You want someplace with the infrastructure to support lots of people (or a few people for a long time), but little local population to compete for those resources. National parks are generally well stocked, with water and lodging to support peak tourist season, but at least in the western US, most are pretty far from major metropolitan areas.

Grand Canyon and Yellowstone have a lot to offer in a zombie apocalypse.

My “unbelievable fact” I can pull out is that the first time I shot a gun, it was at my high school. My small town only had one indoor shooting range, and it was at the high school gym.

If food were just about cold, hard, logical choices based on nutrition alone, we’d all just eat Soylent Red and Yellow.

People trade long-term detriment for short-term enjoyment all the time.

Steam tag: “choices matter”

Yep. People tend to think of the big 5-10 names that are on every corner, but the FDIC insures over 4,000 banks in the US.

PDF warning: https://www.fdic.gov/quarterly-banking-profile/fdic-latest-industry-trends-december-2024.pdf

Transformers?

He’ll get his huge contract. From Fox News.

It literally kills me!

“It’s been 0 days since this administration violated someone’s rights.”

The “0” is just written in ink. It has not changed, and never will.

This is why Windows peaked with version 2000.

They had some cool software like 20 years ago. Then they doubled down on the subscription model, and I haven’t thought about them much since then.

Hopefully they don’t lean into live service games or DLC traps.

The whole jar says 210g, so unless you’re supposed to use ~30% of the container, somebody messed up a conversion.

“Captain, we’ve been left on read.”

“Arm quantum torpedoes.”

Just trying to hit all the prerequisites for a GOP nomination.

The door to the tiny WC stays closed, but the rest of my bathroom (sink/tub/shower) doesn’t even have a door.

Nobody expects the Spanish Disaffirmation!

TIL it was renewed for a season 2.

I have a not-that-old work laptop with a single usb-c charge port (for the dock) and the connection sucks. Thankfully that one also has a barrel jack for power.

I hate that my new one is usb-c only. I’m moving between locations often enough that long-term durability is a concern having to plug/unplug that one all the time. I’d much rather it was an extra few mm thicker and have a charge port I’ll never have to worry about.

Solid stainless steel at that weight would be roughly 17 cm per side (assuming a cube), depending on the exact alloy.

There’s no perfect reference scale, but the diagonal width of the cube is 60% the width of the drawer (by pixels). My kitchen drawer measures 40.5 cm, so the cube is some 24.5 cm across diagonally. A 17 cm cube would be just over 24 cm. I did a lot of rounding at every step, but it seems to check out pretty darn well.

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Successful psychopaths are very good at imitating normal emotional responses, which they learn over decades of observing normal people. But when facing a novel situation, they have no such learning to rely on, and their jarringly cold responses reveal their hollow interiors.