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Also a steady stream of people that unknowingly have subscriptions. If you have older parents or grand parents, show them the subscriptions screen in the app store from time to time.

(USA specific) Depending on the state, "totaled" might still mean YOU can't fix and drive your car again.

In Illinois, you can only retain a totaled vehicle if it was hail damage or it's a "vintage (9+ yr old) car.

At the end of the day, when something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck; it doesn't matter how much the nitty-gritty details prove the thing is absolutely not "actually" a duck to the average person.

The "smarts" of a smart tv is just spyware(adware) by a different name that actively subsidizes and reduces the cost of low-end TVs.

What worked for me was convincing myself, deep deep down, that I don't want any alcohol to drink. It's just poison, addictive poison, that's provably bad for you with like no real upsides that aren't just shaky arguments propped up by billions upon billions (upon billions) of dollars in marketing spend. It's a shit, over priced drug. If you really want/need a recreational drug in your life, there are better options, it's a stupid sad shame that alcohol has taken hold as the main social drug, it belongs under the sink with the rest of the household cleaners.

So how do you quit drinking if you want to? Figure out why you still seem to want to drink at all. If you're going literal weeks at a time without drinking, that's great, you're probably not fighting the chemical addiction part. Most people that give in to daily cravings are just very addicted to the chemical alchohol and are constantly feeding their addiction.

After some weeks, if you're still going back to alcohol, it's because you still see it in some good/positive light. That's understandable, remember, billions and billions of dollars are spent every year trying to convince you that alchohol is THE way to have fun, relax, meet new people, and live that amazing life that only seems to exist on billboards and in commercials.

Once you just see alcohol as a poison you don't want to drink, not drinking alchohol is as easy as not drinking bleach or windex. For two years now I've had exactly as much to drink as I wanted to (zero), it's quite freeing really.

Lol.

Drunk drivers are killers. People that text and drive are killers. People that get kicked by their kid and turn around for a second to yell at them are killers.

I'll take an unfatigable, indistractable, computer that literally has eyes in the back of its head, and on the side of its head, and the front, and can bounce radar under cars, etc over the pitiful example of a "safe (human) driver" we have now.

(I know you run out of people in real world teams pretty quickly but) rotating pairs regularly helps with this, with a maximum of two-week pairings to avoid this and other issues.

There are other benefits, pair programming reduces a whole category of simple bugs/typos to basically 0, keeps people on task, offers (literally) immediate feedback.

Unlike most programming "best practices" or paradigms, there's actual empirical evidence that pair programming is "better". Fewer bugs, easier to read code, shorter review cycles.

My guess as to why we don't see more adoption is 1) most developers aren't that fond of it, and 2) most managers do some quick gut check mental math and assume 2 programmers + 1 computer can't be equal to or greater than 2 programmers + 2 computers, that's nonsense, actual evidence be damned.

edit to add: I agree with commenters that pairing is more demanding/draining than solo work. I shudder at the thought of anyone trying to pair for 8hrs straight, or "all day every day 40hrs/wk". Nobody solo programs like that either though.

Do you drink a lot of coffee or other caffeinated drinks, especially later in the day? I used to think caffeine didn't have much affect on my sleep, until I cut it out. Old habits die hard, but I just drink decaf coffee now and am getting better sleep then I can remember.

I think you run a much bigger risk of a "West Coast" party in the FPTP system (looking at SNP in the UK).

In a proportional system, California and the west coast is not pure blue or liberal or some new "independence party". Without even looking at numbers I'm sure California alone has as many or more conservative leaning voters than Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and the Dakotas combined, we just never see it thanks to our antiquated setup.

Consultants with more budget than sense seems more likely.

I would set up each reporting unit (precint/causaus site) with their own sheet. There are probably only 5-10 officials per site that should even have edit access, maybe less, like only secretaries?

Make a nice formatted layout specific to that year. People feel pretty comfortable in excel-like spreadsheets/forms.

Then at the state level, since you have permission to all the sheets, its simple to aggregates all the sheet data

It's not some wiz-bang branded app with fancy animations, but its piggybacking on a very robust spreadsheet system that many people have some experience/intuition with.

Minus the google being evil part, this entire operation could have been done in google sheets and would probably have gone 100 x better. With free robust revision history, permission control, and everything....