This only seems magical because you forgot your infantile experiences in doing just those things.

I bet you know what it would feel like to bite into a wooden desk.

Is this related to the cravings for certain food?

It’s no wonder everyone’s getting new cars here.

Electricity is about a quarter of that for the same mileage.

Using the current prices and my own mileage, it would take 5 years to finance a new car only by the savings on fuel.

In my experience those don’t trigger the age verification.

Yeah, companies still do that regardless of the rate.

As for understanding progressive taxation, I think the easiest way to explain it is simply to ask how much money you’d have after taxes. It always pays off to make more money. Perhaps show a XY diagram with income and income after taxes. There’s no magic bracket where the graph goes downwards.

It’s worth noting that the tax rate might be 90, but the effective taxation is a much lower percentage of the earnings.

Corporate Tax is calculated after costs, while personal tax is calculated more or less directly on earnings and then you need to cover your costs from whatever remains. This might explain the confusion.

It can be difficult to just stop a stupid habit like that.

My solution was to go on a skiing holiday. Wearing gloves for a week and being away from my ordinary routine definitely helped.

It’s easier to take off a scuba suit if you don’t need it, than to put one on if you need it but don’t have one.

It’s a stupid question.

Nobody is stupid enough to rule out an emergency.

If anyone would, it would be him. He just needs a map and a really big sharpie.

Johnny

The “just a minute”-people park everywhere, not limited to handicap spaces.

I’ve seen people put on the hazard lights in the middle of a street to get their take away food. I get that sometimes people can be in a hurry and it being almost an emergency for them, but it seems like something that becomes a bad habit.

My neighbour’s landlord throws his car anywhere effectively blocking the dead end road every single time he is there, and he’s not in a hurry. I think he even likes the interaction with people asking him to move his shit. He’s a friendly fellow who likes to talk, but he’s also a selfish asshole, who apparently enjoys having other people being dependent on him to solve the issue that he created.

I once had a job interview in one of his companies, and I could tell that his entitlement oozed through the entire organization.

He doesn’t park badly because he’s a bad driver. He’s a bad person and that makes him bad at parking.

The waiting time has little to do with the payment and much more to do with having enough doctors.

Where I live, the universal healthcare has a guarantee for treatment within a time dependent on the illness. If the public healthcare fails to offer the treatment within that time and if you can find treatment in the private sector, the government will still pay for it.

Both the private and public hospitals are paid a fixed price by the government by the patient, so it doesn’t matter for the government (and taxes) who they have to pay.

The difference is that private hospitals can make a profit by keeping their costs lower than the fixed price, while public hospitals just need to balance. There are some overhead costs in the public hospitals, that are not necessarily present in the private sector, so it’s not impossible for private hospitals to make a profit without cutting down on the service. They probably still do cut as much as they can get away with, but overall they have to deliver the same safety standards and follow the same regulations. The government audits both.

Anyway, waiting time is an issue, but not because of how it’s paid.

It’s a toilet. Fungi are growing from the connection to the sewer.

It’s kind of funny how multiple story apartments are either really big or really small. The waste of space for stairs doesn’t make much sense for anything in between.

It’s neither kitchen or living room.

The washer is on the “mud room” or “gross kitchen”, which has a doorless wall opening to the combined kitchen/dining area. This layout was common in early 90s suburban family homes and still today.

I don’t really like the layout, but I’ll admit that it’s practical.

It will be difficult for someone else to do, because Trump also didn’t actually do anything himself to become the representative of the idiots. Remembering how surprised he was to win in 2016, it only happened because the idiots didn’t want to vote for a woman. He basically tripped and fell into the role.

It’s difficult to tell if the MAGA crowd will silently retreat to not voting again, or if they’ll agree on some random celebrity again, but I don’t think anyone can put themselves in that kind of position of representing people who hates having a representative at all.

Favorite number is 8520 which is the postcode for a city where I uses to do telephone support. I hated the job but the number is easy to type on a numerical keyboard, so it always made me happy when someone from there called.

I don’t have a favorite color, but I do have a preference for certain palettes.

Historical anecdote. I hope you like trains. The movie Doctor Zhivago was filmed during the Cold War, and since the setting is in Russia, it was impossible for Hollywood to do on location. Most of it was filmed in Spain and Portugal, but not all of the train scenes could be. See, the train track in Russia has a different (smaller) gauge than in Europe, with the exception of Finland who adopted the russian gauge for geographical reasons. Another hurdle though was that nobody had the Russian trains either, so they had to build them from scratch using old construction drawings from before the Cold War, where Finnish factories had produced some trains for Russia. So the Finnish factory rebooted in the mid 1960s to build a train and wagons from the 1900s, just for this movie. You will not find this info on wikipedia, which only mentions the Spanish trains.

I’m more like this story, where the snail arrives before the turtle, because the turtle gets distracted with more interesting things on the way to a boring birthday party. Sorry for the spoiler.

The article offers some kind of explanation which may or may not answer your question.

I’m not sure what you mean by pattern based.

It’s a cube, where the sides can be rotated. It’s not possible to move a single piece without also moving other pieces, so you’ll need to apply algorithms in order to solve it. An algorithm is a series of moves that does something. You can use these to manipulate the cube back to the sorted state.

Despite YouTubers attempting to get clicks for showing how to solve it easily, there’s is no single algorithm that will always end up with a solved cube. You will need to observe the cube to determine which algorithm to use and how many times.

It’s not super difficult to learn though.

It’s however very difficult to figure out yourself without memorizing the seemingly random algorithms. The inventor once said it would probably have taken him months to figure out, but someone else best him to it and showed him how, so there’s really no shame in looking up the solution.

I always feel like somebody’s watching me. And I have no privacy.