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They found that areas with high housing costs are correlated with high levels of homelessness? Well of course! People want to live in desirable places and that both drives up the cost of housing and attracts homeless people at the same time.

Remove that confounding variable and you’re left with addiction and mental health.

HomePods are in fact context-aware like you want. They will only turn on lights on their room if you say “turn on the lights.”

The elevators at my office were upgraded a few years ago and one of the elevator techs happened to mention it to me. I tried it out while alone, for obvious reasons.

Elevators sometimes have an anti-mischief feature where they will deselect every floor if all the floors are selected in a brief period of time. The cab will slow to a stop if no new buttons are pressed. It’s kind of eerie, actually.

The game looks just fine and I can’t wait to play it.

What did the studies actually measure? Pain? Because you’re claiming the chair “outperformed” the others in the study and that can mean anything.

Moralizing is probably a sadder tragedy, though.

Kojak made baldness popular in the 70’s and 80’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telly_Savalas#Baldness_and_sta...

This is advertising copy.

The history of rural electrification says otherwise.

The new one sort of reminds me of the "lowbrow" style of Josh Agle, AKA Shag: http://www.shag.com

Did we all shift to a timeline where the computer printer wasn’t invented?

Apple Pay is the payment conduit and Apple Cash is a store of value you can use with it.

Because once you donate money, you have given it away, and it's gone. If you're expecting something in return you are trying to make a purchase, not a donation.

Punishment would involve having something further taken away. If they jailed people for donating, that would be punishment.

Whats wrong with everyone just HAVING a bank account?

They didn't punish a single person who donated. That's just ridiculous.

It looked better on Star Tours: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/25/RX-24te...

“The app says to tell you those are nice sunglasses.”

“The app says to tell you thanks and tell you my name is Steve.”

“The app says to tell you you’re welcome and that I was thinking about a pair like that myself and also my name is Bill.”

Who? Sorry I'm not much of a name-dropper.

May Philip Brailsford rot in hell.

Pedantically: The people who live on the street need to be ‘housed’ not ‘homed.’

Cynically: By focusing on housing, people can build some housing, scoot the mentally ill and addicted under a little roof, and call it a day.

Pragmatically: The novelty causes you to think about homelessness longer than you normally would.

Anecdotally: A guy in LA built some “tiny homes” for the homeless but he built them on a lot that wasn’t zoned for a bunch of individual dwellings. The city soon evicted them but for a while the homeless residents were not houseless.

Excusing your whataboutism, it isn’t hard to argue he’s a foreign agent.

I’ve also heard one can easily lose ten ugly pounds by cutting off their own head.

This reads like bad ad copy or like an adolescent is writing a paper while binging on sugar.

Everyone has to die sometime. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone you know was there?

But seriously I cope by a combination of denial and remembering we have been here before and survived.

It actually is a surprise that costs drive people to live alone. Living alone is vastly more expensive than living with someone else.

Maybe if you didn’t delete your words? Let’s start there.

I’ll grant that’s a decent opinion and shows an appreciation of history but let me ask why would someone be sending a four generation old tank onto the battlefield at all?

T-64 -> T-72 -> T-80 -> T-90 -> T-14

A cynical person might say Putin is purposefully beginning with their worst equipment.

Meet as many people as possible. Try out different friend groups. Fail often. In different ways each time. You'll never have this chance again.