I just had a new 48kw generator installed on my property and it was a nightmare with Generac. It's apparently a new model and it took them 4 tries to get the right controller sent to the tech to get it up and running.
I live in an area with tons of rattlesnakes and deal with at least 6-10 per year on my property. They generally just want to be left alone which I usually oblige unless they are near the house or shop. I heard an old timer say that the majority of snake bite victims in our area are young males and the most common pre-bite words are "hold my beer, watch this."
Does the spelling of the word "ageing" look strange to anyone else? I looked it up and it appears to be acceptable, but why not "pageing", "cageing" etc?
Journalists learn a new phrase that sounds techy / flashy and beat it to death. Watch CNBC for 5 minutes and you will see their "experts" use the phrase "hyper scalers" at least 5 times.
I hate the way the press and seemingly most people are approaching this but am completely unsurprised: "You are either a heathen who supports murder or you are a virtuous supporter of the people and this man deserved to die." Two things can be correct at the same time. 1) Murder is not OK. 2) The insurance industry is completely broken as it incentivizes terrible behavior and this CEO was a scumbag who perpetuated this behavior while possibly insider trading.
Would be cool if it could detect area specific accents. I grew up in Kentucky and tried it in a very thick Eastern KY accent and it just said native english speaker. (technically true)
Here's what it sounds like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB8vHRH9A6M
Isn't the point of buying brands like that that you shouldn't need to fix after only 10-20 years? I have a denon receiver from the late 90's that I upgraded from and has been my garage/shop amp for the last 15 or so years. It is covered in dust and dirt and still cranks like the day I got it.
I had the exact same experience. I live in a small mountain town with 500 people. I saw the local dentist in town for 10 years and he was great. Regular checkups, rays, cleanings etc. with one patch when I chipped a tooth. The office definitely seemed old school, nothing fancy. My dental health was fine. He retired and was unable to sell his practice so it closed. I googled around and found a dentist in a much larger town 2 hours away. Super nice office, all the latest technology. After the first appointment he said that I had something like 5 old fillings that needed to be repaired and a bunch of other stuff. I have good dental insurance but he was going to charge them something like 5k. It just felt scummy. I didn't go back and now go to another "country" dentist in the next town over and it's back to normal.
I took the Empire Builder from Seattle to Chicago in about 2008. Our departure out of Seattle was delayed 12 hours, I was not able to get into the sleeper cabin that I paid for until Spokane, where we were also delayed for 8 hours. Once we departed Spokane, the staff were universally rude, unhelpful and generally shitty. Our train was so delayed that they had combined the EB coming out of Portland with ours so they started rationing meals (which I had also paid for as a part of my fare) to half servings.
Having spent a lot of time in Japan I compare this to the one delay I ever encountered in roughly 25 Shinkansen trips: I took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Niigata, a roughly 3 hour trip. The train was delayed by less than 5 minutes. When we got off the train in Niigata the conductors and staff were waiting by the door to bow and apologize profusely.
I'll never set foot on another AmTrak.
I haven't officially been a resident but have spent a ton of time in almost all areas of Japan. It's extremely location dependent but in my experiences in rural Japan as a gaijin there can be some initial coldness in interactions but if you show even the least amount of effort to speak the language and respect the culture that coldness evaporates.
Alternatively it would be interesting to have a race or series of races where it's anything goes, including drugging. It's already such a cat and mouse game so why not just embrace it.
I live on a large property in a very rural mountain area in the US. My property abuts state land on 2 sides but we've never really had any issues with trespassers, likely because of the first sentence of SoftTalker's comment. Our area is one of the most popular mule deer hunting spots in the Northwest which seems like it could be problematic, but in my experience the hunters are extremely respectful of private property. It's also nice to be able to hunt mulies on my own property and not worry about errant bullets. It is a but unsettling in the last 2 weeks of October (regular rifle deer season) when the local grocery store literally fills the aisles with pallets of Busch Light and Fireball.