I think your approach is a good one to ensure real users, reduce spam, and for the admins to be compensated for the service they provide. However, is giving your credit card or bank transfer information to a website less risky or more privacy-focused (one of OP’s goals) than giving an email address?

To be fair, I’m much close to the age of the manager in the story than the young person, so I probably don’t have the best grasp on the modern meaning of “cooking.” I just associated it with the phase I already knew.

TIL

I’ve heard the phase “now you’re cooking with gas” for as long as I can remember, which has approximately the same meaning as “cooking.”

“Say hello to John Wilkes BOOM!”

A masterpiece

Trying email the PDF to another device (like your computer) or saving it to Google Drive and opening it on another device

The thing is, you want the turn signal to turn on before the start of the turn, so other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists can react.

Uh oh - a linguistics Wikipedia article.

And here I was, planning to work.

You are a lemme.ee user, so you will need to find another instance (it’s like a server) if you want to keep using Lemmy - and I hope you do!

https://join-lemmy.org/ has a listing of instances, though I’m sure others will hop in here and recommend some.

Edit: This comment describes how to migrate your subscriptions, blocks, and saved posts

They’re called “adds” because of the value they add to your life

Why thank you

My kid flushed a rubber ball down the toilet before - it was exactly the right size and squishyness to get stuck. After trying many things, I was able to get it out by removing the toilet and pouring in boiling water - it softened the ball enough for it to be flushed out.

It sounds like I got lucky. It was a warm day iirc - maybe that helped with the thermal stress.

How could OP have transcribed the movie clip so wrong, but still made an absurdist joke? Thanks for clearing it up.

I’ve been a victim of Poe’s Law, but there has to be some threshold where it’s not ambiguous.

This new version of the Tesla Virtual Power Plant actually compensates Powerwall owners $2 per kWh that they contribute to the grid during emergency load reduction events. Homeowners are expected to get between $10 and $60 per event.

Works ok for me on Android

One clarification, because I happen to work with it: the hydrogen peroxide and vinegar (acetic acid) react to form peracetic acid (PAA, aka peroxyacetic acid/POAA), which is a stronger oxidizer than hydrogen peroxide. It is indeed used at many US poultry facilities.

Notice that they voted for “Trump” but that it’s “government” that damaged their business. Curious.

English rock band best known for their single “Laid.”

Hope that clears it up.

“Tax haven”, though I like OP’s version too

It’s not so much a joke as a recitation of a tired stereotype

It’s a copy/pasted answer from a LLM. I think relativistic effects would be significant, too