Funny, in Australia we have school dances and they don’t get anything like American proms, with the possible exception of girls’ debutante balls which we dress up for

If they’re embedded in a combat group they take their chances.

As a rule when talking to management you love the place you work, 5 years? You’ll be there in ten

I mean unless you have complaints you really feel you need to raise

They won’t tell you if they’re planning on firing you. You take the mandatory notice you must give as a target and never give more notice than that.

My mother’s garden was watered with rain water. We don’t have acid rain so there’s nearly nothing in that and that garden is quite productive. Plants get all the nutrients they need from well fertilized dirt

So tap water is also bad? That has no minerals to speak of, at least where I live

Well that sucks

Thanks, that is pretty neat

Are you in the industry, 'cause that doesn’t ring true to me. Why would you spend the energy to evaporate water when it’s so cheap and easy to dump the water on the petunia patch?

Refrigerators collect waste water in a tray on the assumption that the indoor climate will be dry enough for the water to ambient evaporate

Air con is incredibly popular in the tropics where it’s dropping 100% RH to 30% and making a lot of water

When the cold side is for inside air, I think you’ll find that the water it condenses from the inside air is piped outside

If water is dripping from the outside unit, your aircon is lacking gas. Making it into a giant fan.

Water dripping means the cold side coil is cold enough to condense water out of the air. In what way does that suggest it is not working?

If it’s $15 on a credit card, and you’re willing to pay a few more fifteens of dollars later, sure

How long would it take you to save $15 if you tried?

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You can say that to genX, but the bulk of genX’s kids are adults now (at least genX women aren’t having many more). We did have it easy. We got houses at prices that had only doubled in price in the time it took to raise a deposit. I bought my place for about $150k including the upgrades in 2001. The same place in worse condition now is worth 500k. The person I bought it off paid 67K in 1997

I dropped out of uni and stepped straight into an IT job

I met a partner through social contacts, a friend paired up with someone in their dancing club.

But Millennials (probably your parents if they’re under 45) had it just as bad as you, but they didn’t have iPads as babies

I have heard it’s good to have a small house, so they move out for more room. I didn’t get the chance to find out (or maybe it worked really well) as mine left home aged 16 for the sort of reasons 16 year olds have

Y2K was fine. We fixed it in the '90s, it employed practically the entire tech workforce for all of '98 and '99. It made it so easy to get into that industry for people like me

Windows, pretty much the desktop OS still would like you to drag the screen up to start a login

Dude, you detected a mouse and keyboard during setup

Long rural trips for cars are fine on electric, as long as there is fast charging on the way. The car takes as long to top up as the human takes to take a break from driving

Trucks, ships, aeroplanes, off roading will need dense fuel. Trains might need fuel, but most of those should be electric

But it’s an electric car with a much lower efficiency than one that uses batteries

People don’t seem to get it. Electricity to hydrogen to electricity to motion is really, really lossy, and hydrogen leaks. It is worse than electricity to hydrogen to methane to power.