Fair enough, but the other comments reveal many people who think the democrats do act in good faith the majority of the time. That is also implied by the accusation of republicans, instead of politicians.

If you think it is mostly republicans then you are not honest in your evaluation of who is doing what why. Confront your bias.

Russia knows a lot of things that don’t work. They also are learning how to use drones.

I assume in the USA? Not all countries have Miranda or right to remain silent laws. In some you are required to talk.

If you get their badge number you can really make them mad when your lawyer hits them for unlawful detention. They can stop you but it needs to be fast. Talk to a lawyer for details in your state.

If a single person working alone can install them in a weekend - which happens all the time - a pro who has experience in doing this often should be able to do it for $1000 or less. It is a lot of labor but not more than $4000 worth. At least not the normal case.

The other thing we need to do is investigate why they charge so much to install heat pumps. I can buy a mini-split for around $1500 (depending on size), but they will charge me $4500 to install it - which seems unreasonable for the labor.

Almost, but the temperature difference is generally much greater in winter than summer meaning there is more demand for energy in winter. Also solar (and sometimes hydro) power is less effective in winter. Both factors mean that a grid that can handle summer might not be able to handle winter heat.

Remember, the above are factors. Your local grid’s exact energy mix matters here, some will have no problems.

Not just size, location. The best heat pumps stop working at around -20. Where I live it gets colder than that for a few days every couple years so I must have secondary heating.

The common heat pump in the US is only good to 25. There is no reason for this, but I don’t know how to fix it.

It was a minority that got some power over marketing. They have always voted small government when Democrats have the president office, and even more strongly when the Democrats also have congress. As soon as they get enough power to do anything they are big government.

Though I will grant slightly less big government than Democrats in the past. It isn’t clear now.

The moon is too close and I don’t think it will ever be self sustaining. Any attempt to rebel and they get starved out. The more likely thing is they defect to some other country that starts supplying them. (This is still highly unlikely). I don’t think people will live on the moon long enough to try that - they may spend a year there and someone will have a baby there, but they will all go home to earth.

Mars could potentially support a self sustaining outpost large enough to rebel. Mars is also far enough away that it wouldn’t be worth attacking. They will likely be let go as soon as they are self sustaining because earth will be bored by then and glad to not support them. Unlike the moon, going back home is a long trip so people will try to avoid it.

I’m most amused to discover they had two computers total on the moon. Almost as amusing as 1930s sicfi where computers were humans

I would guess that the tattooer had no clue. That is incompetence better explains this than malice

The type of people who want a dog to bite are going to be getting something like the size of a pitbull. A much smaller dog and a human can easily fight it off, they can do some damage, but not as much as the people who want a dog to bite would like their dogs to give. A larger dog and the owners wouldn’t be able to control if the dog would attack the owners, so they won’t accept that.

That is why, in general, (understand there are exceptions). Big dogs tend to be very friendly. Because any big dog that’s not friendly, the owner is going to put it down before it kills someone. Thus big dogs are bred to be friendly. A Pitbull is about the largest dog that you could breed to be unfriendly without risking harm to yourself.

Again, this does not say anything about any particular dog breed. It says something about the type of people who would have a mean dog.

Because it is a budget plan. They are buying 2,000,000 SMS messages per month because 25 years ago with g1 and g2 protocols it made sense to sell them that way, and then trying to divide that between their 10,000 customers without running out. Similar for voice and data, they buy so much and divide between all customers.

Contracts could be sold a different way. However nobody wants to because the big companies want an option for budget minded people to get a little money out of them, while still giving them bad enough service that they all but the cheapest will run to the “big boys” with the unlimited plans. The budget companies need something they can sell that is cheaper than the “big boys”, realistically they have exactly the same product and so somebody needs to introduce some artificial limit someplace to make it work.

Keychron k6, and a separate phone stand. That is a full size (60%) mechanical keyboard connected with bluetooth. I have and use others (see the other replies) when I need max portability and a quick comment. However a real keyboard beats anything you can do on a touchscreen. I recommend you get one.

I used thumbkey for a couple months. I could use it, but it was never fast. YMMV

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.