Oddly, yes.

Percentages also add together in partials. As in 10%+5%+2% = 17%

So, you start with the 10% by moving the decimal over 83.27 becomes 8.327

Then add half of that (5%) to its self and get 12.49 (rounded)

Then take the 10% number and move the decimal over once more (1%) for 0.833 and double it (from 1% to 2%) and get 1.666 and add that to your running total to get your answer of 14.16 (rounding)

And when I calculator check this I got 14.1559.

Alternatively: President says it may never be known who is at fault for presidentially authorized strike on war crime target.

Be you: a black woman who has fought her way to upper management, but still not taken seriously and forced to live under a glass ceiling.

You know you are under paid from your colleagues, and had to work twice as hard to get there. You know things are going down.

Now is your chance to get that bag and cash out of a system that has continually oppressed you and fucked you over at every turn.

Do you sail the sinking ship and take the golden parachute? Or do you ride the sinking ship and drown with the third class passengers?

Skeksis, from the dark crystal.

Just to continue on this:

I’m guessing his writing team was involved with his death somehow?

Also, I’m curious if they just recycled the crash sequence from the other prominent private plane crashes.

It sounds like his plane didn’t like its own launcher and crashed out.

I bet the plane didn’t have its day zero updates and that’s why it crashed.

If you would like to know how this story continues, that will be 34.99 for the next chapter DLC. -just kidding, we will only let you pre-order it then never actually develop it past the beta.

That an unsatisfying end to his story. Also, ‘rich man dies in private plane crash’, so original. This sounds like a Paradox writing version of Stranger Than Fiction.

400??? Holy fuck. Are you running the AC with the windows open? Or is your house 5000 sq ft? You need an energy consultant more than anything. How much insulation do you have? And no, a paper towel stapled into a wall doesn’t count. I’m also taking a wild guess that your windows are single pane from the 60’s and don’t close all the way?

Because of our American exceptionalism we forgot we were a part OF the americas. So now we are THE USA. Hope that helps.

Looks like a ‘shirts vs skins’ game of ‘dont catch the cancer’. Bad news for the skins team if the don’t have sunscreen on! (Who are we kidding, we know they dont…)

The year is 2126. I have finished my Doctorate degree to make me eligible for an entry level data entry job at one of the 4 mega corps. For my student loans I owe my school 4 years of life. During my time in school I got cancer from the PFAS plant I was forced to live next to. Cured in one pill (oh the wonders of modern medicine!) But now I owe the pharmaceutical company 4 years of my life.

The pharmaceutical company and my university are now in a legal match to determine who gets the first 4 years (younger and more productive). They settle. I owe an additional 2 years now for the legal costs that are passed down to me.

Meanwhile, people in Europe are taking their mandated 6 months of vacation. Fucking communists. Do they even think of the shareholders??

Read the article. The company wasn’t the one to discover it. They bought it for pennies then put in minimal research to further develop it, but only based on the research of another doctor who wasn’t with the company. Then they put in another round of research to develop it once more only to cheat the patent law, not to improve the drug efficacy. In the end they spent far less than the normal amount to develop what normally justifies the cost. Then, the price hikes were independent of development pushes and were tied only to quarterly profit demands.

For the other movies, while they dont meet Hollywood standards of success, they still succeeded. If you spend $60 mil employing people for 2 or 3 years, and are doing what you love, and it pays you back $60 mil to do it again, that’s success. Even with the flip in there, the others covered it. As long as they break even, it bankrolls the next movie.

While vanilla ice and kid rock have attached themselves to MAGA, several other artists were mislead on the ‘America 250’ banner for the actual ‘Freedom 250’ group. There is another fun rabbit hole of corruption and money laundering to look into if you have not yet been informed…

I mean… cool. I will buy it and all, but if you are putting this much effort into it can we just get a new BG4 instead?? The article just says it’s ‘inevitable’ but not confirmed, or even rumored. Don’t get me wrong, I think BG2 is up there with some of the best storytelling in games out there, but are you telling me that out of the entire forgotten realms history of Baldur’s gate, there have only been 3 stories to tell? It costs so much to develop a game already, just put in the last bit of effort and make it a new story. Alternatively, use the BG3 engine and give us a massive expansion that feels like a full extra act. I would pay 20-25$ for that.

I would counter to say that your aunt is in the minority. If you are talking about hauling individual bags of chicken feed, you are already talking about a much smaller scale than what the meme is poking at. This is more about the industrial scale farms, typically growing corn or soy beans, using combines, harvesters, and other specialized equipment worth millions. This high end equipment has removed all the backbreaking labor you are referencing because that would be time inefficient and cut into profits. When you are plowing, seeding, or harvesting 1000 acres a day there isn’t time to haul anything by hand. If you take time to baby a single plant or animal then you are taking time away from caring for the larger field or heard.

Small family farms, like the one you are implying, have old equipment (due to high costs) that embody the hard farmer life, like the open seat tractor. Big farms who spent 400k on their tractor have enclosed cabs with air conditioning and computer controlled auto steering, like the one pictured in the meme.

This is a simpsons reference.

They thought there was an alien in the forest. Turns out it was Mr. Burns who did his medical treatments (quoted above) and he would be high as a kite wondering through the forest at night and the glow is from working at the nuclear plant for so long.

I like how you throw in ‘even the Americans’ with the spying groups. We definitely spy in all our allies. And in return we encourage our allies to spy on us. It is a very calculated political game where we (all the allied countries) pass legislation and safeguards in our respective home countries and declare our citizens free of authoritarian government surveillance, but then work with the other countries spy agencies to do it for us. We intentionally put in the backdoors in our peoples networks and hand the keys to our partners just so we can say ‘well I wasn’t spying on you. That would be illegal!’ But in the end it is effectively the same. If the allied government finds anything of interest they just send a notification over. We each have boundaries that we respect in spying on each other’s people too. It is almost a formallity by this point.

If you really want to blow your mind, look into the theoretical alternatives to DNA. we are all taught about RNA and how it is a precursor to DNA, but what if it went another way? Look up PNA, PNA-O, or even GNA. If life existed on other worlds, there is a decent chance it follows an xNA structure, but not necessarily DNA.

Ah yes, the 4X buisness strategy. Building an empire through four core pillars:

eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate