He might have just wanted the large, padded pockets. When I was in high school, kids would wear a giant parka no matter the weather when they were carrying a gun.

I just realized how dystopian that sentence is, sorry.

It stimulates the salivary glands, and saliva does prevent tooth decay.

The teacher was pretty cool, so I feel like she would have let us try it, but I’ve never met a science teacher who doesn’t have a viscerally negative reaction to the idea of eating something made in a lab. Honestly, the alcohol was probably an excuse

Root beer used to be commonly mildly alcoholic (.5-1%). We made traditional root beer in my AP bio class in high school, and weren’t allowed to drink it because of the alcohol

Yeah, it’s a generally unpleasant accusation that doesn’t really apply here, like calling a random infantryman a hitman, because they were paid to shoot people.

Except, even in light of current events, most people still consider shooting people to be worse than having sex with them.

Well of course she doesn’t have one, she dropped out

She never took a dick, they all stayed attached. Rather, she engaged in coitus.

See how silly that sounds?

Yes. Minus the tittle, but that’s reasonable imo

That’s only because we don’t teach little girls how to from age two. Women can learn, it’s not especially difficult, just a completely different type of aim.

For anyone wondering: make a peace sign with your dominant hand and position it so that your two extended fingers get a good grip on your labia, with the tips about 1-3 cm from your urethra. Pull everything slightly forward, and begin peeing with great pressure. When you can’t sustain the pressure, cut the stream off (this was actually way harder for me to learn than the aiming).

Start in the shower to practice pressure control while aiming at the drain. When you’re confident, do it in the shower before turning the water on, to confirm your aim is true and you’re not losing stray drops. When that’s the case, congratulations! You can pee standing up.

It’s truly wonderful, as long as 0C isn’t painful for you.

I’m much better adapted to the cold, so it’s in no way painful (unless I were to pass out in it or try to build a snowman without gloves or something). For me, even German summers are so unpleasantly warm that I can’t eat enough calories without being fully nocturnal. People tend to have a temperature and humidity range that works well for them, and they only adapt to new environments slowly

They want the blinds to deal with the privacy aspect, but they’ll still install a liner for the water aspect. They just thought blinds instead of a traditional curtain (but not to replace the liner, which is often separate from the shower curtain) was cool or funny.

I’ve seen what I know as “te” today written “the” more than once by a seeming native Spanish speaker (I’m not one). Do you know if that’s a dialect, trend, autocorrect from people who use English a lot, or something else?

Or the Freie Wähler or Bündnis Sara Wagenknecht. There are options for anti immigrant populism now

You’re good, I meant it literally about disinformation, so I don’t doubt you read it somewhere that seemed credible.

I’m from Connecticut, and we’re all still mad about it, so it always sticks out to me when someone thinks he was a democrat at the time (he did generally caucus with democrats, but was very pro-business. He was not elected again.

The amount of misinformation about this guy…

Joe Lieberman had been an independent for years when he voted against single payer, and he died in 2024, after 11 years of retirement.

Those cats are from Pawnee

Nah, there’s no wood paneling!

I bought cutlery a few years ago and decided to get exactly what I wanted, not what was standard, and I not only ended up with golden-colored, wood handled cutlery that everyone else thought was hideous, I only got fully round spoons, in both teaspoon size and standard soup spoon size.

I loved that cutlery. My old roommate… gratefully tolerates it. I just have a giant mouth and never realized it could be an issue, but even the small ones were surprisingly unpopular

Oh, I did do that. I just wouldn’t have looked into it if it weren’t for the advertisement warning.

I think birth control is in a weird category here though, because it’s (generally) totally elective and there’s a bunch of different kinds that work differently for different people, so it’s probably pretty standard for people to have preferences about it in a way that they probably don’t for various types of, say, cholesterol medication.

I rejected my medical care provider’s (I think it was a nurse practitioner) advice because of what I saw in an ad, and it did not go well. They were incredibly offended that I had an opinion and dismissive of the idea that IUDs could lead to scarring, which I got from the ad itself. I didn’t end up with any birth control that day, but the next month, planned parenthood gave me the ring instead of a first generation copper IUD.