Instigated by someone who won’t live long enough to experience the consequences and allowed to happen by people who have enough money and power to insulate themselves from the worst of it.

In fact, get a legally enforceable commitment to leave before the vote. Put a date on it.

Do you know something about these particular pastors that the article doesn’t mention, or are you just generally hostile towards people who choose to follow a religion?

Correlation does not equal causation.

That is quite a good deal if it’s legitimate but the artificial urgency and email farming makes me doubt the legitimacy. I assume there’s some fine print they don’t want you to read before buying. Maybe it’s a completely awesome offer but unfortunately their presentation guarantees I’ll never know.

I had a horrible Amazon experience 3 or 4 years ago and haven’t shopped there since, so I’m probably remembering the time when it did work.

Misread this headline as ‘Conservative groups’ and couldn’t figure out for the life of me why they’d do that. This makes much more sense now.

Closest thing you’ll find is likely to be prediction markets, but “whether it rains tomorrow” isn’t something that would be available unless it’s in the form of “Will X event be rescheduled due to rain?” or similar more boolean things.

They’ve been doing it for a while. They’re all low-budget, made-for-TV movies that follow some pretty predictable formulas and appeal to a very specific type of person - usually the lonely, single type.

She was a successful businesswoman with a promising career. He was a small-town nobody. Can he win her over before she returns to the big city?

Love the idea in concept. One major issue is the shipping. A major benefit of Amazon is just being able to add 20 things to your cart and get them all in like 1-2 boxes. In this hypothetical scenario, you’d presumably still have to handle checkout through each individual store, and if you ordered 20 things, you’d be placing up to 20 individual orders, each with their own shipping costs.

This becomes more problematic when maybe multiple stores you’re buying from sell multiple things on your list… ideal case would be to buy as many things from one store as possible, to consolidate shipping, but what if their prices for the individual items vary? Now you’ve got to search each individual storefront for each item and calculate the difference in cost. (This store sells item A for $2 cheaper but shipping is $3.50, is there another item I can add in to save shipping? They sell item B for $0.50 more, but I might save on shipping costs…)

Technically this is no worse than it is now if you’re shopping from a variety of stores rather than one megastore, but it would be a large barrier to adoption if you’re trying to capture some of the “fed up with Amazon but still like the convenience” crowd.

I think Minesweeper is a great tutorial game. It forces you to learn different variable types, data structures, loops and user input at a minimum, and it’s really easy to expand on to make it more complex without requiring unique or difficult logic. Turning it into Battleship is a fun progression - I hadn’t considered that, but I like it!

(On the back of the note) “because the system that incentivizes causing harm to people is broken, and I want to use the position of power in the company to promote better practices that benefit subscribers and work to reform the system from within.”

Santa: “Uh, oops.”

A fun way to do this (IMO) is to pick some really simple classic game, and remake it. Something like Minesweeper, but pick something that’s at least sort of related to the concepts you want to learn.

He’s even doing everything he can to actively kill clean energy initiatives to increase the dependence on it. He seriously cannot die soon enough.

He might have felt pressure to keep up with your dad due to just meeting them / wanting to make a good impression, and not realized how drunk he was getting. Doesn’t excuse his actions in the least, but might help contextualize them… given it doesn’t sound like this is something he would normally do.

Oh, see, that’s your problem. You’re supposed to put beans, rice, meat, cheese, lettuce, guac and whatever else you prefer inside those the taco shells or tortillas, not tasteless mush. I’m glad we got to the root of the issue.

Well, you’re entitled to your opinion, I suppose, even if it’s wrong.

Honestly can’t tell if many of the comments here are serious or satire, and that bothers me a little bit.