Who said they want to control everything you do? We're talking about sports gambling

Yeah, it was just Kia cheaping out by not having an immobilizer. They saved at the very most $100 a car(probably more like $40) by skipping a basic security feature invented in 1985.

The Mississippi Company was something like bitcoin. John Law basically invented fractional reserve banking by assuming the national debt in exchange for the right to print paper notes backed by France and exclusive trade rights to the Americas. The whole thing blew up because there was no mechanism to stop inflation, investors could buy an unlimited amount of shares of a finite investment.

https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.urology.2008.10.057

That sounds similar to the way my Bipolar manifests, although my episodes are longer lasting.

I think it's worth getting evaluated by a psychiatrist (if possible)even if you aren't interested in trying medications right now. I didn't have great luck with the preventative bipolar medications(lithium etc), but having a prescriber has been useful for getting meds to deal with some of the symptoms. If I get manic and have difficulty sleeping they increase my sleep med, if I get really agitated I can get meds to help with that.

I think it's also worth telling someone you know and trust in real life, if possible. Those low lows can be tough, and having someone to check in with is really helpful.

I get why Republicans think inflation is a good thing to campaign on, but what are they saying they'll do about it? It made more sense when they were blaming it on the stimulus checks, but nobody thinks more checks are coming, and Trump did the stimulus checks.

Maybe American voters are just stupid enough that saying "shit is all fucked up" when the opposition is in power earns a vote.

I researched this a long time ago, and I found one case where someone walked past the receipt checker and kept walking when they told them to stop. Security grabbed them and held them until the police came and figured out they didn't steal anything. They sued for false arrest, arguing that under that states shopkeeper privilege statute, the store needs some suspicion that you stole before stopping you. The judge dismissed the suit, reasoning that not wanting to show your receipt was sufficient suspicion of theft.

Not all states have the same shopkeepers privilege, and the not all judges would use that bs reasoning, but it's not worth the hassle to me to ignore them anymore. Plus I don't want to hassle the person checking receipts. They're usually people who, if they lived in a fair society, would be retired.

If the buildings vent stack is operating properly smells shouldn't be coming out of the drains, no matter how much they pour down it.

If the vent stack is clogged or insufficiently sized, air could be forced up through the traps, but you'd be smelling sewer gas too. It's a really rank smell you'd notice, so I think the polysytrene smell is probably coming in some other way.

I use PIA because it was the cheapest on their 3.3 year plan, and it has a good node geographically close to me with port forwarding. I only use it for torrenting, so I don't care if it's a CIA Honeypot or whatever.

That's a great strategy, thanks for sharing.

Did you not see how that turned from a really inconsequential disagreement to something emotional and personal almost immediately?

Sure, no single post was particularly toxic on its own. It's the holy war tenor of discussions on Phoronix that all but guarantees that every discussion ends up as a flame war.