My parents used to have to periodically replace their mailbox because drivers kept running over it. That stopped when they put 2 foot tall boulder next to it.

Close! You're confusing Luke 18:15-17 for one of the Beatitudes.

"15 One day some parents brought their little children to Jesus so he could touch and bless them. But when the disciples saw this, they scolded the parents for bothering him.

16 Then Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children. 17 I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”"

"Data analyst finds that "diarrhea stigma" in bakeries can reduce the number of reviews a cake gets by around 53%--and the reviews it does get are more negative."

Stop putting diarrhea in the cake and people will both review them more often and review them more highly.

Coffee shops (but who hangs out there?)

Growing up during the Starbucks boom, coffee shops were absolutely a place to hang out after school. There was probably one a short walk or drive from school, and for less than $5 you could grab a sugary drink or a pastry and hang out in a comfortable indoor space with a few friends. Heck, one of your friends probably worked there. It worked great for high schoolers because there wasn't any alcohol (so minors could be there), you didn't have to be as quiet as a library, and you could head there regardless of the weather. COVID has probably changed a lot of that as coffee shops focus more on drive throughs and mobile orders, not to mention inflation.

I heard a theory that Trump literally just doesn't know what a reflecting pool is. He thinks all pools are swimming pools, so he's turning it into a swimming pool. I have no proof for this but like... it fits.

Yes, hence its inclusion in this meme about North America.

... and that's the name they went with?? If they're making a Twitter clone, why not riff on the name Twitter? If you had to go with a single-letter name (which is already stupid), why W of all letters? Nobody's going to say "Hey man, did you see my post on Double-Yoo last night?" At least make it Z or something, making Zed posts sounds way better.

This is why the administration is happy to "promise" $300 billion and other concessions. They know that Israel will never allow the war to end, so they'll never have to pay any price tag that's contingent on the war ending.

Theologically speaking, it's the opposite: nobody deserves mercy, but God gives it to them anyways. But you'd have to open a Bible to know that, which none of these ghouls have.

Ruining lives for the love of the game

"Pedo slur"? What slur? "Pedophile protector" isn't a slur, it's just plain English.

It's not what they want to know about, it's what they find easy to talk about. They're topics that everyone has some connection with, and with which you're unlikely to cause a significant disagreement by bringing it up. You start with the easy stuff, and then use whatever comes up as a bridge to more meaningful conversation.

Sorry, that forest is owned by a corporation and you're trespassing. The angry men with guns are here to see you out.

Claude did not "go rogue". It does not have the free will to do that any more than a brick can "go rogue" when you throw it through your own window. They knowingly used a bad, dangerous tool that destroyed their work. The tool can't accept the blame for their poor decisions.

People like to think that bicyclists are breaking laws all the time because they assume that bicycles must be treated as either cars or pedestrians. They are, in fact, a secret third thing with their own set of laws. Motorists don't know those laws because they have no reason to look them up. It's easier to just assume that the bicycle on the road/on the sidewalk/not stopping for the stop sign must be breaking the law because it would be illegal for a car to do it.

The security people at the event did do their jobs. Someone attempted to commit a violent act, was immediately identified as a threat, and was arrested with no deaths and one minor injury. The attacker didn't get anywhere close to his intended targets because security stopped him so quickly. If anything, this shows how completely unnecessary his stupid armored ballroom would be because the event security was 100% capable of stopping an attacker.

You can also report your own deductions if you itemize. If your income is low, the standard deduction is probably just significantly bigger than your itemized deductions.

It doesn't matter how much they say they're going to pay. We're just going to get another turn of the wheel: we'll be right on the cusp of a deal, then Israel will murder a few thousand people and literally blow the deal up. The war continues but we're still in a ceasefire, the Straight is open but nobody's allowed through, Iran's military capabilities have been completely destroyed but they're still launching missiles. Give it two more weeks and we'll be right on the cusp of a deal with another jaw-dropping offer for Iran that won't matter because they know we'll just turn the wheel again.

A black hole may not emit heat, but the accretion disk surrounding it certainly does. The gravity and spin causes clouds of gasses to rotate around the black hole at staggering speeds; the friction and other forces can heat the gasses to tens of thousands of degrees. Supermassive black holes can also expel these gasses at relativistic speeds along their axis of rotation. Black holes can give off plenty of energy without letting anything escape the event horizon.

Because these are highly organized lunatics who vote.