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Many commenters seem to be focusing on men having to be 'strong protectors' but I think it's more superficial than that. For most hetero relationships, a tall/well built male partn…

Corporate America is trapped in a race to the bottom - if you do the 'right' thing and say, don't negotiate hard for tax breaks from the host city or get some sort of predatory pre…

The few places I have seen book nooks like this, they end filled up with religious literature which is usually not the intent of the person who started it.

I'm now in a team where I don't particularly like any of my coworkers due to all the things they have shared over the years which has accumulated in a persistent ick about all of t…

I see it quite often in reddit threads that appear in my google search results for obscure technical/hardware issues. The original helpful comments were probably provided by switch…

Common advice where i am from is to alternate between acetaminaphen/paracetamol and ibuprofen based otc painkillers. One, it reduces your opporunity to overdose, but also some evid…

Default 'Do Not Disturb' on android still lets heaps of notifications through. Additionally, when I do have my phone silenced completely, (or on an airplane without wireless), I st…

The mystery is regulation. Other countries have better regulations in this space (re-selling rules, anti-scalping rules, anti monopoly regulation, fee caps, general consumer protec…

I remove mine after about a year. You keep saying storage isnt an issue, but having a large digital footprint is just more baggage to manage in future. I want to let these conversa…

Its not a communication overhead, it's that business owners want to maximise their returns on their fixed operating costs subject to the 5 day limit. One extra staff member in a tr…

I find the magnetism from these types of people is seeing someone violate your social norms (usually for gain) in ways you had never considered, and getting a tantalising glimpse o…

'Only one country should export culture, for economic efficiency' is the kind of take that the Norweigians (and everyone else) would like to protect themselves from.

The pedagogy suggests that you retain more when you also have a spatial element to what you are reading - eg you recall not only what the text was but where exactly on the page you…

Cheap labour is one part of it, but also if you were a wealthy foreigner looking to get residency/citizenship, there are a few visa classes for 'business owners' who met certain jo…

On paper yes, but very few of the _actual poor_ were making capital gains on asset sales. Aus Govt figures claim 90% of people under 35 do not own shares outside of retirement fund…

Must only be for US users. When I look at it from Australia the Palisades damage is still there. Altadena also shows mostly vacant and cleared lots.

Home insurance also (ie replacement cost after damaging weather event).

Off the top of my head: Ocean levels of salt in a water system are much more expensive to maintain (even the secondary loop). Coastal land much more expensive. If you go to a remot…

The location of the grandparents house has improved over time and become desirable, so now he is competing against people in the same 200k jobs to buy in this same location.

The only true deals that I've had in the past year have been from bricks and mortar businesses that are genuinely closing down and need to clear stock by a deadline. For every othe…

And you must be signed in. I frequently get flagged as suspicious activity and have to pass a captcha when trying to use the Google verbatim search function on a signed out Firefox…

Also, fracturing audiences to infinity.

Less fight, more be present on the battlefield as a show of confidence.

I get all my fulfillment from outside of work, I am ok with having a 'bullshit' job which facilitates the rest of my very nice and enriching life. I think also that 'bullshit jobs'…