Apartment renters in the US face a rising tide of add-on fees such as “boiler management” and “lifestyle” charges from management companies, which make true rental costs hundreds of dollars higher than the price stated on real-estate company websites.

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I can tell you I’m not imprisoned by my powerful, responsive Acura.

What extant land animal, when standing upright on flat ground, has the highest testicles (measured from the lowest part of the testicle)? Is it actually a giraffe? Because it seems like it’s a giraffe.

As noted in the OP, “use by” and “best before” (etc.) dates are vastly different from each other. “Best before” is very often ad hoc like “a year from the date of manufacture”, but if you’re past a “use by” date on your perishable food, you should approach it skeptically.

Climate Town has a good video on it and why this system exists as it does.

It was still alive, and slithered and squirmed on the surgical table.

Great.

This is like a benign microcosm of Ancient Aliens syndrome (original name; donut steel), where people with modern technology literally can’t conceive of how people did something without it and have to either declare they didn’t or invoke some batshit lost technology.

The student said Bertazzo told her, “You know what you have to do, carry on,” before taking off his headset and seatbelt, opening the door and jumping out of the plane, TN reported.

mfs whose parents pushed them into the deep end when Rosario walks in:

Sorry, I should’ve clarified that I meant “unfalsifiable” not in the sense that it’s impossible to evaluate statistically but in the sense that it’s weasel wording, where regardless of the evidence, you can always retreat and declare what you said isn’t false because you never made a specific enough claim compared to what you’re implying.

“Doctors believe vaccines cause autism.” is true in the sense that there are doctors who exist who believe that, even if the overwhelming consensus of the medical community is that the claim is fraudulent nonsense.

(Yes, I recognize the irony in retreating to a clarification of what I said; it wasn’t intentional.)

“history books:”

Which ones? My high school US history textbook talked about the Coal Wars with a mention of Blair Mountain. Which isn’t necessarily representative, but then “history books:” is an unfalsifiable claim.

This man looks like he was engineered in a lab to be the villain of an iCarly special.

Birdemic 4 lookin’ 🔥

It’s okay: I’m a commielinguist and can certify what I said.

Is mixing those together where “commie” comes from?

A simple request: take five seconds to learn how to actually censor PII in a social media post.

Bethesda is hit particularly hard by the layoffs, IGN understands, with staff across its many development studios

It’s talking about the publisher.

That’s probably it.

and maybe some day we’ll find out that there’s something smaller inside quarks

I don’t think particle physicists in 2026 wake up in a cold sweat worried about preons. We are still taking measurements, but I don’t think theoreticians have any reason to invoke it – and IIRC its predictions have been outright contradicted experimentally.

Are any particle physicists particularly concerned with matryoshkas? Like what’s the context here? If this is about matryoshka brains, that’s not, like, a thing particle physicists specifically care about.

Unrelated to the question, but I think the other commentor got it right, so I’ll say this instead. If you’re doing GasBuddy, it would be amazing if you also added data to OpenStreetMap where applicable. We don’t keep track of the current price, because it’s supposed to be semi-static infrastructure, but we do keep track of payment methods accepted and types of fuel offered.

We keep track of other amenities too like compressed air and vac stations, but just adding the payment, fuel, etc. data to the existing station object would already be above and beyond and so appreciated.

That said, if not, it’s still cool knowing that you’re also out there helping to crowdsource knowledge.

The independent journalist cooperative Bereg spoke with Vlad about what it was like to wait [39 hours] in that line [in Chita] and what it looks like to travel across the country during a fuel crisis. In his view, the authorities are to blame for what is happening — not because they started the war with Ukraine, but because they are not “responding harshly enough.”

Shame that he had to wait 39 hours. Let’s try for 48 next time. Or better yet, hope his piece of shit Lada craps out from all the sulfur in the gasoline.