The U.S is different in that car insurance has to cover medical expenses for others when you are at fault, combined with the risk of driving quite frankly being higher in the U.S. With medical costs being extremely high in the U.S, prices follow that fact.

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Car insurance is expensive because cars are both risky and highly destructive. Hence, making a market for them involves high prices.

Regardless of what you think of insurance companies, there's just no way around this - you could nationalize car insurance and it would still either be really expensive, either on the policy level or else born by taxes.

I think this is basically testing:

1. If you have been practicing your leetcoding recently, and
2. If you're decent at leetcoding under pressure

I mean, the pay is still way ahead of anything outside FAANG, really.

Voluntary layoffs - probably the best form of layoffs if you ask me - still come with severance packages that have to be paid. Very few people will be interested in quitting just because you ask them, but a good many will do it if you sweeten the deal.

Basically we have 3 variants here:

Regular layoffs - have to pay severance + can select who leaves RTO stealth layoffs - don't have to pay severance + can't select who leaves Voluntary layoffs - have to pay severance + can't select who leaves

Any morally bankrupt business would of course want a fourth variant where they get to select who leaves and don't have to pay severance, but thankfully this option is generally not available to them.

Anyway, voluntary layoffs are the best out of a selection of bad choices for the workers, but come with the most downsides for the morally bankrupt business.

Only has to work once, you pocket the savings on severance packages one time and then go back to regular layoffs.

Dystopian as all hell, but such is the corporate world.

Try moving to some leaner cut of beef, or maybe something like chicken breast, and see what happens.

I assume you're hungry enough to want more than the 600 calories you would find in 150 grams of protein.

If this is the case, I'd assume you'd need to focus on food that is more dense in protein relative to other macro nutrients.

If not, I'm not sure how I could help you out with advice. I think I could probably easily scarf down 3000 calories a day, to the great displeasure of my body. Luckily I love to exercise which generally keeps things in check

I think the poster was making a joke based on this image (or similar ones):

The Swedish state-run media puts out a very good comparison between all the parties each election year which I use to understand what position each party has. It's been generally easy to figure out which party is closest to me using that tool. It can be used for the three tiers of elections that we have in Sweden.

Other than that I try to look at polls to see whether it would be generally better for me to place a strategic vote on a party that is not my first choice.

Couldn't you just start a recording on your regular video camera, do the training, stop the recording and then play it back?

I'm not sure this warrants a different application, to be honest.