What if people consistently vote against their own best interests?
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Actually, I think archive.org has a lot of those old games, playable directly through a web browser, so it depending on the game it may be much easier than what I wrote above.
The problem is, developing and testing a vaccine takes some time. How much time do we have before the global economy totally collapses?
Honestly, I have no idea why Europeans still use their old-fashioned bidets now that washlets have been around for several decades. Why would you want to use two different devices just to do a #2 when you can just sit on one and get it all done at once?
For the 1M ventilator one, for instance, there's no reason everyone can't work together on the design phase, because that's universal and open-source.
Once that's done, there can be separate teams by nation or region to do the parts that are more specific to those places, such as financing, manufacturing, and distribution. These teams could still all be part of the larger project so they could learn from each other, while still focusing on their own immediate areas of responsibility.
Compression fittings in plumbing must NOT have any teflon tape on the threads. This just causes leaks. Teflon tape is for fittings where the threads are the sealing surface. Compression fittings do not seal with the threads; the threads only provide compressive force.
Has that ever happened to you?
In addition, every toilet also has a supply line underneath, running from the wall valve to the bottom of the tank where the fill valve is mounted. Again, these are frequently flexible lines. How is this different than a bidet?
If the landlords are retired, they have Social Security and probably other sources of income. If they can't live on that, then they're living beyond their means and don't need to be landlords.
If landlords can't float a little money to pay utilities, then they're in desperately bad financial shape, and shouldn't be landlords. What are they going to do when one of their tenants doesn't pay rent? Just let the utilities for other tenants get turned off? I'd be OK with simply seizing the properties from landlords that can't manage their properties properly.
At least with a grocery store, you can wash off the produce before you use it. With a restaurant, there's nothing covering the food at all.
And remember, the chefs in the kitchen are paid peanuts, and have no safety net whatsoever, so there's zero incentive for them to get tested or to stay out of work if they get sick. This is also the case during normal times. Eating out is a good way to catch something in a country where we think it's a great idea to fire cooks and other low-wage workers when they call in sick.
This kind of thing is why I never like letting other people do car work for me, and try to do everything myself. You just can't trust mechanics in this country to be honest and competent.
If the repair is not basic, then it sounds like it's going to be very costly. If it's very costly, then the tenants missing a month or two of rent is not going to be enough to make a difference on the landlord being able to afford it. After all, the amount of money they should be raking in above the mortgage on the property is not generally going to be a large fraction of the total rent. So if the landlord can't swing a few hundred dollars for an unforeseen repair, then they aren't in sufficient financial shape to be owning and renting out that property, since the landlord (in normal circumstances) is fully responsible for keeping the property in good repair at all times. "I can't afford it" is not a valid excuse for not doing repairs, and the court system agrees with me.
CA does have a high state income tax, but it also contributes far more to federal coffers than NV, and it doesn't get as much back as it puts in. Many other states get more back than they put in. Again, I don't need a source for this, this is common knowledge.
That's because the citizens of California send most of their income taxes to the Federal government, where a portion of it is sent to red states to subsidize them. If California somehow seceded tomorrow and that money was sent to Sacramento instead, the state would suddenly have a budget surplus.
What are you talking about? Unless I'm forgetting someone, there have only been 2 assassinations, and one attempted one that famously failed. Lincoln was assassinated by someone who was mad about the Civil War. Reagan was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, but I doubt that's what you're talking about. Kennedy might be what you're talking about, but there's a lot of theories about what might have motivated that if you believe that it was orchestrated by someone and not the sole work of Oswald, with the biggest one I think being that Kennedy was planning to pull out of Vietnam. Anyway, even if your claim has merit, that's only a single data point.
If the landlords desperately need that rent just to do basic maintenance and repairs, and don't have enough saved to deal with a possible problem that might happen in the next month, then they don't deserve to own the property.
Sure, these nations might have lower median "wealth" figures, but they also typically have lower costs of living (maybe not Sweden, but Germany does). These countries also have much better safety nets than the US. And if the German savings rate is high, that means they can weather a crisis better than the average American. Americans may make more money, but when they blow it all on an enormous car payment for a giant SUV and a mortgage for the biggest house they could possibly get given their salary, and don't save anything, that leaves them in a precarious position when they have a temporary loss of income.
One things I've heard people say, and which I would agree with, is that one of the reasons to keep your engine bay clean isn't for it to look pretty, but so that problems (esp. leaking fluid or oil) are more obvious. On older cars with dirty engine bays or undersides, it's a lot harder to see some problems because of all the grime. I have no idea if that was an issue with your car, but I can see it being a problem with a lot of inspected cars.