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One of my closest friends moved to Tennessee right before his adolescent daughter came out as queer a few years back. I feel so bad for that kid. Her family is supportive of her, at least, but what a nightmare place to have to live as a gay kid.

No, I don't think either will work at all.

Ah. Can't say I've seen it so I wasn't aware.

Sushi as we know it is actually relatively modern. The Japanese made a few exceptions to vegetarianism mostly out of practicality. For example, birds were also not seen as animals.

Somewhat related to this, there was an emperor who died of beriberi because apparently all he ate was polished white rice.

'Octopi', interestingly enough, is a result of people assuming that the word 'octopus' comes from Latin because it ends in -us, which would mean that the correct plural drops the 'us' and replaces it with an 'i'. But, trickily enough, it does not come from Latin; it comes from Greek. As a result, if you're trying to be super technical, the correct plural would instead replace the 'us' with 'odes'--octopodes.

Of course, almost nobody actually uses that term unless they're doing it for fun. The most commonly used, correct plurals for octopus are 'octopuses' and 'octopus'.

I hope you enjoy that little tidbit as much as I did when I learned it.

Spiny dogfish. Those spiny, bait-stealing little jerks.

Not fish, but absolutely adorable and intelligent and unethical to eat.

This depends on how deep the fish lives. For example, where I live, anglers are required to have a descending device on them and ready to go to quickly return a deeper sea fish to the depths without causing it significant harm.

At the same time, all hooks are required to be barbless so as to cause minimal damage to whatever is caught.

They didn't say farming is necessary. They said that it was necessary that life feeds on life.

Farmed fish is often worse. The fish are kept in small pens and given tons of antibiotics, polluting the local water. Sometimes those non-native fish escape the pens and interbreed with native species. They are also less nutritious than wild fish, at least when it comes to salmon.

For people in countries which use a comma instead of a decimal point: do you still pronounce it "three point eight million"?

Same. I required people to take shoes off in my house until I got dogs. They track dirt, pine needles, fur all over the place. I still mostly go around in my socks, but I don't expect anybody else to.

No, he couldn't. Netanyahu is in charge and he's been looking forward to this for ages. He is not in America's (much less Biden's) pocket. He has his own powerful military at his beck and call.

Biden does want to retire. He's said he'd only run again if Trump did, so here we all are.

I worked retail in 2007 and almost never got anything but cash payments.

And yes, most customers were boomer age.

The punishment is laughable, but being barred from law enforcement in the state is very much a step in the right direction. Every state in the Union should have stiff laws in place which prevent bad cops from simply moving from one jurisdiction to the next.

This is about personal use of business jets, but yes, they should go after personal jets as well. Would require new regulations, of course.

Right, but he wouldn't have even been running in 2004 if he hadn't been handed the presidency in 2000.

Good article. Hope they can get this archaic law changed soon.

You should include the episode and season for those who don't want to open Youtube.