It was technically Chinese territory on a long lease to the UK. A suitable analogy for people from the USA would be Guantánamo Bay if the lease had a fixed term rather than being indefinite as long as the US keeps up the payments.

Doesn't have to be Silicon Valley. There are European fintech companies too, in particular neobanks.

"Cook until done" is nicely futureproofed. If you're not writing for publication you don't really need to consider gas vs electric-without-fan vs electric-with-fan ovens. And in the real world "180C at 50 minutes" usually needs adjusting anyway because of differences in air flow, poor calibration, etc.

Friends don't let friends eat British brains.

That is true, and I owned thousands of dollars in tools. But those were primarily hand manual and power tools. Shops supply more permanent things like tire mounting and balancing machines, alignment machines, and air compressors.

I've worked in a lot of places and they all stopped paying for this stuff years ago. You want a magazine, go buy it yourself.

DOGE reported on many thousands of subscriptions to things that were being paid for by the taxpayers. It's about time that stuff ended.

If your name never changes then all of your achievements are indexed together. If your CV has to say, "I worked at XYZ between these dates, but under a different name" then that makes it a little bit harder to get a reference that's verifiably about you. You also potentially miss out on people seeing your CV on the pile and saying, "I worked with her before, she's worth calling in for interview". Little bits of friction can make a big difference.

Also, as an aside, talking about "modern audiences" reflects a cultural bias. There are cultures in which the wife always kept her surname. There's nothing inherently antiquated or modern in naming customs: it's "what I'm used to", "what my grandparents were used to", and "what that particular group of foreigners do".

Many professors didn't care for Einstein due to his inability to stay focused in school. He graduated in 1900 and spent the next several years working only part-time so that he could focus on writing his brilliant theories. Didn't even land a full-time job until 9 years after he graduated.

Sources? I can find unsourced claims that he was employed full-time at the patent office but finished his work in half the time and so was able to spend the other half doing physics. Certainly the "graduated" of your claim is his first degree; he submitted his doctoral thesis in 1905 and his habilitation in 1907. I see further unsourced claims that having obtained the habilitation he was only able to teach before 08:00 and after 18:00 because of his work at the patent office. 1909 seems to be not when he landed his first full-time job but when he landed his first academic job.

Bernie is a freaking genius. He's a rich politician able to sell tickets to his "fight the rich" rallies. Amazing

Companies currently pay for health insurance for their employees. If you tax employers then most people won't notice the change. That's effectively how it works in Europe: technically part of the social security payment may be paid by the employer and part by the employee, but it's deducted at source. Since the point of the single payer system is that a monopoly has a strong bargaining position, the expectation is that it would be cheaper than the current system.

Every time someone posts this "fires per 100k cars" thing all the articles end up quoting https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.autoinsuranceez.co... , and that report is really bad. They make reference to NTSB statistics on vehicle fires by vehicle type, which the NTSB does not track. They also report fires per 100k cars SOLD, not per 100k cars as you indicated. It's completely irrelevant as a statistic.

Makes no sense to me either

It's a lot more work to break the aromatic ring in multiple places than to substitute the groups which are attached to it.

New Jersey has ordered Tesla to remove the 64 superchargers currently installed on the New Jersey Turnpike.

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