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To get 1k/day from 2 mil you’d need an annual interest rate of close to 20% from your savings account. At a more reasonable 4% you’d get around 80k a year or over 200 a day, still a good amount. If you’re using that to live on you’ll want a bit more to beat inflation long term but it’ll be a while before that’s even noticeable.

The downside of copying your brain is that it’s a copy, you’ll have your original meat body and a separate mechanical body which minds which immediately start to diverge. They’re both still you, but meatman gets no upgrades. You could destroy your meat body as part of the transfer but then it’s reasonable to say you’re dead with a robot that thinks it’s you.

The closest you can get to a proper transfer would need an implant which works similar to how your body naturally replaces cells, the implant would gradually take over neurons until you have a fully mech brain which can be transplanted to a new body. You could argue that’s still just a destructive copy but I think it’s within most people’s tolerance.

Too consistent imo. You’d expect a giant inflatable cat collapsing or being inflated to displace a few leaves. Both pictures also have exactly the same angle so for that to make sense someone would have had to set up a tripod to shoot a Halloween decoration, that feels odd. The real cat in the first picture looks like they’re sunk too far into the ground too, could just be softer than it looks though.

To me it seems like the same base image with edits superimposed on top.

What problem are you trying to solve? There’s only two reasons you’d want this, either you’re trying to hide money as you enter a country, or you’re holding bitcoin and want to pump up the price.

Got it, hotdog in bottom hole… Now what do I do with the mask?

Fair point, here’s a lower quality version of this:

I can’t say why people are using czar specifically but people have been called the “lord of X” or “Y king” practically forever without being literal kings or lords. It’s just an emphatic way to say they’re seen as powerful within a given space, it’s not a claim that they’re literally a Russian ruler.

That’s surprisingly not that far off, modern pockets evolved from bags tied to belts and the word comes from “poke”, meaning pouch.

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If you’re living somewhere with hard water you’re probably already used to the kind of issues you’ll have, mineral deposits will build up over time and make it less efficient so you’ll need to clean it regularly. I can’t imagine vinegar would cause any damage but you should probably check the manual first, there could be maintenance instructions in there.

It’s more that the characters have been evolving for a few millennia so they don’t look exactly as they did originally. For instance 山 meaning mountain was originally three distinct mountains and 目 used to be an eye.

On an article about employees not getting paid someone commented with the excuse that they’re moving “more in line with youtube” where creators don’t get paid. Since you apparently disagree with the obvious meaning, how did you interpret that?

So you believe it’s okay to not pay the people you hire because Google doesn’t pay people who upload videos to Youtube?

Market share isn’t relevant here, if a company hires you to do something they pay you for your work. If they don’t recoup their costs from the work they hired you to do that’s a bad business decision on their part and not a valid reason to not pay you. This is why developed countries have employee rights laws.

Do you consider that a valid reason to hire people and not pay them? To me it just sounds like an excuse for a company to abuse a lack of employee rights to get free labour.

Where are you getting your news? Wherever it is you should stop, you’re being fed (and spreading) misinformation.

In the UK, wages and salaries are notoriously low

About 12-14th place worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage https://www.worlddata.info/average-income.php https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings?itemId=105

Im a lot of cases the salary allows employers to pay less because it’s considered different to a wage.

This is untrue. Minimum wage for salaried workers is calculated by average hours worked per pay period, if after dividing your pay by your average hours you are making less than minimum wage and your employer doesn’t fix this you should report them immediately.

The reason our salaries are this low is not just because of funding the NHS,

This obviously doesn’t make sense on the surface since NHS is paid for through taxes and not salary deductions so you seem to be making a tax argument instead (?), but regardless while per capita spending on health services in the UK is high compared to some other countries, it is far from the highest.

but because we have a huge portion of our population unemployed and thus needing welfare support

At ~4.2% it’s middling by most measures, but I’d definitely prefer lower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/unemployment-by-country

which comes straight out of the money businesses have to pay people with

I don’t even know how to respond to that. You are aware that this is handled by the government and not private business, right? Is this just another roundabout way to complain about being taxed?

the government spends a huge amount on processing asylum and immigration claims (of which there’s an extraordinary amount given the size of the country)

Are you aware that support for refugees in the UK comes out of the aid budget which has been reduced from 0.7% of gross national income in 2021 to 0.5%, and further decreased to 0.3% by 2027? Less of your taxes are being spent on this category now.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9663/

Regardless, number of refugees is high but not extraordinarily so for the region. Speculation, but that’s likely due to English being the de-facto lingua franca for international communication so asylum seekers are more likely to speak the local language.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.ASYS.EA?contextual=region&end=2024&locations=GB&start=2000

The issue here is mismanagement more than number of refugees, the UK government reportedly managed to spend $26,000 per person compared to most countries spend under $10,000. As mentioned above though, this is from the aid budget which has already been reduced, this mismanagement prevents foreign aid but does not decrease your salary.
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/costs-hosting-refugees-oecd-countries-and-why-uk-outlier

Barely two paragraphs in and this is already too long, if you want the rest of your comment to be taken remotely seriously you should at least add some sources.

UK, there is no standard. I’ve seen last working day of the month, every second week, 28th of every month, once per week, last Friday of the month unless that Friday is also the last day of the month in which case it’s the Friday before.

Hourly workers tend to be paid weekly or fortnightly and salaried workers tend to be monthly but as far as I know there’s no real rules, you get whatever your employment contract says.

I felt the same when I first fought the new version but overall I find it a much more interesting fight than before.

I tend to build small decks so the exhaustion phase is the one that gets me, but you’ll usually have some cards you don’t really need in your deck. Use that phase to set up your powers and scrap any basic strikes or defends you don’t need, with less junk you’ll draw your better cards more often in other turns. Don’t be afraid to take a hit in this phase if you need to, it’s the last fight so as long as you survive you’re good. Cards that affect the next turn (eg Blur to carry over block) help if you can prepare the turn before.

The second phase just stops card draw so it’s never really a big deal for me, even if you built a draw deck at this point you should have a strong enough deck to play a turn without draws.

The final phase is pretty interesting imo, to me it seems it mostly just screws you if you’ve built around 1 cost cards. If you play a heavy hitter that’s probably all you’re doing that turn anyway, and if you’re playing a 0 cost deck it doesn’t really affect you. Just remember to play your 0 costs last that turn, they still drain your energy!

Driving dangerously is generally illegal everywhere else. As someone not in the US, the first time I heard that ridiculous law exists I thought it was a joke. Especially when I found out it was just a scheme to save fuel at the expense of every other road user and especially pedestrians. Insanity.

You’re upset that people aren’t risking lives to save you a few seconds. You’re not exactly the good guy here.

This is validation seeking, not a legitimate question.

The vast majority of people do speak English, but England isn’t exclusively English either. Nearly 1 in 10 people resident in England and Wales didn’t list English or Welsh as their main language in a 2021 census.

Depending on how you count you can get 12 or more indigenous languages in the UK, at least 7 of which are commonly recognised (English, Welsh, Irish, Scots, Scots Gealic, Cornish, BSL). Scotland has 4 official languages, Wales has 2, Northern Ireland’s official language is Irish and notably not English, and England has no official language. Then there’s the non-indigenous languages like Polish and Punjabi, there’s enough speakers using those are their main language to be notable.