Planning ahead? Sounds pretty responsible to me

You could say you’ve never hurd of someone using it

As a student I liked uniforms too. I never had to decide what to wear and I never got teased for what I wore.

This has got to be the funniest summary of A Wind in the Door

Local units have the responsibility for training all their new members, so if they receive too many applications (or they lack the capability to train new people) they will have to turn people away.

We have very high per capita income and GDP, as well as a lot of land. Until “recently” you could expect to buy a house with a backyard on a median income. This probably has contributed to it, but I couldn’t tell you why we would beat the US.

How does it taste? Is it very different to a chicken egg?

Candles often have blue at the base of the flame

While reducing his sources of income will hurt him a little bit, unfortunately Starlink is very appealing to militaries and emergency services. Being able to access the internet is great for morale in the navy, and mission critical for plenty of emergency services. This is particularly true in Australia where we have vast unpopulated areas with very patchy phone coverage, let alone bandwidth for data services. I know some services are installing starlink as emergency backups for stations and in forward command vehicles. They’ll be paying the big bucks for Starlink.

Orecchiette. It’s a very small cup (the name means little ear) which holds a little bit of sauce, but not so much that you get overzealous and try to fill it up.

Yeah, went to donate but they’d shut up shop already. Melted like snowflakes

All you’d have to do to make it much more readable is separate the time and the year with some kind of separator like a hyphen, slash or dot. Also “Z” is the time zone, denoting UTC (see also military time zones)

So virtually human unreadable and the letters make machine readability a pain in the ass?

I’m so glad I don’t work in an office and I dread the day I do

That’s the thing: if you or I got 10mil we’d live it up and not worry about accumulating more wealth. Beyond that it’s just collecting for collecting’s sake. Clearly, when you’re the richest man on earth, the only way to collect more (of anything) is to collect power by buying the president.

Unfortunately it’s very difficult not to support Amazon indirectly because they make a lot of their money from AWS, which a large fraction of the internet runs on.

No, why?

Sounds about right. I’d seen “slot machines” (we call em poker machines or “the pokies”) more times than I can remember before I was 18.

I heard an idea once about making minimum wage 0$ and giving everyone a liveabke UBI. That would mean that nobody is required to participate in the workforce, meaning that employers who can’t afford to pay their workers a good wage would be priced out of the market rather than being able to prey upon peoples need for, y’know, money (which can be exchanged for goods and services). A very appealing idea for a 16 year old boy, and the only issue I see with it now is extreme specialisation in the workforce leading to less competition between different workplaces for similar jobs.

Don’t worry, you’ll just import volunteers from Australia at great expense when you do have massive fires