It’s an economic gauge for the small segment of society that gets more income from investments than they do from wages.

Why would that be, that drone warfare advantages defense?

WW1 era weapons advancements like machine guns advantaged defense, because these new weapons were not easily mobile. But drones are extremely mobile.

Why in the world would Iran do that?

I always default to DDG, and it gets me what I need 80% of the time. If not, do the search again with !g at the end and DDG will forward the search to Google

Another American here.

My old doctor office had me waiting for over an hour in their dingy musty crowded waiting room, before I found out that they had somehow lost my checkin and had completely forgotten me. TWICE this happened.

Then I switched to a new practice that has brand new immaculate white brightly lit waiting rooms with free keurig coffee and juice and water bottles, and a big farmhouse door aesthetic. This place has NEVER had me waiting more than 20 minutes. I can’t fathom how the old place is still in business.

Edit: the new place has an official written policy that if you no-show to two or three appointments they will fire you as a patient. I respect that.

Second edit: The new place makes a big deal about how they are an “independent medical practice” meaning they are not owned by the mega corporate hospital system that my former practice was owned by. Maybe that’s the difference.

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you may understand it better but it kills the subject

Seriously, http://www.ebay.com/

I want websites to all have a button that says “yeah you can sell my personal data but the website contractually agrees to give me half”

Of course not. We also don’t know if the thumbs up numbers aren’t completely fake.

Five star rating system was dumb because almost every rating was 1 or 5 stars. It was right to replace with a thumbs up/thumbs down system.

They stopped showing the number of thumbs down. They did not take away the thumbs down button.