FWIW, TIL that the antifungal I'm taking is racemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itraconazole#Chemistry
Some human languages have untranslatable 4, e.g. Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quotus
80% of those are things I semi-regularly do in my own prose, FWIW
For what it's worth, I'm a human and yet when I read the title of this before reading the post itself I guessed that "December" referred to December 2016 not December 2024 (and the post would be arguing that lame ducks can't actually be said to be still "serving" in some sense, or something like that).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Darn_Katz!
Huh, apparently someone still understood enough of my comment to upvote it despite the automatic conversion from the original LW markdown source to the current HTML having been completely botched.
[Fixed it by hand now]
Another example of the bottom-end exception: if you book a hotel or B&B at the last possible week, it's possible that it will both be expensive and suck, because both the mediocre but reasonably-priced ones and the pricey but decent ones will have been fully booked for weeks.
As he says, the standard advice of allowing 2 hours before a domestic flight makes absolutely no sense in today’s world.
The worst part of hearing that advice over and over again is that the rare times they are right you will still ignore them. (I once got an email from Lufthansa to that effect, ignored it as usual and proceeded to arrive at the airport one hour before takeoff as I usually do for within-Schengen flights with no luggage to check in, found out there was some kind of strike at the airport and much much slower queues than usual, and missed my flight.)
But most of the 85% of people who don't run couldn't run a quarter mile at any speed
Any speed? I'd be rather surprised if anywhere near 42.5% of the population (especially if also counting people outside the US) would be unable to "run" a quarter mile in 10 minutes if they tried to.
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By the way, I seem to remember a series of polls (on Twitter by Zvi, IIRC) about various scenarios asking the readers whether they'd consider them "doom", "bloom", "gloom" or something (one of them involved all currently living humans being allowed to live happy lives and die of old age but no more human babies being born). Can any of you remember where this was?