BS story, but there are indeed issues. I've got a 2 and 3 year old myself, and speaking from experience, it's a mess that'll put me in the red until my 3yo is 5, eating into my savings.
As mentioned, private is still the primary option for kids under 4 but we even have a lovely local program that can start at 3 if you're poor enough (and in CA, that's around 100k/yr lol). The problem is the time. They're like 3 hour programs, some full time that's still only 6 hour. With two working parents with minimal family support, that's still a non starter if they can't stay past 3pm.
At least my private daycare is cheap-ish at the cost of religious brainwashing, and that hasn't seemed to matter for a kid like mine. Standards still keep them from, y'know, beating kids and whatnot.
Many locations had it but I'm unsure just how much was state, and even then, they usually had poverty requirements. After all, I'm a recipient and that was over three decades ago. Iirc, that was majority federal funded.
You're looking at a mix of local, state and federal funding, and an expansion at the state level is big for less rich parts of CA, like Bakersfield and Fresno.
Well, it's "free" under insurance, yes. The bigger thing is that it's covered under every insurance and I think Medicaid, the public assistance healthcare. Not that it's all that expensive when a birth is like, tens of thousands of dollars sometimes.
I've never met anyone who paid for it, though. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in law that you had to cover it (while shit like birth control is still debated).
The article is bunk, but oddly enough the all time high by Steamdb suggests it's around tied with DST, Megabonk, Hades II, and a few others at 115k-ish.
Nightreign, as AAA go, 313k at peak, lol.
You can still tell the article is bunk for comparing it to Stray as a cat game. Oh yeah, sure, while we're at it let's compare to Hello Kitty Island players, eh? AI logic. Lol
The article is talking about concurrent play, which generally peaks near release for all genres, with a few exceptions (like Hollow Knights sleeper numbers). Isaac came out when there was relatively fewer players and it's a slow growth, so the original probably didn't have a very high concurrent count.
The remake is around 70k peak, although it's oddly high at 20k right now, perhaps because if Mewgenics.
If it shocks you farther, it's just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don't even have to be there, and it's "free". Very strange, all things considered.
Why would you even ask why one wants a promotion; the usual question is obviously why they deserve it (and tacitly, what happens if they say no). And your answer, thus, is a documented trail of how everything goes to shit without you.
But business people and especially HR are idiots, so y'know I'm sure the meme checks out.
And yet I think the only one who's actually happy is probably Buffet. Most of them are so hated by everyone and clearly have mental, emotional or social problems.
Especially Musk, I don't think you can pay me his net worth to convince me to be him (although all the better since I'm also rather attached to my head and I'd rather not lose it).
I mean, it is still a whole course of civics but you sorta have to be paying attention in school. It's also usually late high school and your average tiktok user may not have graduated yet. Kinda makes sense since you're hitting voting age at that point.
Plus international audiences, although if I'm being honest I think they have better odds of knowing what the constitution is.
Yeah, and there really are much better ways to support creators.
And for real, since my family tends to share accounts and I keep my stuff relatively secret, tracking never gets it right. Hell half the time they just give me Spanish ads. I don't speak Spanish.
Hmm... People in your comments either conflate ads with telemetry (you can have tracker free ads) or they don't understand that there is value in ads equal to at least a fraction of sold content. Maybe they're triggered by the term piracy, which admittedly is a strong term, but honestly your core argument is correct.
I'm pro-piracy, though, and certainly take pride in picking and choosing who or what I put value in. It's more obvious with paying a patreon or buying a product you already pirated, but allowing ads to play (or at least giving a video view though to trigger the counter, liking and subscribing, etc) is also a form of support. And yes, you can do so without completely violating privacy although they're certainly making that harder lately...
I was legitimately confused what they were even attacking since auto start/stop has been so inconsequential in my life that I didn't even notice they were randomly trying to attack something nobody has ever complained about. Thanks you clarifying, lol.
The ineffectiveness of the ad is probably the fault of AI, too, I suppose. It's a dogshit ad by any marketing standard, anyway, and I can't imagine the minds at the Whitehouse producing a non-AI ad of better quality, lol.
I'll concede it's good at pizza reheats. We don't do that often but it's much better than microwave and about the same quality but faster than oven.
Depending on the size, it might not be that useful for secondary dishes but that's mostly cause mines just slightly too small for my standard casserole dish. At some point it's just a mini convection oven, which I have used before for Thanksgiving and it's admittedly a godsend (although I'd only borrow it. I very much do not have the space for one).
Mines also both sides heat, but I think it's a little different still as only one side will have hot metal pressed against the bread. You get a little different taste/texture with both sides pressed against the hot metal. I suspect it's also more energy efficient, too. Suffice to say it'll still be S tier for the standard toast case.
Reminds me of my own issue with parmesan cheese in things; I taste a vomit smell and just a little will make it bad to intolerable. I followed a recipe that added a sprinkle to a large pot of soup and to be the whole thing just tasted like vomit soup. My wife didn't notice at all. I think I'm sensitive to butyric acid, the shared factor between the two.
I'll use your stink bug example in the future when cilantro comes up, though, especially since so many people I know love cilantro and can't imagine (and to be fair it's very good without said gene, lol)
Nah... they let you keep the placenta, sure, but the doc gets to keep the foreskin for their special baby skin leather doctor's coats.