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My father-in-law (85) is the worst for feeding the dog from the table when we go to visit them, so then she spends the meal trying to get in his lap or at least putting her front legs on the table next to him

Article says they also skip order 69 in their system

“Happy WiFi Happy Life”

Maybe not a blacklist, but I know a house I lived at previously (back in the era when landline telephone was fading out but still common) one phone company didn’t offer residential service at my address but did for neighbors’ addresses and kept telling me I could only get business service. I assume a previous resident had used business service and the address was then in their system as the location of a business. Perhaps something similar is happening to you.

That’s like saying I can outrun a TGV (while it’s departing the train station)

On 9 December 2023, Halley's Comet reached the farthest and slowest point in its orbit from the Sun when it was travelling at 0.91 km/s (2,000 mph) with respect to the Sun.

I’ve seen several from this campaign and they’re so dumb I feel like someone was maliciously compliant in making these so that Delta’s opposition to the union would actually encourage more people to vote to join. Like, management came to someone in marketing, but that person actually wanted to support the union effort.

Is he still on TV? Twenty years ago I worked a part-time job doing data entry at a small local brokerage. One of the assistant brokers used to complain because they had a client who would call in almost daily wanting to buy a stock he had a hot tip on, which was invariably whatever Cramer had featured on his show the night before.

Sounds like we don’t know if this particular story is true, but that does seem to be a general bit of human nature that we see over and over again

I usually only hear of her in relation to how she was a teacher but divorced her husband and married one of her former students who was decades younger than her, a classmate of her own kids. Looks like he was 30 at the time they married, so maybe not a grooming situation, but still weird. That’s not the kind of person whose opinions I give much value.

For people who don’t want to watch a video, here’s the Wikipedia explanation:

The results of a perverse incentive scheme are also sometimes called cobra effects, where people are incentivized to make a problem worse. This name was coined by economist Horst Siebert in 2001 based on a historically dubious anecdote taken from the British Raj. According to the story, the British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped, and the cobra breeders set their snakes free, leading to an overall increase in the wild cobra population.

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