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50% probably wouldn’t be enough, but I don’t know that details of residential development well enough. I think that baking it on size and amenities more than cost to determine if it is reasonable might be better.

Doing a one off upgrade/remodel/rebuild is always more expensive per unit or sqft than a large development that follows variations on one design and overhead diffuses costs over many units.

Add in custom design for security, which probably includes fire suppression, gardening against attack, and security infrastructure, and you are likely much more than 50% over market per sqft of remodeled space.

But you can compare features more readily. If it has five kitchens, a grand entrance with marble columns and a double stairwell, then it’s well into luxury wants and not living and hosting needs plus security.

Most lawyers never litigate or actively engage in matters before a court. There are whole armies of lawyers who do contract law, agreement reviews, general counsel in organizations, tech transfer specialists, etc. These folks advise clients and help manage risk and would never be in a position to need to lie in most cases. Their job is to advise business decision makers, and you don’t need to agree with the decisions made to advise on the risk landscape.

Even outside of that, there is a lot of ambiguity and conflict in large amounts of our statutes and promulgated policy, such that two lawyers can disagree about the application of law and neither one is lying.

The kind of lying that is objectively lying, like suppressing or mischaracterizing facts, are also breaches of their ethical code of conduct and would put them at risk of professional repercussions from the courts or the BAR.

So while there are bad apples like in any profession, most lawyers don’t lie more than anyone else, and probably less given they have incentives to be transparent in their role.

Apologies in advance, I like to think about language!

I think you have the right word for the distinction though: enslaved or coerced labor, vs hoarding of surplus productivity, vs wage theft.

I tend to think of language in terms of interpretative vs prescriptive usage. In legal, engineering, and other regulated domains there is a very prescriptive use of language where specific words have specific meaning and synonyms or equivocating just aren’t acceptable.

Outside of those, interpretive use of language reigns where people can be creative, and we use and reuse words all sorts of ways without much issue. Sometimes words with very specific meanings in prescriptive domains are also widely used to mean something different in interpretative domains, and we just clue in on context.

That said, personally I’d find it confusing to try and educate people on an interpretative meaning of wage theft that was thematically similar while being distinctly different from the legal definition of withholding pay or benefits earned. In that case, context wouldn’t clarify and you would have to explicitly define your meaning every time you use it.

No, someone made a fake version that riffed on the closeness of the siblings in the original.

I’ll second the kingrinder k6. I use it for my daily routine, and mostly make French press and moka pot, which seems pretty on brand for your use. It can go extremely fine or more coarse. Grinding on finer settings takes a little extra work, but grinding an 18 gram dose of beans on 90 click seeing for use in a French press takes about 45 seconds to a minute. I can have a French press or moka pot fully prepped for hot water before my kettle boils, so I don’t find the time to grind an issue. Also, manual grinders are quieter if that is an issue with early morning brews and others still sleeping.

So much depends on what the specific conditions are. Someone else mentioned socks with ruffwear outers, and that also worked well with me ski mountaineering with my dog in the Cascades. In the winter I also had to keep his feet coated in musher’s wax, and vary layers based on conditions. But setting out with a tin of musher’s wax, socks, and outers for the paws should let you handle most scenarios. Musher’s wax is a good fallback as well in the event a booty is lost and you need temporary coverage for a quick run to shelter.

Was she asking for an estimate? Scientific/Sophisticated Wild Ass Guess (SWAG) is pretty common in project management, government, and some corporate environments.

Yeah, I guess they could use the term point-to-point like point of sales systems define it, but it seems a little semantic. If the images are encrypted on the camera device, and only decrypted once the contents reach the secured analysis environment, then I don’t see how this is misleading customers. Even in the context of messaging apps, users understand that the receiver can decrypt and see the message; it’s saying that no intermediary party can.

But good grief, I can’t fathom putting a camera in my toilet. I feel bad for folks that are either too worried about their health, or have such issues that this is helpful. There but for the grace of fiber go I.

One way would be the actual taxes paid on state, county, and municipal employee salaries. That’s going to represent a large source of federal taxes that the state could divert. I’m sure there are other taxes paid by the state that could be withheld.

I get that. But trump has continued to lose cases at the supreme court. Not all of them to be sure. But it clearly shows that it isn’t a complete waste for these agencies to litigate.

In his first term, Trump had the lowest win rate at the supreme Court of any president since FDR.

The average win rate for presidents over that period was 65.2%. Trump fared the worst, with a win rate of 43.5%, followed by former President Barack Obama, who had a win rate of 52.4%, and President Joe Biden, who had a win rate of 56.5% through the court’s 2021 term.

I never knew! I’ll have to give it a try. Thanks!

An online chess with fog of war so you can only see adjacent tiles would be pretty hilarious. Could really turn an end game king chase into a “battleship” esque fiasco.

I thought the congestion pricing starts at 60th down to the south of Manhattan. Why would he have tolls to go north, away from the congestion pricing zone? I just plugged the corner of 61st and fifth into Google with directions to 79th and told it to avoid tolls, and it plotted a direct route north with an 8 minute drive.

An I confused on the boundary of the zone?

If you get paralyzed picking which story game to play next, maybe getting really picky about which ones make the list and then literally roll the dice or use an RNG generator to pick one. If they are all good, and your gameplay spread across a long time with work and kids, then any “mood” you are in, in the moment, will be averaged out over time. If you get into a game and find it really just isn’t for you, give yourself permission to move on.

In short, make the decision less consequential to avoid paralysis. That was my method anyway, being in similar situation with life time constraints.

I know there are regional differences, but using the app in my relatively high cost of living area I can do a cravings box with a crunchwrap supreme, cheesy bean and rice burrito, fiesta potatoes, and medium drink for $6.49. are you using the app and online exclusives to keep the price down?

Did you need to do any permitting?

Physical therapy if you have any physical issues at all, massage therapy if you have any chronic pain, occupational therapy if you have specific life skills or mobility needs.

Any preventative screening or vaccines. There are various generic cancer screenings, etc. Get a referral to a dermatologist to do a once over your skin and document any spots of concern.

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but I can’t think of a single one of my kids story books that has ads. “Bear stays up for Christmas,” “llama llama nighty night,” and “if you give a mouse a cookie” amongst several dozen more come to mind that I don’t recall anything resembling an ad in.

Shows, yes, all the time.

Live mice would be pretty messed up.