I set my thermostat schedule to help with that. It doesn’t work too well in the summer due to weak ac, but the heat works great in the other 3 seasons. I let it drop to about 65 around 11pm, raise to 72 around 8am, drop to 68 at 9am if I’m home or lower for work days.
You can hear the silent majority screaming form the rooftops
Because something that gets lost in the two party system is that, at its core, there’s the conservative side trying to make things best for their majority group and then there’s a dozen different types of liberals trying to make the world better in their direction. One side wants to revert back, one “side” is pulling in a hundred different directions. Should we tackle education first? Financial responsibility? Human rights? Social safety nets? Pollution? Climate change? National interest? Global interest? There’s so many different topics that liberals want to progress forward in an order each individual determines. It’s not a single liberal force, it’s a hundred forces in a trench coat. Conservatives (of any country or topic) are some kind of incumbent majority/dominating demographic while the alternatives all fall under “liberal”. So the only thing that consistently unifies the democrats is what they don’t like
You can pay someone to pretend to be romantic on a date, to give you a massage, or to use their bodies for labor tasks. What exactly makes sex different?
[not that commenter] I can’t beleive how damaging those participation trophies were to my childhood. There I was, 6 years old, standing at the counter of the plastic trophy store, waiting for my order, baseball cap bill resting on the counter because I was 3ft 2in at the time. My team wasn’t great, but they worked hard by showing up sometimes. Today was the last game of the playoffs, as we were getting ready to spar against the worst team in the league to see who would rank 16th out of the 17 town teams. “Springfield Farm League 1997” the trophy plaque read, as the clerk placed one as a sample on the counter next to the box, wondering if there was anyone else in the store anymore. I thought, "I will cherish this trinket for life, I will remember it forever, a little piece of memorabilia to sit on my parent’s CD shelf for a few years before being “packed away” one last time. And years later, I will cry, because that trophy gave me so much promise, so much hope; if only I worked a little harder, and been placed on a better team, and actually cared in high school, and had been born to richer parents, and been able to attend baseball training camps, and had the right timing to be noticed by recruiters, I could have made it - I could have been on the farm league of the Houston Astros. But that plastic trophy ruined it for me, it made me think I could just coast. I never should have placed that order for my team, I never would have gotten hooked on casual involvement in hobbies, I never would have been always trying to scratch that itch of fleeting excitement for trivial matters. I got my whole team addicted to believing everything should just be fun and OK, that not everything should be a demoralizing struggle.
Wait a minute, the players didn’t buy their trophies. Whose idea was that? Oh right, the people complaining did it.
Or maybe it’s not really unique from other animals, we just have fictional currency and choosy morality. Every animal I can think of has the male doing all the courting work. Male spiders dance, birds sing and survive with brighter colors, bugs may lose their heads, giraffes punch females in the bladder to see if they’re even ready for sex, straight female prostitution drastically outweighs straight males, etc. It seems like the one who has to actually develop the offspring has the option to be much choosier. So did the capuchin prostitute herself or is that our morality being imposed on godless creatures who likely see no difference between sex, cleaning, or feeding each other as each is some type of need?
Unless the offer was a blowjob for him to go get the berries.
That “booming” economy is a straight line on any chart from 2010 to 2019. GDP, unemployment, debt, income, whatever you want to check. Funny you think democrats are why things tank. Do you associate the 2008 financial crisis with Obama? Because that nosedive, which landed lower in 2009 than we hit in 2020, has a clear nosedive starting in 2004. Please don’t tell me you think the astonishingly-low gas prices in 2020 were Trump’s doing, either. People literally stopped driving altogether and oil companies couldn’t offload ships since demand was so low. I’m not really sure who you’re concerned about regarding WW3 that you think would be a powerful player that isn’t in NATO and isn’t already against the US. But really, it’s impressive to think Trump’s tenure was such a safe haven of global peace when Russia, one of 2 likely opponents, was thrilled with Trump because he was friendly to them. That’s not peacekeeping or carrying a big stick, that’s Putin making the marionette dance.
I implore you to check out a few additional “news” sources and actual analyst sources. If your news sources get emotional, that’s not news. If your analyst sources cite high school polls, that’s not analysis. If your source of stats is unverified text-over-pictures or commentary social media videos, God help us all.
For tax evasion, not for the illegal nature of his income
What is that law? Closest I think I can get is HR 4986 sec 227 which mentions Israel, but I can’t read further. Who put it in place?
So they want to change their identity based on the feelings and bend existing geo roles to match?
Not really. They want nonwhite unhappy people to leave the country, not change it to their liking. So to comply with their own shoutings, they’d have to physically move to Idaho, not just reroute state borders to their liking.
State borders are fucking dumb under the “one nation” notion. It’s 50 colonies in a trench coat, pretending it’s different than the EU
“I didn’t really understand the technical aspects, which is why I turned to a technical service I also didn’t understand”
As I understand it, about 20 years ago, my [US] state started requiring all new basement work (including additions) to have radon piping provisions, but they didn’t have to be connected.
Eh, I think it’s helpful to point that out. If someone hit a dead end researching lasers, not making it out of the visible spectrum, that could explain why. Maybe they missed the line stating where laser ends, maybe the article assumed the reader would know that already.
… That’s exactly the point. Starting a discussion with people who’ve fundamentally misunderstood the right. People who think they can say anything and you aren’t allowed to be mad at them. People who think their right applies to private property and platforms.
Yelling “fire” is just an easily visualized situation to start the discussion about how freedom of speech is not a universal freedom. It cracks open the door to the idea that there are many situations where you’re not free and that it’s not even about your ability to scream or be heard, it’s about government persecution limitations.
Cropped by way of a smaller sensor, but magnified if you compare a “full frame sensor” camera and a “crop sensor” camera with identical pixel counts. A penny will have a penny-sized projection on the sensor, but the image from the crop sensor will have ~40% more pixels of the penny.
Corrected a type that flips the meaning, though I’m guessing people identified it. “impermanent”
+1 on determining (and understanding) sleep cycles. And +1 on naps. I consider myself really good at napping. Somewhere I read NASA determined 26 minutes being the best nap amount, so I have a 28 minute timer because I can usually fall asleep within 5 minutes.
Routines before sleeping can help your brain fall asleep faster. I beleive that’s a key to my nap ability because it usually works even if I don’t think I’m sleepy. I have 1 hour for lunch at work, so if I bring food, I can nap in my car. I used to park facing uphill and east at one job to get extra recline and keep the afternoon sun off me, but my current lot is flat and I got a sleep mask. I play a specific artist (Deadmau5) on a low volume. I have used construction ear muffs as extra sound dampening.
I learned of a mental game that does an amazing job of getting my thoughts to calm down. Pick a category, then run through the alphabet to name something for each letter. Apple, banana, cranberry, etc. If you can’t think of something, skip the letter and come back. I basically never make it to the end unless I’m really upset about something. And, not gonna lie, the most effective category for me is sex/porn categories. Nothing is more focused than a horny brain.