a list of things to do before you die.

That is exactly what a bucket list is. It’s a list of things you want to do before you “kick the bucket”.

Is it being a patent troll if you literally invented the technology?

That’s just enforcing a patent.

Midlife crisis? He’s 62 lol. Dudes old enough to start collecting social security.

Bezos hasn’t been the CEO of Amazon in half a fucking decade.

Yeah seriously. A Bugs Life is generally considered one of the big Pixar classics. It was huge and it’s societal lasting was decades.

I mean, yeah. When you’re on a platform you have to abide by that platform’s rules if you want to be able to keep posting on that platform.

Nah that’s the green guide. It’s focused on sight seeing and cultural attractions.

The red guide is the restaurant one.

We probably will never truly know and they are denying anything is even happening.

There’s conflicting reports about what happened, and if it was even plague. One Russian report is that she contracted something in Thailand and then got sick when she was back in Russia. Another is that she accidentally broke a test tube with y. pestis cultures.

If it’s the latter, I’d imagine she hid the accident for fear of punishment until it was too late, and now the Russian government is covering it up.

Well no. That’s a wildly incorrect take.

Birth rates are already decreasing and are below replacement rate in many places already. Fertility rates are at an all time low. They naturally decrease as income and quality of life increases.

The global fertility rate is 2.2 births per woman. Which is just barely above replacement. In most developed nations, that rate is down in the 1.6 range, well below replacement.

Total Human population is excepted to peak within 50 years and then begun naturally declining, but many countries are already there. China has seen several consecutive years of population decline. India is seeing a leveling off of population growth and will soon decline. The US is increasing solely off of immigration. Japan has a decreasing population. Same with Korea. 8 EU countries have seen population declines over the last 20 years.

If you wanted to see population decline in the US specifically, banning immigration would do it and we’d see a decline in the next census.

Far more than that. We average just over 4 per year in Colorado alone. https://cdphe.colorado.gov/colorado-plague-data

72 total human cases from 2005-2021 in Colorado, 11 of those fatal. That’s 4.23 cases per year. There have also been 431 animal cases in Colorado over the same period.

WHO reports ~600-750 cases of plague per year globally with 3% being pneumonic, 10% being septicemic, and the other 87% being bubonic.

It’s why there are warnings to not pick up ground squirrels and prairie dogs in Colorado, especially dead ones.

Luckily, it’s almost entirely bubonic plague, which is the most treatable form of plague.

The one the Russians accidentally released is pneumonic plague, which is the most severe form. Incubation period can be as short as just a few hours, and the early signs are the same as pretty much a minor cold but it rapidly intensifies and can lead to death within as little as a day from initial contraction. If not caught and treated within a few hours, it’s nearly 100% fatal.

This one is a much, MUCH bigger deal. Pneumonic plague is terrifying.

Ultimo means “of last month” and it was used a lot in old papers because news travelled so slowly 200 years ago that often the papers were reporting on something that happened weeks ago.

And, importantly, they needed a word that was shorter than “of last month” due to printing constraints and costs. “Of last month” contains 13 characters, while “ultimo” is only 6.

A lot of words are born of necessity like that.

There’s literally no such thing as price gouging with luxury products. People have to stop equating a bad perceived value with price gouging. If you don’t think it’s a good value, don’t buy it. There’s nothing about any Apple product that is a necessity that you can’t live without.

The whole point was that the T-800 was a bottom barrel cyborg. They were all modeled after Arnold, but there were thousands of them.

They basically found a junker in the trash and reprogrammed it. He was NOT the same T-800 from The Terminator. He was a completely different robot.