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.

How much gyneacology can you even get for $100, and would you really want it?

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.

Having used the system some time ago, I’m not too worried. It only shows the name and latest address. Basically like the white pages but with a soc.sec.ID instead of the phone number.

It lacks info on a lot of people, because some people aren’t too good at reporting when they move, and some are hidden for legal reasons.

The most dangerous thing would be if the data is sold to stalkers, because it does have more addresses than the white pages.

The soc.sec.no. includes birthday and gender, so it can also be used for targeting scams.

Anyway, it’s not like this data wasn’t already available in one way or another. The breach just made it easier for whoever did it.

Huh? I’m pretty sure the reason why some countries hesitate on banning smoking is that the taxes on cigarettes are fra larger than the cost of healthcare for smokers.

The smokers die before non-smokers, so they’re actually pretty cheap in the long run and more than self-financing.

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.

I’m not sure about UK signs sign, but doesn’t this mean the opposite?

It looks like a ‘no through road’ - except for busses. So it’s blocked for anyone else?

It would make more sense to call it “OnlyBus”.

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.

If she wasn’t insane before, she surely will be after 30 years in prison. It’s sickening to think about.

What’s the fucking point? Private prison gets paid? Just give them the money. There’s no need to torture people to achieve whatever the prisons think they’re doing.

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.

True.

One of the talking points during Brexit was how UK paid more to EU than they received. Seems logical, big country, much economy. Many people voted because of that argument. Turns out to be false.

A cost benefit analysis shows that UK received up to 6 times more from EU than the cost.

As a EU citizen, I’d be happy to have them join again, because I believe that the benefits of EU come from cooperation between nations rather than any particular group paying for the other. They can even keep their currency and stupid passport, but they can forget about the previous privileged terms with selective opt-in.

Johnny

It is just physics. Obviously. Getting the intuition for it is pretty difficult without actually doing it. It requires practice but it’s also not just muscle memory. You can figure out a lot of the techniques by thinking about it. It is important to be able to visualise a trick before you have any chance of doing it. It’s a constant process of thinking, trying, thinking, trying, and suddenly you just feel it, and only then can you do it.

As for the physics, it’s always a battle of opposite forces. Gravity does win, but you can fall with style in the meantime. I guess most people can juggle a football a few times simply by kicking the ball and then get in the position where the ball lands. A skateboard is the same, only with less room and you being on top of it. The secret is the Ollie. Your center of gravity is not at your feet, so there’s some room to juggle the board underneath you.

I’ve also been postponing my dental checkups, but It’s a bad place to try to save money, because it ends up being more expensive when I eventually have to go there to get things done.

For instance if I lose a filling in one side, I’ll just end up chewing more with the other side and then it break something there too. It’s also bad for other things. I usually catch the flu more often when my teeth have issues. Maybe the immune system is overloaded or something.

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.

Flashdance had two songs (“what a feeling” and “maniac”) that everyone knows even if they haven’t seen the movie.