raef @ raef @lemmy.world

Mildly reclusive American living in Europe.

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Now? When was it not?

Florida's heritage is to be a shitty place:

“On August 11, 1776, when news of the Declaration of Independence became known in St. Augustine, they became so incensed that they made effigies of John Hancock and Samuel Adams and hung them in the trees in St. Augustine Plaza and set them on fire." (Ben Brotemarkle. 2024. FLORIDA TODAY)

That's what I meant in response to "ask parents to bring basic school supplies". "Ask" could also be covered in a list of suggested supplies. But, anyway, parents are providing those things, which counters the original question

What is "basic school supplies" for you? In Europe, there is a list of basic supplies students need and the displays show up in stores around July: things like pencils, pens, erasers, paper, binders, folders, punches, staplers/staples, paper clips, correction fluid... There's a lot

Sometimes more specific (sometimes. Verbs carry some widely different meaning and depend on propositions to differentiate), but not always more concise. If you've done or compared German-English translations, you see the English is always shorter, both in word and—especially in—character counts. My experience has been usually about 20, up to 30, percent.

Those are just esoteric or poetic uses. It's perfectly fine to just say "it" in all those cases, but there is still a distinction for people. It's worth considering the possibilities of that disappearing as well. In any case, we don't conjugate differently for genders

That's what I upgraded to a year or two ago. Handles switching input sources no problem; something the Sennheisers couldn't do

I had a bad experience with the Bluetooth on Sennheiser and got so frustrated I broke them into little pieces and threw them away. I've since bought two pairs of Bang & Olufsen and have been happy. It seems they have a sort of light pink on at least one of the models

But most people are talking about Scottish English

I had assumed that's how it went, too, but Germany had their crusade against marijuana before the US

Germany had laws against marijuana before the US did

They weren't making the meat cones themselves.

At a local place, they left an order catalog on the counter. It was a catalog for just döner shops. I was just flipping through while waiting for them to get to me. It had all ingredients and price points in it

I'm sure there is a range of quality.

Any döner sold for €3.50 contains largely skin.

Have you seen the meat? It literally pours out grease. Fun fact: a main ingredient of döner meat is chicken skin.

And the coins aren't magnetic

I know the intent. Remember visiting the parents for the first time? What a nightmare that was. The one highlight was furious fucking in the bathroom while everyone watches wrestling or some dumb shit

Are you worried about a statute of limitations? Why the definition of time?

The stage at the highschool during a lock-in

Just show us all up, why don't you?

You are reminding me of parking lots, people walking by, knocking on steamed up windows.

Probably the worst, and most regular, was a couch in my parents' living room. Spooning under a blanket can turn into clandestine sex real quick. All while watching cartoons.