The bottled water expiration date is not exactly because the water will go bad, instead it's the bottle itself. After some time, the plastic starts to break down and leech into the water. Storing the bottles somewhere cool and dark will slow that process down though.
That being said, if the seal isn't broken, it's not going to make you sick even if it's well past the expiration date.
I recently bought a monitor from Canada Computers, it was a brand-new box with the manufacturer's seal intact. The attendant still opened the box and we both inspected the monitor, then he re-closed it using their own tamper-evident tape.
Best Buy will do this as well but in my experience they will only do so with items being sold as "open box".
Unless you're using an instant-courier type service (i.e. uber/doordash), goods are usually delivered as part of a regular route by the delivery driver. Your USB pen is only one of hundreds of packages being delivered by that driver, and that driver will be following a fairly consistent route each day. I'd say it's about as efficient as taking public transit to the store
Chevy had a great idea with the Avalanche (that they've brought back with the Silverado EV). It had "saddlebags" - lockable waterproof storage on either side of the bed which Dodge copied with the Rambox.
The big feature though is the midgate which allowed you to open a panel from behind the back seats to access the bed and effectively converted the truck into a single-cab with an 8' bed. Great thing about that feature is if you had something that slid to the front of the bed, you can get to it through the cab.
Tech bubbles they're re-starting the crypto bubble, there's the AI bubble, the streaming bubble, ads on ads on ads bubble, cloud-all-the-things bubble, the centuries-old "use illegal foreign labour to keep costs low and profits high" bubble... that one isn't really tech, but it has kept the American economy inflated for quite a while..
I think the next step is them re-starting sub-prime mortgages
Missed the inbred part: They were heavily inbred 19-year-olds who drank wine for breakfast.
More taxes, and use that money to create a publicly-owned competitor. If the private sector wants to compete, they'll either have to be better or cheaper than the public option, or both.
Also, re-nationalize the infrastructure. In Canada, taxpayers paid for hydro and telecom construction, then all of that infra was included in the privatization of those sectors. Bell has been profiting for decades by charging people to use the copper that was installed on the public dime.
Could be Canadian, we call it a 60 here
Even with the lithium mining, an EV will reach "pollution parity" with a comparable sized ICE vehicle anywhere from 6 months to 5 years on the road, largely depending on what is powering the electrical grid (coal fired electricity being the 5 year), with the average being 1-2 years. That means that an EV from 2023 on average has caused less total pollution than an ICE vehicle of the same age.
On top of that, there has been significant progress made in recycling these batteries so that less lithium needs to be mined, as well as using other metals such as sodium, both sodium ion and sodium iron batteries are commercially available.
I know several, they're type that base their whole identity around their job, and the type to die very quickly after retirement. They also vote conservative.
This is also a pro tip for cutting chicken breast into cubes - it's way easier to do while it's still partially frozen.