You went off to a different country and things are much different.

In the US, generally, parents by retirement age have paid for their homes by then, have retired with benefits from their employer that will give them some money every month, have social security that also pays them every month (both of these are taken out of each paycheck throughout their career lives) and don’t have many bills.

So by the time they’re old, if they were responsible and held ok jobs, they should need money less than you need it. Our US system is basically set up to make you work hard for 40 ish years and then you’re taken care of when you’re old, for the most part. If your parents need money and you have money to give, there’s nothing wrong or against it. It’s still a common thing. But ideally, doing that shouldn’t be needed.

Don’t worry, OP. Samsung makes absolute dog shit appliances, so you’ll be replacing that dishwasher sometime in the next 2 years anyways.

Yes, but no one dies if they get pushed back 2 weeks. Also, the cosmetic surgeries are first on the chopping block.

And again, it’s supply and demand. The hospitals want the profit. They don’t want to pay any overhead for the product.

Blood is just as bad, but yes, the markup is insane in the US, compared to the machinery and time to collect plasma.

Blood, for instance gets sold by the red cross to hospitals for around $215 per unit. Hospitals in turn will charge anywhere from $580 to $3,000 for it.

Also, most blood is used for elective surgeries that are not life critical. Any time you hear about their being a blood shortage that could effect what hospitals can give, what they actually mean is that there’s plenty for emergency and necessary use, but they may have to postpone elective and cosmetic surgeries.

Obviously, the issue would be solved easily by paying people enough to be worth it to donate. People would be lining up if they got something like $100 to donate a pint. Something that only takes about 30 minutes to do.

I’d say magneto just found a gray area, since he didn’t “wield” it with his body.

Call it a gray area, since he can’t pick it up with his body. Guess Odin didn’t factor that one in.

It’s an Enchantment written onto the hammer by Odin.

So basically, it’s the will of the God Odin, instilled upon the hammer.

Magneto controls the hammer in Super-Villain Team up issue #14.

Now go to bed.

You can, but it’s a lot of number crunching time to convert a bunch of files like that, as opposed to just using a different player.

Thankfully, vlc’s audio offset function is very easy to quickly adjust and save. As long as the audio delay is consistent you can adjust it pretty quickly.

What you really want is to just be like “fuck it” and 4 of you all or less just fly to Vegas for the weekend and do dumb stuff.

They make you have an internet connection for the pc port of the original ff7…

I was all set to re purchase the original ff7 on steam to play it again on my steam deck. Then I seen that the assholes require an internet connection to run it. My playstation sure as hell didn’t have an internet connection. Yo ho ho ho

Shoot, I’d say keeping bees would be pro vegan. Good barter system for honey in exchange for premium hive space and care and protection. Symbiotic relationship.

“Sure”.

Hell yeah! Entire movie at freemium pricing.

Xia already gave you the quoted explanation for why you’re wrong, but everyone should watch the movie They Live, at least once. It’s a riot of a movie.

Fun fact: the Southpark episode “cripple fight” with that long ass fight between Timmy and Jimmy, their fight scene is a near blow for blow reenactment of a fight scene in They Live, between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David.

They aren’t. It’s stated “in access of”. They’re going after more.

Also, the restaurant isn’t owned or operated by Disney. The husband’s lawyers attached Disney to it because of the super deep Disney pockets. But the husband is suing both the restaurant and Disney.

LegalEagle has done a video on the whole thing, here’s a proper explanation of the ordeal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiDr6-Z72XU

The world also still let’s planes use lead gasoline. My point is you won’t be able to buy anything if you boycott every corpo that does something like this. It’d be great if you could, but you can’t.

Notice that your phone is 6 years old, and not one year old. There’s your hiccup.

Also, I’d rather replace a battery in a 6 year old phone, than put up with it only being at half capacity and being underclocked so it runs like shit.

Further also, you aren’t quite understanding the issue with the phones. Most phones manufacturers leave some “wiggle room” for their power demand and don’t need a full 3.6v for stability (lithium batts are 3.7v nominal). Apple screwed up their power draw and screwed up their battery manufacturing.