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Funny you mention karaoke, the Japanese do the exact same thing to a much further degree.

They aren't skirting anything, discounts were explicitly written in to the ACA to encourage behaviors the government and insurance companies both wanted.

You're really out of the loop, Obamacare eliminated excluding due to prior conditions and differing premiums for anything except smoking. In exchange we all got higher premiums, higher deductibles, and worse coverage across the board.

Ending prohibition didn't end the mafia it just took some of the wind out of their sails, they moved on to other things.

Says more about doctors really, even dealing with something as banal as back pain it took years and finally visiting a physical therapist to get the issue properly identified and resolved.

They absolutely do and may refuse to mail it in some cases. It increases the risk of theft astronomically, that's why money orders exist.

It's both, a small project with grid capacity nearby can be approved quickly but larger projects without nearby capacity can take years to get resolved.

Any store will sell me clothes that don't fit, food I'm allergic to, and chemicals that are dangerous if used incorrectly. It's not unreasonable to expect the buyer to take some basic responsibility.

fwiw I'd take lawn mowing over most kitchen cleaning, bathroom cleaning and dusting are worse too but are much less frequent. Vacuuming might be slightly worse as well because I don't have to empty a lawn mower bag unless I chose to put it on. At least you get a guaranteed 3+ month vacation from yard work.

Communicating clearly doesn't require a high IQ at all, it's a general skill. If anything, high intelligence might be a detriment since a lot of the smarter people I've known can't or refuse to communicate clearly.

Mad Men does start to dip for a bit somewhere around season 5 imo, but once they get on track for the ending it picks back up and they stick the landing.

fwiw my dentist doesn't shill any products and still highly recommends an electric brush, even the worst ones are better than you can do yourself. She also said a water flosser is great for gum health but to still use floss at least a few times a week because they can struggle with large bits getting stuck where the teeth make contact.

The US military is no stranger to the metric system, it's the standard.

Can confirm it was fairly common in the Marine Corps, even some of the grunts and motor transport guys would get interested on ship duty. When you're bored as hell you'll take anything you can get.

I recently installed some new circuits and was able to find them, but strangely it was $20 or more per circuit cheaper to get an AFCI/GFCI outlet and a regular breaker instead of combo breakers.

That's called dorms, and should probably be a decent sized part of affordable housing solutions.

I no longer believe this after Oregon decriminalized drugs, there are no consequences and people still do not seek out help.

They're not worth it at all. I have a 3080 for 4k/60fps gaming without issues and I got it for $500 used. If a game struggles to hold a consistent framerate it's usually an issue with the game or certain settings, tweaking settings is free so throwing hardware at it doesn't make sense.

Unless you're willing to spend $1000+ the real world performance differences aren't even that large: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

It's more about the image a payphone conjures in the mind, which is accurate.

Context clues, it's rarely an issue in practice for native speakers:

- "I dreamt about you last night" - clearly a sleeping dream

- "I dream of being a doctor" - clearly a future desire

- "It's a dream come true" - ambiguous but the difference isn't important

In my experience there's also a cultural implication/expectation that the different meanings are often intertwined, i.e. desiring something so strongly you have dreams about it.

Food delivery is not even in the same universe as chattel slavery, they're completely incomparable.

The US is also officially metric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...

Blood type is weird but in Japanese cultural it's similar to adding your Myers-Briggs type.

For real, even if they don't go back to previous highs they're vastly underpriced right now.

WSL already runs on Windows 10/11 ARM in non-S mode, so no reason to assume it won't.

Surface products as well.

Not as niche as you think, it's a decent sized market segment with guitar amps.

Maybe they understand each other better because both are incredibly greedy.

It's also much deadlier for the winners to not let the opposing side retreat/surrender, if people feel trapped they'll fight to the death.

It's only a return to the previous norm.