Bringing a guillotine to a protest merely to show it off and make a statement is a great way to have blackshirts (also known as the police) harassing you about making “terroristic threats”.

Cutting fruit with it sends the same message, while also demonstrating that the device actually works and is not for show. And you have a legitimate reason for having it. What, officer? I’m not threatening anyone with this. This is a watermelon-cutting machine.

Classic Oregonian wit for you

Well, male lions do have a reputation for being the laziest mfs in the animal kingdom

What is the plot?

Let me complete the joke:

The Greeks invented sex, but it was the Romans who were the first to add women to it.

Who are these people? I’m out of the loop.

-1 / 0 can be defined to be a special new number, ⭐.

This system of numbers is actually mathematically consistent and has all the properties that a number system should have. But using simple algebra, you can prove that in this new number system, ⭐ = 0. And then you can also prove that all other numbers equal zero.

This number system is known as the zero ring, and it’s the ring where the only number is 0 and the following operations are defined:

• 0 + 0 = 0
• 0 - 0 = 0
• 0 × 0 = 0
• 0 ÷ 0 = 0
• 0^0 = 0

All other symbols, including 1, 2, and ⭐, are just alternative labels for 0 in this number system. In other words, defining division by zero is essentially the equivalent of reality collapsing in mathematics.

So yes, you can validly define division by zero. You just get degenerate mathematics if you do. So be careful what you wish for.

God forbid a person remove unjustified remarks to correct past errors

The California minimum wage is not indexed to core CPI. It’s indexed to CPI-W which does include food and energy.

Just to provide a number, in the 2017 update to CPI-W weights, energy was given a weight of 7.85 in the updated index, indicating that the BLS thinks the average urban worker spends 7.85% of their money on energy. Or about $196 a month if you make $2,500 a month. It may be higher now these past couple months due to recent geopolitical events, but it is within the right ballpark.

Edit: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/

Correct, and the type of CPI used to index California’s minimum wage is CPI-W, which includes fuel and food weighted according to the portion of income that urban workers typically spend on them. So yes, I do encourage one to spend more time learning the basics on issues before making irrelevant notations.

The CPI-W used for wage increases includes food and energy. It includes all household spending weighted by the amount spent in that category.

Edit: comment made to be less aggressive

I’m saying the economics don’t matter because you can trick people into thinking prices haven’t gone up.

It’s okay to be aggressive, and it’s also okay to be wrong. But one must not be both aggressive and wrong.

California’s minimum wage is tied to the Consumer Price Index. It increases every year according to inflation.

Edit: To be more specific, it is indexed to CPI-W.

I wrote this comment on a $150 phone which for all the purposes that I use it for, performs exactly as well as an $800 iPhone.

4.90

Includes self-checkout discount. Price without self-checkout discount: 5.44

That’s because you don’t have the mindset of a sleazy corporate lawyer who is paid $500,000 a year.

Try this: Raise all the prices by 10 per cent. Give the 10 per cent discount to self-checkout customers, as required by law. Pocket the extra for people who are stupid enough to use the self-checkout. Don’t forget to give a middle finger to your local elderly people or disabled people. They’ll now pay extra for the privilege of shopping.

This is a good intentioned, well-principled idea, but it’s a ham-fisted implementation that isn’t going to have the intended effect and extremely easy to work around.

I’m afraid I must inform you that I turned out to be right on this one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/us/politics/david-hearn-reflecting-pool-vandalism-charges.html

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/07/31/reflecting-pool-charges-dropped-hearn/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/prosecutors-drop-reflecting-pool-damage-charge-against-former-olympian/ar-AA29azma

He said that because he thought his involvement in politics had cost him money. It damaged Tesla’s brand image and hurt its sales. He thought that this could cause his wealth to decrease. That Tesla’s share price would go down. That the markets would punish him for his folly.

It did not.

He has instead found himself richly rewarded for it.

Grok was originally programmed to pull data from decently reliable sources like Wikipedia and mainstream news outlets. It was also constantly used to humiliate Elon Musk during that period by rebuking his bad takes, so he ordered successive “lobotomies” (changes to how it processes input data) on it in order to get it to agree with his worldview.