They’re pre-chewed, for that authentic baby bird experience.

I singled her out because she’s the easiest person to get stuck seeing on the front page, so it quite literally and unavoidably feels in your face, thus it’s a bit of a meme right now to cite her.

I had to search for her to figure out who you meant; I’ve watched some of her content, but she’s nowhere near my front page. This is just the YouTube algorithm working against you. You can choose ‘Don’t recommend channel’ to avoid seeing her videos if you don’t want to.

I feel like this comment of yours is a jab against me

It’s not, I just assumed (apparently correctly) that you had a specific perspective since you called her (and only her) out by name.

The only way to guarantee that you don’t cause a paradox is to not use the power at all.

The purpose of these questions is to verify your identity; they have your DoB, and are asking the question to confirm that you are who you say you are, so if you answer N/A when the correct answer is one of the other 4, you’ll be denied access to whatever you’re signing up for.

All that said, “What month were you born in?” would have been a much better question for the reasons OP notes.

That’s fair; my kid is probably an outlier in this regard as we’re a very tech friendly household in general, and my experience with him is the only real evidence I have to base that stance on.

Why don’t you tell us about your own experience with Mormonism and how it differs from Alyssa’s?

It’s still important to know that it happened and how it was done. Otherwise it’s just going to keep happening using the same methods.

Learning how to lead a protest and how to escalate until it is acknowledged is probably more valuable than whatever they’d be learning in that technology class. If there’s one thing that kids today don’t need it’s formal instruction on technology; I bet most of those students know more than the teachers.

I find their continued requests for donations while they do absolutely nothing to be particularly infuriating.

Honestly, Biden should just go completely off the rails, and do all the shit Trump is threatening to do, including jailing political rivals. Including the red members of the SCOTUS. Give them plenty of warning, and plenty of time to reverse their prior ruling, but start following through if they decline to. Make them respond.

I used to play a cleric in Everquest. We used to play the ‘purple bar game’.

If you drop to 0 hp, you fall unconscious, but you’re higher than, if I recall correctly, -20, you don’t die. Instead, you bleed for a few hp per second until you reach that threshold (or, more frequently, something hits you). When this happens, your HP bar turns purple.

We used to make it a game to try and time heals so they didn’t land until the tank was unconscious. It resulted in many, many deaths.

doctors not taking anything she says seriously, even when her symptoms are obvious

I’m married to a white woman, and she also experiences this, so this might be a gender discrimination problem, rather than (or in addition to) a racial discrimination problem, sadly.

Banned from jobs that are customer service related forever? No.

This is harder when we shift this to talking about comedians. For a comedian to have a job, people have to want to go to see them specifically. If I go to a show, and have a notably bad experience, I’m probably not going to go see that person / group / whatever again, and if I see videos and read news articles about someone else’s bad experience, that’s also probably enough to make me not want to see them, too.

So, maybe celebrities that get cancelled should have to find a new industry to work in, if what they did is bad enough. At the very least, they need to change their image to the point that they’re appealing to a different audience, if their old audience is no longer interested in seeing their show.

Question for you:

Let’s say the cashier at the local supermarket calls a customer some slurs. Someone records it on their phone. it blows up. Should the supermarket fire them?

The smart move would be to pardon them immediately, and heavily imply (or, let’s be honest, it’s Trump - flat out state) that he will similarly pardon anyone who kisses the ring and is unflinchingly loyal.

Of course, Trump isn’t known for being smart, so your guess is as good as mine.

“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social site, referring to those convicted for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after Trump claimed falsely that he had won the 2020 election.

This is actually hilarious, because Trump could have pardoned them from Jan. 6 - Jan. 19, 2021, but did not.

If you teleport to it and back, that’s way more valuable than anything you’d actually be buying. I’d just use it for that purpose exclusively. Choose a plot of land to “buy” that’s calculated to a specific timeframe, matching how long I wanted to be there. “I want 200 square feet in Norway.” Day trip to Norway, let’s go!

I’d argue that the taxes are a separate cost, which would be paid separately rather than being included in the “purchase price” you’re using your dollar to offset. In OP’s example, the TV requires electricity to run, but the cost of that electricity is (presumably) not bundled into the purchase price. Just like maintenance on the house would not be included up front, as it’s a separate, additional cost.

If you reject that, I’d argue that the land will exist well beyond the fall of civilization, and at some point, there won’t be a government to tax it. It will, however, still exist. If the land costs $400,000, and taxes are $10k / year, and we expect Earth to last about 8 billion years, and we expect government taxing the land to exist for, say, generously, 10,000 of those years, that’s only a net cost of $0.0125 per year. In this case, the land itself only costs $0.00005 per year, so you could buy quite a lot of things for your dollar, in fact.

Buy a plot of land, preferably with a house on it. If you assume that the land will last until the death of the planet, even if it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to ‘buy’, $1 / day worth of that would still last you for your lifetime. If it doesn’t last that long, you could calculate the length of time until the death of the planet (or of the human race) by dividing the time you got it by the price in dollars, and that’d be valuable information, too. Bonus points if you only keep it for a few minutes.

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