Nah not that detailed, IIRC they just spawn if people can’t afford housing.

It Cities: Skylines 2, yes.

So why does Japan at 100V have electric kettles everywhere? It’s a cultural reason not the electrical grid.

Yea, I go out of my way to Microcenter, passing several Best Buys.

Why would they question bugs?

I get like 10 seconds for both my cats.

Healthcare costs in the US is usually the blocker for me when I think about extended stays as a hermit.

I’ve definitely been in a hostel where they should have had this sign. Woke up to my bunk rockin.

So my overpowered PC is so I don’t lose focus due to loading times.

What? All the new American apartments I’ve seen are luxury and full of nice amenities. Which I think is a problem because none of it is affordable. Even older apartments get renovated and the rent shoots up. I would love to see some practical and efficient apartments.

This is Denver so your region my differ. From what I gather new bare bones apartments only exist in extreme cost of living areas like Sanfran or NYC.

No? Barcodes and QR codes do not have enough information for unique identification. (Well they could but they start getting bigger and bigger)

But the real issue is needing these codes tracked and audited in a public manner. Instead of having a third party company trusted with all the cheese, you use a Blockchain with a public ledger. This doesn’t even require much processing power since there’s no incentive to mine as many blocks as possible.

I hate cryptobros but logistics is a good use for the tech. Tech is tech, not all use cases are bad.

I had a 6 month gap and I said I was taking a sabbatical (which was the truth). No one batted an eye.

Which they are: https://www.grants.gov/learn-grants/grant-reporting

Grants are an incredible way to advance technology, create educated citizens, and boost the economy. Private industry also benefits since they don’t have to risk their own R&D budget. And in some areas, the private sector will not touch since there’s not a obvious way to make profit. Although they will still use that public research when it suits them.

The GOP wants you to be ignorant of how everything works and get away with blackmailing institutions they don’t like.

They’re in the form of grants that give research to help society.

Imagine if the government wants to know the effects of microplastics on the brain. The grant is a way to hire researchers at universities to answer this question.

The alternative is just employ scientists full time, but that’s expensive. And how do those scientists get trained in the first place? Using grants while in university.

No, NPR will survive. Losing the grants suck. But the vast majority of its revenue isn’t from grants.

I’ll be upping my donation.

Not only this but I pick my cat up so she can smell things she normally can’t reach. Or get to a bug on the ceiling.

Never had a call end with a chatbot/call tree solving anything. The only times I call is because I know a need a human override with something.

(I understand there’s probably a large portion of their call volume that can be solved via bots.)

Pretty sure this is false in most countries. You are required to disclose purchases and declare values, even for personal use. If they hit a certain thresholds, you’ll have to pay a tax.

Now I’m sure most people just ignore this, because practically they don’t know which items you carried with you and which you purchased. But it isn’t legal.

Sure, ideally, unless they’re doing something more sophisticated. VW passed emission tests by detecting they were being tested.

Some potential easy to implement gotchas: minimum mileage, geo fencing, how much braking is used

Yep, Dutch with manufacturing in Taiwan. So not super relevant to this thread.

System 76 is US based including keyboard manufacturing. They’re a small company that gives a lot back to the open source community.