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How some people afford to travel around the world for months without working?

You don't have to be super rich or be a trust-fund baby to travel around the world for months. I find the general estimates for a more frugal world-traveling for a year are $20.000 to $30.000. This is obviously not doable if you really live paycheck to paycheck, but if you have a relatively well-paying job and live very frugal it is not impossible to save this amount of money. Also there is the more irresponsible solution of taking on debt.

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Is therapy worthwhile?

I unfortunately can't tell you how to find a therapist, because I am not from the US, but to the question if it is worth it:

Absolutely! For me it is still one of the best decisions I took in my life and it helped me so much in fighting my my depression and anxiety.

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People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”?

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Every contract is legally binding in Germany, even verbal contracts or in this case price tags (to some degree).

This seems to be contrary to what I can find. A price tag is not a contract but an "invitatio ad offerendum" so an invitation for the customer to make an offer at the checkout. Then a contract is created when the cashier accepts this price after scanning it and matching it with the price in their system. Therefore it's not the price tag that counts but the price in the cash register. I could be wrong or the law has changed in the last 1-2 years, but I found this information here (sorry they are all in german):

https://www.mdr.de/ratgeber/recht/preisbindung-supermarkt-regal-kasse-100.html

https://www.test.de/Verbraucherrecht-Regal-oder-Kasse-welcher-Preis-gilt-5115345-0/

https://www.verbraucherzentrale-niedersachsen.de/themen/kaufen-reklamieren/regal-kasse-welcher-preis-gilt

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One Piece 1089: Under Seige [Leak]

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Smoker not being shown as one of the nine Vice Admirals on the Marine fleet incoming is worrying to me.

Doesn't the marine headquarter know that Smoker has shown to be soft towards Luffy a few times? I would find it weird if they send specifically him to attack Luffy. If Smoker appears then I would guess he is hidden on some ship or something like that.

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One Piece 1089: Under Seige [Leak]

Nice chapter, I'm wondering how they will stop the "Mother Flame"? It's basically like a Deathstar and with a weapon like this under their control, the rebellions in the One Piece world have no chance, especially if York makes more of them. Maybe Stella-Vegapunk will be essential in finding the weapon's weakness and destroying the energy source they would need to build more.

Also, was Saturn showing mercy to Bonney because "she is just a child"? This is an interesting statement from two angles: A Gorosei is showing some humanity (???) and additionally I'm wondering if Bonney is really just a child that turned herself into an adult with her powers.

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One Piece 1089: Under Seige [Leak]

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"Mother flame" is the name of the weapon that destroyed Lulusia, and is known for a few chapters. Maybe I'm overlooking something in the chapter, but there was nothing in the chapter that connected this weapon to the technology of the void century? They only said the power station for the "Mother falme" weapon is on Egghead.

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One Piece - 1088 Spoilers

I think this part seems underated: "“Yonkou Straw Hat Luffy” is taking Egghead Island as his stronghold."

I know that we had to expect Morgan to embelish it, but doesn't this mean the Straw Hats will not run from Egghead but defend it against Kizaru, Saturn, CP0, the Blackbeard Pirates and potentially the Seraphims? This seems huge.