I don’t know about you, but my lease contract explicitly forbids tampering with electronics, wall paint, panels, outlet covers, or faceplates.

Getting even a normal credit card through your bank isn’t a bad idea, either, since not all places will have ATMs or readers that can accept American-based debit cards, but most credit cards can convert currency (for a small markup).

I’ve played through Dragon’s Dogma like 4 times and I did not know you could wakestone normal NPCs. That’s awesome.

5G is pretty neat, and as screen resolutions continue to increase and phones become more and more capable devices, the increased network speed is going to be necessary or it’ll become a bottleneck, but yeah, at this point it just feels like a big marketing thing. There’s a lot carriers and ISPs and governments should…

I’m not saying this isn’t a cruel and inhumane thing to do, both to anyone dumped unceremoniously into an unfamiliar place or to anyone they come in contact with. It’s definitely those things. I’m just saying it isn’t really anything else other than that. Whatever city they get dumped in—and the vast majority of the…

Most of them probably wouldn’t end up in the San Francisco city center. I know about SF’s homelessness problem—it’s not an issue of city resources. It’s also a non issue if we’re talking about just about any other major city. All of them have homelessness, yet somehow most people who end up in them aren’t homeless,…

You say that, but I can’t think of any reason an even passably organized big city wouldn’t be able to handle an influx of 5000 new people. Sure, some shelters and hotels would be filled for a couple weeks while they figure out how to process all these people, but it’s a huge urban center. Jobs are plentiful. Food is…

Humanitarian issues aside, this would be the least effective way to stretch a city’s resources imaginable. The number of people who move in and out of a city like San Francisco on an annual basis is already high enough that unless every single person who entered the country over the course of a year was sent to the…

You say that, but most sounds cats make with their voices are pretty well understood to be explicitly for communicating with humans. They don’t use meows or chirps or the like to communicate with other cats. My cat has pretty distinct sounds she makes for food, attention, general curiosity, etc. She also doesn’t meow…

The SLS is being developed with the combined goals of being the main method of getting into space and reaching Mars in mind. Shuttles aren’t even designed to reach the Moon, and though we’ve sent landers to Mars, those missions were highly specialized. They’re trying to strike a difficult balance with the SLS.

Neither of those phrases mean anything specific in court on their own. “Any other factor” had been specifically defined in the bill, while the changes traded out the wording and neglected to define it. Anything can be a “bona-fide business reason” if there’s no definition in the text and you’re a good enough lawyer.

We decided forcing people to pay any amount of money to vote was unconstitutional when poll taxes got abolished. Forcing people to pay for an ID to vote is bad because it’s effectively a poll tax.

That is definitely not the definition of asylum, considering a person can traditionally get it granted if they personally are in danger and the local government can’t or won’t do something about it. Asylum claims are incredibly individual and nuanced, and they’re likely only going to become more so going forward.

Having lived in a few different states and one other country, I’ve never been able to recycle soft plastics. Hell, in my current apartment, they don’t even sort the trash—it just all ends up in a landfill. My office can handle PET, glass, and aluminum, but no soft plastics. In Japan you could sort soft plastics into…

But the actual term for the juicy parts of fruit and the insides of hard-shelled nuts is “meat,” so it’s not like we don’t already call plant-based things with even slightly meaty textures “meat.” It’s kind of absurd to say that something that looks and feels and tastes (well, maybe not that last one, yet) like meat…

A hash is just a number that proves something is what it says it is. You get it by doing some math on a file or piece of information in such a way that even tiny changes to the input cause major changes to the resulting hash. That way you can tell if two files are the same or ever-so-slightly different just by…

I mean, in the States at least, discussing salaries, pay, benefits, etc with your coworkers can be grounds for firing in an alarming number of workplaces. Plenty of large companies regularly punish employees from reporting supervisors’ bad behavior to higher ups or even just reporting other employees for. It doesn’t…

It seems like the problem is less that contraction of the metal causes the trains themselves to disengage, but that it pulls on the bolts in the track itself and causes cracking or breaking of some of the track structure. Aside from the junctions, this looks more like something they do to perform repairs properly…

“Millionaire” means someone who has more than a million dollars, not someone who makes more than that in a year. Suffice to say even 99% of millionaires probably won’t qualify for the marginal rate. And remember, income tax doesn’t include assets you already have, only money you make. Earning your 10,000,001 dollar on…

Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. I’ve seen figures as high as 80% of American workers. Not being able to cover rent after missing a paycheck or two is the norm.