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But it’s truly worrying how many people are just phoning it in most of the time.

I’m an American living in Germany and married to a German. The first time I brought him to the US, he thought we paid way too much for gas because he forgot it wasn’t by liter.

He’s been driving for over twenty years and he’d never seen as low a price as the ones posted right next to the airport in New York City.

A lot of people pre wash their dishes, and a lot of older dishwashers need some degree of pre washing, though modern ones shouldn’t and it’s more water efficient to run a full load in the dishwasher than to do it by hand. Doing both is the worst of both worlds.

I can’t wait to have a dishwasher again.

Is that usher?

That’s what I’m saying. I’m interpreting “original names” to mean that they used to be made out of cow dairy products (instead of just happening on the same names we use), so option three is the only one where the cows in society might be totally unconnected to the dairy industry.

It is, but they retain the same names as dairy products did. If it was option 4, the cows in society would be separate from the milked creatures, so they might be totally unaffected by thinking about the dairy industry. It is unpleasant for different reasons, though

I could imagine the dairy and veal industry being a very sore subject for cows in zootopia, and casual references to dairy products might be a painful barb for them.

Option 1: the best way to do things, but probably counts as a microaggression

Option 2.1: probably what Disney would go with

Option 2.2: the fanfiction explanation

Option 3: the grimdark version

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Oh yeah, it would be actively bad business practice to drug test at restaurants. I just figured it was like the “employees must wash hands before returning to work” signs, where hanging the sign is the extent of the business’s obligation. I didn’t realize drug-free workplaces implied no off-premises drug usage from any employees.

Yeah, but I’ve worked in tons of places with those signs that don’t drug test

Wait, is that what “drug-free workplace” means, that not a single employee does drugs in their off time? That’s wild. I assumed it was a sign companies posted as a CYA in case they wanted to fire anyone for bringing drugs on premises.

Maybe the lower decks parody will help? It might equally make it worse though, you might want to read or have someone else read a synopsis

Ooh, that’s a good one! You should keep an open mind because people will surprise you, but generally people try to coordinate their outward appearance with their character. Again, not always because lots of things can impede that (clothing, health or financial restrictions, for example) and some people intentionally try to appear different from how they are.

Yeah, it’s the same reason my very devout Catholic grandmother didn’t feel guilty about taking medication before mass and still having communion. Reasonable people interpret religious texts reasonably.

I’m a woman who overheats really easily and I work at a bakery (my need for free good coffee overwhelmed my need for temperature stability when choosing a job), so I wear loose dark-colored linen shorts year round. They come to a couple of inches above my knees and I don’t think they could be considered sexy by anyone without a very specific fetish- I feel very much like a mailman wearing them (that’s intentional, I’m generally a pretty modest dresser).

One of our regular customers is an imam, and a lot of my coworkers are nominally Muslim, to the point that they feel weird/guilty when he comes in, but I was raised Catholic, so I don’t mind. He’s a good guy, and we chat sometimes, including about religious guidelines (I’m the kind of asshole who likes to have opinions about things in the Quran without being able to read Arabic, and he takes that about as well as a reform rabbi, plus I am delicate about how I phrase things).

Summer before last, I was in the middle of losing ten kilos because of the heat. I couldn’t keep meals down and basically only wanted to eat cucumbers and watermelon, but I still had to work. I asked him about what would happen to Muslims with my heat tolerance, and he laughed a little and said that it was like asking what happens to diabetics during Ramadan. Obviously there can be medical exceptions to all of the rules and anyone could see from several meters away that I was not handling the heat well.

I’ll grant you, this guy is a liberal imam living in Germany, but it is reasonable that a major world religion not adopt strict environmental regulations that endanger their believers.

We gossip about our coworkers/classmates /people we know in common or talk about shared hobbies and upcoming plans together.

I’m newly a teacher (of adults), and I accept literally any excuse anyone gives me. I suspect that I’ll change that as time goes on, but I don’t even really get excuses.

That’s too tempting. Do you get an activation noise if you give in or is it just insta attack mode?

Whaaaat, bottom middle for me, except he’s got mean eyes. That might be a reflection of his recent circumstances though, I can’t imagine he’s in a great mood.