As someone who lived in Kansas, just look for the middle of the middle.
The center column of states has 6 states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas), and Kansas is in the middle of that vertical line (given that the northern 3 are a bit thinner).
I feel you on the gift part. I'm quite picky about shitty products. That being said, I don't complain when I receive a gift I don't necessarily like, I just grumble when I use said gift in private.
The people who spend too much researching before purchasing all know the feeling of endlessly finding products that intrigue them, only to find a handful of glaring flaws.
Bacon, eggs, hashbrown, an english muffin, and a glass of milk... is what I would say if I were a teenager again. I'll probably just have an english muffin, a cup of tea, and a fruit.
However I must point out they are not rice cakes, but wheat cakes. Also, tteokbokki benefits a lot from having some cabbage and onion mixed into it... delicious!
Then, construct your comment in a way that conveys such information without automatically ostracizing them from ever having sympathy for your cause. You're never going to build curiosity in those unaware of your cause if you begin by chasing them away.
Well of course God won’t answer a prayer that would negatively affect one of his true followers.
...I’m not God, so I have made peace with the fact I will never understand that.
Could you share what makes you so confident in the first quote, despite what you say in the second quote? How can you know God would not or has not answered any prayers that negatively affected a true follower, and how can one define whether God has negatively affected a true follower when one cannot intimately know God's true intentions?
Don't you feel it's a bit counterintuitive to call someone tonedeaf for being unaware of "International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners", something that more than 99.9999% of people are likely unaware of?
Wouldn't you be better off, say, helping build awareness of such a day instead of simply berating someone for not knowing about it? At the moment, you're teaching people to treat it like a joke.
Been called a ch*nk multiple times by random people in public, been told as a child that I should be performing better in school because of the "type of person" that I am, been called a dog-eater by peers, asked "what's your real name" (even though my government name is an English one), etc.
One time someone called me a ch*nk, I explained that despite them being shitty for thinking that's okay, that I'm not even Chinese, so they must be extra braindead. I also said that it must be disappointing to know less of the English language than a non-white person, and that if a white person like them can't learn proper English, then they're failing their own expectations of what it means to be American. I suppose hearing me say that in perfect American English was enough for them to realize how dumb they were being. Everyone in the room glared at them and they shut the fuck up and left lmao.
I love it when Apple pushes advertising that touts their focus on privacy... when in reality, they're breaching user privacy in all the ways that every other company does.
I have a kinda thick wallet, but it was a gift (and a relatively pricey one too), so I try to use it to its fullest.
I will probably replace it with a much thinner one when it falls apart.