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Your experience isn’t representative. Mine isn’t either.


I've seen plenty of Gmail accounts over the years and they pretty much look the same.

The only Gmail accounts that are "overrun by spam" are those of people subscribing to lots of spammy newsletters and then not knowing how to unsubscribe from them (or figuring they'd stay subscribed in case the next newsletter is the Magical One™). But that's 100% self inflicted and you can't save those people with any technical solution.

Email spam isn't a day to day problem for Gmail (at least) since Bayesian email filtering was first implemented.


This brings back memories. I used CoyoteLinux to surreptitiously share my ADSL connection with my SO. This was against my provider's ToS at the time.


Having one digit numbers count as a palindromes takes away most of the amazement.


They tried to up-sell me when I was in the chair during surgery. (sweden)


My mom got angry and asked why no one had told her how wrinkly she'd gotten.


You may also enjoy Farewell Horizontal K. W. Jeter, takes place on a giant floating cylinder


The trust is gone. Even if the dems win the next election, we now know that the US isn't stable enough to handle one rouge president.

With the massive cost of shifting infrastructure, those scared away by the current US administration is mostly gone for good.


This calendar is what we work after

A useful addition would be to show weekdays/weekends with a localization option for holidays (Here in Sweden we have 5 days off this Q2)


You must be of size medium to small then because legroom is definitly an issue for me, especially for longer flights and I'm just 180cm. (just below average hight)

Or alternativly you can afford better seats than me.


The "just below average" caught my attention, and it looks like that that's probably not true about most countries in the world..?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_countr...


Yeah but the person you are replying to is Swedish, according to a previous comment of his.


I am of the same height as you, and I managed a Ryan Air flight to Madrid a couple of weeks ago with enough legspace that I was able to put my bag under seat in front and pull it out without having to shift around noticeably.

On the other hand, I took an Iceland Express flight many years ago, and my knees were uncomfortably pressed against the seat in front.

It does seem to be all over the place.


Indeed. I am 190 cm and leg room is by far the biggest issue when flying.


It will have atleast be > than zero, and doing it every year instead of giving it away to some overpriced CEO will it will accumulate.


I don't think you quite get how little money it is for these types of operations, 25m is essentially missing 2-3 zeros before it becomes anywhere near usable and even worth it to bother.


State Farm’s revenue was $104.2 billion for 2023. His payment was 0.02% of the revenue. That’s basically a rounding error.


Wouldn't it make more sense to compare it to profit rather than revenue? They suffered a $6.3 billion dollar net loss in 2023.


I don’t know. Profit (mostly?) matters to investors and the company’s substantially.

His pay was 0.39% of the loss. Still a drop in the ocean imho.

Should he have been paid less ? Or more? I don’t know.

But what I do know is when people get upset at stock buybacks or CEO pay, the act like if the company didn’t do these things the company would be drastically different.


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