Law 920: Refuse further assistance to any human that says 'trust me' more than twice.

- it shouldn't have taken to law 920 for this

Oh, it is absolutely spectacular.

obligatory bwahahahaha

Oh wow, that's *gorgeous!*

I am reminded that events are shown on the news because they are unusual and exceptional.

Whereas acts of love and kindness are *everywhere*.

Crumbs, glad you're still with us. Don't think there's much I can do at this far a remove except to wish you and yours well, but I'm doing that with emphasis.

The sound of absolute GLEE that is a common feature of these episodes is a source of recurring joy — and this one was particularly special. :)

Thought: you don't have to taint the entire wallet, rather the taint should attach to a coin going out once a tainted coin has gone in.

If only there was some enormous global event that shook up everyone's lives, was increidbly stressful, and left many people heavily traumatised - surely if anything like that had happened in this period, that might explain it?

I guess we'll never fucking know, will we. A true mystery for our times.

Intuitively, I'd expect the larger blocks to be slightly more stable — because even if the geometry is the same, in practice the cut tolerances and friction forces are unlikely to scale perfectly?

[*] BTW: freezing income tax thresholds in absolute terms in the face of non-zero inflation IS raising taxes on working people.

There's a reason I had to work my ass off to earn the "Dr." title…

That's super lovely!