A while ago I was at a playground chatting with a neighborhood mom, and her 5 yr old son fell off the top of a spiral slide, and broke both his forearms. It's sobering how quickly and unpredictably a situation can turn from pleasant to horrible because somebody's grip on a railing was an inch off.

There are things you do 100,000 times in your lifetime, with a 99.999% success rate, where failure may kill you. You can't really avoid those.

I would rephrase that more neutrally as:

It may be the case that the typical customer doesn't notice or care.

Do you censor all ideas into neutrality or just ones you disagree with?

Only when it makes the ideas better, like this one.

And vice versa.

But it's selling it back to us cheaper and with more utility. That's not something to sneeze at.

I absolutely agree that getting the vaccine is obviously the correct thing to do, but:

>"I casually mentioned the HPV vaccine since his daughter was entering her teens."

Is a little weird to do, and seems like it might be downplaying some provocative or nosy behavior.

4.6 km/s, if it was orbiting one earth's diameter above the surface. Seven hour rotational period. Gnarly tides.

You could add a very slight velocity decay due to air resistance, perhaps stronger nearer the surface. It should make a stable orbit impossible.

But those are all reasons to want kids!

The most of the comment, yeah. I was reacting to

> 50 kids standing in the rain in maybe 40F weather waiting to go through the metal detector

>Last Ditch Bar's new mask-optional Saturdays.

Wow, hadn't heard of that dustup. People are crazy. I guess they always have been, but... wow.

Yes, here's an example of an AI product that is not serious:

In the built-in Copilot integration in outlook, describing an email and asking to find it, and being told that Copilot has no access to your inbox.