In addition to the other comments, Airbnbs were also often more likely than hotels to offer in-unit kitchens I haven’t used Airbnb in years, but a big draw for me, personally, was saving money on food because I could cook at my lodging.
Redtube was around before youtube started “youtube red”; my assertion is that someone at youtube had to be aware of this. It was either (1) a gooner-brained employee who got away with it because none of his coworkers knew about RedTube; or (2) whose coworkers were too polite/embarrassed to admit to knowing about RedTube; or (3) everyone with any amount of power over the naming process was too ignorant/lazy to Google for any potential overlap and see that it might have been a problem for grandma to Google “tube” and “red” and maybe accidentally click on a porn site instead of youtube when looking for a subscription. It’s irresponsable either way.
And “YouTube Premium” used to be “YouTube Red”, which had to be intentional and probably led to others making a similar mistake to your classmate.
In addition to the general maintenance costs of oil changes and tire replacement, these sources typically calculate “wear and tear” per mile to estimate repair costs per vehicle mile travelled while accounting for major expected repairs over the lifetime of the car. These are also going to be skewed based on average usage across the country, using a composite mpg. Your own costs will vary, but these averages also take into account the commuter using a Ford F350 to sit in urban traffic for 30 minutes at 15mpg.
The cost of parking a car at home is typically not reflective of paid parking spaces for apartment complexes with garages, but estimates the cost per square foot based on an average home value and an average mortgage. The post also states that there are considerations made for, e.g., time spent finding parking–so the cost in time is estimated as a function of the model’s average hourly wage variable.
If you own a beater that you can do basic maintenance on, if you own your home or have free street parking, if your car gets 40mpg, you’ll end up with lower costs than average. Some of these costs are externalized (longer commute for the mandatory zoning regulations to build houses with parking), and some of them are lower because of frugality (buying older beaters, not fixing the broken air conditioning). But that doesn’t mean that these aren’t the average numbers for the median car owner in the US, whose habits are more expensive.
Great question. In Paris and its surrounding region in particular, there are large immigrant populations. Often they come from former French colonies in North Africa, and these groups have been racialized, otherized, and ostracized (different language, different religion, different skin color and facial features, etc). There has been a lot more mask-off racist aggression from cops being caught on camera hurling racial epithets, invoking the age-old racist trope of sexual aggression being “normal” in Muslim cultures, and essentially calling everyone else race traitors who “deserve what’s coming to them”. These cops are covering their badges and identification with fascist and misogynist symbols. One local politician who joined the protest was pushed to the ground and clubbed while the cop said “you may have been elected but you’re still a piece of shit like everyone else”.
So to answer your question: yes, the fascists in France are posing it as a racial issue.
Current protests are public high school students from low-income and/or hyper-dense urban areas. These are oberwhelmingly working class children.
The current student walkout in France is led by high schoolers, not university students, protesting unsafe and untenable school conditions. Class sizes of 30-40, water infiltration in classrooms, not enough teachers or paraprofessionals (no subs so classes just get cancelled), not enough furniture. Fac and staff walked out in solidarity, because civil servants are underpaid and overworked without substantial paid sick leave, etc. University students joined in after the protests were underway.
It’s not French intelligentsia, though the right-wing press and politicians are accusing the left parties and La France Insoumise in particular of fomenting violent riots across the country. Police escalated first by using tear gas against the peaceful high schoolers, and continued to escalate to rubber bullets. Dozens of children aged ~14-17 have been maimed, beaten, and gassed by police in the last week and a half.
Humanite.fr has good coverage if you can read French
This is why I loved Morrowind. You “become the chosen one” by fulfilling peoples’ expectations of what the chosen one is supposed to do; doing becomes being. But ultimately, you are an ex-convict press-ganged into an imperial spy network taking advantage of the fact that you fit the only criterion no one could change: date of birth and starsign in accordance with an ancient prophesy believed by the autochthonous peoples of the land where the Big Bad is amassing his power (posing a threat to imperialization).
The actions you take to convince people of your chosen one status include: bribing politicians, killing politicians for other politicians over petty grievances, contracting an incurable disease and then being a guinea pig for a dangerous alternative medicine, sex trafficking (with a non-sex-trafficking option made available by the modding community), grave robbing, and aiding a religious schism.
But this is just the quests you complete and the conversations you have that point you in the direction of the end goal. You don’t have to actually fulfil any prophetic criteria or convince anyone to anoint you savior to kill the Big Bad. You just need to find the two magical artefacts to counteract his doomsday machine–and you can stumble upon the in-game texts that describe their locations and significance.
Does Arabic (or other languages with an abjad) omit the vowels in acronyms and initialisms?
It won’t be huge layoffs like in tech because there aren’t big “tradeswork” companies that own the sector. Big Tech lays off workers to stifle wages and churn through the available workforce. Contractors hang a shingle to start their own business, or rely on a midsized contracting co and get paid per dispatch. More likely there just won’t be enough work to support all the licensed contractors, so they’ll close up shop. Some midsized companies might be vulnerable to private equity takeover if they become insolvent with the level of work available.
$5 for drip is also wild.
Latte at sbux or equivalent (chain or local doing espresso drinks) by me is base ~$6-7, +$1 upcharge for plant-based milk, +$1.50 for an extra shot of espresso. +Tip. + Mentally rounding anything north of $7 up to “damn that cost almost $10” anyway
3-shot oat milk latte made at home costs me <$2, even less if I make my own milk
Decades ago he wrote about how acting pays the bills so he could publish political essays
“Commander in chief can send the military wherever he wants”
It makes sense for tort
It’s managed state by state. Some states have absolutely no mail-in voting, some states require you to declare a reason you can’t go in-person (e.g., travel), and others will send you a ballot with no-questions-asked.
If you’re ever out after dark or before sunrise: high-visibility vest in addition to the lights as others suggested.
Instead of going through disposable gloves, hand sanitizer and/or a rag will be fine.
I like to keep a washcloth and deodorant as well, but I’m also commuting, so arriving fresh or being able to freshen up is nice.
I guarantee there are grad students there who wish that were $2500 cash per month instead
Americans didn’t seem to care when Bush rejected Cuban aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Might not be any blowback
This is the only flavor text I recall from any MtG card during the ~10 years I played. I think about it every time I hear a twig snap.