Why not? I press a button and have a cup of boiling water less than 2 minutes later.

My old boss used to die of cringe any time I started humming this song at the office.

IMO most of the songs on their first album, “Songs About Jane” (2002) are good. “Harder to Breathe”, “Sweetest Goodbye”, “The Sun”, “Shiver”, and “This Love” are all bangers as far as I’m concerned.

I dunno what I’d consider the most “technically accomplished” song on the album, but it’s definitely one of those. (“Sunday Morning” and “She Will Be Loved” from the same album are also good songs, but I wouldn’t consider them in the running for their most “technically accomplished” tune).

Thanks!

May I ask what kind of sharpener you used? My pocket knife is overdue for a sharpening as well.

One time when I was much younger, I borrowed a trailer from a buddy to haul around some stuff that wouldn’t fit in my Jeep.

When I initially borrowed it, my friend set up the hitch and locked it in place. I figured I’d be able to do the same when it came time to return it.

Well, I didn’t do it right. I got on the road to return the trailer to my friend, and about 1000ft down the road, the trailer popped right off the hitch and started barreling down the road behind me toward a car.

The car stopped before the trailer hit it. A guy got out, grabbed the trailer, pulled it up to my Jeep before I could even say anything, and hitched it properly while I was apologizing.

He just said, “No worries” and went on his way. What a cool guy.

This happened to me one time like 15 years ago. I was sitting on a bench and a pay phone next to me started ringing. I picked it up and the local police department was on the other end.

They said they’d gotten a 911 call from this number. I said this was a pay phone and they were like, “Oh. Are there like, any kids or teenagers around?”

I looked around. There was a big group of teenagers maybe 30ft from where I was sitting. “Yep, there’s a few nearby.”

They said, “It was probably them. But we’re gonna send someone by just to make sure everything’s okay.”

A few minutes later a cop came by and asked if I was the person they spoke to on the phone. “Yep.” He looked around and verified there was no emergency and then left.

Sorry, I’d rather not at the moment. It’s nothing fancy to look at; almost like a clipart of a generic bird.

Yep, lol. “Hack the planet!”

Just one tattoo. I got it at 20 about a year after my dad passed away. It’s an homage to the only tattoo my dad had throughout my childhood, which was a bird on his arm. I got it done by an old friend of his, who owned a tattoo shop. He free-handed it off of a grainy, faded photograph that I pulled out of an old photo album. He did a fantastic job; it’s a 1:1 replica.

It’s faded just a bit now (I’ve had it for nearly 15 years), but not badly. I’ll probably get it touched up in a few years to brighten up the colors.

Probably “The Core” (2003). I saw it in science class in 8th grade and immediately thought it was the coolest movie ever. Years later, I saw people online ripping it to shreds over its inaccuracies, but I still enjoyed it for being a fun disaster film with an enjoyable ensemble cast of characters.

I think I was fairly slow before learning home row typing. I just hunt-and-pecked whenever using a keyboard. We got our first computer some time around 1998, so I was introduced to computers a few years prior to taking the typing class.

Just a standard QWERTY layout. Nothing fancy.

I took one typing class in 8th grade and became faster than 99% of typists. Can sustain about 145wpm for a typical paragraph of text, but can burst up to 200wpm for shorter, simple bits of text.

Not a particularly marketable superpower in this day and age, but is a fun flex once in a while at the office.

I was being sarcastic, lol. It’s a play on the “you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty” gag.

Episodes of Rick and Morty really hit close to home in a way that normies couldn’t possibly fathom. It’s a blessing and a curse.

LLMs are pretty good at reverse dictionary lookup. If I’m struggling to remember a particular word, I can describe the term very loosely and usually get exactly what I’m looking for. Which makes sense, given how they work under the hood.

I’ve also occasionally used them for study assistance, like creating mnemonics. I always hated the old mnemonic I learned in school for the OSI model because it had absolutely nothing to do with computers or communication; it was some arbitrary mnemonic about pizza. Was able to make an entirely new mnemonic actually related to the subject matter which makes it way easier to remember: “Precise Data Navigation Takes Some Planning Ahead”. Pretty handy.

A time machine.

You might enjoy Sid Meier’s Civilization games. I’m partial to Civ 6, but they’re pretty much all in the same vein of management games.

A citizen killing another citizen is never morally defensible

That’s just plain not true. There are situations that are not just morally defensible, but legally justifiable.

For example: If an active shooter (a citizen) is killing people (or threatening to kill people), any given citizen is morally and legally justified with taking the shooter’s life to preserve the lives of others.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_self-defense