Sorry, I did not mean to imply that the US doesn't have bidets. My point was that I would like to leave the US, but having easy access to a bidet is a necessity for me when choosing the destination country.
Nah, at least in the US women buy these too or giant SUVs with the exact same problem. Maybe it was marketing to men that started it, but it certainly isn't exclusive.
Technically, you can already give power of attorney to others, or live with as many people as you want. You can grant access to your bank account to as many people as the bank will let you. I think the main thing you can't reproduce is a tax benefit, basically.
A vicious cycle happened. 24 hour news reports every child abduction basically in the country, making parents feel that they're more common than they are. Kids freedom starts getting restricted. There's less kids outside, so parents are less comfortable letting their own kids out, and kids have less incentive to go out. At the same time, the number of indoor entertainment options explodes. As they stop being seen outside, the world adjusts to life without them.... Less crosswalks, less bikeable areas, less parks. With so few kids being outside the house, the parents who still encourage their kids to play outside or go do things become the minority and law enforcement fucks with them accordingly, as in this story, making parents even more reluctant to let their kids out of their sight.
There's some resistance to this. Free Range Kids comes to mind. People see the problem and want to do something. But as you can see even in this thread, people have so accepted "kids should stay inside supervised at all times" as the norm that it's an uphill battle.
I am not trying to brake check people and get in an accident but I would very much like a signal for "Please remove your car from my butthole, it's getting uncomfortable."
To be honest... If tomorrow WINE was 100% perfect, we'd probably see laptops start moving the direction of phones and it would be terrible for consumers. You'd get your AceOS on your Acer laptop and DellSys on your Dell and so on and they'd all have little marketplaces where you could install LibreOffice next to an ad for some other office suite that costs $100 for some reason and that's all people would know.
Yes, techy people would have more options but for the average consumer, they have no idea what an OS is. Many don't know what Windows is. They don't care or want to care. If presented with the average Linux install screen, supposing they could make it that far by figuring out how to make a bootable flash drive, they'd freak out at all the options and information presented. They're at the mercy of the manufacturer, and the manufacturer will want to squeeze out every last dollar, and being given control over the OS would be terrible.
Experts pretty much all agree that kids need some level of autonomy and freedom to grow up healthy. The exact level is under constant debate, and at what age things are appropriate is under constant debate. With freedom and autonomy though will come accidents. It's an unavoidable consequence. There's no way to be absolutely certain that a particular kid won't make a terrible lapse in judgement, no matter how much you've drilled something into them. Hell, even adults make those kinds of mistakes all the time.
Put another way, I could keep my kids very safe by keeping them in the house, tethered to an iPad all the time, unable to leave my earshot, like so many parents seem to do now. They'd be super safe. And they'd grow into the kind of inept, stunted kids that people are constantly complaining about.
I don't know if it's what happened here but I have noticed that sometimes people use highly speculative math for things like this. Like the actual cost of landscaping and paint was 100k, but if you assume that everyone who would use this had to divert to another route that took 10m, and they all average £15 an hour, and 10,000 people per hour could have used this, then there's £9,000 lost per hour of construction.
Nah, 20s me was the best time to get into the show. 30s me is stressed, has no time, has developed anxiety, spends a lot of time exercising not because it feels good but because apparently my cholesterol is high now, and the show is mostly focused on the kids which is usually a sign that the plot quality has gone down.
Maybe as a punishment. It wouldn't solve the problem in the correct way unless the taxes were MORE than the cost of paying a livable wage. Because the taxes would, at best and very optimistically, go towards programs that then give out money but only for very specific things like Medicaid or SNAP. It would be better for everyone if those employees just got the money as cash to use as they see fit rather than as a benefit that has to be used on certain kinds of food.
Maybe I'm too easy to please but I'd be happier if they took the money that currently goes towards tanks and "how to shoot first" seminars and put it towards ongoing education for officers on law, de-escalation tactics, and critical thinking in stressful situations.
AI could probably find the occasional actual bug. If you use AI to file 500 bug reports in the time it may take a researcher to find and report 1, and only 2 pay out, you've still gotten ahead.
But in the process, you've wasted tons of time for the developers who have to actually sort through, read the reports, and verify the validity of the issue. I think that's part of the problem. Even if it sometimes finds a legitimate issue, these people are trying to make it someone else's problem to do the real work.
In case you're curious why they might hate the post office so much, I suspect it's because as a government entity it has two important attributes:
A requirement for universal access
At least some constitutional protections for privacy.
When you ship UPS or FedEx, you're giving a package to a private entity. They are only bound by the contract they make with you. If they decide to start opening every package, that's their right. The USPS has specific laws around when it can and cannot search packages, and generally requires a warrant.
It's the state of advertising tbh. If ads were still of the "Look, here's a cool product" variety, or even the "Look, here's people happily using a cool product" kind then the world would probably be a better place. Even targeting isn't so bad, when it's broad like "We want businesses to know about our B2B product."
The evil in modern advertising is the overly specific targeting, the lying, the psychological tricks, and the way they seem to invade every possible space.
This is the only area I DO get. I don't agree with it, but I can understand where they're coming from. If you believe a fetus is a person, it makes total sense to vote against murder. And we aren't going to win anyone over by framing it as just an issue for women. If it's even possible to change someone's mind on the topic it would be through education, not telling them that their opinion on murder doesn't matter.
It's mildly infuriating to me the people in this thread debating the meaning of the tattoos, because it totally misses the point. I don't think we have enough information to be defending his character, and it DOES NOT matter at all. He could be a stone cold murderer and I still wouldn't support extrajudicial deportation.
Basically, his character is all an irrelevant smoke screen. Stop engaging with it. It doesn't matter. What the Trump administration did was illegal and sets a terrible precedent, even if the dude was a murderous gang member.
Sorry, I did not mean to imply that the US doesn't have bidets. My point was that I would like to leave the US, but having easy access to a bidet is a necessity for me when choosing the destination country.