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the only thing worse than a tired nurse or doctor is no nurse or doctor at all. you can cancel a flight or a truck shipment (not great but feasible) -- you can't quite just cancel …

It's not solely a total cost decision but it's also OpEx vs. CapEx, what can be depreciated based on that, etc.

Are you really talking about the couple thousand dollars that people received during the pandemic? In most of the country that might have paid your rent for a month or a few weeks …

IMO one nice (un?)intended consequence of the liquids restriction is limiting liquid spills on the floor of the plane i.e. somebody can't spill a 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew or …

The point isn't really whether its a net benefit or not, the point it's a "luxury" of tens to several hundred dollars per month that is almost universal at this point that is not r…

More direct correlation of discharge in the sense of a weapon or firearm. "Discharged a gun", "Fired a gun"

You play your cards right, you could be in the three-comma club, too. But probably not. But you could be. Probably not.

I'm Ron Burgundy?

How are these bills now worthless? I can't go to Zimbabwe today and get 100 trillion dollars (2.6 billion USD) from the currency that they printed that is supposed to be worth that…

Somebody from 1930 might posit the average American today is rich (if not famous) based on the average household with private bedrooms, air conditioning and central heat, multiple …

$1 per student in a 25-student classroom for 30 hrs/week for 36 weeks is like 27k, the base salary isn't much higher than that. So that's assuming a worthless teacher with 0 added …

Live in Northern California once but leave before it makes you soft

This is because in the last couple of decades "selling out" has become not only acceptable, not only a desirable outcome but in fact the ultimate end goal. Probably one of the key …

It's more the downside of automobile usage, statistically, than the upside of exercise, although I'm sure both factor in.

but even that reduces the attack surface from "literally anyone could stick this in their PC and read the data" to "basic amount of technical literacy and curiosity required"