It checks if the water is really truly out so opening the hatch is safe (as in no water coming out causing water damage). And for that it waits a time so the water has time to gather in the bottom.

It was not fabricated by the US. Full stop. It has absolutely been used as propaganda, like literally every politically charged event ever, but it actually happened and wasn't made up. A lot of brave Chinese men and women died that day. The exact number will likely never be known because it was and is an indefensible act by the Chinese military and by extension government and they will never share their true, unabridged reports of the event.

I was still under the premise from the OP, if we're just talking defrauding banks then yeah there are ways to make it work sure. It has been done before almost guaranteed. Most push for a hefty life insurance as well before they cause their own death in a way that can't be conclusively ruled as a suicide.

The problem with the concept is that you kinda do need to die. Else you've just amassed a shit ton of debt. And most don't want to die. And those that do generally aren't in a state of mind to plan it out well enough to work. Not to mention that you still need to have a credit rating good enough that you can get a decent amount of loans / credit card limit to make it worth the effort.

If you went down on her? And see the doc? Was she in the porn industry perhaps and thus required to get tested after unprotected sex (which technically getting head from someone is and it can transmit stuff like herpes)? That's the only explanation I can come up with and if so then you could've asked if she'd need to see the doc if you had sex without going down on her, or used a "condom blanket". Still I'd see that as a business expense on her side and not something you should pay.

Yeah, but I feel that is the smallest problem if you suddenly start the morning by mass applying to credit cards, spend like a mad man and then drop dead the next day. Remember it's beyond reasonable doubt, else you couldn't ever convict say 1st degree murder because a key difference between that and say manslaughter is that you planned to kill the person. Now if you don't write that down (who would?) it's proven by your actions. Like say buying the murder weapon the day before. Or going out of your way to meet the person, i.e. not somewhere you're normally at. And the crime would be to not plan to repay, not necessarily that you drop dead. Dying could be unintended, say an overdose from partying too hard.

Well said!

I'd like to add that even scrolling social media like Reddit, Facebook, Lemmy etc can be meaningful. I find it's like walking around town looking at what other people are doing. Listening in on someone ranting from their soap box, participating in some open air discussion, looking at cute cats in the park and learning something from a mechanic talking through a problem with someone standing beside a broken down car. It's also a social experience even though it can't be your only social exposure it still provides something.

It really is about variation and moderation. It wouldn't be meaningful, in my opinion, to spend your life on a rotation of the gym, cooking healthy, reading about those topics, working hard at some nameless corp and sleeping properly. But if you don't normally go to the gym it's suddenly meaningful to go. Life is about experiences and about challenging ourselves to find out who to be and how to be the subjective "best" version of ourselves, and that quest has no truly meaningless activities, all roads lead to the end of life and while we might regret some activities that regret in and off itself is a lesson that we took with us.

Tricky, depends on jurisdiction but generally if you know you're going to die and thus have no intention to repay the debt then it's fraud and the thing you buy is technically stolen and you can repossess stolen goods in many jurisdictions. So they (the debt collectors) could come and get the things you gave away. Best way to skirt this is to take out cash from the cards and buy the stuff cash at random places and inform the people you give stuff to keep it on the down low for a while. Even if they suspect it came from you they can't repossess it without conclusive proof which would be hard to get by.

I'm partial to the fediverse, I don't want to be the product. I moved away from Google for that reason. And when it became obvious that Reddit was more akin to Google than say Wikipedia then my hand was forced.

4090 is more cost effective per performance and power efficiency than 4080 but yeah it does cost more.

Not much diff between 4080 and 4090? What on earth is your source on that? 4090 is such a monster it literally breaks the charts. It's the biggest single leap you can make between any two cards of this generation or any generation ever I do believe. It's 30% more fps in 4k and the only card capable of 120+ FPS on high settings in many titles (without DLSS). Sure if DLSS and/or low settings is fine then yeah the 4080 is good enough but if the goal really is 120 FPS in 4K there really is only one card that can deliver that and it's the 4090.

Really trying to prove the Russians right about the faux Nazi allegations? He needs to be dismissed post haste. Pure ammunition for Putin.

Doesn't work super well as an explanation when CSGO still has loot boxes and its whole "economy" is built around them.