Cleaning supplies alone are a huge consumable. Arts & crafts materials. Toys are basically consumables because kids play rough. Same for books. Some daycares include breakfast, lunch, and snack. First aid supplies, kids hurt themselves all the time.

But yeah, definitely also lots of diverting profits up to the CEO 😓

If you need some plausible deniability about it being real work and not just obviously you running up costs:

Feed it a bunch of work-related documentation and then have it do a bunch of reviews of the content on that documentation.

A congressperson serving on a congressional committee for a technical topic is very different from a rando appointed to the head of a specialized department of the executive branch.

But those are just words for “a group of a special size”

Some eastern languages have totally different counting words depending on WHAT you’re counting. One set of number-words for flat things, another set for long things, another set for printed/bound things, another set for things with handles…

I’d argue that VPNs remain one of the highest return-on-investment (time and money) steps towards online security, as many gaps as they do have in the big picture.

It’s not going to make you untraceable. But it’ll make you difficult enough to trace that nobody’s gonna put forth the effort to target you specifically unless you’ve attracted like, nation-state attention. (Targeting you as a member of some demographic a la advertisers, yeah not much effect).

Nature is healing

Economy tickets and hostels also cost money.

My preferred version:

That’s not what she said.

She specifically said that arriving at a ceasefire deal does not change the fact that he started and effectively lost a war for no reason.

The oil refineries we have in the US attention equipped to handle the type of oil we can actually produce here. We export just about all of our oil, and just about all of our oil product are refined from foreign oil.

If we didn’t export US oil, we wouldn’t be able to do much with it.

2/3 majority in both chambers of congress, plus ratification by 75% of states.

There is not a single issue that will unify the country to that degree right now.

Fuck, I only pat it twice.

They use the same banks as us, they just have a VP’s direct cell number rather than talking to a run-of-the-mill teller during business hours.

JP Morgan didn’t get all their assets by exclusivity serving low net worth individuals.

Mint is a good choice for your first linux.

I have a kid in preschool and honestly I dread the “pledge of allegiance talk” more than most other common “uncomfortable parent conversations”

“Yeah this is bullshit but you WILL be ostracized if you don’t join in. I realized this in middle school and just had to go through the motions for the next 6 years or so but I felt like I was taking crazy pills.”

The most proper use for a Real Book.

Loose leaf tea, re-steeped several times over the course of the day. The caffeine content goes down with each successive stepping, but good quality whole leaves will still let you get several cups out of them.

I stop making it at 3, which usually gives me enough time to metabolize it and sleep normally.

As far as I’m aware, all 50 states let you bring a “cheat sheet” into the Voting booth. Do your research at home at your own pace, write down your choices for each item, and bring that sheet into the booth with you.

I agree that vote by mail should be universal, but lack of it isn’t an excuse to be uninformed at the polls.

I think his implication is that he’ll veto everything, not just let it desk rot.

I hesitate to ascribe any sense of strategy to the guy, but the presidential veto is one of the most direct exercises of power that he has, and this is a guy who salivates at any opportunity to flex whatever power he can.

Sometimes hiring managers aren’t allowed to provide any feedback because it can create legal liability.

But usually they just don’t want to.