I usually say what unit of measurement we're counting in: days, weeks or months. For more detail, more specs are needed. If you can't say how many screens are in an application, I can't count how much work it'll be.

Government should set up a site where companies using loot boxes have to open a tax box to know what tax they'll pay that month, to keep things exiting, with the option to buy more tax boxes for a few million per box.

Another 1-in-a-100 year weather event hits. They're getting quite common for once per century disasters.

Easier said than done. They basically need infrastructure to handle months (average month before 2000) of rain falling in a few days over several countries. Huge storm canals, dams and water basins that can divert and hold up to half a year of rain and that's assuming climate change doesn't make it even much worse in a decade.

Understaffing and long waiting lists are the main reasons behind patients’ frustration with health workers

Italy’s legislation has kept wages low, leading to overworked and burned out staff at hospitals

many health workers to leave Italy in search of better opportunities abroad

Add some violence and the death spiral of the health care system accelerates.

Sounds exactly like Boris Johnson, prime minister in the UK and notorious for making up stories. He basically steered the UK economy in a dive and parachuted out so another imbecile was at the wheel when all the warnings began to blare. Stories don't make for good policies.

It' was a status thing. Those with manual labor jobs usually can't have long nails, so long nails means they're above manual labor. So the rich in the past did that, and now everybody wants to do that so and it becomes a beauty thing.

They'll follow Google maps anywhere blindly. Rational thinking is turned off.

That's how people drove into a lake, under a train, het themselves stuck in too narrow streets, arrive on the wrong country and so on.

BIDOOP

"Do you want to turn on sticky keys?"

Every time with each new PC I use and you're thinking how to phrase the sentence while already holding shift

Non automated tasks remain in the inbox for a week, so spending 2 days automating them means they're finished earlier.

That's probably why they new capital city of Egypt is in there middle of the desert, so the rabble can't reach them at easily.

it reaches 100F regularly during summer in many temperate climates,

Not when it's near the sea, like most of western Europe. It's the same shit as "why don't you have airco?" Because it was never that hot.