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"normal" means "constituting a norm" as it usually does -- i.e., that it's usual, or typical, or common

Towns that have them are normal, then, right? You hardly go to a town where you don't see them right? So they are normal in that they are a part of each town. If they are only normal if they constitute some mass percentage of the buildings than almost nothing is normal. Most buildings in cities aren't courthouses, police stations, fire stations, schools, etc. But they do exist in damn near every town. Hell, there are even fewer of those buildings than mixed use buildings in most town. But those things are still normal. If you want to claim otherwise, cool, be the pedantic weirdo.

Update: Down voted, but no response. Sad.

Towns that have them ARE really common, which was my point.

Yes, a little bit of mixed use exists in each town.

Glad we agree on the only thing I actually claimed.

Fuck me, you're good at missing the point.

I'll not engage in an argument over semantics. I don't care what you qualify as "normal". Regardless, mixed housing doesn't seem to me to be significantly rarer here than it is in the UK, and it's becoming increasingly more common with new developments too. The person I responded to referred to it as "normal" there, and so I used the same term because i think it's nearly as common here. If you have a problem with that, bite me.

It's not "normal" as in most housing is mixed used. It's "normal" in that most towns have at least one building that is mixed use. At least county seats that have a courthouse square. It's certainly not like they are hard to find in the US.

An example, here's a pretty typical square in a small Midwest town surrounded by shops with apartments on top: https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1348819217/photo/aerial-shot-of-small-town-salem-indiana-town-square.jpg?s=612x612&w=is&k=20&c=X3FM9YL2K9CEikXer7pmxC_imF2bx8VE5mMAU8qq_d4%3D

Not even that. I have lived in various small town and suburbs around Indiana and Tennessee. They're really common here. Almost every small town's main square is surrounded by mixed use buildings and mixed use condos are not uncommon either, especially the closer you get to urban areas.

It's normal in the US too. The person in the post doesn't have a clue WTF they are talking about. There are mixed use buildings everywhere in the US. Most town squares and new apartment complexes are mixed use.

Nearly every old town square I've seen in the Midwest and the south has businesses on the first floor and apartments upstairs. And there are plenty of new urban apartment complexes being built with like 4 floors of apartments over restaurants and various shops. What idiot told this guy that this wasn't a thing?

But Republican lawmakers and commercial tax preparation companies complained it was a waste of taxpayer money because free filing programs already exist, although they are hard to use.

I'm sure those companies are just looking out for wasteful spending of tax dollars. Not so they can collect and sell your data. Not so they can attempt to upsell you on getting virtual assistance when their own software is to complicated for the some users. Not so they can spring surprise charges on you at the last minute. But so they can charge processor fees for paying due taxes. Not so they can maintain monopolies that allow them to charge higher prices for their filing services. Not so they can continue to lobby the government to make the tax system more unnecessarily complicated and working even more in their favor. No, it's the congressional budget they're worried about. Sure.

The truly classic ones I've read are Red Son, All-Star Superman, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, For the Man Who Has Everything, Kingdom Come, and the Death of Superman.

I also like the New Krypton/War of the Supermen storyline though.

This is a false equivalence as it's equally illegal to distribute porn to children anyway, and to do the same thing on a public street during an otherwise legal protest. Public Indecency laws come into play then, which has nothing to do with what these guys were doing.

I tried to draw a bunny rabbit for Easter and instead I drew Harvey Weinstein! shakes fists Aaaaaart!

I notice they used an actual photograph for their post... isn't photography "traditional" artwork? Why not generate a person with weirdly smooth features, 6 and a half fingers on one hand, a pencil that looks vaguely like a bunch of dry spaghetti, and a sports team jersey with a garbled illegible logo? It's so much faster, more accessible and less misogynistic.

We're almost certainly fucked. It is depressing.

As a life long Superman fan with like 4 notably good Superman stories to read in his 87 year history. Fuck you... but yes.

Contacts. Super contacts.

Psychic abilities too.

adults attending a high school athletic event do not enjoy a First Amendment protected right to convey messages that demean, harass or harm students.

This is poorly phrased. They do enjoy the First Amendment right to express dissent to the trans athlete's inclusion, even if it is demeaning. However, the state has the right to hold time, place, and manner restrictions on First Amendment protected conduct. School soccer games are not a traditional forum for protest, and schools have pretty wide ranging power to limit expression that counters the normal functioning of the school including sporting events, as well as the ability to restrict participation in and attendance of school sponsored events for misconduct. They can't be arrested for expressing themselves as they did, especially not for harassment. But they can be trespassed.

Absolutely would be, yes

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