When I was in school, generally nothing, the teacher might bother you about it, but they for the most part don’t care and would rather move on with the day.

Sometimes kids parents would devise a reason to exclude their kid, but it was effectively optional, though generally encouraged.

This is basically disc golf.

Take an existing park/ site/ property / walking trail / hiking trail, and slap some baskets and a few tees (concrete optional in a ~3’x5’ square for the ‘tee’, but a marked off piece of dirt is also acceptable)

Course is in a forest? Better dodge the trees! The course near me encircles soccer fields and a walking path, another one near me follows along a creek.

There are courses that go under power lines and some that are nested away in between buildings.

To add, it is typically manifested as generic ‘compute’ or in the case of azure ‘functions’ where you environment the code is running on is abstracted away, instead you are just paying for compute, e.g. this function takes x time/cycles to run and so it costs y to run it each time.

In theory you don’t need to worry about scale or anything, just deploy your function, and pay for what it uses.

Phones are neither locked to their geographic area, nor long distance in the us.

In fact, my us carrier doesn’t even charge me roaming in Europe or canada for data.

This is so not true unless you are using some super stable old Debian release and aren’t doing complex work.

Most DEs are super buggy, especially the darling child kde, which right off the bat makes things not super stable.

Additionally some of the most loved distros are rolling release and inherently unstable.

Hell, I use multiple distros daily, fedora and slackware, I also use windows for work, windows is by and large more stable in my experience.

Slackware has kernel panics monthly, kde crashes on fedora, Wayland has too many problems to count, meaning I have to switch to x sessions all the time.

Most GUI software I use has tons of visual glitches.

Yes it’s tolerable, that’s why I still use it, but I wouldn’t exactly say it ‘just works’

I would estimate I restart my fedora computer about 4-5 times more often than than the windows computer, and usually I have to restart fedora because of serious hard crashes (e.g. kde crashes so hard that I can’t even switch to a tty, meaning I need to hard reset)

Governments are also hoovering up encrypted files and storing them for later so when the time comes, they can go and decrypt everything.

Gov seized your hard drive and you feel safe knowing it’s encrypted, better hope the forgot where they put it in 15 years.

The image in the article shows the entire thing being 20cm and the actual ‘blade’ portion of the toy being around 13cm long. a little longer than the blade on a pretty standard multi tool like a Leatherman.

Is this seriously what the police were actually concerned about, I understand that it’s different in the UK vs the US, but this is definitely overkill. This thing would need to be pinched between your thumb and index finger like a cigarette to be wielded and is arguably less dangerous than a fork.

But access comes with office, so if you have excel you have at least a software that is intended to be used as a DB (efficacy aside)

No it wouldn’t.

Even in France, arguably the biggest of the bread snobs, they call American style white bread: pain de mie (soft bread) and they call it pain grillé (toasted bread).

This is just standard regular sliced bread.

I trust traditional drug dealers more than gas stations.

HHEEYY BRATAN!! just keep wearing me and we will work everything out

I slapped a & before The and it worked out great

Tekken 5 / Rez, gun / & The Simpsons hit and run.

I know too many people whose dogs and cats died from getting run over.

Also, I was bit in the face by an off leash dog as a child, went to the hospital, they had to stitch my lips back together.

A “well trained dog” is very subjective and requires a well disciplined person, and a “well trained dog” can still get confused, scared, or angry.

It’s like saying seatbelts are absurd because a good driver doesn’t crash.

But term is all relative, long term means something different for everyone.

A four week t-bill has the same term as a hugely out of the money long call on a meme stock, and yet one is a tried and true investment strategy and the other is very clearly gambling.

The difference isn’t the time, it’s the risk profile.

Ultimately it gets to the point of, is the risk higher than the risk of money in a bank account.

Given that (at least in the us) money sitting in a checking account is 100% risk with guaranteed negative returns (over time inflation will outpace interest), there are investments that can generally be considered safer (bonds, tbills, etc) than just holding dollar bills.

This is a bad outlook, there are plenty of low risk investment strategies that are meant as income generation, and it’s generally what you should switch to as you start needing to cash in on your savings, these are things like laddered tbills and dividend stocks.

You can go slightly riskier doing things like wheeling options if your tolerance is higher.

Investment profiles differ for a reason and the term of the investment is just part of the strategy.

I should add that ‘buy and hold’ does not make something not a gamble.

If I told you I bought a random crypto currency or penny stock with no future or fundamentals and plan to hold on to it for 10 years because I just know it’s gonna hit big, would you not consider that a gamble?

All three are different

Try going to a casino where you put a $5 in a slot machine and get 12,350 credits.

Factorio also interestingly, never goes on sale, Wube said that the value of the game is what it is and that’s that.