Many of those forests need to burn regularly. Check with a qualified forester for your area but often the forest needs to burn so who cares.

Many of those forests need to burn regularly. Check with a qualified forester for your area but often the forest needs to burn so who cares.

Because high price is what makes them exclusive and so they compete on high price. Then they give everybody a scholarship - something else they can compete on - which with a little math gives you the real price.

A friend of mine is department head of a local private university. He says that they have consistently found nobody chooses a university for the low price. Meanwhile some choose against a school because if the cost is too low “you must get what you pay for”. If you get admitted to that school you automatically get a 40% scholarship - which is to say they don’t even want 40% of the money they are charging, but marketing insists they need to charge at least that much. Most students are getting other financial aid above the automatic scholarship as well, only the rich pay the real maximum price. Students who care about costs are looking at what scholarships the school offers them, which is to say everybody knows the sticker price is a lie and they ask about the real costs.

Until people start rejecting the system it won’t change. You alone are not enough. So let this be advice to you: don’t look at the sticker price. Ask someone to give you a the price after all scholarships apply. It will likely be much more affordable. Though do take your time to understand the fine print, otherwise you could find the scholarship doesn’t apply to you after you have the bills and so must take a large loan to pay them.

Just remember that the definition of literal has changed over the years. I’m close to the original definition, but nothing like today’s.

Hate is too strong a term.

Most people don’t care about the color. For whatever reason the factory started making them in red so that is what people bought. Other colors exist if you look for them, but there is rarely reason to look. People just grab something cheap and move on without thinking. If the red was sold out they would grab the blue.

Russia doesn’t want negotiations. China does.

China doesn’t want Russia to lose, so now that things are going bad for Russia China wants this to end now before Russia loses.

You never go to parties where there are more people than storage space for cups? Americans often do this. Often at a park. We can get this in a 100 pack for the cost of of 4 real glass cups.

Solo is the brand that makes them. They make other colors too but red is by far most common

More not leftists. Some tolerance for not left wing political views would be nice too. (the people I’m talking about will just down vote me because they are part of the intolerant left wing here. There are plenty of tolerant left wing people, but they don’t get attention)

Get lucky - just as this was starting I saw a failed disk notification on my NAS so I ordered a new drive just before they went up. Then I realized it was a stale notification for the drive I replaced a year ago so I have a spare should one fail.

somebody is going to want cash in

Maybe. The hard drive makers have long experience with boom-bust cycles. They are likely trying to figure out if this is real, or just a blip and in a two years (when the new factory opens!) demand drops again.

If there is new capacity in the future my guess (guess!) is that this is a case of a new factory to replace the old, and they just keep running the old for another year instead of scrapping it right away.

It might break some sort of law, depending on what country you are in. However you will spend millions of dollars on a lawyer if you try to do anything about it. Depending on your countries laws you might or might not get that back. And that is assuming you win, there is always a chance you lose despite having an “air tight case” (you might find a lawyer that will take the case for the winnings, but not charge if you lose).

I’m not sure what research you have done, but you should find some. There are things that make your a better signer short term but will ruin your voice long term. I’m not really an expert in this so I’ll just leave you with the warning to get some advice from someone who is trained if you haven’t. (What you shared so far seems okay, but I don’t know what else you are doing)

IF the refineries are protected target the factories making military equipment (bombs, drones, shells…). Target the airplanes and launch systems for those. There are a lot of targets, refineries are good if the people can put enough pressure on the government to stop the war, but otherwise the military gets priority for what fuel there is.

I don’t recommend oil wells just because you have to get so many before it makes a dent. Also they are likely to be easy to repair even if you do get one (depends on how it is hit). There is other oil infrastructure that is worth hitting.

The more space for cars the more spread out everything becomes and so the less walking is a reasonable option. Remember cars include parking someplace even if not on the street.

Buy real CDs from artists I see play in person. Or CDs of artists that are long dead.

CDs are key, streaming random tracks you have no clue what you will get.

None of those are absolute.

If your bankruptcy lawyer discover you committed murder they don’t have to keep silent (I’m not sure what the law or bar ethics rules are, but probably they need to report it - they don’t have the right skills to defend you). Asking a bankruptcy lawyer for a referral to a murder defense lawyer would probably be protected though - even if they don’t know one.

A priest can keep silent or not. Different religions have different rules. In some you confessed and their job is to pray for your spiritual forgiveness and they won’t say anything. In others they will say doing your time (turn yourself in) is the right action. In some cases they can make a judgement call of what to apply.

A doctor cannot talk about your health conditions to random people. However they can talk to those with a need to know, if your condition is criminal then those people may get a need to know.

They always have been. Long before the internet political parties have been using rage bait to fund raise and get the vote. You might not remember it, and it might not have been as in your face if you were not an identified person who would respond, but I have got snail mail from various groups that are some variation “guess who is harming our children” every few months from some group or another - often from opposing groups in the same month.

Doctors see so many people seeking to fuel their addiction that they can no longer tell who isn’t. Addicts seek out information on what people with rail problems say and how they act - they practice those things. As such they cannot tell who is real.

The labor market isn’t going to decline that much in our lifetime.

I’m reading 100 resumes because they got past the automated scan system. I interview about 5 because an interview requires a lot of investment on our part. Interviewing 100 people means we can’t get anything else done. My job isn’t to hire people it is get engineering work done.