Iconoclast

Cut thinner slices? Idk. That never happens to me and I slice cucumber daily. I don't think I could make a slice roll even if I tried to - they just fall over.

Looks very Finnish!

Well, they don't in this case either - they just add an extra step to it. You can buy a bit like that off eBay.

I went looking for a screenshot of that scene but got distracted by all the shop-vacs painted as R2D2. Off to buy white and blue paint.

Not to defend BMW here but it's likely a very specific part that this screw is used for and 99% of home mechanics probably are never going to encounter it. Most likely having something to do with the high-voltage system which you shouldn't be messing with anyway.

Exactly. That's why I corrected that it's statistically extremely unlikely but not impossible.

No. "Impossible" is an absolute statement, whereas "extremely unlikely" leaves a non-zero chance for the unlikely thing to actually happen.

It's not impossible but it's extremely unlikely.

If you go by a layman's definition of the term, then maybe so, but the way people who actually study this stuff define consciousness is that it's the fact of subjective experience - that it's like something to be. That existence has qualia.

Without consciousness there's no place for any pleasant or unpleasant experiences to arise at all. It's kind of like saying you don't need water to have waves. No, you do. Water is where those waves appear.

And what photo they're using. Most news outlets use unflattering pictures of the people they don't like.

That's why I don't immediately judge people when they say something I disagree with. I want to know how they arrived at that conclusion. Their reasoning might be solid - just shaped by different life experiences and beliefs that led them to a different view. And that's okay.

I can still see them as an intellectual, trustworthy person whose opinions matter to me, because I trust they're capable of independent reasoning.

It works both ways too. Someone agreeing with me means next to nothing if it's just an adopted view they accepted as fact without ever really thinking it through themselves. The "stamp of approval" from people like that is basically worthless.

I doubt it's like anything to be a headless chicken. Whatever little consciousness there may have been probably shut off the moment the neck was severed.