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I am forced to file taxes every year and being a US citizen fucks my ability to invest in the retirement plans here because they all end up being PFICs which the IRS heavily penalizes. Fuck you, you're not taking my rights away. Forcing me to travel to not only the US, but to the state where I'm registered is not OK as that is thousands of dollars and days to accomplish.

There are a lot of different dryer designs as well, some of which are much more friendly to breeding bacteria than others.

This is just speculation so not a real answer: many precious metals are easier to work than some of the harder counterparts like iron and steel. Secondarily, it's harder to fake those. Even if you make an alloy counterfeit with the same weight when coated with the precious metal, you still need at least the previous metal and it would still fail other tests such as malleability.

My brain isn't consciously thinking about the constituent parts of words as I'm saying them. I definitely don't think "milk neck" when I think nipple, either.

I think that's more hubris leading to death by misadventure. Ikarus got a little too warm.

'Nobody panics when things go "according to plan."' -- as a software engineer, I assure you this isn't completely true. If things are too smooth, something is definitely, probably horribly and sneakily, wrong.

I've made this mistake and apparently others have as well: the words for lips (kuchibiru) and nipple (chikubi) got mixed up in my head leading to some awkwardness in Japanese.

• phone
• watch
• handkerchief
• wallet
• sigh of relief
• performance of "screw you guys, I'm goin' home"

As a former alcoholic, doubt. I do occasionally drink, but I have to be very, very careful because it can easily spiral to an every night thing, particularly when I'm otherwise suffering with stress and/or depression.

Not all other languages have gendered nouns. Articles and affixes are usual points of pain I see (as someone who grew up in a monolingual English-speaking household), and of course the whole orthography mess with spelling is terrible (how can ough have like 6 or 8 pronounciations?!). If you want fun, some languages have distinctions between inanimate and animate things as well as cases that don't exist in English as well if you want to look in fun other features.

Edit: I meant to say prepositions. Affixes is often more in the other direction

Wife saw two shooting stars in short succession a few days ago. I wonder if it was little grains preceding this guy or just random junk.

rice cooker, slow cooker, or pressure cooker.

I literally had none of these at the time I mentioned. I had I think two pots and a frying pan.

over 90% of the American population live within 15 minutes of a Walmart (with three quarters being within 5 minutes from one)

Citation? I sure didn't.

if they don't already have more than one grocery store in their area.

We had one and that was anywhere close. Again, remember gas money and travel time were issues for me. Like every cent of gas and food money.

Please don't diminish someone's ability to really improve their life with very little effort

But it's fine for you to tell the working poor to basically 'git gud' and find money to spend on things, places to spend it, and time to do so? Particularly the ones without vehicles? The ones who deal in cash and don't have debit or credit cards to order online?

there really is no such thing as a food desert.

Again, there are people who do not have bank accounts or cannot regularly access them to spend money online and most places these days aren't going to do CoD. This is also just misinformation.

"The consensus established at the NIH workshop was that food insecurity and unhealthy neighborhood food environments contribute to diet-related chronic diseases that worsen health disparities. Addressing these challenges would help tackle nutrition security, a growing priority for the USDA and other federal agencies [83]. Several factors, including social determinants of health such as employment, housing, and education, severely limit access to affordable, nutritious food among various racial/ethnic minority and rural populations. " from the conclusion/summary of https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)66352-X/fulltext which also mentions food deserts elsewhere in the work.

The worst thing we can do is convince people that they are powerless

Of course they're not powerless, but your "solutions" are blind to just how shit the situation is. I'm telling you this as a very annoyed person who lived it. You're telling people to come up with time, means, and money out of nowhere. "It's just $10" is insulting to some people who are choosing between food and medicine or heat or electricity. You are saying to empower yet victim-blaming by saying they're not doing enough.

I just never buy those games. Epic released with exclusives but couldn't process payments in a number of country leaving gamers there SOL. That and some of the higher-ups there just left a really bad taste in my mouth. Anything that also releases as a timed exclusive there doesn't get a purchase from me until years later when it's more than half off (and I think I've only bought one game like that). A Steam monopoly is bad, but Epic are not the solution to that.

Same, IIRC.

I remember pepsi blue existing but I don't remember ever wanting to buy it. I did probably try it at some point, but neither of the restaurants I worked at during those years carried it.

I love to cook and always have. When I was working 2 jobs (and some additional freelance/part time) to keep a roof over our heads, there was zero chance I had the time, money, and energy to cook. Living in a food desert, I would have to spend gas money I didn't have to go to a proper store to buy things and that would eat about 50 minutes more of my already-sleep-deprived day. Don't even get me started on when I lived out of a car for a while. And I'm fortunate that I even had the car. Public transit was terrible where I lived at the time and basically useless unless you want to spend 3-4 hours a day commuting. There were no sidewalks and multi-lane roads with high speed limits. The social safety net is also in terrible shape, moreso today than back then.

"Only $10" also shows how out-of-touch you can be for the real situation that people have, particularly in areas of the rust belt and coal mining areas where the employers frequently left. I also worked in worker's comp in healthcare IT and let me tell you that people with lifelong problems from the mines frequently get denied care as the mines fight just about everything, so there are people who have a really rough time and need more care for their families which is still more time and money in places with few jobs left to go around. These people also don't have the resources to "just move", either. This doesn't even go into the opioid epidemic that also is an issue from overprescription in those areas and other confounding factors.

I live in Japan and am overweight, though slowly dropping it. Two years ago, I went back for the first time in like 6+ years and was shocked and horrified at how huge people were.

I have a 100% remote job a few hundred km away. Even if you made the exception for remote work, my job would basically be pointless because our company operates entirely in the online world.

I also wouldn't be able to Skype or even email my aging family back in the US.

Also, in very rural Japan, online shopping is a huge saver of time and money. I'd also have to watch OTA Japanese tv which mostly sucks.

I was thinking just various learning materials, but I think you can just shoot me instead sometime before the bank repo's my house

Depending upon ventilation, if they succeed in drying it enough and not having it overflow getting it in, they might not have to worry about getting it out.

I hope that cunt rots behind bars. He clearly didn't learn his lesson in Japan.