I think it might be enough to change one’s orientation. Bombersexual.

Heh, I loved the first one and then I tried the second one, hated how they changed the combat, and quit.

An exponential function is a precise mathematical concept, like a circle or an even number. I’m not sure what you mean by “asymptote” here - an exponential function of the form y = k^x asymptotically approaches zero as x goes to negative infinity, but that doesn’t sound like what you’re referring to.

People often have bad intuition about how exponential functions behave. They look like they grow slowly at first but that doesn’t mean that they’re not growing exponentially. Consider the story about the grains of rice on a chessboard.

It’s exponential along its entire range, even all the way back to negative infinity.

Suckers! That leaves more gold for me.

Your “facial data” isn’t private information. You give it away every time you go outside.

A woman I know worked as an escort on and off and spent most of her time traveling, but I don’t think most people have the looks and the charisma to do that even if they want to. I’m not sure what other careers both pay enough and let you quit and then start again easily, but presumably there are some.

Yeah, but that’s not what I’m saying. On average, does an out-of-network ambulance ride happen to a family of four more than once every 30 years? If it does, $100 per year to avoid that is a good deal; otherwise it’s not.

How often do out-of-network ambulance rides happen to a family of four?

Two dollars adds up.

I have been provided with estimates on premium impact that range from $0.73 to $2.15 per member per month, which means a family of four would likely pay as much as one hundred dollars more per year in insurance premiums if I were to sign this bill

What about if it’s rectangular with a detached lid?

The EU only demanded consent.

As in the meme…

Me: I consent (to load the website using the cookie settings already in my browser).

Website: I consent.

Privacy busybodies and EU regulators: I don’t.

Blame the EU. There, cookies used to bother a tiny number of “privacy advocates” who were already perfectly capable of blocking the cookies in their own browsers but they weren’t happy because no one else cared about cookies so they got the GDPR passed to bother everyone in the world.

Yes, they’re threatening to withhold it but unless there’s something I missed, they haven’t declared that they are withholding it.

The article appears to contradict itself - it says they’re withholding her diploma but also that they’re mailing it to her and simply not allowing her to participate in the graduation ceremony. I hope she does get the diploma mailed to her so she can put this behind her.

Things are better than they have ever been for Native Americans and for the average person in the global south too.

The school is apparently not claiming that it’s against the rules for her to come out as gay, but rather that her mention of “ruthless Trump supporting ‘Jesus’ mfs" is vulgar and disrespectful. That seems like quite a stretch.

This is a private school so I don’t see how that’s relevant.

It seems pretty great. There are a lot of cute people out in public with their feet visible, and if you stare at their feet, they’ll just think you’re shy.

There’s a great deal of room for improvement, but I think that a person who doesn’t realize that right now things are better than they have ever been is not a person whose ideas about what to change and how should be listened to. Our top priority should be to preserve the progress that has been made already but people who are ignorant of history are often willing to destroy what we do have with the naive expectation that things can’t get much worse.