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That depends on your living situation. I live in a third-floor apartment, so weight is very definitely a factor.

That’s generally true… but only happens after those costs have been incurred and probably paid.

There’s no guarantee the party suing will be able to cover their own costs and the defendant’s costs. That leaves OP on the hook for defence costs with the hope that they might get them back after a successful and likely expensive defence.

In that situation, I can understand why OP wouldn’t want to take the risk.

In my case, I have pets and a young child living with me. The dogs may get over the violated sense of safety quite easily, but my little girl likely wouldn’t. It’s imperative to her healthy development that I be able to provide her a safe, secure place to live that also feels safe and secure.

Call me selfish but that overrides my concerns for the chaotic state of other peoples’ lives: their problems do not entitle them to harm my family.

Speaking from my own experience, I've seen a lot of stuff on Tumblr that leads me to think there's a very active, very angry, very threatening trans lobby on the platform. I've seen repeated threats of violence and worse from trans-identified individuals directed at feminists who want maintain female-only safe-spaces. These posts are rarely taken down and the community will often rally against the "TERFs" being threatened ("Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists").

I know one woman who'd posted about keeping changing rooms for females separated on a sex basis. Her employer and college were contacted repeatedly by a pair of people who said she was spreading hate-speech online. Their goal seems to have been to have her fired. These same people had been making threats of violence against her, culminating in a rape threat. At this point the police became involved and I'm not sure how it's since been resolved.

Obviously this is a tiny minority of people but it's a tiny minority that often aren't actively censured or disowned by the larger community, and whose extreme views are reinforced by a sympathetic echo-chamber of like-minded people. Some may be "false-flags", but I don't think they're in the majority by any means.

Exposing it to sunlight and/or excessive heat will cause it to age. If it's high cellulose paper, like a newspaper, it will generally yellow quickly regardless of the storage because newspaper is cheap and acidic and not intended to last.

Rice, beans, and vegetables are very nutritious and cheap but they're generally boring in comparison to a bag of Cheetos or a doughnut.

When you're dirt poor, you don't have many avenues to get a quick pick-me-up feeling -- so often that comes from junk food. A $1 burger is not as good for you as $1 of veg and rice, but it gives you more momentary pleasure and activates the reward centres in your brain.

Even as you eat it, you know you could be eating something more nutritious which would be better for you in the long-run, but you still eat it. Once you do it the first time, the subsequent times become easier, especially if it's loaded with sugar and you get yourself in a high/low blood sugar cycle.

I'm not defending it, and I'm not saying people have no control over themselves, but I just wish people would have a little more compassion and understanding when they go for the "beans and veg are cheap" argument.

With a little cut-and-paste of some code from Swatch's website you could have a GIF 'clock' on your site that showed the 'internet time' to your visitors. Utterly pointless, but harmless fun.

I've got a couple of 12Cs and an 11C. I use them occasionally, whenever I need to do some maths that's not complicated enough to warrant firing up Excel but too much for my feeble mental maths.

Looks like only a few of them are getting rich, and it isn't without its costs. Working seven days a week as a professional gamer is pretty brutal.

    > and it's got the sexual harassment aspect,
    > too. Many many female friends of
    > mine receive unwanted dick pics.

Are there similar sites for other areas of interest, say history or science?

When I was in my late teens and early 20s, I thought I knew best. I was arrogant far beyond my actual abilities and I hadn't stepped outside my comfort zone enough to realise it. It took me quite a few years, and quite a few setbacks, to realise how little I actually knew. I'm grateful for those knocks and those years; without them, I'm not sure I'd be the person I am today.

I hate to think what I'd have been like if I'd happened to be in the right place at the right time and had wild early success -- I'd probably have been unbearable.

I think another important factor for these clean eating bloggers is the echo-chamber they exist in. They're surrounded by people cheering them on and keeping out those who disagree. (Just look how the audience responded to the article's author and the sport nutritionist.) In that environment it must be very easy to believe what you're doing is absolutely right.

It's a dream to type on and has the 'right' layout. It's not cheap or quiet, but it really is the best keyboard I've ever used. I'd kill for an affordable HHKB-sized Model M from Unicomp.

My 2009 machine probably has another year or two in it, meaning that a 2012 machine will likely be a minimum of six years old when I get it, which means it may only have a usable life of three or four years from that point on. Even being optimistic and assuming the hardware lasts 10 years from when I buy it, Mac OS support certainly won't.

The real kicker is that those are the last machines that I'll really be able to buy that meet my needs and preferences. Come 2022 or whenever it's time to upgrade again, I don't know where I go from that 2012 machine. I certainly don't expect Apple to have backtracked on their sealed-box design.

There's no easy answer really, and all of them involve compromise somehow. I'm now treating it as a matter of 'when' I switch, rather than 'if'. Maybe it's best to get it over with sooner rather than later?

I'm a longtime Mac user currently considering switching away from the Mac. I'm a little sad about it and I don't feel entirely like it's by choice, but it is what it is.

This switch is partly in response to the direction Mac OS is heading, but mostly due to hardware cost.

I genuinely dislike Apple's emphasis on thinness in their laptops. I genuinely can't afford to spend a minimum of £1,200 on a 13" laptop that's essentially glued shut and has no upgrade path at all.

Previous Macs have given me ~10 years of use each because I've been able to buy a configuration I could afford then gradually upgrade the RAM and replace the hard-disk as I needed.

Add to that the fact that the cheapest 15" laptop (the size I prefer) is £1,900 which is totally galling and puts it way, way out of my price bracket.

As a result, I'm actively looking for where to move when my current MacBook, a 15" from 2009, eventually dies. So far the best options seem to be a modern-ish ThinkPad, which I can get relatively cheaply second-hand and upgrade as I see fit. The ThinkPads are definitely not in Apple's league in terms of fit and finish but they're pretty hardy and give me options within my price range.

I'll be sad when I finally leave the Mac, but not heartbroken. There are lots of things I'll miss, but getting to know a new OS -- and hopefully switching platform for the last time -- will be an adventure.

Just yesterday I put up some ALGOT shelves in my bedroom, and I'm planning a much more elaborate install in my home office too.