The naming is not consistent. As Wikipedia puts it,
This article follows usage in the United States. Readers in most other countries should read “two-way” or “SPDT” for the United States “three-way”; and “intermediate”, “crossover” or “DPDT” switch for the United States “four-way”.
The switches I’m using are marked with cute “ON/ON” labels which I suppose could be a metaphor for something.
printer ink was somehow related to breakfast
For when you want your coffee really, really black.
This seems like the thread to ask. I am wiring up a two-way switch so that a person on either side of my bed can turn the bedside light on or off without having to roll over to the side that the light is on. Is… Is that gay?
But if you don’t signal, how will the commoners know to make way?
Separating the trimmings from the rest of the waste isn’t the only thing that requires effort. I presume that the management doesn’t want to give ordinary employees the authority to just give stuff away, which makes sense. Even if it isn’t a problem in this specific case, it can be a problem because employees won’t always be knowledgeable or honest. Having management review what is being given away involves overhead, and deciding how much to charge you because of that overhead involves more overhead. I probably wouldn’t bother with all that if I ran the supermarket unless I really hated throwing things out, because I would assume you won’t be willing to pay enough to make it worth my time.
Why would this sort of fundraising quadruple from 2023 to 2024 when the big spike in prices due to inflation happened in 2001 and 2002? 2024 isn’t so dramatically worse than 2023 by any metric.
The article does state that
price growth actually spiked again in November, indicating that efforts to combat increasing day-to-day expenses for American households has stalled
but this corresponds to things not getting better as opposed to things getting worse.
I suspect that part of the explanation involves GoFundMe becoming more popular (maybe in general or maybe just with people fundraising for essentials) rather than any larger economic trend. The article doesn’t include enough information to know.
It’s not an imaginary scenario. For example, look at Sovaldi, the $84,000 hepatitis C cure. That’s less than the total cost of long-term treatment but it didn’t exactly make Gilead popular.
You get what you pay for, in a sense. How would the public respond to a one-time cure being sold for more than the total lifetime cost of treatment? Not well, but the thing is that responding like that is effectively expressing a preference for the lifelong treatment.
Mistake? He came, didn’t he?
Well, the Ninja Turtles were originally an unsubtle Daredevil parody…
(Is “parody” the right word? I think they were part parody and part homage.)
sentient brain
That’s the usual state of brains, isn’t it?
I didn’t mean to imply anything to the contrary of what you’re saying. I’m just reminded of the Simpsons episode where Smithers says
If Mr. Burns ever wants to see a stranger, he will observe him through a powerful telescope.
People are hidden from each other in plain sight.
Posts like this are so weird to me. Clearly this is a common thing that a lot of people are going through, but in real life most people I know have succeeded through integrity (similar to kindness) and hard work. Not just kids from middle-class families, but immigrants, first-generation college students, etc. There must be some sort of filter creating a social bubble around me, like how I have met very few Trump voters (and don’t know any of them well) despite the fact that there are actually quite many of them.
heteronormative assumptions
You could still have a wife yourself, with whichever licensing agreement the two of you negotiate.
Too bad that situations where someone fails miserably but that’s a good thing because what he was trying to do is terrible don’t come up often enough for this phrase to catch on.
From now on when I try to do something stupid and fail spectacularly, I’ll think “At least I’m not President Yoon.”
This became a big problem in New York a few years ago. Thieves would put skimmers on top of the card readers at supermarket checkouts and then drain the food stamp accounts of people who went through those checkouts. The state initially refused to compensate victims despite the fact that this wasn’t even a scam that someone could chosen to avoid. The only safety measure was to try and disassemble the card reader to see if there was a skimmer that would come off.
Eventually politicians changed the policy and compensated people after there were so many cases of theft that major newspapers were writing about it. I don’t know if theft is still frequent but less talked-about because victims get compensated, or if the authorities managed to put an end to it.
I’m not surprised that criminals would do such a thing, given that they do so much worse.
New York City already provides shelter space for anyone who asks. It’s the city’s obligation according to the state constitution. (This is one reason why so many migrants came to NYC.) The homeless people in the subway system generally don’t want to go to a shelter.
As for treating the underlying issues: many of these people are either schizophrenics or drug addicts. There’s no straightforward treatment for either condition.
I have such a hard time when I need to stop doing one thing and start doing another, especially when that requires traveling somewhere. This gets me in trouble fairly often.