CarbonConscious [he/him]

I mean I agree, but golf’s pretty hard even with fancy trimmed grass. I think playing through a loose natural thicket would very considerably change the game to a different thing altogether.

Golf is the obvious answer for reactionary, but it seems like it could easily be prole? Like, the courses are there, it wouldn’t be that hard to provide rental clubs for everyone, set up a system for fair tee times for everyone.

The time investment would be the only real blocker, but in a real DotP, that would hopefully be easier to make available for anyone that wants it.

But also, you know, astroturf the whole place or something. The environmental impact doesn’t go away with equal distribution, but it might at least be a little more reasonable if it was something that was for everyone to enjoy.

Is this the Cortex Command version?

…If not, can it be?

Of course, because a bold but incisive plan that looks to go against conventional logic is not what the board wants, and that’s ultimately who this person works for.

Those broad abstractions are the easiest thing to get agreement around at a shareholder meeting. Anything more complicated requires and actual understanding of global economics and business; so obviously, you can’t count on that.

C-suite makes a lot more money sticking around putting on a pony show that lines up with investor expectations than they would making an unconventional move that looks dangerous, let alone if it actually doesn’t work out.

It sure does seem to be! Neato!

Some dude invented them years ago, basically a set of rings that you load a disposable piece of floss onto, making it way more comfortable but using way less plastic per use than floss picks.

I don’t remember the exact details, but there was some kind of shenanigans where the big players in the existing dental products industry basically strong armed his suppliers out of working with him and he had to fold under a huge pile of debt or something.

If I recall it also had something to do with the regulations around the sanitary nature of floss, and how the stuff on the shelf now has basically none at all - it’s just treated like regular string all the way through the production and distribution channels, and is never really kept particularly isolated from contaminants, but the ring refills were actually sanitary instead.

I’m still sad about the floss rings guy getting merc’d out of the industry. Those would’ve been a big game changer for a lot of people.

Another good tip with electric brushes is to stop moving them around so much - just slowly move it across your teeth and let the electric motion do the actual scrubbing work.

Seriously. The other one I see I lot is “like you are brushing the skin of a tomato”.

Like the pressure I would be applying there is zero, because I am definitely not brushing any damn tomatos with my toothbrush.

We just need technology to advance a liiiiiitle but further so we can enable cartoon “reach through the phone and grab their shirt collar to give them a good thrashing about” technology.

Yes, even for the Ai bot callers.

Peak version of this was the Worm Light. Lightweight, flexible, indestructible, and completely necessary often even in daylight on the first gen GBA.

What I’m saying is, let’s all do radical leftist (facial) revolutions together in solidarity!

In a similar situation. I can see it coming though, because it turns out I have a very unattractive neck line. So for now it’s stache, clean cheeks, and neck beard. Not ideal but it kinda gives me a Muskateers vibe, which I think is cool.

I’ve always had at least a goatee, but I yearn for the stache only life.

Also want to cut my long hair for something shorter and easier to wear in the heat, but that notion has proven extremely unpopular with the people in my life, so it’s been on hold for a while.

The biggest thing is it let’s you use your phone instead of just the handset.

Yeah we go through an independent agent, so in theory they are shopping around for us on every renewal. I will ask them to look into that one though, so thanks for the tip.

Yeah seriously. I suppose I should have said it only went up by that much, as I assume it would have gone up way more otherwise (despite having no claims or additional coverage between those times).

And the most cyberpunk part about them is that they started cool like that, hey mix any combo you want from this huge list, but now it’s basically: yeah you can have plain coke, cherry coke, or vanilla coke. You can have plain root beer or vanilla root beer. Here’s about 6 other drinks with 1 extra flavor option each.

It feels like the tech was too much work to keep clean (also true of all other soda fountains), so they canned any interesting interactions pretty quickly.

Feels like it should have a flashing neon sign hanging about it banging on about “over a million flavor combos!” but with the last part perpetually turned off and dropping sparks on you and into your cup during the process.

Yeah that’s a vibe, for sure. Could make a fun short film, though I’d give it a slightly different ending.

Yup! I did one of these a year ago, against my better judgment because we really needed the discount.

Had to give the app unrestricted permissions, had to run it for 6 months straight, and it kept a running list of “incidents” ranging from crashes and hard stops all the way to slightly fast turns and even driving at more risky hours of the day.

Luckily, my agent is a family friend so he gave me the lowdown - this one lets you view the reports, and you can mark any negative incidents as “I was a passenger” and clean up your record as you go. So when the 6 month period finished, I had an absolutely impeccable score, basically the best you could possibly get.

You also don’t get any discount at all until a year after the start of the program, so it was all in the understanding that eventually some day we’d get the discount. Also this company does some discount for length of service, so we would be getting that as a discount when renewal comes.

My insurance just renewed with the new discounts a month ago. After all that, here’s the big savings:

Totally agreed, that’s all I’m getting at. I don’t think they’re gonna win, I just think they’re gonna try real hard and leave a lot of people dead (and a small group of people very rich) like usual.