Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don’t keep going barefoot on it) didn’t tend to die from them.

Mortality rate was higher than today but life wasn’t anywhere near that extreme. Most people don’t die from minor untreated infections - that’s what our immune system is for.

That level of thinking is deeper than people want to do now, if they’re even still capable of it. The dominant process is to take in minimal information, decide who gets a black hat or white hat as quickly as possible, scroll to the next item, repeat.

Me too, but all the way down the chain. It shouldn’t be legal for outsiders to funnel money into a state, city or town where they aren’t personally eligible to vote. Leave other people’s politics alone.

Dem jappaleeno peppas is da bomb.

Me neither. After a couple Godfather movies I had enough of mafia stories - I can’t sympathize or relate with them, I just want 'em all to shoot each other and be done with it. But it’s fun to mock their distinctive vocal pattern.

Wait, so you still haven’t actually “seen” it all then lol.

The sad thing is that millions of people have actually been looking to him for medical advice, which is like taking wardrobe and makeup advice from Ronald McDonald.

It’s amazing what can happen when you finally stop looking at everything like a teenager.

I haven’t even looked up their history - so apparently you’re not a mind reader, and things can be obvious to you without being true. Two good life lessons.

One cat asleep (that’s pretty much her life), one out having yard adventures.

Starting at one end or corn on the cob style?

Make it so.

God dammit, this is like the moment the Titanic first hit the iceberg. No matter how this labor issue is resolved, it will permanently demonize Wikimedia. No matter how valuable Wikipedia is or has ever been, current culture provides no foregiveness or path of redemption after an ethical transgression. Again, dammit, I love Wikipedia and have been donating steadily for years.

I don’t think they do these things as dry runs, but when somebody pushes an envelope it definitely redefines the envelope and gives opportunists ideas.

For a moment he really believed he saw five ghosts.

“Fuck 'em, I got mine.”

Contractions aren’t slang, they’re another example of a way to condense speech, that didn’t negatively impact anything any more than telegraph shorthand did.

AI is definitely encouraging general cognitive decline, same as any tool degrades a muscle or skill it replaces. The industrial revolution degraded human physical fitness. Social media has degraded human interaction, attention span and thinking skills, and oversimplifies every issue to an acronym or slang label because the prime directive is brevity. But the end state is only futility when people aren’t willing to address their own role in the whole process - which they aren’t.

No, “backtround” is a perfectly normal term for history. There must be a better way to pretend to make whatever point you’re trying for.