CmdrShepard42

Was it the one about how many amendments are in the bill of rights? I picked 20 since I know we have close to that (but apparently 11+ aren't considered part of the BoR?).

FYI if you get a FHA loan, you can't remove the PMI at all without refinancing. This was implemented after the crash in '07/'08. You can still get a conventional loan without doing the full 20%. I put around 10% down and just dropped PMI after about 4 years, though I likely could have removed it earlier if I'd paid for a new appraisal due to the increased property value.

Corn or flour (and I hope to god she's heating them up first)? Growing up as a Caucasian child, my parents never cooked the tortillas on taco night and I didn't know you were supposed to until meeting my Hispanic wife. Eating a cold tortilla now is like blasphemy.

Mythbusters did a test of poop particles on toothbrushes stored in areas all around their workshop and IIRC, the one in the bathroom actually had one of the lowest amounts of poop particles on it.

You might actually save money buying in bulk plus you won't need to make 2x the number of trips to the store which burns gas and your time.

You forgot to turn on your voice changer.

I buy a lot of electronic parts from AliExpress and they're actually decent quality. Many of these stores also sell on Amazon but charge way more since the product is already in the US and arrives in 2 days versus 2 weeks.

Nobody is going back and forth and EVs are rolling out every day. It's not environmentally friendly to scrap 200+ million cars and replace them with EVs either. Hydrogen cars are green tech just as much as BEVs especially if someone lives somewhere where their power comes from coal or gas plant. The knowledge they learn from testing hydrogen vehicles has the potential of being used in other industries as well. Like what is the problem with more knowledge for the human race?

Hell is very hot from what I understand.

I tend to agree but also see the other side of it in the corporation that I work for. There are a lot of stupid tasks that need to be done that are best handled by someone in middle management as it doesn't take the managed employees away from the actual work and is something that needs to be done even if it outside the scope of our actual work.

Where I am, it's selfishness, backstabbing, and politics that are the biggest hinderence from middle managers. Without being specific, you might have someone proposing an idea that, when implemented, will sound good on paper and make them look good while actually causing our work to be completed more slowly. Additionally, you have other people who have the answers to specific problems we face as employees, but they don't want to share it because they won't get credit and a promotion for it.

Coincidentally, my UPS packages have all been delayed over the last two weeks. One was supposedly delayed from CA to OR because of "weather" which is odd as it has been sun and mostly mild temps over the last week. Another had it's tracking showing "we don't have the package yet" right up until the morning that it was delivered.

That's exactly what happened to companies like Red Lobster and Circuit City.