Chocolate Daleks are cute. So cute you just want to eat them up, yes you do. Real Daleks . . . a bit less so. 
I’d be willing to wager a large amount of money that nobody on this planet actually thinks that owls are wise.
Wise enough to keep quiet during the day and not bother me with their incessant tweeting, like many birds do. They might hoot a bit in the evening but it’s generally much more pleasant.
I got a stupid question: why do things stick when they are wet and then dry. Doesn’t matter what it is, this seems to happen to everything. Two pieces of paper get wet? They stick. A damp towel is laid to dry on the ground, it sticks to the ground. Spill some random seasonings on your counter top that also has some water on it, and the seasonings will be stuck hard as a rock to the counter top. It seems like no matter what it is, what it’s made of, if something goes from being wet to dry, it will stick to whatever it is sitting on, if not disturbed during the drying process. Note, this usually (always?) has to be something that’s somewhat absorbant.
Complaining and doing nothing takes less effort than changing a habit. If ads/cookies/browsers are only a mild annoyance, it might not be worth the effort to change the habit, even if a person is annoyed enough to complain.
My stupid question contribution: why are cats so cute? Seriously, what makes them look ‘cute’ to the average person?
Eh, they’re wise enough to not get up at the crack of dawn and be annoying cheerful.
Cats are about the size of newborn humans. Their faces have large eyes and small noses and mouths, which are also characteristics of baby humans. Or at least, that’s one theory that I’ve read.
They are the first stage toward Tribbles.
Well, tribbles WERE based on Heinlein’s Martian flat cats.
Mind control of course. :rolleyes: I thought everyone knew that.
Wait, the cat has something to add . . . Apparently I’m completely full of shit. About what exactly I’m not sure but I’ve learned not to argue.
I think you should do some research on this and report back.
Women’s and men’s clothing are marketed extremely differently. Mainly because women are judged minutely and stringently on their appearance both in public and private, and women must exert themselves far more than men to form the desired appearance. It’s not just decently covering yourself, it’s a way of life.
Hence, marketing clothing to women is a gigantic highly complex industry.
The war on cigarettes will work, eventually, but only because nicotine isn’t an intoxicant. Prohibition of drugs and alcohol doesn’t work, for the opposite reason.
Someday, the commercial sale of tobacco will be made illegal. Growing your own will be legal, but who will bother besides the hopelessly addicted? There will be some smuggling, but pre-fabricated cigarettes will become so expensive that the most important demographic will be lost: minors. And once you can’t hook the kiddies, cigarettes are toast.
Except for that laser thingy (the eggbeater) that can blast you to bits. And the fact they are in tanks and are nearly indestructable (until later New Who gave us lasers that can blast through their tanks). And their relentless desire to exterminate anyone and anything that isn’t them.
What you are describing is the concept of “wetness”. I thought we discussed this on the SDMB before, but I can’t find it, but I did find this talking somewhat about the idea. What makes water “wet” is the intermolecular properties. Water is polar and has “cohesion”, i.e. the molecules like to bond to each other. Sticking to other materials is called adhesion. When the water molecules stick to other molecules (i.e. adhesion), that is what gives wetness. When the water sticks to itself more than the other items, then it beads up and rolls off, leaving the surface dry. Think wax.
Because of the properties of water molecules, they tend to grip to other items well, and so will make things stick together better. Two pieces of paper, the water bonds to the paper molecules (adhesion) and bonds to other water molecules (cohesion), so the paper tends to stick together. There isn’t free air space, there’s water in the gaps and fills, and the water bonds to itself.
Same thing for your seasonings to the table. The water adheres to the table and the seasonings, and coheres to itself. Ergo, sticky. Absorbancy helps this process because it means that the water gets embedded more into the material, and thus has more surface area for adhering to that material. More intermolecular forces means more stickiness.
Toxoplasmosis. 
Actually, one theory is that furry mammals tend to have big eyes compared to their heads and trigger our innate caring for our young tendencies. Not looking scary helps. Hissing and showing teeth is less cute than looking up with open eyes and going “mew” in a tiny voice. Behaviors where they are comfortable and interact with us doing things like rubbing against us and seeking attention also trigger our caring instincts. Social bonding is important for both humans and cats, and so enough of our social bonding cues overlap to make us compatible.
It’s also why dogs make great pets - their social bonding cues are even more integrated to human cues. Evolutionarily, dogs developed as human companions and became more in tune with our bonding cues. Research has shown dogs are much more alert and focused on human eye tracking than wolves.
Many smokers would disagree, nicotine is an intoxicant, it just isn’t as strong as alcohol or THC or hard drugs.
Yes, and the stocks market is a huge pyramid scheme. But we’re not supposed to look behind the curtain.
Do you actually believe that? Because if you do, how would you suggest people save for the future? Inflation is a given since the federal reserve has stated that it targets a rate of 1-2% and I would expect that target to actually increase until employment starts to improve significantly. So even keeping money in the bank at a 1-2% rate is really like having a rate that is functionally zero and probably, in the long run, actually negative.
As for bonds or other debt instruments, just talk to anyone heavily invested bonds how that worked out for them this year. When interest rates go up, as happened suddenly and dramatically earlier this year, bond prices tumble. And although no one knows for sure what direction rates will take or when, what I’ve read suggests rates are likely going to trend higher, although some intermediate dips wouldn’t be surprising.
So what options do you have left? Real estate? Gold? Lakefront property on Mars? I’m curious.
Not speaking for Nava, but so long as people agree on a mutually accepted fiction, be it 16th century Catholicism, 20th century communism, or US constitutionalism, things generally continue as if they were true. And they can expand — which is vibrancy as opposed to realised decline — through forced conversion as demanded by true faith, just so long the rites are observed and people believe the doctrines.
It can’t last forever, but no-one expects it to. Just so long as it lasts past the believer’s death.
So your point is that the financial system is a belief system? Well, actually that’s not as absurd as it sounds. However if your argument it that it is nothing more than that, I’d expect you to provide a little more by way of defending that argument.
If you have perfect eyesight, or your eyesight is already corrected, does wearing someone else’s glasses give you an idea of what they see without glasses?
As a former optician I can answer that:
No. In fact it will come close to making your vision the opposite of theirs-- if they are nearsighted, their glasses will make you farsighted and vice-versa.
Hmm that’s right, what I was thinking doesn’t make sense. So there’s no easy way to experience what others see?
You could maybe get close if you had lenses that inverted the sphere and cylinder powers and rotated the axes by 90°.
For example change
-2.50 -0.75 X35
to
+2.50 +0.75 X125 (or +3.25 -.75 X35 if you don’t like plus cylinders)
But that probably wouldn’t qualify as easy for most people. And it still wouldn’t be exactly how they see.