I recently had a conversation with a native Spanish speaker who lived in Japan and spoke Japanese fairly fluently. He said the exact same thing, it was surprising how similar they can be in this regard

I used to help with training sessions at a previous company. We had a computer lab type room, people would spend half a day in there and then I’d lock up after. There were two doors to two different parts of an access-controlled building, so the main door was a key lock, but the rear door was badge access.

I locked the main door, turned to leave through the rear door, saw that a lady had come back through the rear door to get her purse. No big, that’s the door we’re going through to leave anyway, so I move to follow her out.

I turn off the lights by muscle memory as I reach for the door which scares her. She lets out a yelp. I’m apologizing as I move to flick the lights back on

At that exact moment someone came through the front door with their key and saw us standing In close proximity, in a dark room with locked doors. I was already moving to turn the lights back on, so they flick on and we both look guilty as fuck because I’m an awkward IT guy trying to fast talk explain this isn’t what it looks like and she’s got “just got jump scared by this asshole” face.

The only thing that saved me was that I was friends with the HR manager that had just walked in, and about 40 years younger than the lady with the purse. I’m sure had it been any other of the women in the class I’d have been in an HR meeting.

Two other coworkers were caught getting it on in that room a few months later.

hell yes.

I believe a Rivian R1T is literally your only choice. No other truck has good ratings across the board, that includes gas trucks.

Start at 100% and work down from there?

He has a personal armed guard that’s legally obligated to keep him safe., way more resources to make that happen, and is very likely riddled with brain worms. Not a great meat sack to compare a sane person to.

Yeah, now say that on a literal stage, with a microphone, in front of thousands, while the whole thing is being recorded.

Oh and you’re famous enough that it would be trivial for a pissed off crazy person with a gun to figure out where you and your children live.

I’m certain the first thing that came to mind wasn’t money.

1. Tax them enough that they don’t have the cash to just up and build their own personal-use nuclear powered, nation spanning infrastructure.

2. Use those taxes to build a nation spanning nuclear infrastructure that everyone can use.

Exactly. This asshole wants people to stop yelling at them for “just wanting a fiscal conservative” in office. (The guy in the pic, not OP)

Try contracting in your spare time to get some variety.

Try contracting full time If you want to fast forward to that next life.

Because then the fraudsters end up with all the money, buy an e-news paper, or get a game show, and end up running for president. It’s not an excellent idea to let fraud run rampant on your society.

Technically it’s a centrist, since it’s in between a left and right wing.

Well, fuck you for that. I can taste the texture of your comment and I am quite unhappy about it.

Have you ever had cacahuates japoneses “Japanese peanuts”? They’re the opposite of that, I highly recommend them.

This is my favorite theory. I mean, I’m not a star wars historian deep in debate, buffet plate at Bennigan’s, but I like to think I know my stuff.

Chargebacks are a huge pain in the ass and everyone involved hates doing them. The chargeback fees are supposed to be a disincentive to curb the behavior. It’s mostly automated now, but there’s a whole “accusation/response/appeal” process that businesses need to actively participate in or risk just getting money clawed back Everytime a chargeback happens, regardless of reason. This causes friction between merchants and payment processors that sometimes leads to one dropping the other. Being in a business where chargebacks happen a lot requires a commensurate amount of work. They suck. (Yes, I’ve worked in this realm. Even when it’s all automated and works well, it still sucks).

They mostly hate them because people tend to do chargebacks when other people find out they made those purchases.

Or they do chargebacks in the wake of post nut clarity when they regret giving money to an OF.

Arguably twitch should do some kind of Twitch+ that’s basically OF. Given how much money it brings in though, it might be easier to convince them to do a “TwitchKids” and leave “Twitch” as the OF.

It’s not so much the lack of profits, more like the lack of kickbacks.

Worse punishments. For far less.