mothringer

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How large is large? How are people getting goods at all living hundreds of miles away from a population center?

Usually you consolidate all your errands into one trip every week or two where you buy everything you need at the larger town of a few tens of thousands of people.

My grandmother lived in rural Kansas, and her town had a grocery store and a gas station. Anything else was a 3 hour drive to buy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The larger city area will often be hundreds of miles away with not enough population in between to have more than one or two people at most in any given bus even stopping at multiple small towns. Mass transit it great in cities, but it desperately needs population density to be efficient.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, which is why the sanctions don't apply to grain exports...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Not in this chain, but it can likely be determined from your comment history by anyone who cares enough to put effort into it. A quick, less than a minute scan through that was enough to figure out that you live in the UK, and that you lived in Edinburgh during the first decade of this century.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Way too late to be worrying about that now. You've already posted it, and nothing you can do at this point would noticeably mitigate those types of risks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Even worse, the sanctions don't even apply to grain exports.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Any time and as often as you want.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they can get it on iPhone, it's game over.

While this is true, I struggle to understand how Apple would stand to gain from implementing this unless it had already become a widespread standard. It's also an opportunity for more privacy focused marketing if they oppose it, just like they do with government attempts to force them to implement backdoors into iOS.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

THEN, after calling them up and explaining the situation, they apologized and said they'd dismiss the charge--which they failed to do

That sounds about right. When I was in college I got a speeding ticket halfway in between the college town and the city my parents lived in. Couldn't afford the fine due to being a poor college student, and called the court and asked if an extension was possible. They told me absolutely, how long do you need, and then I started saving up. Shortly before I had enough, I got a call from my Mom that she had received a letter saying there was a bench warrant for my arrest over the fine

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"statistically you have a higher chance of a plane crashing on you than you crashing while in a plane."

Where are you hearing that, and I'm almost certain it's not true? On the other hand, "you're more likely to die driving to the airport than on your flight" actually is true.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

For fully remote anywhere in the midwest is good as long as you don't need the big city nightlife. You can buy a starter house in the rich parts of KC for 500k, or a nice house in the middle-class areas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed wholeheartedly, this is definitely not poutine, but it does look delicious.

view more: ‹ prev next ›