I think it’s a variation of the “call of the void”.

Your brain has an instinct to imagine the worst possible situation to keep you safe.

People lose stuff at subways all the time. Contact the staff and they’ll fish it up. Keys in drains can be retrieved with a magnet on a rope. If you lose something in a drain indoors, you can probably open the water trap and take it. Heavy things don’t just flush out easily.

Just tilt the fridge backwards before moving it in.

They’re not losing billions. They’re just selling less for more.

The price increase is working for them, because it’s pretty certain that oil consumption is already decreasing with more cars and industries turning to electricity in the future anyway and supply is going to decrease as well. So this way, they already have customers accustomed to higher prices. Isn’t that neat…

Ryan Dunn.

Ha, yes I guess I called it before it happened. Honestly I just woke up from a nap and figured it out.

I guess we’ll have to see what Israel does before we can tell the outcome.

I don’t think anyone else is going to anything crazy right now. Trump is likely out golfing and cashing in on whatever investments he made before starting this shit show. Let’s not pretend that he gives a flying fuck about who does what in Iran.

There’s no positive end game in it for him.

If he turns this into a “Look at what you made me do!”-moment, he will have nothing but enemies and they’ll all know that nothing will ever please him, which is dangerous for them.

Thus, their only option will be to assassinate him shortly after. Either by Iran getting back at him with a dirty bomb, or the Saudis getting pissed about the oil prices dropping and making a Diana out of him, or even by some lunatic MAGA who “didn’t vote for this”.

Literally everyone would be out to take him out, and he has nothing to gain from it.

If he realizes this, then no.

His best option is to chicken out. He will claim to have reached a tremendous deal with Pakistan that stopped him from bombing Iran out of his own kindness and generosity, and he will mispronounce all the words.

Then OP ought to change the second “to” to “will” to avoid confusion.

What if the system you know doesn’t make sense to you?

For plastic the trick is to wrap the entire thing and the pull the thing to tear the plastic straight off the serrated edge.

Most American cities use a distance or block system.

Most European cities use the odd/even system. Each plot increase by two on either side, so one side of the road has 1,3,5… and the other has 2,4,6…

If a plot is later subdivided or more houses are built on a plot, its new addresses will get post-fixed letters a,b,c,d…

For people to demand anything you’ll need a democracy. For people to want universal healthcare they need to understand that socializing the health cost is a benefit for the population.

Add the words together and you get social democracy.

In most countries this is what lead to universal healthcare. In most countries the social democracy parties were founded by labour unions.

Despite USA being first with labour unions, they never really succeeded, because they were violently struck down early on.

Anyway, it’s that simple: Join a union, let the union establish a political party, let the party make universal healthcare. I know that seems very uphill, but it doesn’t actually have to take centuries to do.

When the first unions were formed in Europe, the workers also expected it to be a multigenerational battle, and yet decided to try it in the vague hope that it might eventually benefit their grandchildren. However they were so successful that they achieved the goal within their own lifetime.

Yes it is. Their entire vendor shit can go to hell. I don’t need a Samsung app-store, Samsung photos, Samsung parental controls etc. on a cheap phone that already has Google’s versions of the same crap. It’s like having 2 operating systems in constant conflict on the same phone, and the only real purpose is for Samsung to collect your data.

… because they did have it?

It wasn’t universal at the time, covering only the poorest workers, but Germany was the first country to establish a social health care system in 1883. It didn’t work very well during the war, but it was technically still there. Since the war, they gradually expanded it achieving universal coverage sometime in the 1980s.

If Google actually cared about security they ought to stop Samsung from automatically installing TEMU and Candy Crush in their random “updates”. It installs that shit whether or not you remove the check marks. The “updates” contain no further updates.

If only the procedure was the same for their own store… there’s soo much crappy adware there.

Bees and wasps will eventually die if they’re moved away from their hives, but flies have relatively short lives, so they don’t waste their time with settling down.

They’d scramble around until some washed up actor decides to get into politics.

Well, then, why isn’t Kentucky more feminist? It’s about as homogenous as Sweden.

Trying to censor kids shows isn’t feasible. They’re going to find out anyway, or it will be a massive culture shock when they eventually hear their first swear word as adults. I’d rather take the opportunity to talk with my kids about it if they watch crap.

SpongeBob doesn’t really bother me, but if they watch Alvin and the Chipmunks I always ask them to use headphones, because I can’t stand that shit.

If I can predict it, I’ll skip to the last step and just not attempt to do it.

This works because the person who is supposed to remind me of the task has a to-do list that takes about two years to go through. By the time she gets to reminding me it’s already irrelevant.