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The idea is also that a compromised system will remains compromised after all storage drives are removed.

Maybe? It depends on scale, I think.

$500 isn't much, but $10-20K is enough capital to start a lot of businesses.

Using numbers from this source and doing a quick calculation shows that US median income is 27.8× larger than the median income in Kenya, so $500 in Kenya is analogous to ~$14K USD. So that scans with my ~10-20K estimate.

Developed countries could afford the equivalent of a $10-20K UBI with equitable taxation models. Most households would end up in a better financial situation net taxes, and those who end up in a worse situation financially are doing just fine. (The US could afford a big chunk of this just from switching to a single-payer healthcare system!)

If you're earning over $1MM/yr, then who the fuck cares if you're only taking home 20¢ on the dollar of marginal income? You can already afford to buy a whole house every year.

I like that they included the mental health component. Long-term steady payments are best for mental health and can fairly easily be converted into lump sums by pooling payments and rotating payouts with others receiving UBI.

This is important because lump sums are most likely to spur entrepreneurship since they have the capital to invest, immediately, in a new venture. (But the unpredictability of starting a new business also means they are less happy.)

It's nice having some hard data to support how we should go about UBI. Now we just need to revert taxation to what it was like a century ago to pay for it.

To clarify, only if you decide to go back and add the asterisks later. To add an asterisk inline, you need to add a space manually before already.

This is a feature of "smart compose", apparently, and I'm now going to turn it off...

"In Canadian law, store employees or staff are not allowed to physically stop you from leaving or search your belongings unless they actually witness you commit an offence," she said. "You are free to walk past a receipt check, out the store."

She said the exception is when shoppers exit a retailer such as Costco, which can enforce receipt checks because people agree to them when they sign up for the required store membership.

Source

Edit: Unless you mean source for everything is a potato. That statement is self evident.

I'm not parent poster, but I didn't read that at all. International propaganda works, and has the potential to destroy democracy in America (and lots of other countries, too.)

What am I missing?

Do you play vanilla or modded? I've heard mods add a lot of extra life to the game.

Thanks for posting. I just watched review videos for all 5, and they all seem skippable, with better options available in their genres, all with some klunky mechanic or grindy/repetitive gameplay loop that frustrates.

Looks like I'll likely skip this month, depending what the remaining 3 games are.

Neither are in MAM (private tracker for books). Sorry.

The cybertruck demo units are making the circuit and auto reporters are mocking it, mostly.

The union busting isn't as easy to summarize since it's happening in lots of Musk's operations around the world, but TL;DR he's an arrogant, anti-labour asshole who's likely breaking laws but mostly getting away with it (for now). Or at least that's my limited understanding; I don't follow it very closely.

Musk is also a hateful anti-trans bigot. Not related to this at all, but I think people should be reminded about his encouraging anti-trans hate speech on Twitter.

ngl, I had to read the article before I could parse it.

This makes more sense to my brain:

"Reddit updates branding 6 months after mass user protests ahead of rumoured IPO"

I've heard there are (more expensive) debris services that seed back, but I haven't researched it. I'd already paid for Real Debrid when I read that and it hasn't come up for renewal yet.

Smoking jackets are usually leather, aren't they? To "look cool" and it's mostly non-porous.

My history teacher in high school had one. He never smelled like cigarettes.

I didn't notice any on mine, either, but I should try some dead pixel test images to be sure while it's still in warranty.

Hopefully, I'm in the clear. I've only played a bit to run updates and test it works after unpacking since it's going away until Christmas.

Edit: None on mine. I used a dead pixel test video to check. The black test was so black I thought it turned off... Obviously, in retrospect, lol.

I still don't understand why creating rumours about your character would be triggering for anyone.

How would a made up stories like "Borun caught a cheater at dice and string him up upside down hanging from the flag pole" or "Borun's horse went lame, but instead of putting him down, he paid a farmer to take care of him for life" bring up trauma? Especially since you're writing these yourself...

Or is the existence of rumours triggering somehow? In which case, maybe P&P RPGs aren't an appropriate activity since a lot of adventures rely on piecing together rumours to identify what's really going on.

That's brilliant. And it only needs 6GB of video memory. I can actually run it with my low-mid end gaming build!

I would assume it's the last point; less sickness from airborne illnesses means more time and energy for learning.

Well, big flathead screwdrivers aren't for screwing things in. Small ones have a place for decorative screws, like on light switch covers, but big flathead screws should never be used.

So big flathead screwdrivers are better as pry bars than as screwdrivers.

Right, but the point is to move the needle on the margin. There are a lot of people who always do carry on only just to avoid the fees. If, say, 20% of people are just avoiding fees, then that would likely solve the problem. It's not like there are dozens of bags unable to be housed in overhead bins. On most flights, it's none or just a few.

The point is also that there needs to be some excess unused capacity for efficiency to make it faster to embark and disembark. If people need to take a minute to hunt for a bin, it can hold up the entire process.

Fuck phone cases and bad search. I just got the Sony Xperia 10 V. The whole Sony Line is just changing the number to 1, 5, or 10, and the Roman numeral from I to V (and growing).

Good luck finding anything. It literally took me hours (including advanced Google Fu) to find out that the style of case I want doesn't exist for my model. (But the 10 IV has it.)

Is there a site that categorizes cases by exact model? I feel like it shouldn't be this hard.