MirthfulAlembic

The bathroom in my LGS literally has free deodorant openly available for use, and the owner reminds everyone whenever the store is really packed for an event. Unfortunately some people still do not get the hint.

I don't think there's a significant correlation between walkable cities and higher real estate prices. There are plenty of unwalkable cities with high real estate prices and vice versa. That's more a product of a large number of factors, from average income to density to quality of education and beyond. Walkability could be one of those, but I am doubtful it is a primary one, at least in the US.

Americans are not practiced in large enough numbers in protest, demonstration, civil disobedience, and solidarity for a large scale general or rent strike to be successful. There needs to be a ramp up period with increasingly more frequent and expansive demonstrations for that to become practical.

I don't get how people can watch this and not be embarrassed. It's such transparent sycophantism. Nothing ever good has come out of the richest people in a country showering the political leader with excessive praise like this.

It is because Apple has been dominant in the premium smartphone market for years, including in China. Huawei have started to make a big dent in that tier in China after eating Apple's lunch in the lower price categories.

This is a feature that Huawei brought to market before Apple, which was kind of a first. Until recently, they were just following Apple's innovations. It's early and I wouldn't want one now, but I wouldn't be surprised if smartphones-that-fold-out-into-tablets was the standard by the end of the decade.

Just housing them is really damn effective in my experience. They recently opened a pallet shelter "village" in my area. Since, I basically never see encampments, and the number of visibly unhoused folks has dropped a lot (since they just look like everybody else due to regular access to hygiene facilities). According to the cops, they've had zero calls out to the village.

We should still do all the other things, but just put up a ton of free basic housing and you can make enormous visual progress.

Generally yes. There are some financial remedies possible in this sort of case if the employee did anything reasonable for the new job. Like, if they quit an old job they wouldn't otherwise have or moved, they would have a potential case, since there was no actual reason they were immediately fired. If they didn't already have a job and didn't move, they'd probably be SOL unless they live in like California.

I was at a friends and family barbecue recently, and it just so happened none of the parents there brought tablets for their kids. It was just kids running around the backyard being kids. The parents generally let them do whatever but were attentive enough to prevent them climbing on the shed and stuff.

I can't remember the last time there wasn't some kid glued to a screen at that type of party. It was a joy to see.

Or that people who have the most wealth are more "productive". I'm not sure inheriting millions of dollars makes you more productive than someone working two jobs.

They seem like a UK offshoot of the Black Hebrew Israelites.

If they want to live in tents in the forest instead of yelling at people walking by on the street, I suppose that's an improvement.

I was at a family party where this guy with the largest pickup I'd ever seen constantly complained about how expensive gas was and how it was Biden's fault. It quickly became apparent that he only drove the thing the hour drive back and forth from his office job. Truck looked like new despite being a couple years old, save for highway tire wear.

Why on earth does he think we should all subsidize his absurd and impractical vehicle's fuel? And I'm sure he complains about entitled people on welfare.

"Hey, jet setters! Today, we're going to be traveling across the United States in our own private railcar... attached to an Amtrak service!"

-Jeb, probably