The USB-C port on my phone is its achilleas heel. Only about 1/3 of new cords work at all, and those that do wear out in a few months.

As a divorced man, I would choose the sex bot.

I'm in Virginia. While there is no law specifically against cruising in the left lane, there is a law that if the car behind signals by flashing their lights or honking, the driver has to move to the right. I don't bother, because in practice, the driver in front will either ignore it or will slam on their brakes.

Maryland has no left lane law at all, or any law that you have to signal for lane changes. I despise driving there. I firmly believe that at the head of every traffic jam, there is a Maryland driver.

You can go to CMS Open Payments and look up how much pharmaceutical companies have paid your family doctor.

In the US, raising the bar to obtain a license would go a long way towards making driving safer. It's almost impossible to not pass the exam, and you only ever take it once.

I also believe raising the penalties for causing a crash would help. You can kill someone and get nothing more than a $50 fine.

It would also help immensely if every state had the law that the left lane is for passing, and it was enforced.

...but I don't.

Cheaper. That's all I care about.

The 2017 Trump tax cuts were about to expire. Every person reading this would have been paying several thousand more a year in taxes.

My daughter had a scheduled check-up with a pediatrician, and was having all the razor blade throat covid symptoms. So I called ahead and asked if we should reschedule. Nope, they said. Should she wear a mask? Nope, they said. They said they don't even test for it anymore.

Weird. I remember having my kids tested through a car window in a parking lot by a lab tech in a biohazard suit.

That sucked.

I used one disposable mask for the entire pandemic. It was pretty funky after two years.

I want cheap actual hot wings and I don't care where they come from.

Even without watching youtube in the bathroom, my phone is probably the filthiest item I own.

I couldn't poop without my phone in my hand.

Before smart phones it was magazines.

(For the younger folks, back in the day that was like a website but on paper.)

I can't speak for everyone in the survey, but while we bicker about tariffs on cheap chinese shit, it's housing costs that are killing me. Neither side of politics is going to or can do anything about this. That our homes are now our source of wealth means prices have to keep rising. Therefore the supply is artificially restricted by state and local politics. Anyone not owning a home today isn't going to in the future, and for those people rent just keeps going up.

Buildings are all generally the same and are built according to plans that are formalized in advance. Every piece of software is unique and evolves.

Builder: How many floors do you want in your building?
Customer: We're not really sure. Start with two, and we'll see how many more we need after we start moving in.

Years later, a 50 story building collapses because it's made of wood.