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Why is Chicago so windy?

Adapt the geography as appropriate to the audience.

You need therapy bills to economically quantify your emotional damages so that you can sue somebody for them.

That Pete Seeger song (which isn’t really his, but that’s the version I heard) has Cuban Spanish lyrics and isn’t at all about a One Ton Tomato.

A definition I heard and considered useful included a few required elements. A hero:

• Acts voluntarily and altruistically

This excludes most military and first responders, such as the prison laborers in your hypothetical. Hero is not a profession. Heroes also can’t have any moral or legal duty to the rescued, such as pulling victims out of the fire you started yourself.

• Leaves a place of safety

You can’t be a hero by saving others incidental to saving yourself. A hero must have had the safe option to merely be a bystander to the emergency.

• Subjects oneself to risk of death of serious injury

Heroes don’t have to die in the act of heroism, but they must have been cognizant of that possibility and chosen to act in spite of the risk.

• To aid an stranger

You can’t be a hero by saving your children, or anyone you have a duty to protect, or anyone you expect to be able to reward you in the future.

Summit County (Akron) Ohio. It’s $1.25 now, but I think $1 per ride was the rate then. No free transfers, but all busses meet at the courthouse so that didn’t matter.

I’ve answered a jury duty summons, but never even got to voir dire.

1. Get summoned by mail.
2. Check website or call ahead to see if you need to show up.
3. I check website. It’s owned by domain squatters.
4. I call number, recording says go to courthouse tomorrow morning.
5. Take bus because I don’t want to deal with downtown parking.
6. Check in to juror waiting room. Get jury number. It’s high.
7. Can we validate your parking? No but you could reimburse me a dollar for bus fare.
8. LOL. We don’t do that. The bus. LOL.
9. I tell clerk about their website. They know. They lost it last year. (But still direct unsuspecting citizens to it?)
10. Okay everybody. We have enough jurors and the rest of y’all can go home now.

A philosophy major explained to me that studying philosophy isn’t really as useless as it seems. That’s because whenever philosophers start to understand what they’re doing, they stop calling it philosophy and branch into real scientists. He said it’s unfair to judge the value of philosophy by the useless proto-sciences currently under study, but to consider the whole history of philosophy which includes every other field of study one can get a PhD in.

I got Buzz Aldrin’s at some university watch party for some incoming space probe pictures.

You don’t need that sort of instructions, just vague feedback on what’s good and what isn’t is sufficient. Do more stuff like what got good feedback and less stuff like what got bad feedback. Think of it as AI training set and hope you have enough I to learn without the A.

One neat thing about solar and wind energy, that might have national security implications in light of recent events, is that it’s really hard to blockade.