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When you take out a loan/mortgage, the bank does not own the property you purchase with those funds. You own the property, and you use it essentially as collateral to secure the loan. (It's considered a lien.) The bank can take ownership of the property if you violate the terms of the agreement, typically by failing to pay what you owe, but the bank doesn't own the property.

Huh! Weirdly, it was definitely pronounced ad-VER-tiz-mint on a lot of the '70s UK TV shows we imported to the US in the '80s. Britain is a big place, though, in terms of dialects, so you and your great granny don't necessarily rule it out for everyone. Out of curiosity, do you then shorten it to ad or advert?

People must not know. #4 is where it's at.

Per the article, "accidents are rare but tragic." So kids with access to these—i.e. non-American kids—do occasionally choke on them.

Not necessarily requirements, but sometimes government contracts favor contractors that employ veterans, so it's more like the company is hoping to be able to use you on paper.

It may technically be legal to ask about postsecondary graduation, but asking for a high school graduation year is generally considered illegal, since that'll pretty much get you within a few years of the applicant's age. (I'm honestly unsure whether that's relevant though, since the first comment said "degree," which isn't what we call a high school diploma where I'm from.)

It almost seems like it would be better to quote only the range at which they intend to actually hire, rather than dangling the best case maximum you could ever potentially earn at the absolute pinnacle of your tenure in the position. But maybe other smarter-than-me people expect the top number to mean that?

I wonder if a staffing agency might have spammed you with LLM generated CVs.

It sounds like you're saying that when an entity pays the government what they now owe in tariffs, that money simply ceases to exist and is never counted or accounted for again.

It takes time for things to change.

Try to look at it from the perspective of the person you're talking to. Nobody wants to make a fool of themselves, and assuming someone is interested (without evidence) is a great way for someone to become very embarrassed. Flirting is how you subtly let a person know it's safe to suppose you might be into them and proceed accordingly. Conversations and invitations that are completely devoid of flirtation will instead tell them that you're just being polite or friendly.

So it's important!

It's true that some Americans don't have Social Security numbers, but those Americans can't collect Social Security benefits unless/until they get one.

Yikes, which one?

You must not have the soft close feature. I hate standing around for 20 seconds waiting for the soft close seat to drop so I can pee (learned the hard way that if you force it, it wears out in a couple years). So that would probably have killed this little ritual as soon as she had to go twice before you came along to put the seat down for her. It would annoy you sometimes too I bet, unless you stand up to shit.

Still, even though you don't want to spoil the magic, maybe there are other ways to show affection, because (in order of importance):

1. Farticles on every surface ew?
2. It's ugly to see straight into a toilet bowl when the bathroom is in view (and also very bad Feng Shui)
3. Habit/muscle memory will likely lead her to leave toilet seats up when she is a guest elsewhere, which is kind of hilarious actually, but could be hilarious at her expense

Admittedly, none of this is what you asked. But it's weird how many people try to make toilet seats a fairness thing. If the lid is kept down, everyone has to take it from closed to open and back to closed again. Isn't that fair?

Both can be bad, right?

If you're talking about your computer and you have access to its keyboard, you can't beat screenshot keyboard shortcuts!

But if you're talking about your TV or some screen you're not in control of, fair enough. For anyone wondering, the reason this is tough to correct with an app is because your little bitty lens is trying to capture a grid of millions of LEDs to your itty bitty camera's sensor, which has its own pixel grid that almost certainly doesn't match up with the grid you're photographing. Also, photographing a colored light source makes white balance tricky for any camera, and this is a bunch of light sources that are kind of in motion, because LEDs give off rapid pulses of light, not a steady light. Modern camera apps are getting better at antialiasing to smooth it all out and using AI models to try to guess what the image was supposed to look like, but you'll usually still see some Moire effect from those mismatched grids. I wonder if we'll ever see a solution to this while LED screens continue to exist in their current form.

We're pretty lucky we can capture a shitty image of what's onscreen, though. Just ask anybody who's tried to photograph a CRT.

I don't doubt that there are lessons to learn from the SPE, but it's also worth noting that it's been widely criticized for various biases and influences and lack of controls, and that no other researchers have ever been able to replicate its findings. Some might call it debunked, others perhaps not, but I think it's fair to say it isn't generally accepted as gospel.