Yeah, except central heating need the fan running to be effective, which is electric… So gas heat doesn’t even work without power.

Real answer…

GPS accurate enough to tell the car where the lanes are.

Drive thru wouldn’t be too bad, it’s essentially stop and go traffic. Plus, when full autonomy happens, drive thrus will become less common. You can just pre-order your food while the car is driving you to the restaurant. The restaurant will tell the car how long the food will take, and what parking spot to use. Then your car will tell the restaurant your ETA, and notify them exactly when you arrive. Food is waiting, so you just grab the bag and go.

The meme is a little exaggerated.

Since demographics matter for insurance cost. White, male, 30-40yr old married non-smoker.

My insurance monthly is ~350 a month, but I only pay about 80 dollars, and my employer covers the rest.

What do I get for that?

1 eye exam and 1 pair of lenses and 1 frame a year (spending limit on the frame is ~200 IIRC)

1 dental cleaning, 50% coverage on dental procedures, with a maximum benefit of 1500 dollars.

Medical… It’s kinda a crapshoot. 0 dollars for an annual checkup. 25 dollar copay for additional Dr visits. I wanna say 800 dollar copay on ER visits. Maximum out of pocket is 5500 a year.

Also, fuck you if you get injured in some states, most other countries, or if you go to any hospital (or even a particular Dr in a hospital) which isn’t “in network” (PS, there is no way for you to find out who is in-network, and keep your sanity).

Don’t even ask me about pharmacy. It’s practically a roulette. One medication may be 100% covered at one location, and 0% at another. Generic may not be covered, even if it is cheaper and more available than the brand name.

American healthcare isn’t particularly fast either. I injured my ankle about 4 years ago. I tried to establish with a Dr to get it checked out (and avoid exorbitant ER/urgent care fees) and the closest appointment was 4 months out.

My partner and I had to get a covid test in 2020. I called my provider and they said it would be 100% covered. My partner caller thier provider, and their response was “we don’t know, get one done and we’ll see what happens”. They received a 300 dollar bill for the test.

You can do it, just takes practice. If you can toss a ball up and catch it, then you can learn to juggle.

PM me if you actually want some tips, but otherwise I’m not typing out a generic, long form “how to juggle” plan here.

Both.

I taught myself to juggle fire.

Huh, I always saw it the otherway-round. Linguini had had motor reactions to hair follicle stimuli. Movie has a darker perspective if Remy can hijack any person with hair.

Happens all the time. I chose a snake over a child just a few months ago.

Less than 0.3% of the US population.

It’s not very much.

Agreed, but a country half populated by idiot conspiracy nuts and neonazis with disporpotionately large representation is shaping up to be a bad idea.

I know it has an potential to cause great harm, but maybe we should get back to intelligence (or even basic reality) tests, and then weight votes proportional to the score.

Just some agree/disagree statements…

The earth is shaped more like a sphere than a disc.

The human beings have never landed on the moon.

The 2020 general election was fair, and without meaningful fraud.

The efficacy of vaccines are well documented, going back over 100 years.

I’m sure we can come up with a lot.