I might accept the premise that inflation is higher than officially reported, but I don’t accept the relevance of your evidence in support of that premise.

A lot of cases end in a financial settlement where the company doesn’t admit guilt.

Every company always claims they did nothing wrong. Is it even necessary for journalists to ask for a statement from a company? Just take it as read they deny whatever they’re accused of. You think a CEO is going to make an evil cackle, twirl their mustache, and admit everything?

Also look back on the history of the French Revolution and how many aristocrats literally lost their heads.

Roger, at Cornell University they have an incredible piece of scientific equipment known as the tunneling electron microscope. Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe. Roger, if I were using that microscope right now… I still wouldn’t be able to locate my interest in [Intuit’s] problem.

The danger is that places that don’t get cold often get hot. And don’t forget about climate change with regard to heat. Some homeless around Houston die every summer when they don’t have access to air conditioning.

It doesn’t have to be the main GPU. I’m not even sure it would be possible to pass through integrated graphics. But if all you need is HDMI output, you can use the absolute cheapest GPU you can find (assuming there’s an open PCIe slot). PCIe pass-through does require CPU support (Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi) on the host and may need to be enabled in the BIOS/UEFI. I have an NVIDIA Telsa card passed through to a VM on my Proxmox server, but I’m only using it for compute; my card doesn’t even have a video output.

Simple! Just change the gravitational constant of the universe.

Won’t someone please think of the corporate real estate market!?

I hired a professional to do my 2022 taxes. I had finally gotten access to an IRA that I inherited from my mother. She passed in 2014. Reading through the rules on inheriting IRAs, I knew I had missed RMD withdrawals, but I couldn’t find satisfactory answers on how much I needed to pay. The pros were able to calculate that for me and told me the amount to withdraw. They also drafted a letter to the IRS explaining the situation and asking that I be excused the penalty for missed RMDs. I got a letter back from the IRS in February accepting the explanation.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

That would require the job websites to 1. care and 2. have staff to handle the reports

The Atlantic slave trade says what?

It’s weird to say there’s no upper limit. Somewhere around magnitude 46, the entire universe would collapse into a black hole. I think once you’ve destroyed the universe, you can stop counting.

The banks should pull themselves up by the bootstraps and cut down on the avocado toast. That’s the path to financial solvency, right?

I won’t dispute that, but this is someone I knew in real life, not just an Internet acquaintance.
I can’t fully discount the possibility they’re deceiving me, but it would be out of character for them to do so.

We live thousands of miles from each other.

It can be exhausting for the one giving aid, though. I have been supporting a friend by drawing down some savings and foregoing some luxuries. I judge keeping food on his table more valuable than those luxuries. But I don’t want to keep it up forever.

But the process does just require heat, right? So if you had a magical furnace that could reach that temperature, it would work as well? Or does the electric arc itself do anything to the chemistry?

Vast numbers of humans live in poverty and may not have abundant nutrients. Would that your statement was universally true.