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And, it should be treated like a loan, with the interest frontloaded.

Nope, but Australian healthcare is looking more and more like US healthcare every day, and whose fault is that?

~~Yeah, really reaching into the ancient misty mists for that one, all the way back in the hoary years of 2023 when even real life was monochrome 🙄~~

Edit: I understand now it wasn't intended as a rebuttal, but it sure came off like one. The date of publication is usually only relevant if the information has been superseded, or is so far in the past that the information is no longer relevant.

Unfortunately air traffic control has been underfunded and understaffed for multiple decades at this point.. It's no surprise that our aircraft are falling out of the sky now that Trump gutted the FAA, even if this particular tragedy was longer in the brewing.

You're right that heads may not need to roll - but there needs to be a huge national push to train and hire new air traffic controllers, and to modernise all the ATC equipment at airports. We need to give the profession the support it's been asking for.

I've been flying my whole life so I'm very comfortable with it, and even I'm unwilling to get on a plane if I don't have to nowadays. I can only imagine the numbers of my company in that, but I doubt I'm alone, and if that attitude is spreading it's bad news for airlines that are already struggling.

Main bedroom, guest room, and trundle bed in the guest room.

I don't really worry about wear - the nice thing about Comfort Option is that when one of the foam layers wears out, you can buy a replacement from them and replace just that layer, instead of buying a whole new mattress.

Of course you don't have to buy it from them - any foam manufacturer should be able to sell a sheet of the stuff that will fit in the cover, if you give them the measurements.

Where do you get that I'm "idolizing them" from my post? Whatever Valve pays to get this development done, it's not pushing up the price of a device that runs Linux/Proton vs one that runs Windows, because Linux/Proton/etc don't attract a licensing fee, while Windows does. That's just objective fact. Meanwhile you're over here speculating your tits off about stuff that might happen, so you can yell at me. The fuck did I say to warrant this aggressive bullshit from you?

I'm glad you've seen yourself the way she sees you, at least for a moment. My wife makes me feel the same way 😊 Love yourself, brother, you're a good-looking dude!

Technically the OS isn't free

And practically, that doesn't matter. Valve isn't charging anyone a licensing fee for the software they've developed, so as far as the cost of the device goes SteamOS is free. Just because they could charge for it doesn't change that.

A good mattress is indeed one of the best purchases you can make! Online stores with a lot of marketing (Purple, Casper, etc) tend to be more expensive to make up for all the marketing though, and I've heard stories of off-gassing despite basically everyone claiming "our mattresses don't do that!". Did yours smell at all when you first got it?

Not trying to shade your choice at all, I'm just mentioning because I read a lot of threads like this when I was looking for a new mattress. I've gotten my last three mattresses from https://comfortoption.com/ and they're more comfortable than anything else I've tried (including my old Serta memory foam block), and a few hundred bucks cheaper than the YouTube/influencer-marketed brands. My sister likes the one she got on my rec too.

Not even fucking close, buddy.

Yes! No pfaffing about with 5% extra population growth here or 0.1 more resources per turn there, stuff that feels like it barely moves the needle. The bonuses are big, and impactful.

Can confirm it 100% hits exactly like it used to. RIP your task list 😅

And, I'm not sure if you'd heard about this, but there's an unofficial fan patch that fixes a lot of the issues that never got patched due to digital distribution not really existing for a near-decade or so after the original release. You can find the patch here: https://moo2mod.com/