Yes.

I wish they would build a 7" Pixel tablet.

But it’s it going to run Google Play Services? I feel like not running that would effectively make Amazon’s tablet its own fork.

Back in my day, we assumed that if it was on TV, it was a lie or likely not the whole truth.

Maybe you as a person, but a lot of society generally trusted broadcast television news. I think that part of the problem with old people going down the MAGA news hole is that they grew up in a time where you didn’t need a lot of media literacy to the level you do now.

Yeah, but is this a communist parade because that’s a lot of red flags.

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That’s why they designed the development to passively cool the walkways.

Of course they had it good. Studios didn’t understand streaming and so sold long term rights to Netflix for pennies. Now, everyone is cutting out cable, making it impossible for those studios to fund new production on cable and broadcast alone.

New production is going to hit a cliff as streaming isn’t going to be able to fund golden era of television any more.

It turns out people don’t want to pay cable prices for streaming.

The difference is that, compared to before, a lot of services have shifted from interfacing with a human to interfacing with technology in some way. The ability to interact with a human in person may not be available or will have additional costs.

Same with using cash. A lot of places have become card only because it is cheaper to pay 3% processing fees than to handle the labor costs of dealing with cash, especially in a larger organization.

You needed a payment card of some sort.

It depends on what part of the world you live in. At minimum, for the developed world, you’ll probably need at least #3 to maintain a job and connectivity with various government and commercial entities.

I guess it depends on how you needed to sign up to buy tickets, but I bought tickets on my phone in Sweden with my smartphone in Sweden with only a valid email address. The app even had an English mode.

As second hand story from someone who lived in a Mafia controlled part of New York City, the neighborhood that he lived in was a poor working class neighborhood. Yet, each storefront had full glass pane windows while the other neighborhoods nearby had bars on their windows.

The Mafia have an interest in protecting those “under their protection”. This would also spoil over into charity. The Mafia would generally be charitable to those within their neighborhoods to buy off complicity of the locals. For instance, you may not turn someone in if that person is running a soup kitchen in the community.

why don’t we American’s have the common sense to stay out of the sun?

Parasols used to be a thing in Western culture up to the Victorian Era. Back then, it was a sign of wealth to have pale skin, since it meant that you weren’t working outside in the fields. That reversed in the early 20th century when the default work switched from field work to factory work.

From then on, a tan was a sign that you had enough earnings to take time off and do things like go to the beach. Parasols died out around then since the goal of keeping pale switched to getting a tan.

Because if the answer is insultingly small then I’m not patronizing them

Why would they pay you anything at all?

Some people use kindness as deception.

The problem is population x living standard. The median standard of living for Americans would break the planet if applied to the world. China’s current standard may have issues with longevity.

You’re already running into problems with nations choosing fascism over reduced family size and standard of living.

Depends on what they are being evaluated for. If part of the evaluation includes whether they can or can’t pick up on social cues. Dresses oddly may help in the evaluation.

Some people have bad experiences where they lost trust in people and therefore treat the lack of trust as experience. That if you aren’t as paranoid as they are, you don’t know as much as they do.

Also, some people are bad to work with or are mediocre at their jobs, especially at communication. This is how they cover for themselves. It isn’t their fault that they messed up, you didn’t tell them something that they should have realized they should have asked but it is easier just to blame you.