Does it get you high? Is it just oxygen deprivation? Or is it a weird thing middle schoolers did for no reason?

And excited

Olive Garden is a restaurant chain. It would be like spending all day on the Arby’s or McDonald’s app with an added layer of Olive Garden being a bit obscure.

It’s funny how people don’t seem to remember being a kid. I can name you plenty of memes and in-jokes from middle school/high school where the “joke” was that it had literally no meaning. Adults being confused about kids these days only fuels the joke.

Like, has anyone lost the game recently? You think that’s any more high-brow?

Oh I see, sorry I agree most mustard is a little yellow. I was just contrasting it to ballpark mustard yeah.

Take flasks.

Sorry, maybe my post was confusing. Dijon is the one that doesn’t have turmeric and isn’t yellow, the bright yellow ballpark mustard does.

What? Yeah? Some doors open in some ways other doors open in others?

Yellow mustard is not less fancy. It’s yellow because it has turmeric in it. That’s more ingredients and it’s one of those fancy unique spices.

The reason it’s cheap is because Americans like the flavor of turmeric in their mustard so some companies have made a cheap version of it.

I think people don’t realize how many doors are automatically open for them if they’re polite and hard working. Lots of interactions go way smoother if your end is always covered and the person you’re talking to wants to help you because you’re being nice.

Compare this to someone who is lazy and impolite. I think polite people would be genuinely surprised at how shit the day-to-day life of someone impolite is. Of course we’ll never hear it from the impolite because a defining characteristic is that they’re self-centered and ignorant.

The key is asking for it. Someone lazy and impolite who asks/demands that things go their way will get a lot of validation (externally at least)

But if you’re polite and hardworking and ask to get your way (which is not necessarily impolite, no matter what the perpetually anxious try to tell you), you actually have even more opportunities laid out for you.

This is so true. I always point out to people: think of all the couples you know. How did they meet? Personally I don’t know any two couples that met the same way. It ranges from being housemates in college to finding out they lived in the same city from some internet forum.

A lot of us over here are the same way. “Yes, we know he’s wrong at every turn and every time he announces a policy it’s throwing us deeper into chaos. Just shut TF up about it until we get to do some direct action like resisting ICE in our neighborhood and do some protests that actually shut some things down until demands are met.”

As Mamdani has said, some of them are literally spending more money than he would tax them which just shows how poisoned they are.

I would say if you think you can tell someone is acting in bad faith. Call them out on that and explain clearly why it’s bad faith. You can just ignore any response after that but I think it’s extremely helpful to future readers if you can make them more aware of the tactics people making bad faith arguments use.

As op said. If you don’t have the energy or desire to make a response it’s more than ok to not engage of course. I would not want to wish arguing with people online against your will on my worst enemy.

China is capitalist and authoritarian. Their investment in their people is done with the goal of neo-colonialism as they use their wealth and influence to indebt growing nations to China. They invest in their people, but only enough to stave off mass protests. We see a lot of wealth come out of China, but remember that we could witness China uplift an equivalent amount of people to the entire population of the U.S. and they would still be oppressing a larger percentage of their population.

It looks like it’s working in contrast to the U.S. right now because we are currently crashing out as a nation, rewarding cash-grabbing opportunists even more than we have for all of U.S. history. Idk, there is a chance we fully burn up in this shit show going on right now and that would de-facto make China’s system technically better, but I think that’s the only way. I mean the atrocities China has committed against its own people and people around the world in recent decades is ridiculous. I know you weren’t going to bat for China don’t worry.

Days with meaningful consequences for his actions: 0

Only some of its entitlement. The man is clearly either extremely traumatized and depressed or showing signs of more serious mental issues like schizophrenia.

As we have seen time and time again. In our world money acts as a very good mask for mental issues, but he would be having the same issues if he didn’t luck into streaming, he would just be in a much much worse situation.

Or possibly he would have gotten help if he had had to rely on family and friends who might have convinced him to seek help sooner.

Laguette de la botte is definitely a dish I would try at a French restaurant

If Trump starts insulting the banks and trying to impose control on them that would be a sight to see.

I think it’s a somewhat credible theory I’ve heard that a large portion of our “defense” spending goes towards larger and larger bribes to countries around the world either to not go to war or to maintain trade relations with the United States in order to maintain U.S. hegemony.