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From the US: I’m over 30 and this is the first time I’ve heard surrogacy referred to as human trafficking. And now I need to sit and think.

It’s always felt a little bit creepy to me, but I’ve also never wanted kids and the idea of pregnancy for any reason would be traumatic. So I’m starting out heavily biased. I think if you take the money out, it no longer counts…?

But the idea would be so out of left field that it would mostly be dismissed out of hand, probably even by most women.

Yeah? And how many removed the lid that way?

So apparently if you smack it all around the sides of the lid with a spoon or something, you can loosen the vacuum seal.

It sounds fake but it worked the other night on a jar of salsa I was legitimately considering just breaking, and I’m still kinda mad that I never knew that til now.

Remember, if the thick cloud emitted by the egg only drifts upwards, it’s probably no good.

No, this graphic really is solid advice for people to know, but damn if it could have been designed with a little more forethought. Imagine, for instance, if the reader is yellow/blue colorblind. They could make a guess at what’s happening, but they may not quite be sure. Arrows are doing 99% of the lifting, here.

Otherwise known as: “what if everyone’s abusive ex ran the government?”

You missed my personal favorite: a viking burial mound on whose walls, some seven or eight feet up, is written, “Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up.”

Viking men averaged out at 5’7" (173cm), so he must have been lifted by someone.

No, a burrito to the face is physical abuse. Being verbally and physically abused every day of your job is not how jobs are supposed to work, and viewing things like that as silly small things to be affected by is itself pretty damaging.

If I lean across the counter and punch you in the head, you’re allowed to have some kind of feeling about that. Especially in a setting that heavily discourages and may even punish defending yourself, the way retail often does.

Convincing yourself it’s fine because the world is cruel keeps the world cruel. More importantly, it keeps you from considering you deserve anything other than cruelty. We need to care about each other.

In general, or just in red states? Cross-referencing LGBT politicians with their states’ historical political leanings, an openly LGBT politician has been elected or reelected while their state was considered republican a total of 96 times. The lead is actually a three-way split between Florida, Georgia, and Arizona, each with a total of 9.

So. Less than it perhaps should. Way more than you’d think.

Well, that makes them like the edge of a freezie pop. Those are dangerous.

I don’t think plastic would cut so well as it does in the article’s video, but maybe it’s not the only schematic.

If we make them out of little bits of plastic, the answer is shockingly yes

When…they strike for it?

You’d think. On paper, it’s the logical response. Irl, anything not on the market is going on the black market

Ah. Would our darling Erdoğan like to show us what he knows of interior design?

Glad to hear the bee movie kid grew old enough to appreciate Encanto

Prepared for what during a nuclear war. There is nobody they could fire on that’s less militarily prepared than they are themselves. I’d be shocked if anyone actually remembers to think about them except when they saber rattle. And even then, it’s not in a worried way like they want. I find myself cheering on every threat like a doting uncle at the special olympics.

I’d originally intended to make the joke that North Korea is like if Canada had a goatee, but Canada has allies.

Hey, now. If not the capabilities of the soviets, at least they’re still using the same tech.

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This and the article seem like a great breakdown, thank you very much. I would have guessed chocolate would be somewhere in the middle, and I’ve never really thought about cheese in this context at all. I was surprised to see both of them so high up there.

This would suggest my sweet tooth is my biggest problem, at least, since beef is too expensive to be a common occurrence anyway

Do you remember a source for that info? Or at least suggestions? I’m interested to read into it, but I’m not really sure what to even google for that

Looks like I’m just never watching the right movies. My default understanding is that a movie will be 2hrs long, give or take 12 minutes for the credits. It’s felt like they’ve been trending shorter to me for about a decade now, and I’ve not been happy about it. Renfield was shockingly good compared to what I expected it to be, but even then, the character development could really have benefitted a lot from that missing 30 minutes.