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Not all nursing homes include food either (although I think that's more common in the US than where I'm from)
But bearing out to the same price AND hotel food instead of nursing home food... I mean, barely a choice
Too low. Median per night cost for a nursing home in the US is about $380.
$400 per night is the average per night for an "entry level" luxury hotel. Plus hotels generally give long stay discounts between 30-60% if you are booking by the year. They'll also generally include wifi etc for free (which nursing homes don't always.
So the argument works, it's more likely $400 vs $200
Depending on the hotel and location, a luxury hotel will discount the "per night" rate by between 30 and 60% if you stay for a whole year. 30% will be for places with a consistent tourist season, 60% will be your places that are dead 6 months of the year.
A room that has 1 occupant for 12 months is substantially cheaper in terms of labour/sheets etc than a room that turns every day for 365 days
In the US, to NOT share a room, the median is $376 per day. "Entry level" luxury hotels are currently $400ish a night, and dollars to donuts the $400 hotel room is WAY nicer than the median nursing home room.
Grandpa's not too far off
Oh! The left butt cheeks is a right boob!
All of that seems unnecessarily technical for a glue with a melt temperature low enough that when the sun hits the concrete block the glue will just ooze back out regardless of how well it did or didn't bond to the brick or air
Well, I mean, most of that was Mexico previously
Each one of those Canadian cities gets WAY colder than its corresponding place in europe
I looked at that map and could only think, wow, Canada is way further SOUTH than I thought.
The "seasonal flu" is the endemic version of the influenza pandemics.
We have only ever "stopped" a pandemic from becoming endemic ONCE, and that was smallpox. Because smallpox shows obvious infection, there aren't asymptomatic carriers, survival of infection leads to immunity, it doesn't have an animal reservoir, it mutated VERY slowly, and ring vaccination strategies were possible
Covid is endemic everywhere, and Trump wasn't president everywhere. In fact every respiratory illness that has ever been pandemic has become endemic. Sure, millions more people died because of him, but he didn't have some mystical bleach powered change over the natural course of viruses.
The next global pandemic, even under the most proactive and progressive US President, will still end up being globally endemic. Because a US president cannot control that
It will be a tarp wrapped around a scaffold that was never paid for
By almost any definition, no one ever really did anything first
I have done *nearly* all of that, including GrapheneOS on my pixel. No shit, it has taken about 12 months, and I STILL need a Gmail account for some things, and there are a few things I have just gotten rid of without an alternative.
But I also ditched Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Spotify in the same time frame.
This is the way.
Little bit more tweaking to get it how you'll want it, but my partner really likes the overlay that shows which streets have streetlights (and how bright overall) overlay for night walks
Have you checked recently? I'm in Melbourne, and my map updated yesterday
Days after is unfair, The US tried to ensure that the Vichy stayed in power BEFORE the war ended, they even tried to make its own currency and planned to treat France as US occupied territory when the war ended
I think Americans still need to realise that the global anti-americanism you are finally noticing is NOT new. It didn't just appear with Trump, you just had a softening of it during Obama.
You were invisible until WW2, and once the world met you... well, NZ nearly started a war with you during WW2, you tried to overthrow the French government DAYS after you liberated them (which is the origin of france hating the US), and then it got worse
Well, he died 65 years ago, so not much. Jr was only 14, so long before the brain worm.
The rest of the family hates him, and given some of the things they say, that predates 2024 by a lot (the first public distancing started around 2005)
And buy a new pair of shoes, in cash, they you dispose of afterwards. Put a riser in one of them. Gait detection has gotten really good
I don't like that we phrase it as "suffer the consequences", that kinda implies it was the unexpected outcome of a different decision. They had full access to all the information saying that this is what would happen.
It isn't suffer the consequences, it's you literally chose this in preference to a woman. This isn't the consequence of your choice, this was your fucking choice
My cat will meow in my face until I take my top off, because she will ONLY sit on skin
You referenced china being market capitalist, which they currently are, in a previous post, but did so with it utterly disconnected from its purpose, "the 2 century goal", or its restraints, "commanding heights", or the fact that the indeed goal of market capitalism was intended to be reached by 2049, or that they now plan to reach it by 2035, which would "end" market capitalism there.
The US poverty rate is 10.6%, but the US only uses the monetary threshold. China added to that with the "2 no-worries and 3 guarantees" (which was expanded to 4). Between 40-80% of Americans do not have access to the 4 things that China guarantees in order to define someone as "not in poverty". A line in which the UN verifies they had a level of 0% in 2021. At which point China is now aiming to meet again without the rural/urban divide
Why would I buy a bridge from an illiterate that has swallowed US anti China propaganda so deeply that when presented with evidence will just bring out the typical American propaganda line of "you can't trust the UN"?. You understand their use of market capitalism but stopped reading before the next sentence explains why and to what end, or even what "market" means in a Chinese context.
Also, don't try to "catch up" to the 80s terminology. It has changed, quite a lot... And arguably simplified, especially if you don't need to unlearn old terms.
If she'd done it in drag, she'd have been a BioQueen, although within drag even that term is falling out of favour, and is shifting to just Drag Queen.
She didn't lose a lookalike comp, she lost a drag comp for not doing the drag part. A male impersonator is/was a woman who dresses as a man, which is different to a Drag King, which is a woman who does drag as a hyper exaggerated version of a man
I think Stephen King wrote a book about how we should change the marathon rules to suit them better
Baseball has 300 pitches per game, test cricket has 540 bowls per day, so 2700 in a game
Umm... More the opposite. They run a LOT more, and a LOT further, a game lasts like 5 days, and it's played in summer, outside, in HOT countries, like playing in 100°F+ is practically standard. A "run" is just a bit less than the distance between plates in baseball, and a batter might do that 50+ times in a fuck load of gear with a bat that is a lot heavier than a baseball bat, and they don't throw it away before running. Even the bowlers run about the distance between plates before throwing