Those people are almost as bad as the junior devs that are very confidently incorrect.

E. coli is a coliform bacteria. That means it’s found in, you guessed it …shit. So E. coli is a great topic for a shitpost.

How the E coli gets from the shit to the meat is left as an exercise to the reader.

You forgot the “… Or I’ll break your kneecaps.”

When you enter the United States, customs “inspects” all the stuff you’re bringing back. If it’s more than $850 worth of stuff, then you have to go to the cashier and pay a tax.

The tax is a percent of what the stuff is worth. The percent rate can depend on what type of goods it is, and what country it’s coming from. There are massive tables to look this stuff up.

The stuff you carried out of the country and are now bringing back with you doesn’t count toward the $850 limit.

If you’re shipping stuff in but not traveling with it, there is no exemption. Tax applies right away. You also have to hire a guy called a broker to help you with the CBP paperwork and to submit payment.

So let’s say somebody is importing sugar from the Caribbean, and there’s a tariff. They have to pay a percent to the feds every time they ship in some sugar. They raise the price they charge on the sugar to cover that. Then sugar from Louisiana looks more attractive on the store shelf because it’s cheaper.

Who pays? Whoever is shipping the goods in pays, but they make it up by charging more for the imported products.

Why do it? Usually, you want to make some domestic industry more attractive by raising the price of the foreign competition.

In the sugar example, sugar is more expensive to farm in Louisiana because people get paid more, and the equipment is more expensive. If there wasn’t a tariff, people might stop farming sugar in Louisiana entirely. That might make some people sad. On the other hand, all Americans would be able to pay less for sugar without the tariff.

Wait. Did you really mean “decreasing” rather than “desecrating”? Because that’s hilarious.

Most games I’ve seen, nobody ever horse trades for color groups.

Complex deals and negotiations, land swaps, leveraged buyouts, and free rent passes, are all supposed to be part of the game. Getting a color group solely by landing on the spaces first and buying them for list price is indeed rare, by design.

This leads to my other pet peeve… You’re not supposed to have enough money to go around the board the first time and buy every space you land on at the list price. You’re supposed to be forced to make strategic decisions from the beginning of the game about what you go for, and what you bid in the auctions.

Most of the made up “house rules” are really about circulating more into the game than is supposed to be there.

You should also know that because of jail and various other teleports, the orange group is the most popular group on the board. It’s something like 1.8 times the average to land on those spaces, because two of them are 6 and 8 spaces from jail. Jail is a very popular space because Go To Jail also counts as Jail.

Boardwalk has very high rents, but it’s also pretty unpopular to land on.

The worst rent-to-popularity values are yellow and green.

Category: existential horror.

the sacred chickens do not approve.

Are these hippo sprint speeds, or real proper endurance speeds?

Foreign nationals, let alone foreign governments, are not allowed to give money to political campaigns in the United States. Actually illegal. Bill Clinton got in trouble for it

If you can prove that an NFT scheme was foreign campaign money laundering in court, people can go to jail.

Most places in the US will have nothing about severance written down anywhere, but it’s very common to actually pay severance in a mass layoff situation (unless the whole business is going under).

Current IT best practice is that passwords should never expire on a set schedule, but they should expire if there is evidence they’ve been breached.

There’s a technique called “heel-toe” shifting which involves using different parts of the right foot to operate the brake and throttle at the same time, while the left foot works the clutch.

That kid looks ready to raise your health insurance deductible again and deny your claim for insulin.

I think I’ve seen at least one that has returned to Pizza Hut after leaving the folks for a while.

Not enough mushrooming in that case.

No. I would like to go back to beans, please.

But the floppy diskette and the “hard disks” did in fact have circular discs inside that spin around.

I suspect that the word diskette was created as an analog to tape “cassette”. With both diskette and cassette, the media is stored inside an enclosure, and you don’t have to take it out manually.

I sure hope you have some peer reviewed clinical studies to back up a controversial statement like that!