I live in the US, in Southern California, which is one of the more expensive parts of the country. $2k a month isn’t a lot in that it would be hard to live on it, but I made pretty decent money before I retired and it’s more than I could have comfortably given away.

Remember that anyone here talking about hourly wages is talking about gross income and not net income, and if you give money away it comes out of net income.

Let’s say someone was making $100 an hour, which is $200k a year, and fairly decent money. That’s $16.6k a month. But after taxes that’s more like $10k. Most people making that kind of money have a mortgage, car payments, home and car insurance. Also, employer sponsored medical usually only pays like two thirds of the insurance costs. And they likely have money coming out of their check into a retirement account. So the disposable income is going to be a lot less and $2k isn’t going to be a trivial percentage.

But if the person is making, say, twice that amount, then it’s starting to be more trivial. Not a ton of people are making $400k or more a year.

Fault has nothing to do with surviving. That’s like saying the pedestrian would be at fault if he lived.

I don’t believe they generally prosecute the dead folks, but it doesn’t mean they weren’t at fault.

Well, they do, but they’re giant energy hogs. Just have a door on the shower and that stuff isn’t needed.

Insulation varies, but even a well insulated house is going to get cold if it’s freezing outside, and it takes energy to get them up to a toasty temp.

Most of the heat in the US is electric or gas. In areas where the temps get freezing and below outside, people don’t tend to run it to get the temps into the mid 20s like that.

They’re terrible. Everything you said is true, but I’ll add that unless you crank up the heat in the room, they’re miserable on cold days. The enclosed showers trap the steam and warmth from the how water in with you, but with no door it’s just cold.

Not exactly news that words often change meanings over time.

At my Costco, pistachios are $20 for a 48 oz bag, so 41 cents an ounce. At my local Ralph’s, they’re $11 for a 16 oz bag, so 68 cents an ounce. So the grocery store is 67% more expensive. That’s way more than the percentage of empty shells we’re seeing, and I doubt the shells weigh as much as the nuts.

On the other hand, last I checked, they were SO much cheaper at costco than the grocery store that I wouldn’t complain about some empties.

Article title isn’t the same as OP’s. It’s “AI ‘slop’ could cause cognitive decline and violent tendencies among kids, study says”

I’m not seeing anything in that article about a foolproof test.

I can see it for something like a news community, but not something like Ask Lemmy. Half the ones from Reddit are people asking for advice for their situation - how does it help to answer it here? It’s dumb.

I wouldn’t mind a bot that scraped the top 10 posts from ask reddit every day and reposted them to ask lemmy

We actually had that for a while and I hated it. I’ll respond to an ask Lemmy post because I think the person asking actually wants answers. If the person asking isn’t even on this site, why would I reply? I blocked the bot account that was doing that.

Ugh, that sucks for both of you. Sorry to hear it.

Yep, stayed on top of the vaccines

I got COVID pretty badly and for a month or two after I just felt like I had no gas in my tank - I’d try to vacuum the house, for example, and I couldn’t get through it in one go. I thought “Oh, this is that fatigue they’ve been talking about.” But then that sort of wore off and I no longer lacked the energy to do stuff like that, except I just couldn’t bring myself to do those things. I’d be sitting there thinking “I really need to vacuum,” but it was like an insurmountable hurdle to go to the closet and get the vacuum out. Once I did, I could do the house without issue.

One of my employees had COVID about the same time as me, and we were talking about it when we were both back. Damned if she didn’t start describing the same sort of psychological fatigue-like thing. I was dumbfounded.

It lasted like another couple months and slowly went away, but man it was a bitch.

I often rehearse conversations in my head, not so that I’m following some sort of script, but so I can think about what the person I’m going to be talking to is likely to say or think about what I’ve said. I’ve found it helps me listen to my own thoughts more through someone else’s ears, helps me think about ways to clarify what I’ve said, and helps me tailor my words to the specific person.

And there are people who do it maliciously, but it’s also pretty common for well-meaning advocates to do it before they learn. That seems to be OPs case, at least on the surface of it.

Like “One fish, two fish, red fish…?”

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