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The ease is in moving between measurements. How many feet are in 102.3 inches?

Sure I can do the math to calculate it in my head and take a few seconds.

How many meters are in 240cm? Don't need to 'calculate' it the same method. I just move the decimal over. 2.4m...

I say this as an American who finds our use of Imperial pointless. Infact, there is a highway in Arizona that uses metric instead of imperial, as it was a part of our move to metric. (The current measuring and weights system in the United States is based on Metric, we do use it, just converted into another measure)

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I'm guessing that the parent has a physical key and the fob won't let them lock it.

My '05 Nissan Altima let me start the engine with a physical key, and then lock the car with the fob.

There are a few American suburbs that are well-walkable and still support automobile transport. They're just not engineered to _only_ support automotive transport. We've had them, then destroyed them.

I don't know about which city or urban environment, but my downtown area (largest city in our state), isn't crime ridden, has no smog, sure there's likely more pollution, but with the layout of our highways and the location of traffic, that's all further from houses and offices than led to believe.

The 'riots' you're thinking of took place in a rather racially segregated and historically significant part of my city that isn't downtown... Urban environments have existed for centuries, even millennia. Ancient cities were dense and had many a people within their walls.

Unaffordable for the City

Isn't this the city that gave a few hundred million away from it's earmarked infrastructure and maintenance budge to the police department over the past half decade?

I love mine, and refused to trade it for the Subie. Unfortunately, the transmission is leaking, and the engine burns oil pretty excessively. Plan is to swap the engine and transmission out of a manual Subaru Outback or Forester and make it a more weekend oriented SUV.

Most pedestrian crash tests are at low enough speed that there isn't visible energy absorption, plus most dummies aren't equivalent to most human scales. They tend to be modeled after a 6' adult male at around 200lbs.

The bigger issue with larger vehicles is their height around people current full size or even mid-size SUVs and trucks have gotten larger than their former variants. You're much more likely as a pedestrian to get run over than to be hit by a car and land on the hood or the windshield (which is by far the better position to be in during an accident). The crash bar behind the bumper on all cars have a thick layer of foam that contributes to the 'softness' of a bumper.

While not under $20k, the Subaru Impreza and Crosstrek are currently offered with a stick shift on the base trim, and for the Impreza Sport ($23k) it's offered standard with a stick, and an auto optional.

This may change soon to only be the WRX and BRZ with a stick shift next year, but currently their lineup is rather competitive for AWD compact cars.

Front bumpers of most cars/truck are generally plastic and can at least absorb energy of an impact with a pedestrian (albeit the hood is often near neck high and can snap their neck)

Tesla paraded their new truck with 'stainless steel body panels all around'. I don't know about you, but I've banged my shin into a steel tow hitch. I don't want anything remotely close to that on the road.

I bought a 2022 Subaru Impreza Sport Hatchback last year in September.

5 Speed Manual Transmission Heated Seats Cruise Control SXM Radio All-wheel drive

No turbo to consume oil, no software to control the car. The Radio has Android Auto, and some software updates available for some nice 'radio features', like showing you the news, weather, sports information, etc. Never used it.

I still own a 1999 Isuzu Rodeo, safety and gas mileage were my reasons for getting the Subaru, as well as my desire to modify the Isuzu.

You don't have to have a VR headset or hardware in order to join people in VR chat. I've joined friends using a standard monitor with a keyboard and mouse.

Of course the name doesn't help, but it isn't impossible to join if you don't have one.

I remember the research being done on Ivermectin and found that the reasons a de-wormer helps fighting against Covid was due in part that many of the places that the study was performed, were in non-Western Europe countries. Places where worms and parasitic diseases are common, where getting one of two fights removed from your body will incredibly help the other fight.

So I either have to picture Joe as someone who's been infected with worms to the point that he needed a dewormer to help him, or he's giving a poor amount of anecdotal evidence. While the first is certainly able to exist, it's highly unlikely given his chances of having the parasitic infections are incredibly reduced in the United States.

New Pixel data transfer? Plugged in iPhone with the supplied USB-C -> A adapter, and all my contacts, photos, calendar data, etc. migrated to the new phone. Took less time than my mom migrating from an iPhone 6s to an iPhone 13.

People don't get spoiled or poisoned products.

I'm quite sure that this still happens only to lesser extents. Compare European food regulations to U.S. food regulations. American food while not explicitly killing people outright still has some ghosts in its past that are present in today's foods. See the Coca-Cola, Sugar companies, and 'fat-free' corporate lobbying of the FDA, as well as the huge advertising for terrible food has affected Americans.

The U.S. has food deserts, where fresh produce and food is either too expensive or impossible to find with substitutes being boxed goods laden with sugar and grains from the whale of corporations like General Mills and Kellogs.

The unbanked Americans are people who either are unable to open an account, or have been denied opening accounts. To cash their checks, keep their income, etc..., they have to pay much more in fees.

Historically (in the U.S.) it was rooted in racism post-U.S. civil war. Now, less so. The history is still there, and the inability of poor people to obtain an account still exist. It excludes people from getting mortgages, loans, investing, etc. Cash App has become a digital bank for many of the unbanked. Before Cash App, decades ago, we had the U.S. Postal Service providing some banking services to Americans. (No, the USPS attempting to help Americans in this manner is not new, we've done it before)

Missouri resident here. DOR (Department of Revenue is also the DMV in Missouri) wait times while long recently, haven't been anywhere as terrible as everyone makes it out to be. Appointments are available (can truly only speak for my local office, which is in the largest city in the state) and my wait time never exceeded fifteen minutes. Additionally, to process said paperwork only took five minutes when I was at the counter.

Each of the people at the DMV have been helpful for me when I got custom plates, titled a car, renewed my license, etc. Only one time did I have to make a trip home to get missing documentation due to extenuating circumstances.

Other similar apps

My first assumption by the subtitle was the 'SFW Fan-Creator Platform' essentially a SFW variant of OnlyFans. In which case, OnlyFans was able to function with a browser only setup... why can this not follow for Fan house?

I use Patreon in the browser, checking on posts via email. And don't get me wrong, I dislike the in-ability to sideload applications on iOS, but that's much par for the course with Apple.

Block chrome too, redirect to Firefox.

Space Grey

Always the very rich people with iPhone 13 Max ....

Funnily enough, I can name numerous people who use iPhone 13 Pros/Pro Maxes, just bought this past year and are certainly making less than median wage.

Part of it is fashion, 'not appearing poor', and they may only know iOS due to a history of using it. So no, the very rich aren't the only ones buying iPhones. The stigma that they are phones for the wealthy should go, just as the idea that Android phones are for the poor.

Many people I know who make well more than three or four times what I do use a variety of Android devices.

I carry my backpack or have a jacket on me at almost all times, and having the headphone cable holes in each has prevented this from happening anywhere as often as it used to. Plus the reliability of wired headphones has reigned supreme that I sold my AirPod Pros a few weeks ago after they sat for about a month or two between use, while my corded headsets are used almost daily.

Windows first, because Microsoft wants their OS to not give any lime-light to Linux or alternative OS's.

A national ID could be issued not through the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) or other similar bureaucracies in whichever state you live in, but through the Post office. Every citizen has access to a nearby Post Office, and many times more frequently than a DMV.

living under the identity of someone else

Quite sure most people, the vast majority of people would rather this be tightened up just for the fact that they don't want to have others living under their identity.

As for brothers sharing a passport, I doubt that these laws would affect them the same way, especially if they're twins and pass for each other. But then, just because they can do so, doesn't mean that they should.

Friction and liquids? Seems pretty much like the wet wipe used to clean my countertop - only a different friction material, and a different liquid solvent.

Which is about the same thing for an iPhone? Apple stores don't magically replace batteries in seconds. On my iPhone 6s, I had both a bad battery, and a defective display - took 7 hours to get my phone back after scheduling an appointment at the Apple Store.

Indie developers?

Which surprised me because I found that my favorite band is playing in Chicago this May, and I was able to purchase physical tickets from Ticketmaster easily, whereas the Trans Siberian Orchestra performance in my city required the AXS app to get tickets.

I tinkered around with the idea of building an app that would get daily images from the space telescopes and the Mars rovers, as it turns out - NASA has an API dedicated to them (search for it, really easy to find via your favorite search engine).

I never ended up building anything from it quite yet (maybe soon), but the possibility is there, and the data is free to obtain. You have to register for an API key, but again, it's still free. The photos are updated quite frequently if I remember correctly.

Same thing can be said about the National Weather Service. You can get your weather forecasts in nice JSON formats from NOAA, all whilst not having to sell your data to The Weather Channel, or whatever alternatives exist for weather apps on Android.