Employer provided healthcare became a thing due to WWII rules preventing pat raises. It then became a great deal for employers, since it was a way to reduce taxes as an expense rather than paying payroll taxes.

I would think any setting where dwarves or halflings exist someone with dwarfism would probably be called a halfbreed or cursed or something else not exactly nice.

You would think cops would welcome additional opportunities for bribes.

What's even crazier is that these ships are still pretty fast. It's cruising speed is about 20mph, with a top speed of about 35mph.

They learned to charge more after they accidentally "sold" coins at face value and people just bought them for credit card rewards.

Where most Canadians live it doesn't get particularly cold. Toronto is south of Minnesota. There are places that get really cold, but not many people live in most of them.

Engagement is a metric that trying to track user enjoyment, I want more engaging posts or even posts at this point on Lemmy.

While a lot of posts have touched on the size of the explosion, the real impossible part is getting to the mantle. It was only fairly recently done by digging in the ocean where the mantle was pushed up more than normal.

A circular saw works much better for an aluminum pole.

Police tend to be the most dangerous and least accurate group of gun owners. Even with the tiny amount of range time police get, you'd be hard pressed to find a worse group to hand guns to.

Most ranchers aren't going to process their own beef, especially not at any appreciable scale. Even with reduced legislation the work and equipment isn't something they want to deal with.

If someone wants to make an image for free without AI and propose a replacement, then it's maybe worth voting. Replacing it for the sake of replacing AI is dumb. This is the perfect use for an AI image, it doesn't really matter what it is and there's no real budget to actually commission something.