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SNAP in many cases isn't enough for the whole month already. Adding restaurant and delivery fees into the mix would really just cause more problems for people running short and goi…

Has Kiva gotten better about choosing their lending partner organizations? It was big news a few years ago that Kiva was partnering with in-country lenders charging extortionate in…

Certain US states (the largest ones being Florida and Texas), never underwent this thing called "Medicaid expansion", as a kind of political protest against "Obamacare", and so if …

Capsule hotels don't usually have attached showers though do they? It's more of a communal thing, which maybe that would work just fine for what mmanfrin was thinking of. Though hi…

So like a love hotel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel ), but sans coupling. Or like a capsule hotel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel ), but with attached showe…

Would be true yet there is this thing called insomnia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia

Thank you for this explanation! I was not aware.

Oops I'm sorry. I missed it.

Legal doesn't even start climbing from 0 until after 6 am. Are you looking at "protective services" perhaps, which has a slightly-pre-3 am trough?

More than just Switzerland. From the Wikipedia euthanasia page: Jurisdictions where euthanasia or assisted suicide is legal include the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerlan…

Mittens are animals too! :-) https://www.google.com/search?q=mittens+animal&tbm=isch

Maybe it sounds more intimidating in Portuguese? Though what about "Operation Forest Freedom"? ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism Different definitions. The current American political ones aren't universal by any means.

How can prospecting and extraction be both simultaneously unprofitable and also creating incredibly wealthy heiresses? If resource extraction and profit-sharing in Australia is mos…

You've missed the point, which was that it's lamentable such clearly immoral business practices have to be made illegal to keep people from engaging in them. Disallowing such pract…

It depends on what shipping address you use though. An online vendor could probably be sued for false advertising if they showed one shipping price, but then changed it later becau…

IMO Wikipedia-esque redirects seem to be a perfectly valid, respectful, non-confusing way of handling cases such as this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_manning

Or the much more common singular they . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Usage

"Yeah sorry we just didn't think you'd be a good cultural fit here."

"If you're not getting hired, obviously you're just not qualified to work and earn a living." Sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy isn't it?

I: "Why are you interested in working at this company in particular?" C: "This company pays currency in exchange for the performance of services." http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=34…

On MTurk are you adding any qualifications to your tasks? If not you are much more likely to get bad results.

Does a homeless person have a carnival of delight available to them?

Wow the title of the article is pretty insulting. You're not an adult unless you're in a suit or business casual attire? I thought this sentence was pretty biased and disparaging a…

Now all Adam Carolla needs to do is return the donated money, since he didn't do what he said he was going to do with it. As great as i think it is to donate money to a legal defen…