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TFA says Clinton did something similar. I'm sure it happens more than we're told. The Secret Service is paid to be paranoid. Decoy flights and vehicles are out of the standard play…

Yes the constitution specifically identifies commerce as something Congress has the power to regulate. That doesn't mean states can't have their own rules. Many states have various…

I've never worked someplace that would reimburse laundry. Or maybe I never tried...

It's a feature that states can (mostly) decide for themselves what laws they want to live under.

Actually my question was about teen-ager. Haven't seen that hyphenated since before e-mail stopped being hyphenated. Worst-ever does make sense in that usage.

Hotel laundry service tends to be quite expensive, but many hotels have a coin-op (or maybe an app these days) laundry room where you can do your own. That's very handy for underwe…

> I had my worst-ever packing experience in the late nineties, when I was a teen-ager. Is hyphenating a word like teenager a New Yorker idiosyncracy? Or is that a "soft" hyphen tha…

> vacuum tubes had relatively short lifetime I see this a lot and I'm sure it's true but my dad had some vacuum tube HiFi setup that he'd had since college and decades later it all…

Competely agree. React and whatever else they've open sourced is inconsequential compared to the harm they've caused.

US Zip+4 (the "long" zip code) is quite specific. I've never tried to address a letter using only e.g. addressee name and zip code but it would probably work. Closest thing I can t…

They need a name they can trademark, and common words can't be trademarked. It's sort of a .com domain name problem, all the good names are already taken so you just go for somethi…

As if the techs making $15/hr answering the phone don't make mistakes?

> what was the future of the industry If my experience is common, most health plans are moving to mail-order for routine, generic, recurring prescriptions. They only want you to vi…

I feel the same way now about McDonald's and similar fast food. I used to love it when I was in my teens/20s; probably ate some kind of fast food almost every day. Now I think it's…

No, McDonald's has always been 10:1 for the "regular" burgers, I think forever but certainly back to the early 1980s when I worked there.

Seems like I see sizes go up and down. Slow shrinkflation, then one day "now bigger!" (with a price increase) and then repeat.

That seems overly complicated when simple speed sensors would do the job.

Not true, but also not widely reported. Cops are fired all the time for a wide variety of reasons.

This is quite a new deal and not one enjoyed by most people for most of history.

Pets generally enjoy a much nicer life than living in the wild.

Those fun chemistry sets are banned now.

I'm pretty convinced that June bugs are the dumbest insects on the planet.

I honestly can't wait for the entire internet to melt down.