Ahh… Atmosphere. That would blur the horizon to the sky. At very far distances, the scattering and absorption would obscure anything further.

Simplified, regardless of your height, the plane would extend to horizontal. Looking around, you would see a perfect half sphere of sky above and half sphere of ground below. Using a theolodite, 180* and 180*.

There are some semantics when you get into when you arrive, how the plane is lit and what the surface material is. If, for example, you and the plan “pop” into existence at the same time, you would see the sky surround you, and then the plane would grow asymptotically from your feet up to the horizon. I don’t really care to do the math, but at 1m if you were observing by eye you probably wouldn’t notice this growth.

As someone with kids: they should not. This kind of basic flexibility should be the bar for all employees, regardless of family status.

Yeah, the fucking idiot will probably all blow it on something stupid like an ER visit.

No, that’s for “what do you get if you multiply six by nine?”"

It’s big and tall, not big or tall, lol. I always sum it up as “everybody is short once”

Either at the start of each word or to accentuate each syllable.

I’m a glass half-assed kind of guy.

Adoptive 👏 parents 👏 are 👏 real 👏 parents 👏

But yeah, he definitely saw Johnathan slamming that midwussy.

What’s really wild is that sodium hydroxide is a solid at room temp. If you handle a pellet of it, it feels soapy. Not because it actually has a soapy texture, but because it’s converting the oils on and in your skin into soap in real time. (Don’t do this)

The best a broad civilian uprising could hope for in the US would be a drawn-out guerilla grinder like Vietnam or Afghanistan. Anybody who thinks it would be a one-way wipe (in either direction) is an idiot.

Not to mention that a dictatorship would be more than glad to support counter-revolutionaries, which would outnumber the left-leaning revolution by… A lot.

And that, kids, is how we installed a lasting, stable, friendly, democratic government in Afghanistan!

A 600 kwh battery pack so… Rocks can roll down hill? Galaxy brain moment.

An electric blanket is one of the best ways to warm up when you’re “chilled to the bone”. Layer them between normal blankets to make the most of the heat and keep them clean, and you can get whole body heat for a tenth the cost of even a little space heater.

But more importantly, I’m furious that infinite excluded hugh

The ball was white/light gray. It has the surface texture of plaster of Paris, but it is somewhat lighter than would be appropriate for its canteloupe-like size.

I don’t think I actually pictured a whole person as pushing the ball, more likely it was a disembodied hand or the general sensation of pushing it myself.

I remember being specifically intrigued that I pictured the ball rolling back towards the center of the table and pondering why I had chosen the table to be slightly concave. I don’t remember more attributes of the table, but I have the feeling that has more to do with inattention to its details rather than not picturing them at the time.

I imagine that, based on the framing of the story, my interpretation was to picture the sphere as a literal entity, but the person as the “concept of a push”… The table probably lied somewhere in the middle.

the number industry

All I can think of is a gruff, blue collar worker coming home, covered in oil stains. He hangs up his hardhat and lunch pail at the door. “You would not believe the day I had!” He says, “Some jackass put the 9 dies in the 6 press, and I had to spend all morning trying to pry open the hydraulics without fucking them up. After all that, I get a call that the serifs are too long on the ones and they’re getting sorted as sevens!”

Maybe look for a habitat for humanity ReStore?

You could always just buy any TV with an an analog tuner and watch whatever’s on the air these days.

The “disbanding” of the pandemic response team is largely misrepresented. I don’t disagree with the rest, or see how it’s at all relevant to the current conversation.