I like tequila with a pickleback, which is the way less classy version of this.

If your minor child gets hurt at my house, you can sue me for negligence. If I didn’t talk to you beforehand, you’ve got a much easier case. If I then present evidence that you were abusive, you’ve got a much harder case. You’ve got to feel out the situation a little bit, but currently there’s no indication that her parents are crazy. They could tell their son that they’ll need to talk to the parents first and see how he responds.

Or worse, her parents flip out on your son

I’m very, very susceptible to addiction, but the thing that makes it easiest for me to curb a habit is to pretend I’ve already moved past it. If I think about junk food, I intentionally think of overly sweet, salty and artificial foods and (internally) express my distaste. With smoking, I think of the smell of an ashtray in the rain; with drinking, I think of cleaning up day old beer with a hangover.

Saying “I don’t really have a sweet tooth” is what made me lose my sweet tooth.

I had an app that made me solve a simple polynomial equation to unlock my phone between 22-7am because I was taking ambien at the time and I didn’t want to risk it.

That could work, but we’d have to find a problem that hegseth can actually solve sober.

The Middle East, Texas, Russia, Canada… there’s a bunch of sources, but it’s still a lot of work to get. Plus, you know, its usage is slowly killing us.

I worry they’ll be trillionaires and everyone else will be the millionaires, carting our wheelbarrows full of useless dollars around

My cat’s cool until they try to take her temperature, which she hates. She always looks at me like I’ve betrayed her and I can’t blame her, it’s a pretty invasive thing that I can’t exactly explain to her. She just knows that I brought her somewhere and tried to calm her down before someone put something in her ass.

The first book is debatable in discworld. Not its quality, but whether it’s first or not. That seems fitting for it.

The startups that give you drugs aren’t worth it. At absolute best it’s a work hard play hard culture.

I’m from Connecticut and used to work in a call center taking insurance claims nationwide. I once got a call from a guy in rural North Carolina, who had a super thick accent. He was explaining that the damage to his car came from the tar blowing up and I was trying to figure out wtf he meant by this (sometimes customers are nuts or lie- it was okay to take down a story that definitely didn’t happen, it just needs to be clear and true to what the caller claimed). I kept asking what caused the asphalt to explode and he was totally uninterested, saying it was old, sometimes that happens, isn’t that our job to figure out?

Anyway, I was having a tough time understanding this guy, but my coworker went to college in Tennessee, so I roped her in and transferred him.

His tire exploded, not the tar. He just pronounced tire the way that I pronounce tar. For me, it’s two syllables and indistinguishable from the word for one who ties.

I stg when I speak English, it’s with the front third of my mouth and when I speak German, it’s the back third (excluding the “L” sound). Realizing that helped me cultivate a much better accent in German

Imagine how awful surgery must seem to them. It would be so easy for them to remove a tumor or ruptured pancreas, but for us it involves basically butchery.

I felt nuts spending €1000 on mine.

Wait, someone knew the admin the whole time? I thought they went missing, but I also didn’t pay super close attention. I hope all is well with them.

I mentioned it, but didn’t try to recommend it to my forty something sisters who mostly use Facebook, because I figured it was a lost cause (and we’re small enough that I’d be very identifiable from my comments), but try were both very interested in it. Unfortunately, I lost them trying to explain it.

Laster than fight speeds

It doesn’t bother me on a peach 🤷

It’s been a couple days, but I think we’re actually hitting one of these points now. In a hundred years, someone might ask why there weren’t any female astronauts or why women didn’t take part in NASA. I just hope we have enough backups for the information that they were involved and vital to the program to get out there.

There are examples of women’s contributions to science, philosophy, government, and arts throughout history (Hypatia, Boudicca, Cleopatra, Hildegard von Bingen, Iaia, Queen of Sheba Makeda, Wu Zeitan, Queen Victoria, etc.). Most of those women were either religiously celibate or widowed young, which allowed them to “respectably” act as individuals. Had they been married to men who lived longer, I think we probably wouldn’t know their stories. My suspicion is that (the mostly male) historians simply overlooked women at best, and actively suppressed their roles in history or attributed their work to their husbands at worst.

The major world religions have played a huge role in our understanding of the world, given that most scholars whose work we still have access to were in some way affiliated with Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Platonism or Zoroastrianism. Every single one of those religions was, at least at one point, dominated by a patriarchal cultural mindset (though interestingly, most of them started out relatively egalitarian).

Note to self, don’t marry.

I mean, you’re not wrong, but that carries a different risk. (sorry about the source, but it’s relatively comprehensive)