But there’s no real reason for that. Losing the smarts. It’s just artificial to achieve lower bom.

If it doesn’t work when the cloud is down, it’s not your thing. Don’t buy it. 8sleep is only the most recent example.

Well, Chinese manufactures cloned the design and came in well under price, took the Chinese market, then improved the product and challenged iRobot globally.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

In no way excusing the behaviour, but there’s a massive exodus of people from India globally, and as a visible minority, it makes it easy to pick on them in particular.

Globally the money is accumulating towards wealthy individuals but it’s somehow easier to blame the new neighbour because he puts spices in his food.

Advocating for your kids now illegal in England

Allen had reportedly communicated to the school in May 2024 regarding the recruitment of a new headteacher but his queries were rejected.

The school’s governors then wrote to the parent body about “inflammatory and defamatory” comments on social media, warning that the school would take action against anyone who caused “disharmony”.

The Times said Allen and Levine communicated disbelief about the warnings on a private WhatsApp group, with the school subsequently banning them from entering its premises. After their ban, the pair said they emailed the school “regularly” about the needs of their daughter, who is disabled.

I’ve seen $250 preauth, I’ve seen $500+ fills too.

But there’s different ways to pre auth. The normal way I see it is that you authorize up to $XX and the CC company approves/denies it, and then you pump what you need up to that amount. That it’s got a hold on the card afterwards is I think an older way back from when they’d have signatures on everything and it’s anachronistic with tap. I remember that would show up back in the ‘00s sometimes in the USA.

If they get half the infighting and split that the democrats have the world will be better for it. Sadly.

Coffee is up in price already, the tariffs must be brutal.

Hmm MTG is sensing weakness I think more than anything. Chance of more power

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And a lot of these people aren’t getting the 1%APR loans; they’re getting the 15%.

It’s not really that hard.

With current prices? You’re out of your mind.

In theory, sure. Also, stay within your affordability range, and a pickup should be for working, not leather seats and sunroofs.

But that’s not what they’re doing, let’s be honest, and automakers sure make it easy to get a loan.

Student loans and a pickup truck will do that.

They’re overworked, but look for campus mental health (and general healthcare) clinics. You may have depression, which can be a mitigating factor and you may be able to reduce course load.

If there’s one thing you can control, my suggestion is to be militant about your sleep regime. To a degree, there is value in having a routine and a tidy room, but sleep is just one thing you can change that could make a difference. Knowing you can’t keep working to 2 am may be the difference between playing video games and doing homework.

Also, pomodoro or something to keep you on task. It’s hard being a grown up and not having a teacher checking in every day. Go for a walk too, on longer breaks.

Not having a degree puts your résumé straight in the trash for most white collar work. It doesn’t matter what the degree is, much of the time, so much as you have one. I didn’t make the rules, I just live with them.

Trade school is a good idea, but good luck finding someone who’s taking apprentices. Like in the corporate world, they want entry level people with 10 years experience. It’s decades of long days doing hard work before you’ll settle in, and the days may not get much shorter. There’s also a bunch of private equity getting in there making life suck.

Just be careful opening it. If there’s a blockage downstream of this clean out, you’ll see symptoms of the blockage somewhere else, and the pipe will therefore be full from the blockage right to the symptomatic drain. Hopefully it’s a floor drain, but it could be a lot of water with some possible pressure behind it so really think the situation through before cracking it open, and have a plan.

And with cart stand across the aisle trying to decide which cookie to buy.

It’ll save your ass from a big bill if your kids flush something they shouldn’t vs calling a plumber.

At least you perceive that happening. With a lot of other stuff the feedback isn’t as tangible!

Perhaps I exaggerate, but this person was in a geographic region particularly hard-hit and turns out is really into some of the dangrous behaviour (adjusting filters as part of coming out is, evidently, difficult).

In 1990, AIDS caused 61% of all deaths of men aged 25-44 (born 1946-1965) in San Francisco, 35% in New York, 51% in Ft. Lauderdale, 32% in Boston, 33% in Washington, DC, 39% in Seattle, 34% in Dallas, 38% in Atlanta, 43% in Miami, and 25% in Portland, Oregon.

Also: https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/52/2/255/613902