It was an Australian Senator that said that in a comment about housing affordability for young people, about them being able to afford a deposit if they weren’t so frivolous with money.

Ironically, totting that up, and assuming that they buy that every day ceaselessly, and that the cafe never closes, it’s only 10 grand, and Australian housing prices are high enough that in most places, that’s not even enough for a 5% deposit for a $500,000 home. You would only be half-way there.

You’d still not be able to afford the mortgage, even after buying said home.

I don’t think that’s how you’re meant to use a WHERE.

It even has questionably-helpful mysterious blinky lights at the bottom right which may or may not do anything useful.

This is a special bed that’s designed to break under the weight of more than one occupant.

That just sounds like a recipe for it to crumple if multiple people sit on it, or someone jumps into it, rather than gracefully climbing in.

One of the reasons why the 1/3rd pound burger lost to the 1/4 pound burger, was because people saw the 1/4, and thought that the quarter-pound was larger for some inexplicable reason.

I would be very surprised if there wasn’t at least some marketing suggestion focused around “number that looks big is better”.

Completely fine. There are multiple phones that have been out with waterproofing and headphone jacks.

It’s not that much more difficult to waterproof than the charge port.

But that space usually isn’t. No company would make a battery with a tiny little protrusion where the headphone jack once was. That’d cost a lot more, and make it a lot more fragile.

They’d be more likely to leave it empty, or fit something else in that space, like a third speaker.

It’s not that the secret snake likes to hurt, it’s that you’re (ab)using it in a way that it doesn’t typically get used in. That’s part of why you don’t tend to see cats have back issues, even though they go full slinky.

At first when I heard the ACAB slogan, I thought it was rather judgemental. All cops are bad? Then I learned that the American police are hired primarily on having low IQs and receive only few weeks of training. Now I understand why Americans hate them. Not all American cops are bad, but majority of them probably are. What can we expect from hiring low IQ folks with minimal training and arm them to the teeth? No wonder the American cops are memes themselves.

And when they do get things wrong, they rarely get punished.

The slogan probably wouldn’t be quite as prominent if the police that made mistakes like that were held accountable.

Unclear. But eventually, people would work. People get bored, it’s nice to have something to do, and get paid extra on top of it.

UBI just ensures that if they don’t like a job, they can just quit, rather than be forced to keep working on pain of starvation.

Tests so far seem to be fairly positive about it working. People who get UBI aren’t likely to sit on that money, they’ll just go and spend it either paying back debts, or buying something nice for themselves, so the money will keep going around (just look at the COVID economic stimulus packages). They might even spend more than they might otherwise have, if they’re not just scraping by.

Making the world a better place doesn’t need to be some grandiose revolutionary affair.

All the little things you do while being alive would add up. Whether it’s hanging out with a friend, giving your pet some extra pats, or cleaning up your own space, and that would put you a good deal of the way there, if not be enough on its own.

Or at least, for introductions.

Probably fine once dialogue is established.

They might not be. We’re already starting to run into the limits of silicon as it is, and I can’t imagine that we can keep pushing it for another 3 decades.

The box what goes bang if you poke it wrong.

The computer is inaccessible, and if you did that, the best way to fix it, while also avoiding any other potential issues stemming from that, is just to reinstall the thing.

It seems like it would be fairly easy to find. All you need to do is find out where the price drops massively, and work backwards from there, since it doesn’t change the code going forward.

Wayland really doesn’t like RDP/remote access, so X is the only way to go if you want that to work properly.

Don’t grills use charcoal briquettes rather than actual lumps of coal?

Wouldn’t doing that just provide a massively increased risk of necrosis/infection, since you’ve now got dead tissue just hanging about?

At least for small animals, they usually go the surgical route with surgical removal of the gonads, rather than using a rubber band.

I know they use the rubber band method for large animals, although that could easily be due to risks associated with anaesthesia/surgery than anything else, since it’s a lot harder to operate on something like a horse compared to a cat.

I mean, the process of a vasectomy is basically cutting the vas deferens in the testes. It’s arguably less complicated than removing them completely, since you have a smaller wound, and less bleeding because you’re not severing very many blood vessels in the process. If nothing else, recovery should be faster.