Except My Cousin Vinnie

It’s a solution in search of a problem. And boy are they searching.

Hmmm. Do pineapple and anchovies go together?

My friends (one of whom was vegetarian until fairly recently) went to Iceland recently and said that puffin was absolutely delicious

That’s cool, and I’d love to see it. “wage” means hourly payment for time worked. Anything else is a benefit or whatever - but not wage. Wage theft is not getting paid wages due.

Vacation time is not the same as hourly wage.

I don’t think we really disagree here. You’re focusing on what people are. I’m focusing on how they see themselves. They’re not necessarily the same things.

Doesn’t mean you don’t call yourself middle class, because at least you’re not homeless. At the very least, “lower-middle class”

20-something years ago PBS had an excellent documentary called “People Like Us: Social Class in America” to show, well, social class in America. If you can find it, or at least clips of it, I’d recommend it. There was one cutscene with a bunch of people being asked which class they see themselves as, and pretty much everyone felt they were “middle class” - but you could tell by the way they presented themselves (clothes, jewelry, etc) that they were all over the place.

Pretty much everyone calls themselves middle class. Outside of the extremes one would expect, there will always be richer and poorer people among you, meaning you’re in the “middle” - whether you’re struggling to make rent or debating whether or not to go to the vacation home this weekend.

Use it or lose it is very common, even in (US) government employment.

For what it’s worth, I picked up Radio Australia on shortwave from Denver on a recently-restored tube radio (albeit a higher-end one). It was surprisingly clear too!

If everything is running on renewables, cool. Until then, there’s still the opportunity cost.

I think the point is, it would be nice to know which books are being put back up (seems like a pretty basic thing if you’re going to make a post like this) but OP made it about as hard as possible to see any but 1-2

And here we are, not on TikTok or Instagram, and still seeing it

Yeah, that Franch dipping sauce in Breaking Bad was crazy!

Depending on what exactly they’re doing, that could be practicing without a license

Hard bread with hard ingredients (like meat chunks or salami), soft bread with soft ingredients (like egg salad). I’d call a burger medium soft, and ciabatta is too hard for that

Bitcoin alone accounts about half a percent of the world’s electricity usage. Even if “demand on your local grid is low”, that doesn’t mean supply of renewables alone is necessarily high, especially if that happens overnight when solar output is low and a fossil plant is keeping things running. In that case we could have just as easily, you know… Not feed a ponzi scheme.

PS: if you think an arbitrary metal would have solved the world’s economic problems if only we stuck with it, I’ve got bad news for ya.

So which crypto do you use at the grocery store?

If nobody wanted to use crypto, energy usage (excess or otherwise) wouldn’t be an issue.

Big picture, you’re encouraging people to use this fake money by taking part in it. And it usually uses a lot of energy to do it.