I’ve seen similar price hikes here in Minneapolis. There’s a very popular restaurant serving mocktails for $15.50. It’s common to see a $18 burger with no fries. I’m certain it’s not unique to Minneapolis, but I’ve been to NYC and Paris recently and was shocked at how affordable the restaurants were. Either restaurant owners are conspiring to price-fix, or they’re following other industries and raising prices “because they can.”

I assume you know about transdermal patches, and that you just mean the powder form can’t be absorbed through the skin like the cops often claim.

Plexiglas tents? To cook them faster?

The submarine owner/grifter may have deserved it, but the sub was also carrying a child who was only there as a Father’s Day gift. And honestly, I don’t know much about the dad, but if his sin was being rich enough to charter a submarine I don’t consider that an automatic death sentence.

Oh boy I thought it meant something else! Updating my comment.

Went to the bathroom for 3 minutes, came back and my co-worker had been arrested for gooning joggers that morning public masturbation.

EDIT: This guy would park his car, start jerking off, then ask women for directions. That morning someone recognized him, and he freaked out and drove away. He got sober after that and turned things around.

I learned about torchiere style lamps a few years ago and I really like them. You’ve seen them before. They’re usually floor lamps and they point upwards to bounce the light off the ceiling. Unless you have a dark ceiling, they do a great job of spreading the light around the room without being too bright.

Smart bulbs are, of course, more customizable, but recently I’ve gone back to analog lights I can just turn on and off.

What’s your problem? If you had a financial windfall that meant you could retire, are you saying you wouldn’t?

I guess it’s good they acknowledge the need for an exception to the law, but even in the case I described it sounds like the person in danger would be waiting even longer to have their case reviewed. That said, I don’t know how long the process normally takes anyway, or if a name change is a viable protection from domestic violence.

Fuck this bullshit. And as usual, anti-trans laws don’t just hurt trans people. Anyone changing their name to escape abuse or domestic violence would have to broadcast their new information to the public.

Does India have a higher rate of violent sex crimes compared with other countries, or have I been propagandized? I don’t want to be the guy who says, “WTF is happening over there?” so I’m curious if something is, indeed, “happening over there.”

Was I not supposed to roll joints with this stuff when I was 18?

My parents were Catholic, so they never talked about sex per se. My “talk” was my dad saying, “I want you to remember to always respect women. And that means not doing anything inappropriate.” Very informative.

OP wasn’t arguing that Italian-American culture necessarily resembles Italian culture. Of course they’re different. You’re implying that the concept of “Italian-American culture” is superficial or illegitimate because it differs from the way that Europeans talk about international or intergenerational identities, and that’s some prescriptivist bullshit. “Genuine cultural identity”? Get out of here.

If the shooter was black they would have sent the SWAT team within an hour. I can’t believe the chief was saying this shit out loud. “We knocked on the door, he didn’t answer, there was nothing we could do.”

This story is bananas. After Moturi was shot, it wasn’t until he went to the press that the police made an effort to arrest the shooter. Here’s MPD chief’s unhinged response to the criticism.

https://youtu.be/A0TCnMHHhwY

As a young photographer, he was a hometown hero for me. Rest in peace.

Either he’s never heard of John Chau or he’s trying to become the next John Chau.

I’m a white American.

Most friendly: Portugal. They seem to be a happy bunch in general, and they all seemed excited to have visitors. Lisbon, Cascais, Lagos, and all the little towns in between.

Least friendly: Iceland. They could just be less open and emotionally expressive with strangers, but unless it was a business transaction I was frequently ignored when I said hello and people seemed uninterested in having a conversation.

I frequently hear this stereotype from people who haven’t been to France. I specifically hear that the French are rude to anyone who doesn’t speak French. My experience was that they can be rude to Americans who assume everyone will speak English. I would do my best to have a conversation in French, and the locals would usually take pity on me and switch to English.

I’m not denying there are unfriendly French people, but I would expect anyone to get tired of tourists who don’t make any effort to speak the local language.