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"couple" and "few" are debatable, but thanks to Survivor we know definitively that "several" means seven.
Couple is not really debatable - it has a definition that includes 2. Not 2 or 3, or any more than 2. Just 2.
I remember being confused as a kid what the difference is between a couple and a few. Turns out sometimes there is no difference.
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I do not understand the claim the Fed is not a government agency?
The Federal Reserve is an independent bank. An important detail the current US administration does not like.
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I literally just said "Nothing from my end" on a zoom call. Still waiting on my million dollars though so not sure how reliable this method is.
Takes longer for some than others. Depends on your job title.
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a couple is always two. anything more is several, up to half a dozen
So if I said "hand me a couple of screws, would you?" - you'd give me exactly 2? If you know you want an exact number I would always use the exact number. I'd never say "give me a dozen screws", I'd just say "give me 12 screws". Named quantities are almost always a range rather than a definitive number as far as I'm concerned.
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The second Friday from today
> The second Friday from today What if it’s Friday where you are, but isn’t for me yet? Would that be a week from tomorrow or two weeks from tomorrow, for me or for you?
(a) I generally don’t schedule things in the middle of the night
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(b) it’s well understood amongst my social circles that if you’re for some reason trying to schedule something at the end of a party at 2am Friday then for basically all purposes it’s still Thursday
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But also once time zones are involved it’s better to just give a date, time and zone for clarity. That doesn’t mean people need to apply the same to their personal life and use it even where shorthand is unambiguous.
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The cash probably didn't cost the government anything. They can just use bills that are slated for replacement/removal from circulation.
for them it's just paper. how much does it cost to print a dollar bill. (would you even need to print it for this project)
4o: that's $25.7 million
Is the idea of the exhibit that the cube is empty other than the outside edges?
Mr beast routinely has a million dollars as a prop and it's significantly smaller than this, and cubed values go up FAST
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I think for a lot of things it doesn't matter, so either 10h or 32h are okay (eg. soaking beans, marinating meat). If it says overnight I assume the time doesn't really matter that much.
Unless you're marinating your meat with pineapple, in which case it can end badly... The day I learned that the acidic feel of pineapples comes from it actually digesting you instead of the opposite is the day I stopped using them.
Wait, what?
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Takes longer for some than others. Depends on your job title.
I'd say a small (single digit) percentage of people are able to accumulate $1.5 million over "a few" (2-3) years of working, but maybe I'm out of touch.