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Resident is not the same as citizen, which is what OP mentioned. Having "resident" status in a country generally gives you many perks of being a citizen without actually becoming one. Usually things like being able to open a bank account, working legally, getting a drivers license, etc. with the "liability" of possibly having to pay into the equivalent of social security (and other things, can't vote for example).

This does not change any citizenship status on either side.

This is the same Washington Post that published an article[0] claiming "Shark Week" is racist, right? Sounds like a political agenda.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/05/shark-week-...

And there's nothing saying you have to use it, this doesn't remove the regular notes.

Cross platform applications and web based readers exist. It is easily solved using one of those.

You know it's not meant to work with 2 items, yet you still try it and then complain. Do you ever see the regular cashiers doing 2 at a time? I don't, because they know it's overall faster to do one at a time quickly.

They need a person to verify the ID to make sure things like the picture matches who is scanning it.

I was with you until the freestyle machine part, they're awesome. Seriously, what's wrong with them? It doesn't prevent you from getting the regular things.

I too, hate the paper straws. They are terrible. The "no straws" campaign is just a feel good thing and really does little.

I chose Roux specifically so I didn't have to learn a bunch of algorithms. You do obviously have to know a few, but you get to a couple points and while you can use a specific algorithm, you can also basically do the same thing X number of times and it works out and gets you to the next step.

CFOP is definitely more finger friendly (no middle layer changes), but I think Roux has fewer regrips, at least at non-speedcube levels (maybe I'm wrong, but I never change the orientation). Roux is also considered more "intuitive", there are points where you can look at the cube and (after a while) just see what needs to be done.

I don't do it for speed, so I haven't bothered learning all the algorithms. I'm "fast enough", but I probably only do 10ish solves a day, and Roux makes it really easy to remember the 3-4 algorithms needed to solve that. It still amazes people when you can do it, and even taking 90 seconds to do it, but with hardly any pauses, still makes people think you're a wizard or something.

Maybe that's regional? In my area (Minneapolis/St. Paul metro), there are tons of independent dentists and few conglomerates (at least that I know of). In my little-ish suburb (25k people) there are no corporate ones but about 6 independent ones.

I go to an independent office (2 dentists) and I've never felt pressured by them and they've even said things like, "It looks like that may turn into a cavity, but we can wait and see what happens."

Obviously I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but like anything, it's not everywhere.

Oh, it's definitely not "always the republicans", the Democrats also can't figure out their own email addresses. I routinely receive DNC and other left wing nonsense, including invites to parties, Biden fundraisers, etc. to my more "generic" (ie. first initial, last name) Gmail account. I've marked these as spam, unsubscribed, etc. and still get them because either the orgs are dumb (wouldn't be a surprise) or people keep signing up again when they don't get them to their real address.

This is an "I'm dumb and can't remember my email address" issue, not a political one.

I also get the usual run of the mill receipts, reservations, etc.

My son died 10 years ago at age 21, my dad died 3 years ago. There's also a couple cats and a dog who have died along the way.

I LOVE seeing Google photos rotate in pictures of them in this type of thing. It brings back great memories and I always smile. To me, this is better than having them stashed in a printed photo album that I never look at or in Google Photos album that I never look at.

The one where the free GSuite accounts, that they discontinued 10 years ago, were now going to be converted and you'd have to pay for them. They didn't "massacre" anything, it was already done a decade ago.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217?product_name=UnuFl...

If you are installing a Google OS, you probably already have Chrome. You're already past the "I'm not using Google products" stage.

Is having to install some USB flash tool also wonky? Why can't you just drag it onto the drive? Yes, I know, but to a general user, having to install another app to "just put something onto a USB stick" would seem weird.

I agree with you. It seems funny to me in a lot of these threads about new features that people complain about them, then when somebody recommends program "XYZ" they complain "but there hasn't been any updates in 2 years, it's obviously not good or not used and I don't want to get stuck using an obsolete package".

Can't win I guess.

I don't use bat as a replacement for cat, but as a replacement for less. Sure, bat can concatenate a file, but I'd say that's not the main use. The syntax coloring of file contents is my favorite use case. Line numbers and some of the other options are useful at times too. Also, I don't think I've ever needed to concatenate multiple gigabyte sized files (yes, I am sure it exists for a lot of people, but would say it's not as common as looking at a file).

I have rental properties and it happens about every other year before a renewal. They definitely find things that need fixing. That being said, I've never had it happen on my primary residence (20+ years).

Honestly, I kind of am. I find it ridiculous that people can't tell that something like Airplane! and Blazing Saddles are satires. Needing that much hand holding explains a lot about people today. It's also like how Netflix now has warnings that a show/movie may have smoking in it. Come on, be an adult and learn how to deal with things that make you a bit uncomfortable, that's called life.

I run Nextcloud in a docker image (on unRaid). Upgrades are a docker pull away too, never had any issues.

I use Nextcloud on my phone (Android) to backup my camera too, the automatic sync is wonderful and works well. It does stuff I don't need too, but it's pretty easy to use and setup and it integrates well with the OS (Windows and Mac at least).

Depending on the company, that's not great advice. At my company you cannot take PTO until you accrue it, so if you end the year with 0, then you can't take anything for a while until you accumulate enough time.

Speedway should have them now (the ones by me in New Brighton do) as do most KwikTrips.

I use unRaid and Nextcloud.

Every day. Growning up, friends and I would play games in our yards all the time. "Back in the day" we'd play neighborhood wide games of hide and seek, running across neighbors yards (who didn't have kids, but didn't mind) and everything. We routinely played baseball, football and soccer too.

It's similar to being "out of sorts", which today (and maybe even historically) means you're not feeling well. It came from letterpress where the case of type is collectively called a "sort" and if you were trying to put together a print run and you ran out of, say, the letter 'r', you are now "out of sorts".

I've never seen it happen and I use credit cards for everything. I can't remember the last meal in a restaurant that I didn't use a credit card. I've never heard of it happening from any friends or family either. It just isn't a thing.

Same with stealing number. Yes it's kind of strange that most of the time the server just takes your card and disappears for a while, but I've never heard of a number being stolen from anybody I know. Of course, it does happen, but it's very rare.

In some countries, such as Costa Rica, you cannot work legally (note: "legally") as a non-resident. They take it pretty seriously there.

I have yet to be in a restaurant in the US where they bring the reader to the table. I wish they would, but I've never seen it (Minnesota, US, other places in the Midwest).

To satisfy a DFW style it'd need to understand 2 page long sentences with multiple footnotes per sentence. Haha. It would be a fun one to do though! (I say that loving DFW)

I can't get over how easy it is with the Omnibus distribution. They obviously take great care in making sure it works. I keep ours up to date, so upgrades tend to be easy, but even going to new major releases (11->12, 12->13, etc.) have been just a "yum update" away and it all just works.

They've done this for quite a while too. When I took over managing our Gitlab instance it was 3 major versions behind. I just went back and followed their directions to get to certain minimal levels, then could do a major version update. Then do another incremental to another specific level, then do it again. It took a little while, but it worked perfectly.

I really appreciate the time and effort they put into making sure that the upgrade process is smooth.

I have a Pelikan M800 which gets used quite a bit. I don't know if that's "fat" to you, but it's definitely on the big side. I love it, the weight feels great and the balance it just right.

I have a dozen or so other pens, all of which are "thinner", but that's the one I use the most.

I've had a Yubikey for about 3 years that is on my car keys keychain which goes with me everywhere. It's been all over the US and into Costa Rica all in my pocket or haphazardly thrown into my backpack (with a bunch of other random things).

There is zero evidence of any wear or anything. They are meant to be carried around, you don't need to baby them. I'm more worried about it being lost than damaged.

I still only use MacPorts.