1.25 year ROI
They had $6.6 billion in 2023 revenue, not profit.
EDIT:
OnlyFans total 2023 pre-tax profit was $658 million...
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sorting screws
I'm pretty sure that that's automatable. Probably very much so.
kagis
https://www.rkeinspection.com/product/optical-inspection-machine-for-screws/
Vision inspection machine for high-speed sorting of fasteners
https://www.rkeinspection.com/product/screw-2/
Hexagonal flange screw visual screening machine, this machine uses a vibrating disc for feeding, is equipped with 360 ° artificial intelligence visual inspection software, and is equipped with 9 CCD industrial cameras. According to customer requirements, it can detect whether key dimensions such as outer diameter and height of the product meet the drawing requirements, as well as whether the surface of the product has appearance defects such as cracks, scratches, and dents. The detection speed is 200pcs/min, and the detection accuracy is ± 0.01mm
My browser deletes cookies when I close it, rendering the issue largely irrelevant.
The broccoli thing depends on the kid. I loved broccoli as a kid.
Whether-or-not it and some other vegetables have a really unpleasant taste is a genetic thing.
https://distance.physiology.med.ufl.edu/the-science-of-supertasters/
It’s a tale as old as time. Growing up, your family tried to instill a love of broccoli and other leafy greens in you, but it never quite took. Now, you might be an adult who still doesn’t appreciate certain veggies, coffee or spicy foods. Perhaps you’d even go so far as to call yourself a picky eater. If so, have you ever considered whether you might be a supertaster?
Picky Eating
Many supertasters have a laundry list of foods they wouldn’t dare touch unless they were stranded on a deserted island — and even then, it would be a challenge. To their credit, there is a scientific reason behind their finicky food preferences. Scientists believe that many supertasters have the gene TAS2R38.
This particular gene increases a person’s perception of the bitterness in various foods and drinks. Many supertasters that have taken part in scientific studies often find that they’re extremely sensitive to a chemical called propylthiouracil (PROP). This chemical is often used in research to measure a person’s sensitivity to notes of tartness. Because PROP has an easily detectable bitter taste, supertasters often note an extremely bitter taste when given the chemical, more so than average or non-tasters.
Camouflaging Bitter Flavors by Overcompensating With Other Flavors
Broccoli and spinach may leave an overwhelmingly bitter taste in the mouths of supertasters, but that doesn’t mean they don’t understand the nutritional value veggies offer. To mask the bitterness, some supertasters add sweet, salty or fatty flavors to foods they wouldn’t eat otherwise. This makes certain bitter-tasting foods more palatable so supertasters can have their vegetables — and their nutrients too.
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I'm absolutely confident that I helped Mom in the kitchen long before 8, though. A relative's toddler was helping make cookies the other month. Wasn't putting the cookies in the oven, though.
A lot of services today do require a cell number for sign-up, as a form of "expensive ID" that one can't just make more of.
My guess is that a lot of kids might be kinda conditioned to provide it to services, since these days, they're probably already handing it over if they're getting a Google account or something.
All this is assuming that the kid has a cell phone with service. I suspect that it'd be easier, from a technical standpoint, to keep a kid from cell service
which actually costs something and is harder to share
than Internet access.
Not a hard link, but first grade is normally 6-7 years old, so eighth grade is 13-14.
I was watching a video of someone driving through the capital of South Dakota, Pierre, a couple months ago. It's pretty dinky too.
It's their...checks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_South_Dakota
11th-largest city.
Not quite correct. Kazakhstan is in central Asia, not Europe
Some of the country extends into it, making it transcontinental, like Turkey. Yeah, I should have included Turkey; good catch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan,[d] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan,[e] is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a small portion in Eastern Europe.
On timing, I'd say that unless you plan to live in wilderness somewhere and limit connectivity options, that it's going to happen pretty quickly regardless of your position. Even if you don't provide access to the Internet, once kids start going to school, I expect that they'll make friends, and at least some of those friends are going to have Internet access, probably in a mobile form.
And phone-based WiFi hotspots and Bluetooth tethering means that if someone's friends have some sort of cell service with unlimited data, as long as they're around them, they can share an Internet access link, so can use their own WiFi-capable device, don't need to share devices. I expect that used WiFi-capable devices are not going to be hard to come by, though I guess that a parent could try to forbid their kids to have one.
And once a kid's location isn't restricted to being around their parents all the time, for anyone in an urban setting, there are going to be foot-accessible places that provide WiFi access
like, everyone at school knows the local Starbucks password or whatever.
EDIT: On consideration, I don't think that Starbucks actually passwords their WiFi service, but even for restaurants or shops or whatever that do and have guest WiFi, not a super high bar.
Another fun fact, if you're out of Ukraine: In Europe, it is virtually always the case that the capital city of a country is also the largest city. The only two non-microstate exceptions that I recall are Switzerland (Bern and Zurich) and Kazakhstan (Astana and Almaty).
That's not the case for the US as a whole (Washington, DC and New York City), and more-often-than-not, it's also not the case for individual US states.
I don't know if I fully agree with the petition, but I do think that there are some real problems with the status quo.
I also think that either a legislature or courts need to provide legal criteria for the good or service division with games. I think that there probably need to be "good" games, "serviceʾ games, and possibly even games that have a component of both.
But I'm not in the EU or UK.
I also am kind of puzzled by this:
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq
It doesn't sound like it was as of 2020 in the US, at least on the good/service distinction:
https://www.carltonfields.com/insights/podcasts/lan-party-lawyers/youve-been-served-legal-effects-games-as-service
A few quick searches haven't picked up US case law, if it's out there.