Monthly or biweekly are both common in the US for salaries. And biweekly being the most common for hourly. Really just depends on your employer.

But, bills always come in monthly, which makes the monthly budgeting simple. A biweekly bill would fuck over a bunch of people as occasionally it would hit three times in a month.

I’m asking why in the US people don’t pay rent weekly. Where I live it’s the most common way of doing it.

Basically all bills in the US come in monthly. Keeps the number of transfers, letters, and emails down. And as everything is on the same schedule, it works pretty well.

A biweekly bill would fuck over a bunch of people as it would occasionally come in three times in a month; necessitating a larger amount of cash on hand to account for these months. (And people are, overall, really bad about having any cash on hand)

Edit: Rejiggered the comment a bit

Edit 2: People get paid in the US either monthly or biweekly.

I went over to the Steam Deck website and all models are sold out.

As in she no longer has the rights, or just the other company has the rights for x time?

What is extra odd is when people don’t bother with even the small stuff. I have a friend that just accepts Youtube ads exists. He is aware of Ublock Origin, he knows how to install it. He has used Youtube with no ads before. Yet he complains about the ads he willingly accepts.

I don’t get it.

Why? Even if you are pro-fossil, natural gas is cheaper and abundant in the US.

That graph doesn’t have very many years on it; and half are COVID, which always makes me suspicious. Found one from FRED that shows things are pretty average:

About 10% is not the same as 10%

That’s correct, using EIA’s numbers, it’s actually 10.12% ethanol in 2023!

Math: 0.33b / 3.26b -> 10.12%

The very first paragraph in your last link straight up says the actual amount varies.

That paragraph says the amount of denaturant in ethanol varries. That is normally 2%, but can vary.

That very first paragraph has ethanol numbers, and those numbers are…10%:

In 2023, about 0.33 billion barrels (13.73 billion gallons) of fuel ethanol were blended into the 3.26 billion barrels (137.11 billion gallons) of finished motor gasoline consumed.

Do you have any numbers that show it isn’t 10% or are you just trying to give me a hard time? The actual numbers, directly from the EIA, are 10%.

It’s 10%.

The Renewable Fuel Standard, createdy by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates an increasing quantity of ethanol be produced and mixed into gasoline. That is now at 36 billion gallons of ethanol as of 2022.

However, it is capped at 10% to ensure engines can safely use it. So, with the US annual consumption of gasoline at 137 billion gallons, we hit the 10% cap and put 13 billion gallons of ethanol into gasoline.

Who knows what the actual number is.

It’s 10%.

We do that with gasoline in the US. 10% of gas is corn ethanol.

The additives at the time didn’t work well; and simply removing the lead would lead to premature detonation, destroying engines. It wasn’t until the health effects were proven to be a big issue there was enough demand to change engine designs to be compatible with unleaded gas. That pressure was required as operating an additional set of incompatible fuel and engine types isn’t easy.

We still haven’t completely removed leaded gas from daily use. Namely small aircraft still use it for the same reasons cars used to use it.

Strikes me as a (weird) variant of slat armor. I would be very interested in to see if this is effective or not. Though my gut tells me it’s throwing shit at a wall and hoping something sticks.

I don’t think this one is going to stick.

Whereas a more ephemeral approach that actually encourages people to ask questions? Yes, it does cause long term issues when someone is trying to debug a project that has been on life support for years.

It isn’t just long-term, it causes issues right off the bat; no fix is searchable. All fixes require a community member to respond.

• For the user this causes significant delays. A problem that could be solved in minutes with a search now requires hours or days for someone to respond to their specific problem. A problem that likely was already solved 10 times before. And god help you if the server is active, your problem might get burred instantly and no response will ever come.

• For the support people, they have to answer the same questions over and over and over because there is no way for users to search for and solve their own problems.

These issues compound on each other as support staff burn out and users get tired of waiting. Leads to people just going elsewhere.

For me, a lack of support forums signals the creators don’t care about the software working right and don’t care the software will be unmaintainable the moment they step away. Ie: a lack of support forum is a strong signal to find greener pastures.

That sucks. I installed LibreOffice on my work computer and just use that.

If parents do their job and their kids are actually willing to learn something: eventually those kids learn the best path is to just do the work. It makes life easier and you learn shit that makes future endeavors easier/more successful.

For many people, it’s important to have a room, or at least a dedicated desk, that is only for work. You go to that room/desk for work, and when your day is over, you leave that room/desk and don’t return to it until work starts the next day.

Your entire home cannot be your workspace, otherwise you cease to have a home and only have a workspace.

Yep. Got tired of constantly having to remove/disable yet one more thing Microsoft added. Or finding out some of my previous debloating was reverted or that I hadn’t done it perfectly. If it was just a single checkbox and Microsoft actually honored it, I probably wouldn’t be salty right now.

Just fucking own it and do better. Downplaying it means not only do people still think badly of you, but now they know you also don’t take responsibility for your own actions and instead lie about them.

You also don’t have to be specific about what happened, only that you are actively improving yourself and what steps you are taking to do so.

Edit: You are taking steps to actively improve yourself, right?

A hard drive in a PO Box; data encrypted. Retrieve it occasionally to sync it with your local storage.