Insurance prevents people from hoarding money that they would need in case of a (personal) disaster to rebuild/repair/re-purchase their losses. If you know insurance will cover your house if it ever burns down, you spend the money, which helps the economy.

Depends on your jurisdiction. In Germany, the bar for murder is one of [1]:

• an [inner] desire to kill
• killing for sexual reasons
• greed
• “other despicable motivations”

and one of:

• cruelty
• insidiousness
• using “tools dangerous for public safety”
• the motivation to conceal or enable another crime.

In my layman’s understanding, pressing the button checks the ‘insidious’ box, since it is not at all expectable by the victim.

As for the first set of conditions, it would probably be down to a court ruling if the person checked the ‘desire to kill’ box (as I understand it, they wouldn’t) or the ‘other despicable motivations’ box – is killing for no reason a despicable reason?

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__211.html

That person doesn’t look like they intended this picture to circulate on the internet.

I don’t believe, at least in Germany, that it is possible for sugar to be made ‘locally’ at a reasonable price and with enough volume to be able to stock shelves. I don’t see why the situation should be different in (I assume) the US.

You might try gift shops. They sometimes have ‘fancy’ versions of basic stuff to gift away. Looking at their products and producers might give you a hint at where to start researching.

You could open Google maps (or any other commercial directory) and try to find shops in your town that you wouldn’t otherwise notice because they don’t advertise on channels you’d consume.

Thanks. I couldn’t come up with a reason why the material would be relevant, so I thought there must be some context or other meaning of “vinyl fence” that I was missing.

There is too little information in that comment for me to be able to provide a meaningful response with the given context.

Edit: I don’t know why the material matters, but I think it was a wire mesh with some sort of plastic in between.

I’m not sure if that applies in your jurisdiction and situation. But I’d take a picture. If your neighborhood does burn down, you have proof that it was him.

First time I got to use a fire extinguisher was when a neighbor a few houses down the street thought it was a good idea to burn moss in his driveway with a blowtorch after it hadn’t rained in weeks.

That was the second time that neighbor’s neighbor’s hedge caught fire. He then replaced it with a fence.

It’s way too slow for what it does. IRC clients from 20 years ago were able to switch between chats instantly. The user status (online, offline, etc.) is so inaccurate it might as well be random.

Well, late evening is the only time you’ll get to see your friends who have kids for an extended period of time.

Funny how that works isn’t it?

Yeah, because they had the brains to figure out that a $5 taco isn’t worth going to court over.

Be the change yadda yadda

(Rick and Morty, S01E05)

They can’t not honour the contract, can they? The only risk is their going bankrupt, which seems unlikely, given for how long they’ve existed already.

If you’re considering Nebula, I’d, personally, go for the lifetime subscription. It’s the better deal after 5 years.

Something like “I’ll be the first to say that I don’t know anything about this.”

You get downvotes for a completely useless statement. Who’d have thunk?

Do you mean…

1. body > article > h1 is smaller than body > h2
2. body > article > h1 is smaller than body > article > h2?

And where? Which spec stylesheets are you talking about?

For (1), https://css-tricks.com/document-outline-dilemma/ might answer your question.

Could be. I try to avoid Excel. And I believe “wenn” is a wrong translation, whether the function has that name or not.

The best part is that if your version of Excel is German, you can’t write =IF(). You have to use =FALLS().

It’s always fun to google a function and then the translation.