This is one of the main reasons doctors don’t ‘just give you a battery of tests’. Not only is that expensive, but if you are running dozens of tests, the chance one of them gives a false positive is pretty high. So now you not only wasted a pile of money, but you also think you have some rare disease you don’t actually have. So you waste even more time and money treating that disease you don’t have.

Doctors run tests for things they think you might actually have, which diminishes the false positive chance.

Every piece of land has been taken and retaken over and over. The only limit to our knowledge of such is how far back we have historical records of an area. Humans going back through all times and societies sucked ass.

Yeah. A series of fucktarted decisions caused Germany to fuck themselves:

• Germany turned off all their nuclear plants (why?!)
• Germany turned off all their coal plants (good)
• Germany vastly increased natural gas imports and tied themselves at the hip to Russia (they were publicly told this was a bad idea. Germany laughed it off)
• Germany ramped up solar/wind production (good)
• Germany did not invest in grid-scale storage to go with that solar/wind (Just going whole-hog on trusting Russia)
• Russia invaded Ukraine and held natural gas exports to Germany’s throat (boy, who would have guessed Russia would fuck over Germany?!)
• Germany had to emergency expand their LNG imports amid record-high prices and with hastily-built LNG terminals (LNG is also the most expensive way to import natural gas)
• Germany had to online coal plants due to shortages (boy, those nuclear plants would have been damn helpful!)
• Germany now has some of the highest priced electricity anywhere

They really, really, really should have kept those nuclear plants like France…

Yep, France has cheaper energy than Germany. France went nuclear, Germany went solar/wind (and even had to re-online some coal plants due to shortages).

The pushback on nuclear from anti-fossil advocates never ceases to amaze me.

Batteries plus solar is still cheaper than all other power systems.

Several of my friends live in states with energy provider choice. Buying from the 100% green power providers is more expensive. Natural gas is extremely cheap after all.

Yep, the unreliability is exactly why buying from 100% green energy providers is more expensive than buying from natural gas providers. Batteries are extremely expensive, natural gas is cheap.

Source: Several of my friends live in states with energy provider choice; the green providers cost more.

They required the choice between two different administrators.

Most US states have this. They mandate you can choose your energy provider.

Are you getting their specific electrons? No. (Electrons in AC systems don’t actually travel very far, you get the same ones jiggling back and forth!) But they make that much more power and your previous provider makes that much less power. The end result is you buy power from that provider, just as promised.

As you said, the grid must be balanced. Your old provider cannot generate the power, and your new provider must generate the amount if power you now buy. If either of those are not the case, the grid is not balanced.

In the US, a big part of it is that natural gas is a waste product of oil fracking. If you want the oil, you will get a giant gob of natural gas to go with it. The stuff is really, really fucking cheap because of this.

Yep. Meanwhile the US has some of the cheapest and is mainly Natural Gas.

Lots of US states have legislation that lets you choose your energy provider. People buy from the 100% green energy providers if they wish to pay more, not if they wish to save money.

Source: Several of my friends live in these states; they pay more to buy from 100% green energy providers.

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Toaster with a rack on top is just an inferior variant of a toaster oven.

Many toaster overs are air friers (often called convection ovens). They are S tier for a wide variety of reasons!

Yeah, honing rods bend back a bent blade edge. This can extend how long a whetstone sharpen is good for, but only by a little. They aren’t a replacement for a whetstone which does the above, and also sharpens the blade.

Monthly or biweekly are both common in the US for salaries. And biweekly being the most common for hourly. Really just depends on your employer.

But, bills always come in monthly, which makes the monthly budgeting simple. A biweekly bill would fuck over a bunch of people as occasionally it would hit three times in a month.

I’m asking why in the US people don’t pay rent weekly. Where I live it’s the most common way of doing it.

Basically all bills in the US come in monthly. Keeps the number of transfers, letters, and emails down. And as everything is on the same schedule, it works pretty well.

A biweekly bill would fuck over a bunch of people as it would occasionally come in three times in a month; necessitating a larger amount of cash on hand to account for these months. (And people are, overall, really bad about having any cash on hand)

Edit: Rejiggered the comment a bit

Edit 2: People get paid in the US either monthly or biweekly.

That sucks. I installed LibreOffice on my work computer and just use that.

If parents do their job and their kids are actually willing to learn something: eventually those kids learn the best path is to just do the work. It makes life easier and you learn shit that makes future endeavors easier/more successful.

For many people, it’s important to have a room, or at least a dedicated desk, that is only for work. You go to that room/desk for work, and when your day is over, you leave that room/desk and don’t return to it until work starts the next day.

Your entire home cannot be your workspace, otherwise you cease to have a home and only have a workspace.