All that sounds great. I’m not pro-Uber so much as I’m anti-Taxi (as they exist where I live), lol

In my country, Uber fixed a lot of problems that existed with Taxis.

• Sometimes taxis wouldn’t show up.
• Sometimes taxis wouldn’t pick up certain people because of how they look
• There was no app that’d show you where the nearest taxi was and when it’d arrive. I’m not aware of any taxi company that has such an app now…yet there’s an app that’ll show you where the busses are (even across different transit agencies)
• You wouldn’t know how much your trip would cost until you arrived at your destination.
• Drivers would take longer routes or otherwise drive in “favourable ways” to increase the fare meter.
• In my experience, taxi drivers have been more rude than Uber drivers
• Taxi drivers would occasionally not accept certain methods of payment upon trip completion (and some would even try to use this trick to scam their passengers and likely their companies or the government by not reporting fares).

These all could’ve been solved by a regular taxi company, but I guess there was no incentive to make the product any better to the customers.

Was WW1 preceded by many countries electing right-wing or “”“strong”“” leaders?

Thank you! It was a few steps removed and I didn’t know it was there, but it was worth it!

Thank you. I tried to read the article, got two pop ups (for notifications and cookies requests, I think), then saw it ended in a paywall maybe a paragraph in. So, I was reminded why I don’t usually read articles, lol

I think as a “genre”, it refers to being more than an aesthetic, but also a setting. It’s probably bastardized by now from the original meaning, but I’d wager that looking into the etymology of steampunk might help you find what you’re looking for.

From there, it was probably like…“Well, steampunk, but with X! Xpunk!”

As the other commenter mentioned, it was a joke based on the typo in the title, haha

Your Ticketmaster questions have been sufficiently answered, I think.

What did you want to know about beaches in general?

I feel like this deserves a diagram

ftr; also atheist, but decided not to be insensitive today, lol

I think some jurisdictions count it as rape if the victim consented under certain circumstances, but the rapist changed those circumstances.

Like consenting to sex with a condom on, but the rapist removes the condom and continues.

What I said was “basically required by law to be Muslim”, not required by state law to do the Hajj

I think it’s silly too, but isn’t this a bit insensitive? People died. It is their own fault for making bad decisions in this situation, but they still died.

It’s also a lot easier to choose not to be Muslim when your entire family and maybe your entire support group isn’t Muslim. Hell, how many of those people who died came from countries where it’s basically required by law to be Muslim?

If you group together all the different kinds of floppies as “floppies”, but separate out CDs from DVDs and Blu-rays, then I guess it could be seen as short.

CDs probably lasted longest for music, and lasted a while as primary computing media, but if you look at them in terms of console gaming, they lived a pretty short life. So maybe the author is also a console gamer, lol

That was the weirdest part to me. In Korea, there was usually soap in the washrooms. But in either of those countries, you’d occasionally either find no soap in the men’s rooms, or you’d find empty soap canisters.

Telling a staff member there was no soap got the reaction that a tourist in NA politely telling a police officer that they saw some litter on the sidewalk over there, lol

Did people stop washing their hands after using the toilet in Japan once the restrictions let up?

Did…they start?

Having lived briefly in Japan and for a while in Korea, most people left public (and workplace) washrooms without washing their hands. Even during the pandemic.

I see. Thank you!

Well, they did fly the flag upside down, in black and white, and next to Nazi flags…so I think they don’t want to be Canadian. Maybe part of the reason is that they’re not polite or apologetic.

Also, they were trying to overthrow the federal government, so I think this argument has a lot of merit.

To be fair, a lot of them probably didn’t know that, and were there because they were angry about something else and didn’t know who to blame. Plus they had nothing better to do with their time and money but to give it to a national-scale sham.

I live in Canada and I’ve never lived in a place without AC

Hmm. What is the difference between forced intervention and whatever Portugal did when it decriminalized hard drugs?