What about the used car market?

“Please purchase a public road pass for multiplayer access”

Imagine going to Cwmbran and being pissed off that there’s Welsh people.

The (prospective) guests were visiting from Wales. The Airbnb was in Manchester.

“She died in '97, crossing the street while checking her pager.”

Didn’t HMD make a couple of those too?

Yes, the HMD Skyline has an easily removable backplate and battery.

That can’t possibly be a real sign.

It was one of several.

“You fellas meet the missus?”

I’m a bit surprised that they didn’t crack down harder after that incident

That incident was 15 years ago It’s entirely possible that they did tighten things up, but relaxed those changes after several years. Probably not relaxed now, though…

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This is almost as bad as the time I signed up for a purely partisan fishing expedition.

people who are bad at thinking should be treated with the same respect as scholars and people with real world experience.

This reminds me of a quote from Isaac Asimov:

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

WiFi/4G/5G Jammer

Wi-Fi might be fine, but jamming cell signals can get you in big trouble (depending on your location, of course), and even if it doesn’t, may well result in emergency services being disrupted.

When I switched to be a repair agent at geek squad where I had no time in front of customers I was still given shit daily for not getting cards.

When I worked at CompUSA, everyone had sales and card metrics. Including the warehouse crew. Who were virtually never on the floor during operating hours. They were often called out during store meetings, and the manager didn’t like their “excuse” of always being in the back.

I’ve heard that you can trick kids into acting drunk by giving them fake booze but telling them that it’s real.

Anecdotally, a friend of mine once drank two beers at his 21st birthday party. At the time he weighed 250 lbs. He immediately got “drunk”, took his shirt off and fell asleep on the floor. It was amusing to watch for a bit, then it was just annoying.

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With a good battery, the device can easily last for 5 or 10 years, although the walls probably won’t.

She’s a sassy, rebellious New Yorker

I’m pretty sure she’s from California? Unless you’re being metaphorical or something.

XKCD, if he were a little more macabre.

I’d say this runs pretty close.

Is it just me or do the Trzaskowski-majority areas sort of draw the borders of Prussia?

This has been the case in Polish elections for probably decades. A very similar case has been seen in Germany and its cold war borders.

If the title is a question, the answer is no

A student of Betteridge, I see.

Are there any justifiable reasons that it’s okay to be on speakerphone in public?

I once saw this question asked on the other site, and there was at least one good response. It was from someone who used a hearing aid, and said that for whatever reason, using the phone normally next to their ear resulted in the audio being garbled and difficult to understand, but using the speaker held a few inches away was fine, so that’s how they preferred to use it.

This is glory redefined.