So are avocados. The creature that was supposed to eat avocados whole is long gone.

I believe that communal bathrooms are cheaper to build and maintain, hence we still have them, not because anyone enjoys using them.

Normalize paywall.

You had to buy the newspaper to read the newspaper, so paying for a digital newspaper isn’t any different. Plus, people will pay a reasonable fee for good content.

Even the ny times has paying subscribers. This isn’t much different from Netflix. As long as the pricing is fair, and the articles don’t double dip by including ads on top of subscription, it will work just fine.

Give people a free trial to test the content.

The borat movie scene where he explains why it’s better to be a dictatorship drives this point home better.

Someone make a rule that a new community is visible to the public only if it has more than 5 posts. At the very least, the person who opened the community needs to be active on it.

Chickpea cakes = breaded falafel?

Interesting that she sued claiming her position was so specialized she couldn’t find any work, but as part of the settlement she agreed to drop the reinstatement request/not seek any further employment with the state agency.

Probably a once in a lifetime opportunity to use that thing, so any excuse will do.

An American is trying to explain to a Russian what freedom of speech is.

American: I can go out to the street and shout for everyone to hear that my president is an idiot.

Russian: I can also go out to the street and shout for everyone to hear that your president is an idiot.

Shhh, you are not supposed to know that…

I think that’s normal if you have an inner voice. I do that too to an extent. However, not everyone has an inner voice. I can’t imagine how life works for these people, but it’s not that rare not to have an inner voice.

That’s sort of impossible by definition.

One of the ways we have defined a species is that it can’t breed with another species, be it due to bio mechanics (the sex organs don’t match), or genetics (mismatched chromosomes etc). Humans have tried to create hybrids of closely related species like horses and donkeys, but the resulting mule is sterile. See also tiger lion hybrids etc.

I wash my knives in the dishwasher all the time. Wood handles and riveted handles suffer, but plastic handles wash just fine. Stop buying shitty knives.

Only if you don’t have insider info.

I occasionally watch an American YouTuber married to a Chinese man, living in china, and they can’t afford a car (my observation, she claims they don’t need one). They have recently upgraded to a bigger electric scooter as their family car.

To anyone confused as I was, they are talking about a location in Mexico roughly 31 miles away from the USA border, not 31 miles of border length.

Someone correct me, but I believe the gear pattern in a manual transmission does not change between right hand and left hand cars.

At this point, American health/dental/vision insurance is just a monthly payment / membership fee needed in order to be able to access medical care at a somewhat reasonable price.

You will be happy to learn that the American court system still favors eyewitness testimony over any other kind of evidence, despite it being countlessly proven how unreliable eyewitness testimony actually is.

It is correct. You have hiv but you die from aids. HIV, the virus, doesn’t kill you. It destroys your immune system to the point that you die from regularly common virus and infections normal people shrug off even without any medication. Hence hiv carriers might die from the common cold for example. But since hiv is the root cause of their death, rather than the common cold, we say they died of aids = auto immune deficiency disorder. This also allows to differentiate between asymptomatic carriers and people with symptoms.