Oh, I've got fucking Cold urticaria. My body takes it personally if I go swimming in cold water, or don't wear a heavy sweatshirt on a chilly day, or God forbid if my sheets are just a little bit cold and I'm not wearing wrist-to-ankle pajamas. It fucking sucks, and it didn't even develop until I was in my thirties, so it's not as if this something that I learned to live with so early that it's second nature to me now. FUCK my fucking cold-activated histamines.
I shit you not, I once watched a lady talking to the information desk at an art museum about a membership with a toddler. The kid started getting antsy, and didn't listen after she told them to stop trying to run away. She had the kid lay down on their stomach, and she very gently put her foot on the kid's back, so she was in effect halfway standing on them. The kid didn't even seem upset, just "This is what happens when I don't listen." Awe inspiring.
Yeah, not getting what they want might mess up a kid's afternoon. Being taught that throwing tantrums can get them what they want might mess a kid up for their entire life.
Nothing should! Parenting is hard fucking work, and if you're not one hundred percent up for it, then don't do it!
Even in some fantasy ideal world where pregnancy and childbirth are easy, preschool is free, and the future isn't somewhere between bleak and horrifying... being a parent is still an incredibly taxing ordeal, mentally, physically, and emotionally. There are plenty of kids in the world. Nobody should get born to parents that feel even the slightest bit of reluctance at their existence.
If just 538 Nader voters had gone to Gore, representing 0.0091% of the total vote, Al Gore would have been president.
Tiny fucking margins can change the world. Ask a bunch of dead Iraqi people if they feel like there would have been no meaningful difference between Bush and Gore.
I'm confused about this part. Does that mean it's in basic outline correctly-sized but only has 80% as many rooms...
...or that the layout is exactly the same as the original, but everything is 20% smaller? Because then you've got issues with all the agents feeling like they're seven feet tall.
The theory I heard on the Strict Scrutiny podcast is that the 5th Circuit exists to write atrocious opinions on terrible rulings so that the Supreme Court can make rulings that are only 85% as horrible as that so the SC can seem more reasonable by comparison.
Scenario A: King Charles tries to oppose this. His opposition is overridden by, you know, democracy. Now he looks like even more of a schmuck for standing in the way of something that was going to happen anyway.
Scenario B: He doesn't oppose it. Australia votes to become a republic, and seems like a cool guy for not standing in the way of the inevitable.
Seems like a pretty straightforward choice between options.
I know how to enunciate, speak with a voice supported by my diaphragm, and increase the intensity of my speaking voice without actually yelling. It's incredibly useful. Virtually no one ever misunderstands me on the phone. I can have a conversation in a loud crowded place. I'm actually fairly conflict-averse, but when I need to "switch on," I can usually short-circuit people's inclination to argue by using a more focused voice.
Everyone should take a decent Acting 101 class where they teach you these skills.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all menpersons are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.
Unless the local is me. I am terrible at giving directions. "Go that way for like, three... maybe four intersections. Turn left when there's like a store or something on the side of the road. When it seems like the right time, turn left again, and then like... uh... there's a tree... You know what, let me just give you the address and hope that GPS works out for you."
I'm seeing a lot of games with awesome cover art but pretty standard gameplay for its era. You gotta pick something with truly dogshit gameplay to counter the cover. I present the NES game Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
I was the kid who liked to stand in the horror section of the video rental store, look at the covers, and read the descriptions of scary movies I was way too meek to ever actually watch. This comes along, and I think it looks pretty cool! My mom paid good money to rent this and so help me I spent a good chunk of my evening trying to figure out how to do... literally anything. I wandered back and forth as Dr. Jekyll for a while before I bumped into too many pedestrians and turned into Mr. Hyde. Then I wandered back and forth as Mr. Hyde until I believe a bird killed me. Never made it past the first level.
That is a truly horrendous game with badass-looking cover art.
Here's Life Expectancy vs. Healthcare Expenditure, and there you can see Americans on average living about as long as people in Turkey or Poland while spending dramatically more than people in Germany or Switzerland.
Oh, I've got fucking Cold urticaria. My body takes it personally if I go swimming in cold water, or don't wear a heavy sweatshirt on a chilly day, or God forbid if my sheets are just a little bit cold and I'm not wearing wrist-to-ankle pajamas. It fucking sucks, and it didn't even develop until I was in my thirties, so it's not as if this something that I learned to live with so early that it's second nature to me now. FUCK my fucking cold-activated histamines.