Shit’s crazy these days. My favorite “they can do that now?!” is from a 2014 article where MIT researchers videoed a bag of potato chips in a soundproof room and used the vibrations from the bag to recreate the sound.
https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804
Last time I went looking for info on this I could only find relatively small scale studies, and from a quick search now it looks like nothing’s changed. Seems like something we should have a lot of knowledge about in 2025.
There’s a 2010 and 2016 study finding sperm in precum in the volunteers of 11/27 (41%) and 7/42 (16.7%) respectively. They had otherwise normal counts (except for one in the latter study).
I thought that if something is federally illegal you can still be arrested for it by the federal government. Like a DEA agent could arrest people in CO for having weed-- it just means that state law enforcement won’t arrest you.
So theoretically they could outlaw abortion and create a federal bureau of agents to enforce it.
Some states base it on your name in some ways. Mine used to have (maybe still do but I don’t live there anymore) letters from first and last names plus birth date as most of the number. I assume if you change your name your number changes as well.
Oh McTurtle, if only there was a way to prevent this that didn’t involve you being a craven trickle of diarrhea. Alas, doing a single moral thing was far beyond your ability. You only deserve as many more strokes as the number of people you’ve fucked over in your life.
New England is one of the least religious places in the country, too. The statue survived 48 hours up there-- bet it wouldn’t have made it 12 in the south.
Or depending on your age, DnD (tabletop) or maybe Rogue or Hack
Oh I’d totally forgotten about those, and I had the exact same sentiment as a kid. They seemed somehow mystical just because they were in scroll form.
It probably relates to your age. When I grew up there were still newspapers (and dinosaurs) and you probably ran across a small horoscope section somewhere in there (especially on or near the comics page), so for me seeing the dates was virtually unavoidable. But I haven’t run across a random horoscope in over 20 years, so if you’re born after the millennium I’m sure it was much less prominent in your life.
Jeebus, no wonder companies are doing all they can to cram ads everywhere. They were living high on the hog and streaming essentially gutted their shady price gouging.