Restaurants very rarely go full spicy with non natives of the cuisine and for good reason.
You can persuade them if you're a regular and they can up the stakes gradually without risking to burn you out of existence, but otherwise they'll just lie to you.

It feels great when they don't feel they have to protect you from yourself and just bring you however they eat it, but they are very right that most people can't deal.
I could once, but I come originally from a place where spicy is really spicy, and had been growing my tolerance for a while.
I wouldn't even try it now.

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.

I'd agree in general, except that of my two cats one could have been an engineer were she born with opposable thumbs, the other can't be persuaded not to drink the mopp water if left unattended for more than a minute.

Plenty of fresh water available, of course.

I'm fine with getting wrinkles and I still keep my skincare going. When I don't, my skin gets very dry and fills with pimples.

There's a middle ground here.

It's a Monty Phyton one

Where would that leave Ukraine?

Blonde and ginger women get asked plenty.
I can easily see a shaved head elicit the same dubious approach.
Any woman I've ever talked with has their fair share of weird, inappropriate crap thrown their way, this just par for the course.

Vivaldi is Chrome based

It reminded me of this short

I love self checkout. It allows me to avoid most of social interactions and physical proximity with strangers, making the experience just that much less uncomfortable.

You're right that it's being used against the employees, everything that possibly can will in this system, that doesn't make it inherently bad.

It should be an option, together with a well paid, well treated (let them sit ffs) workforce.

You could try moving to Tidal or Qobuz, they treat their artists better and there are tools to transfer playlists

While I agree, there may be a difference in the level of suffering they'd need to endure before death

If gaming is a priority, Garuda is a nice one to avoid as well

I'm sorry, is that a brain fart or did you actually mean to say leftists oppose abortion?

How are they choosing the bear? Both of those are actively hostile towards women, they don't just "go their own way" to chill with the bear

Robin Williams is not the professor, he's the therapist.

The professor is Stellan Skarsgård.

Is this for real? It would be a delicious little nudget, but I don't seem to find a way to check it

I think they are referring to this.

As in, it's not that they want, they might have to.

I'm not sure it would only apply to women. Never had much of a parental drive myself but I met several men, both friends and partners, who wanted children very much.

Maybe it's different somehow, I wouldn't know, but something's definitely there.

I agree that what she does is manipulative and condescending even with the best intentions (paving the road to hell and all that), but I have issues with the use of "emotional intelligence" here.

An emotional intelligent person does NOT do this kind of shit on purpose.
They meet the other person where they're at and on the same level, they communicate honestly, they don't presume to educate or manage them.

I'd say she comes off more as emotionally stunted, she has no idea know how to relate with her partner as an equal.