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It was a sick ostrich

If English were one of the hardest languages to learn, it would not be the most common second language worldwide. It is a difficult language to master, but we barely conjugate verbs, have only remnants of a case system, and no grammatical gender.

The hardest parts about English are the spelling and the advanced weird cases, like “I will have done that by tonight,” but those are not things that the standard language learner has to care about. It’s perfectly fine to ignore all the rules that don’t inhibit communication, so no ESL speaker needs to learn about not splitting infinitives or ending sentences with prepositions (unless they want to do academic writing in the arts, I guess).

The D is stored in the balls

Then maybe she was trolling back?

Abraham Lincoln Otto von Bismarck

I think either way, you dodged a bullet. You don’t have food poisoning or a girlfriend who lies to you, lol.

Pro tip: you’re better off not dating someone who gets rid of their fridge every winter unless you live at mcmurdo. I could see very thoroughly cleaning and unplugging a freezer if you have a lot of space outside (protected from any wildlife) and can rely on it being well under freezing for months, but it’s probably either too cold to work as a fridge or temps will spike to dangerously warm during the day.

What for? There’s no reason to try and force anyone to do anything. It’s all completely pointless because whatever you get out of them will be gone the next day. Plus, how do they collect the people every day? Unless you surprise them every morning somehow, I think most people would just say no, even upon pain of death (potentially suicide) after the first few torture sessions, especially if you know that people have died and they still come back the next day.

You can make plans for the beginning of the day, but you can’t intentionally wake up earlier than you did the first time, so raids or similar tactics are unlikely to work unless you’re targeting someone who originally slept until noon.

I’m living in Germany again now and I’ve brought this up occasionally with people when we’ve reached the comfortable talking about kinks stage, but it’s a surprise to everyone so far. Germans do definitely like anal more than Americans IME, but not because of the poop, lol. Maybe it’s the Austrians 🤷

This is journalistic misconduct (on the part of the Washington post), imo.

Given UHG’s size and broad reach – “more than 5 percent of U.S. gross domestic product flows through the company’s systems every day”

That’s impossible. It would only be possible if there were only 20 business days a year and UHG was the only company. This article sources it (thankfully) to the Washington post, who source it from here, where it’s much more reasonable:

It is this analyst’s opinion that the concentration of ownership of health care payment infrastructure in the hands of a single company poses a significant threat to the financial viability of the US health care system and requires a policy response. It does not make national security sense for more than 5 percent of US GDP to flow through a single company’s pipes. No provider of administrative services to health plans or care systems should be permitted to control a third of total US health care payments. Assuring the stability and safety of this payment infrastructure is a legitimate and substantial policy challenge.

UGH is a $1,5T company and the US GDP is around $30T. 5% is reasonable to say, but saying 5% every day is wrong.

My boss and I had lived for a few years in Italy and Germany, respectively, but were both in the US again at this time and had a jokey rivalry about which of us had integrated better. She was looking for jazz music for our restaurant and said “god, I love scat. Don’t you?” and my dumb ass responded before I could think about it for a second “I’m not that German.” (For anyone confused, I don’t know why, but some Americans think Germans are into scat. I have not experienced this in any way, and have no idea if it’s at all based in reality, I was just making a joke I shouldn’t have)

She didn’t know what scatophilia was, did NOT enjoy hearing about it, but wouldn’t let it go until I explained my joke.

When I was young enough to not realize this wasn’t a question for my dad (5-7ish), I asked him what “dropping the soap” meant in a prison context. He explained that mens and womens prisons don’t mix, and gave a kid friendlyish answer. I then probed further, because I was aware of gay people saying it wasn’t a choice, and didn’t get how it could sometimes be a choice.

My dad, completely unaware of how to handle this situation said “when you’re desperate, sometimes a hole’s a hole.” It took about five years for me to understand that answer.

Cary elwes is rich enough to you that you doubt his personhood? I have to assume his net worth is seven digits(according to those celebrity net worth sites, $6-8 million. Idk if those are at all accurate, but it feels reasonable for his career). Doctors, lawyers, dentists, accountants, plumbers, contractors, septic tank servicers, and a fuckload of other people are in that range.

That’s a lot of people you’re not sure are people. I get that it was probably not earnest and I’m ruining the joke, but that’s too broad a dehumanization brush for me to find it funny.

Yeah, there’s about a million, so this is ~1.5%

But they can’t stop you from waking up there and they’re not going to spend every morning rounding the same people up. Even if they did, go ahead, throw all my shit on the sidewalk, I’ll still wake up there tomorrow. It would be interesting to see how they react to it, because there’s no meaningful way for them to control people (that I can think of, but they’re pretty creative when they need to be)

What difference does that make? If I pay my landlord $30 today, that money is back in my account “tomorrow.” Plus, it’s not like you can get an eviction through, all paperwork is blank at the end of the night, so only the things that people can remember are maintained.

WOW. He just wears the uniform and marches to the beat because he might be persecuted otherwise. It’s totally different, even though it’s only noticeable if you can literally read his mind. Next you’ll say those nine people sitting at a table with a nazi are nazis.

Apparently it’s a Bathtub Madonna

A friend brought home a giant, bright blue, sparkly Mary-in-a-bathtub. We googled it afterwards and found out that it was super valuable, so we brought it back, but it took three of us to get it back there and was much less fun than stealing it.