Yellow with freckles. Green is too starchy and weird tasting to me. I like a ripe banana.

They get flushed out through your nose. If you’ve ever noticed how when your eyes water your nose runs too: they’re connected. Your snot is the cleaning mechanism that traps dust, hairs, and bacteria and flushes it all out.

It’s all FOMO. These CEOs are totally clueless about how to actually improve productivity. They’re just chasing trends and hoping not to get left behind.

The inverse square law is not your friend with EMPs. One of these robots armed with a Browning machine gun can attack you from a mile away. To fry the robot’s electronics with an EMP at that distance you’d basically need to use a nuke.

A sticker with a red circle on the bottom? That’s strange, like the jars were being targeted for poisoning by some group or something. Really scary!

Still seems kinda flimsy. Like if I ever move there it’s because I love Thai food, want to learn more about the culture, and I want to see some bettas in the wild!

Why move to Thailand if you like America though?

Or get a black and white laser printer if you’re mainly printing text and not photos. Laser printed text is much sharper and more readable, plus the toner can’t dry up (it’s already a dry powder) the way ink does (this is why inkjet printers do so many “cleaning” cycles).

A hat is definitely part of it!

I believe it’s still just growing new fat cells in locations you didn’t have them before. Your old fat cells stay where they are.

That’s a Steam issue with automatic updates. I much prefer games that distribute on their own and let you download any of the old versions you want. I’m not the type of person who plays old versions to exploit bugs in a single player game, but I don’t have any issue with people who want to do that.

Love it! She’s so content! Everything is greening up nice for you! Spring finally arrived!

I love jalapeños on pizza! Really nice!

Exercises targeting certain areas of the body don’t work if your goal is to move fat around.

The unfortunate truth is that fat cells don’t move around, they’re stuck exactly where they are. All they can do is swell up or shrink as they store or release energy. You can of course grow more fat cells (this happens as you get overweight) but their locations tend to genetic (as is your whole body plan).

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I didn’t want to include sports because I live in Canada and sports are so minor they’re basically a non-factor here, yet tuition costs are still insanely high (for international students, which reflects the true cost of education).

I’ve also seen professors who get kickbacks from the sale of textbooks up to and including professors making their own textbook that they authored a required text for the course.

Are you asking why education is so expensive? It’s because the amount of staff (especially non-teaching admin staff) employed by universities has ballooned way out of control. A modern university campus is basically a miniature city at this point. It has its own police force, hospital, doctors offices, therapists, many different restaurants, laundry services, recreation and entertainment facilities, gyms, climbing walls, libraries (had those forever though), residential buildings, academic study (outside class) facilities… On and on and on it goes.

All of that stuff is paid for by the students through tuition, residence fees, meal plans, and miscellaneous fees. Sure, the construction of the buildings is usually paid for by donations, government grants, or the school’s endowment fund, but the day-to-day operating costs and staffing are all paid by students.

You might then ask how we got here, or why we don’t have a “bare bones university” with none of that extra stuff? Simple: competition between universities combined with student demand. Bare Bones University is not going to attract the top students who already have a ton of better options.

I was not home schooled but I wish I had been (but not by some crazy religious conservative family). I hated school from grade 6 onward. The social situation was absolute hell and the teachers barely cared at all. I dropped out at age 16 and finished high school in my 30s, then got into university and got my degree before 40.

My local public library runs programs every day for parents who homeschool their kids. They have librarians trained in ECE and they do all kinds of cool stuff. Everything from teaching kids how to research stuff in the library, to running science experiments, building stuff with 3D printers, exploring art and painting and poetry books, building robots and writing code to control them, learning about cultures and history and archaeology through loads of great books for kids.

Lots of kids attend these programs and they get to socialize with each other while learning cool stuff. It’s of course still on their parents to teach them how to read and write and do math, but all of the inspiration and resources are provided by the library (yes, including books on how to write essays and letters and all kinds of math and science books with problems and instruction covering the full school curriculum).

Low volume and high costs mainly. The printing costs are dwarfed by all the writing, proofreading, layout, editing etc that goes into them. The $300 ones tend to be these massive books with a thousand pages of instruction, problem sets, images, infographics, etc. None of these books are selling a billion copies like 50 Shades of Grey either. The most famous textbooks maybe, but a lot of them would be lucky to sell a thousand copies.

And of course, yes, greedy giant publishing companies. But those companies publish books for many different courses and professors, plus I think they own academic journals as well (which make them way more money and cost way less to publish than textbooks do).

If it were easy we would have done it already. Calling it easy is demoralizing and ultimately defeatist.

Building a grassroots movement is hard. It’s hard work and takes a long time. Look at the history of gay marriage and how long the fight for equal marriage rights has been going on.

Check out this episode of This American Life. There’s a whole story about one small piece of the fight: simply talking to neighbours who might not have even met a gay person before.