I’ve seen Germans turn their noses up at beautiful Belgian beers before immediately drinking a (delicious, but not legally allowed to be sold as beer in Germany) desperados. Granted, I shit all over German Mexican food and also love Taco Bell (and I don’t consider it Mexican food), so I don’t have a leg to stand on here.

That’s always the problem with civil wars.

It’s even better because it’s kind of true. Kids believe the weirdest shit and most of the time when they realize they were wrong, they just correct their misconceptions without explaining them to anyone. The next time a kid asks you how something works, ask them how they think it works; it’s like listening to Calvin’s dad’s explanations of the world.

Thirteen. The age is thirteen, somehow.

They will ask that, but there’s often space to explain because of things like this and political prisoners. I’m not sure how Canada’s forms work and if he was convicted of something closer to selling multiple pounds to minors than simple possession*, that probably wouldn’t fly no matter what, but it’s definitely worth a shot.

*intent to sell is also determined very differently in different countries- in Germany, for example, having a scale stored with your supply or having multiple strains of weed in separate bags would not bump you up to intent to sell, but it does in the US

Doritos did actually buy Taco Bell, in a sense.

Edit: that link still makes you do some digging, but here’s the Taco Bell part

Even a country where weed is legal?

Absolutely insane behavior. I don’t understand how people are so confused about the concept of bisexuality

Tbh, I don’t think there is a good app alternative and my priority would be moving somewhere where I can do my own grocery shopping. You don’t need a car if you’re close enough to go twice a week. I know it’s not easy, but that would be what I was working towards. You’re paying a serious premium with things like instacart even before you get to the delivery.

That’s not for dreamers, it’s even worse: it’s for people born in the US to parents here illegally or temporarily.

We’ve got friends who are about to have their second kid, and they’re going a little nuts because they want to socialize a lot more than they are, but can only hang out at like 10:30 am.

I asked them why they don’t just make friends with other parents in the area (they moved to a kid friendly neighborhood with a bunch of young families), and they kind of made a face and didn’t answer.

But like, why not? It seems like the perfect topic to bond over and you can watch the kids together, giving you plenty of time to hang out.

Merkel famously hated Putin. They worked together, for better or for worse, but she did not personally like him. She has a phobia of dogs and he’s a dog lover, which she would have obviously been fine, but he brought a large dog to one of their meetings after her office had requested otherwise, which she felt was an attempt to intimidate her.

Your honor, I was on 4chan for my mental health, I swear!

My favorite food as a kid was cauliflower and my family didn’t even make it nicely, just steamed with a little butter. I still love vegetables, but I don’t think I’ve ever steamed anything but fiddleheads and dumplings.

Good management is just good people skills. If you don’t have them, intentionally defanging your speech/correspondence helps prevent blowups. Unfortunately for people working under managers with bad people skills, this doesn’t actually make up for and mostly just highlights their managers’ deficits.

Tl;dr: management speak is intentionally harmless in and of itself, but is an obvious symptom of bad management.

I’d definitely be interested in that, thanks!

I’m pretty sure it’s The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker, here’s an excerpt with the kangaroo story.

That’s a very good point. I was picturing a society where this is common and accompanied by a reduced government role, which would require more community support for people who have greater need of it, but that’s not very realistic.

Well, yes. I’m assuming honor where it shouldn’t be assumed.

I’d love it if you argued with the other bits though, because I know there is a problem with evenly applied corruption, I just don’t see it.