Your entire house is made out of limestone? Or you have limestone veneer

We should go back to building things with rocks

*sisters

Unless they happened to be an alate brood

Every single comment they make is exactly three paragraphs. What’s up with that?

Europe’s national security has much more at stake here than the US

I don’t think you have to recognize the cutting-edge artwork of Richard Scarry to find this meme amusing

I work alongside police occasionally, and they really don’t care about enforcing weed laws at all. The ones I’ve spoken to about it say the only time they charge people for possession is as an add-on charge when they’ve been arrested for something more serious. This is going to vary widely by police department, though

a/s/l?

Yes there are lots of beautiful women in prison wanting to exchange letters with you. Didn’t you know that? And when they ask you to send gift cards, it’s definitely only because they love you

What, the interest? You lose that money, default or not.

“Volume control disabled.”

Then the windows all go opaque so you can’t be distracted by the outside world

And the only way to save it is nuclear power?

Not sure where you got this from what’s written there

Given Ukraine’s near-total economic destruction since its proxy war against Russia erupted in February 2022…

The phrasing of this sentence is just one example of pro-Russia propaganda in an article filled with it. Of course the US spins messages and creates its own propaganda, every country does this. It’s important to be able to see through spin to evaluate facts, but blindly eating up the propaganda of other nations just because you don’t like the story the US is telling is not a great take.

This represents 0.0036% of the USAID budget…

What blatant corruption?

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There doesn’t seem to be anything secretive or untoward happening here. What is he even alleging?

You’ve gotten a lot of advice on here, but I don’t think I’ve seen this…are you able to “suck in your gut” if you try hard and it improves how it looks? If so, it might not even be visceral fat, but just poor muscle tone in your abdominal area. If this is it, then core strength exercises are the way to go. Practice sucking in that gut more and more until it becomes the default, and strengthen your abs and obliques.

I work in mental health and frequently interact with people at some of the worst moments of their lives. I can tell you for certain that some people can take adversity in stride and continue to find meaning in life, while others crumble and fall into depression or anger or despair. I think a portion of the difference is genetic, as people often have a “baseline” level of contentment that’s pretty consistent across their entire lives, but another portion is absolutely learned.

The people who struggle most almost universally have a trauma history as children and have difficulty with emotional regulation and distress tolerance, both of which they might not have had modeled for them growing up.

I agree with you 100% on this post. People go to therapy to tackle individual goals of all kinds, and encouraging people to stay feeling depressed because bad things exist in society is a toxic attitude. In a relationship, an attitude like that would be categorically abusive. Someone encouraging others to wallow in depression is only ever doing it for selfish reasons, e.g. to justify their own mental state, to feel less alone, or even possibly to derive pleasure from the suffering of others.

Costs compared to what? Loading up a ship on the Pacific coast and sending it around Indonesia and through the Suez canal and then unloading it in Europe and putting the cargo on trains there to the final destination?

When I cook onions, I typically start with that and continually add things to it, including the wilted mushrooms. Cooking mushrooms in a dry pan doesn’t really leave any water, it all boils off and I wipe out any remainder prior to the onions