Well, the majority of the extra work I'm doing these days is responding to security vulnerabilities. To be clear, these are things that have been vulnerable for years, but only now are coming to light because someone is using AI to probe the corporate networks.

in the Deleted Items folder. "Delete" just moves the email there. At my company anything older than a month in Deleted Items gets actually deleted. But more importantly if you just delete it, maybe nobody knows it's' there. If you report it the outlook team can delete it from the servers.

All humans become nothingness when they die.

The Buddhist idea of karma is that it is the accumulation of your cravings and choices over your lifetime(s) and isn't "you" per se. What we think of as our self ceases to exist at death, and our karma is the condition/cause for another birth. So in that view of rebirth you are defining the conditions for another life by your choices and actions, but that life isn't you. Sounds like karma could still apply in the Death Note universe.

It's already been made. We just can't have it here in the US because it would kill our domestic auto makers. Can't have competition if you're not competitive, right?

She actually had to drive home herself at the end of the workday. Those bastards! They should know that after a day of work you are tired and need to be pampered. You need to have a limo, at least, to take you home. Inconceivable.

As far as I can tell online, 100 million Iranian Rials is about $73. And there are ten toman to a rial. So maybe it's more like $730. But I also found this on a reddit thread in /iran

Officially, 10 Rials is one Toman. But very unofficially, toman can erase as many zeros as you want based on the context. Talking about a bottle of water? 2 toman means 2000 tomans. Talking about something a bit more expensive, like a rug? 20 tomans means 20 000 000 tomans. Talking about something very very expensive like a house? 4 toman means 4 000 000 000 tomans.

Since this is a large number and it's in the news, that probably doesn't apply. It sounds more like street vernacular. But it tells me that I really don't know anything about Iranian money.

I think this is the press release for the new analysis they are referring to. It's titled Majority of Americans Can't Achieve a Minimal Quality of Life, According to New Ludwig Institute Research. You can find "bottom 60%" in the fourth paragraph

In 2023, the bottom 60% of households earned just 22.1% of all disposable income but needed 39% to meet MQL.

Cry. We get trained early to hold it in. Whether it's a good intentioned "please don't cry" or a heartless "stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about", we learn when we're young that it's not okay to let out our emotions. But sadness passes in tears. My wife of 25 years died less than two months ago. I have good support from people who understand letting out your emotions and I've been crying hard almost every day since then. I'm mostly past the acute grief now. I'm getting out and doing things with people, spending time with friends. I still have moments where I see something of hers and have to take a moment to cry. But I'm up and living my life.

So be gentle with yourself. Hold space for your sadness and let the tears come. It's the only way I know of to pass through it.

In the theater watching Rocky Horror, toast flying, newspaper on heads, people up at the front acting it out. good times...

While peppers are prolific cross-pollinators, you don't see the results of that in the original fruit. If you grow a habanero and a jalapeno next to each other, the fruit they produce will be exactly what you would expect from an ordinary jalapeno and an ordinary habanero. If you save the seeds, however, and grow the F1 hybrid it will be a mix of the two parents phenotypes. It won't look exactly like either parent, and will be some combination of the two in flavor.

If the original fruit you got from the jalapeno was different than you expected it could have been a hybrid itself, or it could have been growing conditions encouraged a spicier flavor.

Sounds great. Can I get it without spyware?

Early 60s. She was prone to distrusting authority. She believed the youtube doctors who said colonoscopies aren't worth the risk, so she delayed getting one for years. Eventually she had to because nobody could explain her symptoms. At that point she was 57. If she hadn't waited she may have been in time to treat it successfully. After the diagnosis she told her sister (5 years younger) who then went to get a colonoscopy. They found polyps that would have become cancer, but because it was early it was trivial to remove them.