Just Googling “speed dating [city name]”. Here are some examples from my other comment

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Did you just Google “Local Speed Dating” or something?

Yep. There are usually companies that put these on, and as its their business, it will be the same companies doing many sessions throughout the year.

I wasn’t sure if Speed Dating was still a thing (since I did it years ago), and I find it is still a thing!

There’s one tonight in Los Angeles:

But also midwest towns. Here’s one in Des Moines Iowa 2 days from now:

I give my mom credit. In the 80’s she found summer classes for me where I could learn about programming.

In the early 80s we we NOT well off. However, our entire household chose to go without christmas (and went into debt) to buy a Commodore 64 computer. It allowed me to experiment, make mistakes, and learn in a safe environment. When I started using computers in school was already very comfortable with it. When I started in the working world, I was not only comfortable, but highly knowledgeable about using and fixing computers.

My sibling and I are both successful IT professionals. I absolutely attribute having that computer (even a very under powered c64) in the house growing up.

Introvert here. I met my now introvert wife at speed dating.

If you haven’t done it before, you are in a room (usually a rented out restaurant so its just for this event) with lots of tables. At each table is a woman. As a man, you are directed to sit at a specific numbered table where there is a woman seated (all the other men do the same to the individual table they are directed to). A bell rings. You have 5 minutes to talk to each other and learn as much as you can about each other. After 5 minutes, the bell rings, and the woman stay seated, and the man moves to the next higher numbered table. You have a card with the woman’s name on it and you should REALLY make notes, because you won’t remember which things you thought with each person. The women do the same with their cards.

In under 2 hours each person now talked to 14-18 potential mates. At the end of the night you go online and mark which of the women you’re interested in hearing more from. If any of the women you mark also mark you on their side, you’re given an in-app communications channel and you can choose to share personal contact information from there.

When you’re sitting at the table talking with a woman sometimes it seems like that bell rings as soon as you sit down and you wish you had more time. Those are the ones you mark on your card to talk more with. Sometimes, you’re 1 minute in and you’re dreading waiting though the next 4 min. Those you do not mark.

I’d recommend you give Speed Dating a try.

Is the rover on Mars still taking pics? Cause I’d teleport there. Just to make everyone wonder how I got there.

Not just one but TWO rovers are on Mars taking pics right now. This would work for the picture, and then you’d die pretty quick from the water boiling out of your body from the low pressure atmosphere. Worth it.

This has the possible downside of you being dissected for the benefit of science. One human life for the possibility of discovering the ability to teleport? The astronauts/cosmonauts on the ISS would know about you, but you’d never make the news.

Layaway purchases in stores used to be popular but went away in the late 90’s. It’s back now as BNPL, with much worse terms.

Lawaway is superior. Laywaway had zero interest charges. Some places charged a flat fee, but you also didn’t get your item until the full balance was paid. There’s no chance of a lawaway purchase spiraling into a huge expense. The expense is fixed at the time of layaway and never gets higher. Lawaway also builds the ability to delay gratification, which is an important life skill that is sometimes not common.

BNPL has none of that consumer protection.

Seize their ships when they’re in port.

I didn’t dig very deep, but they may only be used in Russian and Chinese ports. This seems like a good way to insulate a larger company that does use NATO friendly ports. Create a new company, put two ships in it, and do risky shit in Russian and Chinese ports. If the company gets sanctioned the big company is protected.

Better to sue the shipping company into oblivion

The shipping company only has 2 ships. source

Seize the ship and sell it to cover the cost of repair.

Seizing a ship in international waters is a bad move. A better idea; block the docking of all Chinese ships at NATO country ports across the world until the cost of repairs are paid. Payment would arrive in about 5 minutes because the cost of of all Chinese flagged cargo ships idling outside ports for any length of time would be far far FAR more expensive.

“Something has happened post-pandemic where movie theater behavior has really changed,” said one top film executive, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The executive is referring to the younger audiences who have become more emboldened to share this lengthy material from the sanctity of the cineplex, where phones are supposed to be banned.

I don’t think this “top film executive” has been in a public movie theater for at least 10 years.

This year. Having near omniscience about recent events would have so many useful applications.

Depending on the timing of when this ability takes affect, I might be able to also place wagers on events, like awards shows, that have already been decided but not yet announced.

OP’s rules were “You can skip around in time and space within your chosen year, but not affect anything.” So you couldn’t go back in time to place wagers to collect today. Your changes in the past would not affect the present.

Specific to Canada, there is a long history of free trade with comparable wages in auto sector, such that even some parts are shipped across the border for processing and shipped back.

Trump himself signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (which replaced NAFTA) in his first term ensuring tariff free trade between the 3 nations. So Canada and Mexico are about to learn the lesson that trump’s own signed legislation doesn’t hold water.

Like, this game is starting to feel a lot like a cheap microtransaction infested Asian MMO. The fact that there is always some sort of cash grab, but you also are paying for a game that you subscribe to, and expansions that cost a little less than a new AAA game. It honestly crazy to me.

As long as these are just cosmetics, why is this upsetting to you? If the microtransactions turn into pay-to-win, then I agree that would be a problem.

Yep. There’s people that want to keep distance at work and don’t appreciate it. Just have to respect that and leave them to it.

• Jane (wife.)
• likes the pool cleaner boy and has been sleeping with him behind her husband’s back for 8 months.

Some people just don’t like to have their hobbies shared.

My guess is that the do, but their greed makes them hold on too long to exercise it. Its not like there’s a formula or measure when your Ponzi scheme is about to get exposed. For many I imagine the first time they learn they’re at risk, the evidence is already in the hands of prosecutors and your passport has been seized.

SALT deduction elimination was devastating for some folks.

USA was still very much on the rise at the advent of the internet. If you define the advent of the internet to be Arpanet, then that was 1969, the same year the USA landed on the moon. If you define the advent of the internet to be the first use of the World Wide Web that would be 1989 the same year the Berlin wall came down and 3 years before the Soviet Union collapsed, which was arguably the most powerful the USA has ever been as it was before China’s rise.