Cuberoot

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Buy three non-venomous snakes from an exotic pet store. Paint their scales with labels #1, #3, and #4. Hide them in one of her desk drawers. After she overcomes the initial shock, she'll spend the rest of the day wondering where snake #2 disappeared to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why is Gates' rate so much lower than the other guys'?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're trying to capture the consumer surplus. Normally, a seller can have either high margins and low volume, or low margins and high volume. The retailers wet dream is to get the benefits of both. If the reward program profiles you as someone who buys coffee at $4.00, but not at $6.00, you'll get coupons for coffee that the people who buy coffee every week regardless of price won't get.

FWIW, I've found stores that don't even have rewards cards frequently have lower prices than their competitors' reward card sale prices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's doctrix and doctress, but wiktionary lists one as archaic and the other as obsolete.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I recently read a collection of novels by a prominent 1960s science fiction writer. In three novels and 400 pages, I don't think there was a single female character who advanced the plot other than by sexually entertaining a male character (Despite one of the books having a female title character, and another had a lot of minor female characters.) I know it's a product of its era, but even then, there were more woman PhDs than men who'd been to space, so I think a good science fiction author ought to be able to at least imagine the possibility. I have nothing against female sexuality, but the most interesting women supplement it with some other talent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it's Chaucer era.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

I assumed the only reason we don't already is because of the ethical issues with subjecting human women to the practices that make bovine milk economical.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Mail voting is great. I used it with no problems, even though I still had classes on election Tuesday.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Making election day a holiday probably won't have the effect you're hoping for.

Best case: Almost everybody goes to work as usual. A few of them get a pay differential for working the holiday.

Worst case: Holiday means holiday. We'll give all bus drivers the day off to vote -- and hope the bus riders live within walking distance of their polling location.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

This is just about patient copays, right? And AZN still gets to charge patients' insurance as much as they can get away with?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So that's where they all went. I haven't seen those in circulation since I bought stamps from a vending machine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

A lot of users here have a lot of wrong opinions about a lot of things, but it's not our job to fix them.

and I stopped trying to argue in the comments.

This is allowed. Maybe if you let someone get their last reply, they'll think they won the debate and keep on being wrong. But if you keep arguing, they'll think you're an asshole, and still keep on being wrong. Myself, I rarely share my thoughts on a topic more than once per thread, even if someone disagrees with it.

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