Lotus-eater

That's precisely why I picked it. You'd be safer flying even if the death total this year turns out to be 2,313, which is the largest number of commercial airline accident deaths to occur globally in one year (1972).

You'd need an additional 400 deaths this year in the U.S. to match the historically high 531 deaths from commercial airline accidents in 2001 and that was still about 16 times safer per mile traveled than driving a car.

It's the base rate fallacy. Statisticians are correct in the sense that even if death is more likely when an accident occurs while flying on a commercial airline, the overall risk of death of traveling by air is still much lower because the probability of any accident occurring at all on a commercial airline is much lower than in a car.

If you want to increase its longevity: I would not pick the lowest end processors (the AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS in that Lenovo is more than adequate for your needs). 16GB rather than 8GB RAM doesn't cost that much more, which is useful for Windows (which requires more memory after every new version) and if you keep many tabs open. An SSD with more storage space will last longer because the writes are spread across more cells, so I wouldn't go below 512GB even if you don't need much storage. I don't think a touchscreen is very useful on desktop but YMMV.

Relative prices are constantly changing, so a price change above the overall inflation rate is not a reliable indicator of price gouging (anymore than price increases below the inflation rate indicate predatory pricing, which consumers rarely complain about). Higher rates aren't surprising with a sustained period of low unemployment and higher stock prices (which evidence suggests increases relative demand and decreases relative supply) combined with strong post-pandemic demand for in-person recreation.

His history apparently includes a conviction for embezzlement and subsequently violating probation by using illegal drugs, both of which landed him in prison. Bad habits die hard.

Yes.😁

But A's pronouns are first place/second place. So B passes second place and B is now second place, which is not possible. H/T Abbott & Costello.

What was promised: time or performance?

No, truth has not always been a defense in a charge of libel. See, for example, People v. Croswell: "English law in the time of the Star Chamber had disallowed truth as a defense, saying "The reason assigned for the punishment of libels, whether true or false, is because they tend to a breach of the peace, by inciting the libelled party to revenge, or the people to sedition." Alexander Hamilton lost the case and it was not until 1805 that the New York legislature changed the law and the state constitution in 1821 to allow truth as a defense. Other states also had to change their laws because of English common law.

The dead person still suffers no harm because they are not aware of any inaccurate assumptions about them (unless you believe in ghosts). And any harm to the dead person's reputation among the living would presumably come from the release of mostly accurate--but potentially embarrassing--information. Under the old rules of defamation, proving a claim to be true was not a legal defense based on the logic that a true claim was more damning to a person's reputation than a false claim, which seems to be your logic as well. Why should the family (at least those who were on good terms with the dead relative) and friends be entitled to be shielded from any negative publicity? What if the public wants to use that information as the basis of a protest at a funeral?

Why should dead people have such rights? They lose the right to vote (unless they lived in Chicago 😁). More relevant, as a matter of common law in the U.S. and Canada, the details of a probated will are a public record (so the public can find out the value of an estate) and dead people can no longer be legally defamed because they no longer have a reputation to protect.

You said that he received good reviews, so perhaps you had different expectations than his typical client, he had an off night, or the reviews were fake.

Upselling is annoying, but why are you surprised when it's an easy way to double his pay (the client is already there and quite possibly in the mood for more)? And, unfortunately, it's pretty common for guys who are primarily escorts with little massage ability to also advertise on massage sites.

The crybullying begins. We are supposed to uncritically accept that a guy demanding that you provide your news sources as a way to discredit your claims is an instantiation of supposed straight, white, Gen X, male privilege when it's a common debating tactic. Let's shed a nano-tear for the nano-aggression that you probably did not suffer.

I live in the area and would be happy to take up residence in the house while you decide.😁 Owning a SFH as an investment is like owning stock in one small company, which is risky because of a lack of diversification (especially if the house constitutes more than 4% of your wealth), and the market does not compensate you for unsystematic risk (even if stocks are riskier as an asset class than real estate, you can more easily diversify stocks, so ChatGPT's answer is misleading). And if you aren't willing to manage the property yourself (and pray you don't get a squatter), you're giving up some of the potential gains. REITS are a better option if you want minimal hassle.

You buy home insurance to pay for damage to your house, car insurance to pay for damage to cars & people, and medical insurance to pay for medical treatment, so you buy Umbrella insurance to pay for a damaged or lost umbrella? You must have a fancy umbrella.

It's pretty common for flip phones to have basic texting. You can also match your current $100/year with discount cell providers like Tello ($9/month) and US Mobile ($96/year prepaid) if you only get 1-2GB of data per month.

I still don't see any data from you, which makes your objection pretty laughable. And dressing up the same analogy with mystical appeals to the "arc of history" and "metarealities" doesn't make it any more impressive.

Data is better than your anecdotes. And the post is focused on Gen Z, not "the old farts" who may just have the last laugh.

The title of the post is "Generation diZappointing" (not "Ok boomer"). Plenty of surveys indicate that Generation Zoomers and Millennials prefer the flexibility of WFH several times a week. E.g.:, "A May survey of 1,000 U.S. adults showed that 39% would consider quitting if their employers weren’t flexible about remote work. The generational difference is clear: Among millennials and Gen Z, that figure was 49%, according to the poll by Morning Consult on behalf of Bloomberg News."

Those entitled Generation Zoomers are in for a rude awakening if they think that they'll be earning $100K-$200K/year working from home in their pajamas: "JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon doubled down on his plan to scrap the bank’s work-from-home policies, launching into a foul-mouthed tirade against staffers angry about returning to the office, according to a report. During a raucous town hall meeting Wednesday, Dimon tore into a petition — signed by nearly 1,300 workers — over the axing of COVID-era hybrid policies that allowed employees to work from home two days a week. “Don’t waste time on it. I don’t care how many people sign that f—–g petition,” Dimon said, according to a leaked recording obtained by Barron’s. Dimon pointed out that employees do not concentrate fully when they take part in online Zoom meetings, and said supervisors will have no say about who can skip the in-office requirements. “There is no chance that I will leave it up to managers. Zero chance. The abuse that took place is extraordinary,” the boss of the nation’s largest lender told the stunned staffers. He went on to stress that anyone upset over his mandate was free to find another job on Wall Street." JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon slams 'f---ing' anti-RTO petition: 'Don't... NYPOST.COM During a raucous town hall meeting on Wednesday, Dimon tore into the nearly 1,300 workers who signed a petition over the bank axing the COVID-era hybrid...