he famously doesn't care about) being Lucas' plan all along. It was just "the man" keeping him from making the movies. That the man didn't stop him making the original Star Wars before he was an extremely famous extremely wealthy movie maker was handwaved away.

It's the fun logic hoop fan version of "No Trump/Musk is actually playing 7D chess! What he actually meant was..."

Passive vs active engagement.

These plates are a passive, very visual reminder. A tracker app requires you actively use the app, and not consciously/subconsciously underestimate portions.

Neither is a holistic solution, both require buy-in, each is going to have different effectiveness for different people.

What execs? The Prequels are basically the highest budget indie film project ever. Lucas had total financial and creative control.

Been watching through and was really thrown by the end of Season 2, where Tilly just... knows a Queen that's integral to the plot? Apparently there's a companion show of short side episodes? (also how the hell is she still a cadet? that whole side plot seems to just have been forgotten except for the occasional remark)

The character was interesting, the show has it's ups and downs, but that's only a tad better than Palpatine showing back up in a special™️ Fortnite event.

He let the crazy veil slip a bit during the Thai cave rescue drama, but Covid seems to have really pushed him over the edge.

Also you generally want the most financially prudent decision a business can make not to be "sit on the money until it's worth more".

Inflation encourages spending money, deflation encourages saving money.

Ah.

Yeah that's kind of a dick move.