Offroad vehicles are typically designed to go slowly over rough terrain. Their shape does not matter for aerodynamics, and being boxy means the most storage space for any given footprint.

At the opposite end of the spectrum are sports cars and cars designed for efficiency, such as the Chevrolet Corvette and the Toyota Prius. Those still have to have the space they need to do their jobs (space for two people plus a large engine for the former, space for people and cargo for the latter) while still being good aerodynamically.

Then, you have white vans, lorries/tractor-trailer trucks, box trucks, etc. Those are designed for the road, but need to maximize cargo space. The fronts tend to have as much aero design as they can get away with, and the sides often have skirts, etc. There is a limit to how efficient the design can be, but if you can carry enough stuff in the back, the efficiency matters less.

Back to offroad vehicles, that is why they were originally boxy. Nobody cares what shape offroad vehicles, bulldozers, or forklifts, were. Over time though, those offroad vehicles became the luxury vehicles as well, and space inside luxury vehicles matter. So, even while it is possible to try to make them less boxy, people have long associated "boxy" with "good offroad", which draws people to buy these box-vehicles, even when they will never take them further offroad than parking on the grass at the park. (On a side note, this has caused people who ACTUALLY need large offroad vehicles to be able to get them used more cheaply than before, and often in better shape because these "road queens" never left the road.)

No, he is being indicted for misusing business funds and other finance violations (including a claim that the money to reimburse Cohen for the deal with Daniels was "legal fees" to Cohen, rather than stating that it was for payment to Daniels). There is also a question about the money possibly coming from his campaign funds, which would be a further violation.

If Trump were to have cut a personal check from his own finances to Daniels, then I do not think anyone could call that illegal. It is the source of the funds and how they were transferred that is the problem (from what I understand), along with any coverup.

I might be missing something (especially with "more than 30 counts"), but that is my understanding.

The first person meant "the other side of your face"; in other words, on your left cheek, not your right. The second one thought she meant "you have the correct cheek, but it is on the inside, not the outside".

Even better, "guy" comes from the French word "guie", which means "guide"!

There is if you stutter.

I figured they did at some level, but I did not specifically think about it until I watched Mentour Pilot's video on the Quantico/OrientThai/One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 crash in Thailand. Petter specifically advised using the EU blacklist to check on smaller/regional airlines, even if they do not fly to the EU, before flying with them.

Airplane is quite the movie.

Be careful with this. These conversation engines can create something that sounds reasonable, but are actually close to nonsense. I cannot always tell the difference between a ChatGPT paragraph and one written by a random Internet user, but I can tell the difference between a ChatGPT paragraph and one written by someone who is knowledgeable in a field I am very familiar with.

It might be a good way to create a framework, but since cover letters are ultimately read by people, even a minor mistake might be enough for a potential interviewer to decide to not bring you in.

At the very least, make sure you have the entire cover letter memorized. It is really embarrassing when a candidate seems to not be aware of what their cover letter and CV say.

And I am not sure it is fair to distill The Joker down to just "a comedian".

The son was the cab driver.

Or, if you are calling someone's cell phone, send a text. Just a quick "Hi Arthur, this is Slartibartfast. Calling to ask if you have seen the mice." Or whatever.

If you really need to reach the person, do both, especially if you are not sure their age. Younger people (based on my experience) tend not to listen to voicemails, and older people sometimes are not comfortable texting. This is less true than it was a few years ago, but can still be applicable depending on the individual.

In addition to tax reasons, and maintenance reasons, it can also be a cashflow solution. If you own a million dollar building, then that million dollars is "stuck" there. If you sell the million dollar building, then lease the space back for fifty thousand a year, you have 950k to spend on buying new equipment, hiring new people, paying salaries, etc.

Even better, as others have said, if you only need part of the building, you can pay less in rent since the new building owner can collect rent from other tenants.

It is also a great way to reduce how much the company owns, and how much it owes, which makes it easier to be acquired by a larger company (such as Paramount).

Note that this also can be done if the value of the property changes significantly.

That is the thing. If you watch it like it was entertainment (and that is how many television news organizations treat it), then that is fine. I think OP is talking to people who obsessively watch the news, and that is the danger.

Humans conflate anecdotes with verifiable facts, and "saw it on the news" affects how many humans think about the world. Missing out on the one story about the guy halfway across the country murdered ten people does not have any negatives, where hearing about the story mentally increases your "people are murderers" counter. The world is much safer than the news would have you believe, and that is what the news organizations want you to think.

There is an old adage from the newspaper days, "if it bleeds, it leads". Bloody violence always gets the most prominent position, since that sells more newspapers/gets more viewers/listeners, which sells more ads, which makes the news organization more money.

Vehicle maintenance seems to not fall under "driving". Unless you are implying that people who do not replace their burned out headlights/brake lights/turn signal bulbs have mental health issues...

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Less red tape would be good, but there are still a lot of people who remember things like thalidomide. For regular things, the need for the process is critical. Often, research, funding, or various stages of trials and other testing is delayed because the benefits or results of previous stages/documentation did not clearly show what the approvers needed to see, or the information provided was suspect.

Note that some cases, such as approval for off-label uses for medicines that are already proven safe, work their way through the process much faster, since the main question is the efficacy; the question about safety was previously answered in earlier work/approvals.

For the COVID vaccines, saying that it was "streamlined" almost does not do it justice. If a step was completed at 8:00 PM on a Friday for anything else, the next step would not start until Monday at the earliest. For COVID, the people involved in the next step would be at the office at 7:30 PM, waiting for the previous step to be complete, and they would be prepared to work overnight, then hand off to the next step at 6:00 AM Saturday morning, and so on.

It is an unsustainable pace overall, but it worked for that single need.

>giant companies don't take a more sophisticated approach to things

Giant companies are giant. It is difficult to give each group/department/division its own rules, so they prefer one-size-fits-all approaches, even if they are more inefficient individually. The amount of admiration overhead of having uniform rules means that it is more efficient for the entire company. In some cases, large divisions or unique groups are run more like individual companies: think of Gmail under Google, or the logistics arm of a retail chain.

>I work in quite a senior position at a big company and my boss sent an email several weeks back to me and other managers that was basically just 'we have lots of money left, send me your wishlists'. You would think that the company would realise what's happening when every year every department orders a bunch of fancy expensive tech in December, but it seems not...

Every year, people are limited to what they already decided they needed, and those decisions were often made the previous year. Then, once 95% of the year and 85% of the budget is gone, there is some discretional money left over that can be used for new lab equipment, better chairs, bigger monitors, or whatever else. This "extra money" is thought to be good for the morale, and it gives a chance to buy one-offs that were hard to budget for. My group often will buy equipment to do proof-of-concept or tester equipment, to evaluate if we should consider using new technology or not.

This "extra money", at least in cases I have seen, comes from the group spending less money than expected, often through intelligent employees, but sometimes just by dumb luck. In either case, it works as an incentive. If we figure out how to do the same job, but use 9 widgets instead of 10, then the money for that extra widget can be used to replace everyone's old nasty keyboards that year... The company does not care, since they expected to spend that money anyway, and we employees are happy when the pallet of new keyboards show up.

I do know there are some instances in the world where people request twice as much money as their group actually needs. My hope is that those are discovered and stopped, unless that group is making the company so much money that nobody cares...

Or, an atheist bra only supports what can be proven to exist. It is like an anti-Wonderbra.

The bigger question is what an agnostic bra would be.

There is a danger to those, unless you already know a lot about the product. Obvious examples are, "phone broke when I dropped it down a flight of concrete stairs" or "burned my finger when I tried to get a stuck bagel out of the toaster". Less obvious are the ones like "parts were missing when it arrived" (threw away the plastic bag with the screws)", or "phone will not boot" (phone arrived with a dead battery and person did not charge it).

I wish there was a way to sort reviews by how long people had owned and used the product. So, I can get the views of the person who has lived with it for a month or a year, not the person who bought it yesterday, or the person who bought it and immediately returned it.

I also wish that Amazon specifically would not allow sellers to change what product is being sold, but keep all the reviews. Sometimes, you can go back and find reviews that are clearly for a different product (like "length and color exactly as promised" for something that would not matter for, or complaints about cellular reception on a device that has no cell connection).

Try doing a small sharp exhale while squinting your eyes and shaking your head side-to-side once or twice. (Kind of like what you would do if you just walked through a swarm of gnats and you think one might have gotten in your nose.)

If you are a full-body sneezer, the dog might think that something bigger is going on when you sneeze. What I described above is much more subtle, and easier to control/adjust to communicate with the dog, without startling or exciting it.

Dogs hurt the toys they love the most.

Also, look for non-stuffing toys. They tend to be made out of more durable material, and less mess to clean up. You do have to check the toy from time to time to make sure there are not long strips that are loose.

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I am not saying that Weird Al is a modern-day Nostrodamus, but it seems like there is an Al song for most things.

Poor Patty Black. Nobody ever gives her credit for just trying to get through her workday.