My ring-laser gyro keeps me on the straight and narrow.
Have you used one of those gas pumps with a screen recently? That's definitely where it's going.
Also The Independent:
Live updates for Black Friday! Oh boy!
THE BOOK On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts
...the problem of man and technics is almost always stated in the wrong way. It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some would prefer to say, without comparable progress in education and rational thinking. Yet the problem is more basic. The root of the matter is the way in which we feel and conceive ourselves as human beings, our sensation of being alive, of individual existence and identity. We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms.
Girlective bargaining?
The statement in your posted image frames the interaction in question ("small talk") as purely transactional. I am working inside that context. You seem to be drawing "understanding" from some external context which has not been presented here.
people who value small talk assume every stranger is someone to value and attempt to connect with
Strictly based on OP, people who value small talk assume every stranger is someone who needs to be assessed as a possible threat, and must "prove that we can get along". They might be someone to value and attempt to connect with, but that is indeterminate until tested. The small talk is the test.
Perhaps, but that was not the statement. The statement was:
Kelvin is objectively the most accurate.
Functionally, a measurement system cannot be inaccurate. You might define a new temperature measurement in blargs, and define that the room you're in right now is 1 blarg. It is now an accurate statement to say that the room is 1 blarg. At the time of measurement, it is not possible for that statement to be inaccurate.
Er... every system of measurement is accurate, tautologically.
0°F = 0°F because 0°F = 0°F, by definition.
Just a 5s loop of Sam falling off a ladder down a mountain for half an hour.