Yes, the decision was to not spend millions of their own dollars saving money for other stupid people who can’t be bothered to read a sign.

It’s not about giving them leeway, they’re doing it regardless. It’s about putting pressure on taxpayers and voters to more directly know that this stuff isn’t free. They can either suck it up and not blindly vote for the tax-naysayers, and realize that paying an extra $100 bucks a year in taxes would allow their kids…

I think he was talking about the concept of colleges in general, rather than any specific college. That the concept of spending 3,4 years “studying” about a subject was just a club for scions of the wealthy.

Those things are not mutually exclusive. It’s a scam for a lot of the kids who go to college, instead of trade school etc. but at the same time - subsidies are needed for those students for whom college would result in an overall increase in education productivity. However, by just cutting subsidies instead of, for…

Yes, to some extent I question whether state colleges even should have preferential treatment and tuition for in-state students given the State is only providing 7% of the total budget. There’s always a public outcry if they don’t, but really, looking at how much the State is actually contributing, instate tuition…

Good idea. We can talk again once you learn the meanings of statistics and probability.

A low clearance bar is a bar suspended by chains ahead of the bridge. Overheight vehicles hit that bar first and the noise alerts the driver to to the problem. I understand that this approach has been successful in other places, but it’s not practical here. There are many overheight trucks that have to be able to…

Ah it’s a manual pump one. I didn’t know there was such a big disparity, I saw other manual pump espresso machines similarly going for $100-$400. Does it take a lot of skill to use or a long time to learn how to use it properly? The one I got you literally just have to click a button, and it does everything for you…

No it is not. If you are trying to assess the likelihood of an event, how common or the probability of a specific reason is directly relevant.

Really? What brand and model was it? My de’longhi model was a clearance, discontinued model, that was heavily on sale, and still cost me more than $500 (I used the $1k figure in my example, since currently the cheapest automatic espresso makers I see are around $1k-1.5k

Personally, I own an espresso machine and go to starbucks a handful of times a year. However, I wanted to point out that the math isn’t as simple as saving $550 a year.First, to make americanos, a quality, automatic espresso machine costs more than $1,000 (a sum that plenty of people who can afford $2-3 a day cannot…

Well, one of the cops was shot by a guy walking up behind him and shooting him in the back - point-blank, the rest were snipers I think.

Sorry, normal was not the most correct word. Uncommon.

Yes, I agree that you need to tip waiters, but the reason is because it is a social convention and expectation to tip, specifically, waiters - and their salaries/wages take those expected tips into account.

Yes, I don’t. But then, the original poster and everyone else, doesn’t “know” that it is normal for couples to decide to be abstinent for a year without other life circumstances or things getting in the way either.

It doesn’t. Sorry if my comment implied that.

First, there is a difference between reasons that actually make you physically apart, or exhausted, or without time, where you are physically unavailable to have sex, where even if you’re tempted or change your mind you can’t act on it - and where you’re still living together, and seeing each other every day.

Yes, the story as I understood was that she was not depressed during the sex-free year, she broke up after a year because she started getting depressed.

Well yes, I classify everything you put as compelling reasons, but I was just pointing out that Ariashead situation, deciding to not sleep together without any life event that physically reduces time or energy available, is significantly rarer. Indeed, I’d considered religious beliefs like in the main story to be a…

I voluntarily choose to be Danish whenever someone uses the word “bae” from now on.