Business laptops are a bad deal if you buy them retail, without a doubt. Businesses get service and hardware deals from Dell, and buy these computers in bulk, which cuts down the per unit cost a good bit.

Even then, based on specs they're still not a "great deal" but as other people have touched on in this thread, the extended support with drivers, bios updates and on-site service that gets rolled in with these business focused models makes them a much less "wasteful" purchase when done that way. The business focused models tend to not have as many hardware revisions, so the same driver packages and images can be used over a longer time period.

The article is right in saying your average consumer looking for 1 new laptop is better off buying something else, but insinuating that businesses are just wasting money on these is a more complex argument that I'm more spurious about.

r/unexpectedfuturama is leaking.

I'm not your buddy, guy.

As a lifelong Mainer this is accurate to my lived experience.

Round these parts we say YUHT

Flannel lined pants have been a godsend for my skinny twig legs

I totally understand the impetus with meat products to maximize gains and make everything a product for profit's sake, but as you also illustrated that Epinephrine being for medical use might restrict how it can be harvested.

That was kind of the nuts and bolts of what I was asking about, I've tried googling around because I'm curious and its not the easiest to find citable sources on whether meat or dairy cows are also harvested for their adrenal glands. I suppose the biggest question is how much more difficult it is to synthesize vs harvest, as I'm sure whichever is easier and cheaper is where most of it comes from.

No, I don't. Because I don't know what it takes to process and extract epinephrine from an adrenal gland of livestock, for all I know it's prohibitively expensive to harvest, and maybe the cows need to be raised a certain way for the product to be viable.

There are absolutely industries with manufactured inefficiency for the sake of convenience and profit, I really don't think it's unreasonable just to ask the damn question

I know that historically there are human cultures that are efficient in using everything they take from an animal, but modern westernized humanity is not really among those, inefficiency in the name of profit is kind of... everything now.

Citing to me that we know how to do it doesn't prove to me that we do, I'm perfectly aware its possible. I don't mean to come off as hostile, but this isn't really an answer to my question

That's my curiosity though, knowing the inefficiencies of a lot of industries, are we actually smart enough to be harvesting this stuff from beef or dairy livestock, or are they slaughtering them expressly for epinephrine?

I have no idea, just genuinely curious

Another reply to me had suggested much of it may have come along during the Theia impact which lead to the creation of the moon, since the object that would have collided with earth would've been much larger than your average asteroid or meteor. It sounds totally plausible but I'm still very curious to find more info.

So how do we go from whatever "original" ice ball asteroid impacted earth however many bya to having enough water to cover the majority of the earth's surface?

Like surely that one asteroid, or the small number of them that have made it to Earth's surface during its lifetime, were not sufficient to generate all the water we have here. I'm honestly curious where it came from or how we got so much, was it generated here by some kind of chemistry or was it all deposited from space?

How heavy are bikes where you live?

Right, but its our representation of rules and laws that exist throughout the universe (as far as we're currently aware). For a sufficiently advanced alien species figuring out what we were trying to convey would be like a cryptoquip in the newspaper, or decoding a message with a very basic cypher.

I feel like I've seen that movie and it ends with a dead human race and a new race of super-intelligent robots.

A buddy of mine has a bunch of 80% lowers he bought before it got legally sketchy, i suppose we should mill em out and make some money

>benefits are phenomenal

If you can't get a day off to go to the doctor without 30 days written notice, those benefits are not phenomenal

It'd make me hate him slightly less at least. Being cracked out would at least give him a reason for being like this aside from just being an awful person.