Many don’t have a choice, especially in the US. Without playing the credit game you end up paying significantly more in loan interest for things like a house or car or can’t even get a loan. One of the easiest ways to keep a good credit score is to have a credit card you’ve had forever and that you consistently use and pay off.
It’s a goodbye screwed up system
A lot of people either forget or don’t carefully track the money as spent when it’s still in their back account so they spend it again. It’s just generally a hassle and more work vs just having a habit of paying off as you go and being able to see exactly what’s still in your bank account.
With new water heaters yes, do your maintenance. Old water heater that came with the place and hasn’t been touched in years? Yeah, the advice is to actually not flush it because you don’t know what cracks that gunk might be blocking up and it will be more likely to fail on you sooner.
Horned Demon and Marco Polo jokes aside, I say run with it. As much as millennials get crapped on for choosing weird names they’ve at least suck to it and I’d hope it would make room for more names. It has meaning to you, go for it.
Every kid will get picked on for their name at some point.
I dunno, his government tracks so far with what I remember of the film.
I haven’t read the paper but they might mean “Generative AI”
Well duh, hot things are too hot to cross. That’s why they painted the Mexico fence black last week remember? If the fire heats the water too much they can’t cross it. It’s genius is hear, genius!
It depends on the data but usually I’m just never offline. My NAS is accessible from around the world for my music and code repo and since I’m on IPV6 I didn’t even have to deal with port forwarding and reverse proxy nonsense. Photos I’m hosting an app that’s similar to Google photos and backs up from phone (it’s kind of custom to how I do things but there’s various self hostable apps). If I know I’m going to be truly offline unable to even connect through my phone somehow I’ll manually copy the files to my laptop. I haven’t done that in like five years though and it’s only been a mild inconvenience once and honestly I just disconnected and enjoyed a peaceful offline day.
Or a NAS for truly decoupled. Only thing I’d lose with a fresh install is any installed applications which can all be pulled again easily but the added upside of my wife also having easy access.
Google has actually released a software update to try to prevent the modem battery issue and are replacing the battery in affected models for free. Rare easy win from a megacorp
Not typically. You’ll see police along the major highways for speeders and the like but no state border patrol like that. Legally often transporting across state lines is a crime in and of itself but it’s one of those things where they look the other way unless they catch you using whatever item.
Often this is done for practical purposes, because if it’s legal in the state you started in, and might be legal in your final destination, they’d piss off more people that not of they stopped and confiscated from everyone.
It’s the salt mostly. Especially with indoor cats who often don’t get wet food and so are on the under hydrated side of things as they tend to not drink as much as they should.
Technically any without garlic or onion is safe for them to have a tiny bit as a treat but it’s so incredibly easy to overdo that it’s just safer to not give it to them.
Too much nitrates or nitrites is bad for cats yes, but they’d have to eat an excessive amount for it to be a concern and again the excess salt would be a bigger issue first.
That’s a version of decadence, and I got what you meant originally, but most speakers in the north (well, United States, Wales, and Toronto, Ontario as those are who I talk to most) think more of the excessive indulgence stemming from moral decline.
“Oh that chocolate was so decadent” meaning “I feel like I slipped into gluttony and sin eating it it was so good”.
It’s kind of used as a mix between the two definitions depending on the context. It’s so interesting how language changes from place to place.
I can (potentially) explain the double bagged paper. Growing up in the South that was the de-facto cooling rack, no wire racks or wax paper like you see today. They were cut open, laid on any flat surface, them cookies or cakes or what have you were laid on them to cool. They’d wick away moisture or grease and be easy clean up.
Free with groceries and if they were double bagged you had enough for a double batch of chocolate chip cookies while also usually guaranteeing (usually) the bag wouldn’t split from condensation or something before you got home.
They’re talking about bubble foam tea. Sure that was a thing but at least in any part of America I’ve been in, boba tea and bubble tea from the start was the tapioca pearl drink.
Some people get this purist notion that things can only ever be one thing and screech if someone uses a term differently.
The “bubbles” refers to the little edible tapioca balls at the bottom.
The name started as “bo ba”, the Chinese name for the tapioca pearls, and the west turned it into “bubble”. No idea what the original Chinese means, could just be bubble.
It’s often a sweeter milk tea (though pretty much anything goes these days)
The Brazilian Nazis. Many of the ones who didn’t end up in Argentina ended up in Brazil with just as many stolen goods. (They say, I haven’t studied Nazi flight patterns)
Completely missed that. My eyes rushed over that as an alternative CPU I think.
We need more good AMD options dangit, not just NVIDIA
Getting a new credit card can heavily impact your credit score and impact financial decisions for years. It isn’t something that should be done if you can help it.