Should I take the private jet, or is that a little on the nose?

People will totally be grateful to you! It’s like being a firefighter light: you get to help people, it’s impressive, and it’s kind of a hassle a lot of the time. I was going to say it’s a lot safer, but given the picture, I don’t know if that’s a given

Oh, that went entirely over my head, lol.

Day? I’m pretty sure it would at least ruin their month. But, you know, one person’s shitty month is definitely worth several people’s lives, so either be sure, or try reporting it to someone other than the police, like a school psychiatrist or the closest you can get in your situation

It’s the only service they provide to the community

AI is really making things harder for (some) autistic people. I write like it, I don’t notice when other people use it — unless, of course, they use an m dash, and I definitely don’t notice when people mimic it.

(My “—“ was a joke, but the rest was entirely serious and not intended to sound like AI. It’s just me who’s the robot 😬)

Yeah, I don’t love the idea of being covered in bugs or snakes or something, but it’s definitely worth a huge sum of money. I know eating live scorpions (or similar) isn’t worth it for me, and I’m pretty sure I’d literally have a heart attack if I had to do a heights challenge, so they’re definitely not paying enough.

I dated a guy in college whom I (affectionately) referred to as “the caveman,” because he had a really prominent brow. My (unaffectionate) nickname in high school was “sleepy,” because I fell asleep in class once, and that was made up by boys.

I think most nicknames are a little unimaginative.

As awful as I found fear factor itself (I’m very afraid of heights and squeamish), I’d still prefer it.

We’re already working double shifts without leisure time, so there’s no slack to cut. That’s the problem. People who really want kids know that kids require sacrifice, that’s the one thing everyone talks about with kids. If you don’t have any more holes in the belt, trying to tighten it won’t help.

Do those people with kids make it work, or are they doing their children a disservice by being emotionally and literally unavailable to them because they’re trying to make sure they don’t starve? I hope most of them make it work, but I know it’s not all of them. Unfortunately, crossing your fingers and hoping you’ll make it work doesn’t seem like a responsible choice to many of us when failure would so greatly impact an innocent person.

That’s the thing: the holocaust was not Germany’s only genocide. People only focus on the holocaust because it’s still technically in living memory and because Germany had streamlined its techniques to the point that they were able to commit genocide on a scale the world wasn’t expecting.

That’s the thing: if you really want kids, you’ll regret not having them. If you really want kids and have them without being able to afford feeding and clothing them, you’ll regret that even more.

I’m firmly in the millennial camp in my mid thirties and I have two pairs of couple friends who’ve had kids. It could absolutely be my friends circle, but most of us are in the trades or have advanced degrees (most of the people who went the college route also have more than a bachelor’s, because that alone wasn’t enough to get a job) and we just can’t make it work. Many of them want kids, but they want to be able to provide for them first, so they’re just waiting

Yes.

I’ve also never spoken to a real yuro-peen before, let alone someone from another continent (I’ve heard there are more, but they beat us for asking questions about unamerican things in school, so I’m not sure).

Aw, did that one land for you? 😘

I’m so glad I got you to educate yourself!

No, American.

Canada uses 120V, Mexico uses 127V, Colombia uses 120V, Suriname uses 120V, Venezuela uses 120V…

Maybe you should learn before you make a fool of yourself, but you probably do that no matter what.

You might be incidentally in some of those videos/photos, which is fucked up, as the other commenter mentioned, but it’s a lot more difficult to make you the focus of them without your knowledge with a phone or traditional camera than it is with glasses.

Pick up artists are hitting on people, then posting videos of the interactions, either making fun of them if the PUA got rejected or crowing about having been successful, either one of which can lead to serious online harassment, doxxing, and consequences in real life for the victims. People are also taking pictures and videos of intimate situations and sexual interactions with partners who aren’t aware of it, sometimes without even knowing it themselves.

Should he refer to a kettle from Britain as a foreign kettle? Genuinely, what way of referencing it would have been unobjectionable to you here?

The electric nature of the kettle isn’t what makes it abnormal for Americans (it might not be owned by every household, but people aren’t generally surprised or confused by them), it’s because Britain has 240V and the US has 120V electricity in most outlets, so American electric kettles take longer to boil water.

So you were just being racist? She’s from San Diego and a Hindu, the actual problem.

I majored in German in college (and honestly probably only got to a high B2 or so, which is not very advanced), so a decade or so after I graduated, I signed up for six months of intensive online classes from 3-7:30 am every weekday before work, then applied to a bunch of masters programs in German language instruction. I was accepted on a provisional basis for a normal teaching degree, and given a year to take more intensive German classes before starting the degree. Nearing the end of that year, I had advanced my German enough to qualify for the masters in German education.

To qualify for the student visa, I had to prove my student status and have €10k that I could put into a bank account to be withdrawn in steady increments throughout the year (and have a clear criminal record, though marijuana was recently legalized, so maybe those charges would be irrelevant- important note about Germany specifically though: the populace and to a much greater degree the government are very pro-Israel and you might have problems with the visa application if you have a history of speaking out against it or for Palestine. I was already here in 2023, but they’ve gotten a lot more aggressive about it since October 7th). The intensive classes cost about €5k for the whole 18 months, and university tuition is around €400 per semester.

I do have a talent for languages, but I also think that if anyone spends 18 months doing 20 hours of language instruction per week, they’ll be able to at least get a high enough level to study a non language related degree in most countries. I’ve seen dedicated illiterate adults begin learning both German and how to read and get a language level high enough to meet university admission requirements here within three years, so a person starting out knowing their letters can do it in half the time. It’s not easy, but if you can focus on it, it’s doable.