You don't really have to save to keep a bank account Either maintain a minimum balance or pay a horrible fee. Hidden secret: Most of the payday advance and check cashing places are actually owned by the banks. They just don't like the horrible publicity from them.

I don't think its for the loans. A lot of people in the country don't have the savings to keep a bank account. So they have to pay big fees to check cashing places to actually get their pay.

I remember the days of people complaining about Walmart. It seemed like nothing could stop them

Then out of nowhere Amazon arrived and is endangering Walmart. It's hard to drive anywhere now without seeing at least one Amazon delivery van. There will always be disruptors.

What France is doing is dumb af. I'm old enough to remember what a nightmare it was to find a book you needed for school. Going from B&N to Borders, etc in a quest to find the thing. And then in the end the only hope was to place an order at the store with a 4-8 week delivery. If they want to restrict their population's access to information, they get what they deserve.

Ummm, California is also a "right to work" state

Yeah, there is plenty of land but it's not usable: 1) Too far of a commute to where the jobs are 2) Water resources are already stretched to the limits.

Yeah, but affordable housing isn't easy to come by in Palo Alto. I say this as a Bay Area resident who would like to not pay about $1 million to live in some lower/middle class house with a homeless encampment a couple blocks away. And being able to go to a store without having to circle for 15-20 minutes looking for parking would be a nice touch.

There's a value to this. Watching people like Lebron James and John Cena bend over for China was insightful. We get to quickly see which of our stars have no principles.

Not sure it's exceedingly unlikely. Vaccines are around 95% for moderna and pfizer and 60% for J&J. Still a good chance of getting hit by it.

A little off topic, but they are planning to use the same mRNA technique (first tried for Covid) on the flu. This will mean that the flu vaccines will come out very close to flu time and (hopefully) go from 50-60% effectiveness to 90+% effectiveness.

Actually, they gave up the right to claim they have free speech. The government has admitted to meeting with Facebook about deciding what posts to censor. The Supreme Court has already decided that if a private company is acting as a government proxy, then they are required to obey the same rules as the government. Therefore they are not permitted to censor speech.

No, these poor souls were forbidden to read the contract. They were also forbidden to leave until they had signed the loan and initialed all the pages. They were also not told that there isn't much financial demand for someone with a Masters in film theory

I know nothing about what security measure Dutch Ahold has taken. But if someone is dumb with security on Linux, there is no magic reason it can't be hacked. Example: maybe they allow a remote login for diagnostics, remote firmware update, etc. Employee finds the username/password hard to remember and stores it on another machine that gets hacked. Most hacking isn't some fancy shit like in the Matrix. Most of it is getting information from dumb people (social engineering.) Linux isn't defended from the dumbest person in the company.

In a distant future, aliens will visit earth. They will be amazed by the massive oceans of carbonated water and wonder how it was formed

From checking the article (apologies for everything I get wrong. I am in no way knowledgeable about this stuff.) All existing nuclear designs are old as hell (think about 50 years.) So this is an attempt to put to bear some more modern thoughts on the subject - including using the power of modern computing systems to help come up with more efficient/better designs. Other goals of the new design is to make it less costly, produce less hazardous waste, be safer. Overall the thinking is that the nuclear reactors will provide a way to supplement other more renewable energy sources that can't provide constant/steady streams of power (think solar - no power at night, bad weather, etc, wind - no power when the winds are low.)

Not exactly the safest thing to bomb countries like Russia and China with extensive nuclear missile capabilities.