How can we penny auction without pennies?

Wait until he finds out that brake fluid is hygroscopic.

That provides a social benefit - a fortune that isn’t being spent is like a loan to society.

Quite the opposite. If they were living off interest, their money would go towards people taking out loans, starting businesses, buying houses, and generating more wealth. That’s generally how it’s “supposed” to work.

Per the article, they’re accumulating wealth through stock appreciation and then borrowing money using the value of the stock as collateral. So they’re actually borrowing money that could go to other people. Meanwhile, a massive quantity of stock appreciating value doesn’t do anything for anyone.

All the while paying zero taxes.

Google Doug Stanhope’s take on nationalism.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

Outside of law enforcement, this is certainly how shitty customer service policies get enforced. In other words, “Computer says no”.

My high school bully graduated second in our class and clearly thought he was destined to great things. Ran into him four years later, he was attending grad school a few states over. Confirmed he was still an asshole.

Looked him up a decade later. He’s a grade school teacher. Teaching is an incredibly noble pursuit and a miserably thankless job. I hope he’s enjoying it.

Gameboy Advance

it’s AI

maybe if dealers would actually tell you the price of the car instead of spinniing it as a monthly expense

I live in Seattle, but am spending the week in Boston on vacation. It is interesting how different of a vibe American flags here. Boston already did this once to get the flag in the first place. They’re proud to wave it. More power to them.

In Seattle, American flags are either LGBT colors are torn to shreds on a flagpole bolted to a massive truck.

I mean the difference here is that you can there’s no immigration paperwork necessary to move states. You just drive/bus/walk.

Can you imagine going broke paying for a life-saving drug knowing that elsewhere in your country, the law dictates that people can get it for cheap?

That’s not enough for your body to detect.

You will die before you produce enough CO2 to detect.

You actually don’t even need to breathe to do this. If you hyperventilate to expel the CO2 from your blood then hold your breath, you will run out of oxygen before you build enough CO2 up to detect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout

Uhm. Ackshally, your body can’t detect a lack of oxygen. In a box with no oxygen, you’d likely just peacefully doze off before you (maybe) die.

What your body does detect is a build-up of carbon dioxide. So if you want to torture someone, prevent them from expelling CO2, or put them in a room full of it.

Edit: for those downvoting, OP is basically describing a Sarco Pod

The Romantic. Really cool animated fantasy feature film from ~2009. For a while, the creator had it on Vimeo and even uploaded it to archive.org. Then he seemed to wipe every trace of it off the web. I can only find a shitty 320p version that someone must have had cached. It’s better than nothing, but I want to see it again in the full resolution that was once available.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110103034132/http://theromanticmovie.com/

Never seen a kite pop and lock before. Very cool.

Publicly, best they can do is gold apple shaped trophy.

I really want someone to chime in with the legal ramifications of ABC being a publicly broadcast station that licenses radio spectrum from the federal government.

Corrupt or not, the feds revoking a license is a lot more plausible than them somehow pulling a private cable station or streaming service out of people’s homes.