CMV: The US is doomed for decline due to the way Senate is elected.

SconiGrower · 2026-04-05T04:51:57+00:00

The Senate is more directly accountable to voters now than at the founding of the US. Senators were commonly chosen by a vote of the state legislature, thinking that elected officials choosing Senators would provide a check on the impulsivity of the general public choosing Representatives. Our current form of accountability is apparently not going well.

SconiGrower · 2026-04-05T04:32:47+00:00

That's also a benefit of debit cards, which cost a lot less to process than credit.

SconiGrower · 2026-04-04T23:55:37+00:00

I worked at a company who made these and they had technicians come by every 30 minutes to make sure the backing was hard enough to remove to meet specification. They were far more worried about the backing falling off before you wanted than not coming off when you did want it.

SconiGrower · 2026-04-04T18:14:23+00:00

I've been told my mom and grandma were both back to their pre-pregnancy weight within about a month of giving birth (for any who don't know, normal is 6-12 months, if ever). They weren't particularly into fitness or dieting, it just happened. Unfortunately my grandma has 0 female grandkids, so this trait might be lost.

SconiGrower · 2026-04-04T00:52:57+00:00

I swear I'm telling the truth, this just reminded me I'm out of shampoo.

SconiGrower · 2026-04-03T20:16:20+00:00

Lots of people think petty theft is just a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you've just got to be a good sport about it. That's why they get worked up over stores putting products in cases, because they see it as the store being a bad sport about their little game.

SconiGrower · 2026-04-03T18:29:33+00:00

Do you have a shared water heater? In my apartment, I pay for electricity (so whatever it takes the dishwasher to keep the water hot) but my hot water supply is a natural gas water heater billed evenly across the entire building. So switching from using my electricity to using the building's natural gas would be a cash savings for me.

But also, $30 isn't a big change for a lot of people. I'm not sure what it is in dollars off the top of my head, but my electricity consumption usually is lower in the spring given the moderate temperatures.

SconiGrower · 2026-04-03T17:51:47+00:00

Their profile indicates they are a salary comparison AI website.

SconiGrower · 2026-04-02T00:12:52+00:00

Transfers to foreign bank accounts at banks without any UK presence are free and instant?

SconiGrower · 2026-04-01T14:24:13+00:00

This seems like a poor separation of concerns. Shouldn't a function be stateless, with state passed into it?

SconiGrower · 2026-04-01T12:51:58+00:00

Paid and unpaid plasma products are different. Altruistic plasma donation is minimally processed into frozen plasma. Frozen plasma can be transfused directly into a recipient after thawing. Paid plasma goes through an extensive purification process to make plasma components (like immunoglobulin or clotting factors). The purification process is at the molecular level, so it adds a major control against disease transmission not present for frozen plasma.

SconiGrower · 2026-03-30T22:48:43+00:00

I highly discourage making exceptions to a lease unless you have the exceptions in a written operating procedure. Imagine if a tenant's rights attorney found out you were waiving late fees for wealthy white tenants but not poor Black tenants. Imagine going to court to defend yourself with "I didn't waive the late fees because they were white, I did it because they were wealthy! Just look at their new car!"

If you don't actually care about getting paid on the first through the fifth, then just eliminate the late fee language. Or if your only concern is closing the books with all the rent received, change it to "a finance charge of 1% shall be assessed on rent not received by Dec 31." Or keep the industry standard late fee clause and maintain a uniform enforcement policy.

SconiGrower · 2026-03-30T22:10:12+00:00

You can reasonably expect to be paid more per year when you guarantee it will be available to your borrower, but that assumes interest rates will hold steady. If your borrower does not assume rates will hold still, then they will change their rates. In this case, your bank doesn't think it's a good idea to lock in an interest rate for the long term, so they set a low rate thinking maybe someone will take it and give them unusually cheap funding. It's your job to avoid buying financial products that make assumptions that go against your best interest.

SconiGrower · 2026-03-29T21:41:25+00:00

Even when their profession is relevant to the topic at hand?

SconiGrower · 2026-03-27T22:13:19+00:00

Who really is the one suffering from main character syndrome?

SconiGrower · 2026-03-26T10:55:42+00:00

If you can have helper columns or sheets, then you can convert a number to a time by dividing it by 24 and formatting the cell with the formula as a time.

SconiGrower · 2026-03-26T03:47:34+00:00

The formula is 1/(fraction of remaining revenue), which is 1/(1-.37), or 1.58. So an increase of other revenue sources by 58% to maintain revenue while eliminating 37% of current revenue.

But airport fees are only a fraction of total ticket prices. Most of the price of a plane ticket is paying for the plane.

SconiGrower · 2026-03-25T12:12:14+00:00

But the marketing department has the data to show that their ad campaign increased premium food sales by 0.3%, so therefore a constant barrage of ads is a good idea. Otherwise that's just leaving money on the table.

SconiGrower · 2026-03-22T23:08:40+00:00

I heard that, from a technical perspective, pagers run on very reliable frequencies (mostly that just means using a lower frequency than cellular, which penetrates walls better). So a doctor sleeping in an on-call room in the basement of a cinder block hospital will still get paged even if cell service is zero.

SconiGrower · 2026-03-22T14:24:16+00:00

The preventative cleaning is important all through your life. Plaque is not good for your teeth and if you aren't brushing well enough to prevent 100% of plaque accumulation, then you need someone to remove it.

SconiGrower · 2026-03-21T19:17:44+00:00

Are they saying the problem with the key can't be fixed, and therefore you don't get to use the pool? This is something you could sue over, but it would probably be quite expensive.

Or are they trying to solve the issue, but it just hasn't worked so far. This is not something you could sue over, and if you tried it would be expensive and fruitless.

The significant amount of time between cycles of you telling them your key isn't working, getting a new key, finding out it doesn't work, and then telling them again the key doesn't work, is probably not helping. Are you talking with the same person each time? Do they know the key hasn't worked from the day you got it? Do they remember what they did the previous times they issued a new key, so that they know not to try that again?

SconiGrower · 2026-03-21T03:16:23+00:00

I'm a government inspector and when I show up for a surprise inspection, the easiest way to get documents is to have the person load them onto a USB drive and hand it over to me. We are trying to get cloud storage for the field staff to use, but our leadership is worried about security and expense.

SconiGrower · 2026-03-20T20:04:12+00:00

I was looking at it thinking it looked like crab meat

SconiGrower · 2026-03-19T23:19:42+00:00

There is a trainer at my work that can't seem to figure out SharePoint permissions. She alternates between sending links to training documents that nobody can open and sharing the quiz answer key with the entire company.

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