dion_starfire

Very good point!

Square foot isn't a great estimate for toilet paper, because within certain limits no one cares about the width of their TP. This means manufacturers will enshittify their products by making the rolls slightly wider (but fewer sheets). The packaging makes it seem like they're selling the same amount, but you suddenly find yourself needing to buy more.

Please do not count on 22LR for any sort of self defense purposes. It's a great round for shooting paper targets and small critters, but against a human it has the stopping power of a letter opener. Sure, it might stop someone if you hit just the right spot, or pain might shock someone inexperienced into pausing long enough for you to run, but you don't really want to be counting on either of those in a life or death scenario.

Why pay $200/mo for cell service when companies like Mint and Cricket exist? You could be paying under $200/yr for that alone.

And by RNG, we mean ol' Larry. Don't worry citizen, it's purely coincidence that all of the winners are friends of his, and 90% of the laborers have brown skin.

Hospitals would often have two prices - the insurance price, and the cash price. If you told them that you didn't have insurance, the price could go down drastically from the estimate. Now they're required to charge the insurance company and the uninsured the same amount.

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If the management thought a fancy text generator was going to magically replace human creativity and decision making, do you think we're talking about good management?

This is covered in the technobabble of the show. The gate is one way to anything bigger than radio waves, so the camera would see nothing until enough of it had dematerialized for the rest to be sucked through.

Quick removal isn't a big concern since the drive is read only. You might crash anything with an open file handle, but you don't have to worry about data corruption.

You're probably wanting [ -z "${VAR1}" -a -z "${VAR2}" ]. Note in bash that there are minor differences in how [ ] and [[ ]] tests are handled. You can pull up a handy cheat sheet of the operands on most distros by running man test, though you'll need to read through the CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS section of man bash if you want to see the minor differences of the single vs double square bracket commands (mostly whether locale applies to string order, as well as whether operands are evaluated in numeric comparisons).

While I agree in general, that wouldn't have helped in this case, and likely would have just made things worse. He couldn't draw on the Karen for being a racist piece of trash, and his next interaction was with the police, whom he certainly couldn't have drawn on. Then the cops would have trumped up the charges because he was armed, and he never would have seen the gun again after it disappeared into the evidence locker.