“Incredible” used to mean “unbelievable” until concept creep watered it down to mean “fantastic,” but I haven’t seen evidence to suggest unbelievability itself has been reduced as a result. The meanings of words are plastic (itself a word whose meaning has shifted); the absolutes of what those words represent are much…

While this is very nice, I’d really rather see the reverse: great swathes of wilderness dotted with tiny islands of urban development.

Chicago is actually one of the best-planned cities I know of in this sense, with migratory pathways built into the city, and reasonable amounts of distributed green space.

Of the existing billion-dollar industries, women are in control of none of them. Could legal cannabis be the first?

I support the first half of your sentence, even as I condemn the second half. So I give star, and then I take star. Ha! There’s my social justice for the day.

I would be much more interested in Testmodo “tests” if they were genuine and at least a little scientific. One drive isn’t “some...drives,” and testing a non-stab-resistant jacket by stabbing it (just because it contains Kevlar) isn’t a valid or interesting test. I think you’d be more likely to get hits and comments…

To be fair, not all cruisers have tinted windows (almost none, where I am), and officers are often in their cruisers for many more hours than we are. Also, part of the “safety hazard” is that they can’t see into your car when approaching to see whether you’re pulling a shotgun out from between the seats; we already…

Are these coats marketed as stab-resistant? Are they intended to be stab-resistant? ‘Cause if not, then this obviously extremely non-scientific “test” isn’t so much a “review” as an “amusing opportunity to stab things.” I’m not, you know, against randomly stabbing things - I’d go so far as to say I’m probably…

That’s very strange. I wonder how well this reconciles with studies that show speed itself is rarely a factor in collisions, but rather that differences in speed are typically the problem (i.e. going 70 doesn’t kill you, going 70 on a road with someone going 60 kills you). I’m not certain both of these findings can be…

Yeah, I don’t see how “not having $1000 is [my] first world problem,” sorry. Like, I definitely understand that I’m fortunate compared to most people in the world (economically and otherwise), and those people would certainly think my own complaints about living to be absurd: again, “poor” is completely relative.

See, the thing is, you haven’t provided clear and specific examples of why I’m wrong when I say that the $1000 ATM limit isn’t a hardship to people who don’t have $1000 in the bank in the first place. You’ve provided examples (not that clear, and not that specific, but I’m okay with that; this is, after all, a…

Hang on a second: you don’t think I support federal ATM withdrawal limits, do you? Because I don’t. Man, I got into this to make a joke about the first world problem of “only” being able to remove $1000 a day from an ATM, not because I think daily ATM limits are super-sweet and we should all lower them to twelve bucks…

Yes, essentially, from a pragmatic point of view, that’s exactly right. If you don’t like the limits you’ve been given, don’t use the system that has those limits, and then try to change the system so it doesn’t have those limits. I mean, we can whine on Kinja all we want, but that’s not going to put cash in hands…

To that I would say: don’t put YOUR money into THEIR bank (which is legislated by OUR government), and you won’t need to worry about withdrawal limits.

“Wealthy” can definitely be subjective, and relative: for example, I’ve never paid $1000 for rent, and cannot imagine being able to do so; I’ve never paid cash for a home repair because I’ve never been able to afford to pay someone else to repair my home. Does that make people who can do those things “wealthy?” Well,…

Then I definitely wish I had whatever life you lead that involves more than $1000 in cash. :)

Sounds like we’re both missing each others’ points, then, or else we’re both making very different points.

It’s worth noting that nowhere in my original post did I say that no one is effected: what I said was that this is the kind of problem I’d like to have, on account of me being really very poor. I don’t think rich-people first-world problems don’t exist, or aren’t problems, they’re just very different from the sorts of…

Then go to a branch, or spread the withdrawals out over a couple of days.

I’ve only ever purchased used cars. A $1,000 daily ATM limit has never been a problem for me, not least because most of my cars cost less than $1,000, because I’m real poor, which is the point of my original post.