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Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life
True, and I fully support creating safe spaces for drug users. Addiction is a medical condition, not a crime.
It might not stop them, but sometimes it should.
Strong agreement on the dough being too tempting as it is. I tried to convince my wife that opened packages of cookie dough will sublimate in the fridge, but she didn't believe me. And the mixes are great for keeping a variety of cookie flavors in the cupboard, without keeping actual cookies in the house.
Let's fund drug rehabilitation and education programs?
Many moons ago, I worked as a realtor, and one of the "tricks" of the trade was to bake cookies before an open house. It makes the house smell great, and you get to give out snacks. It really shattered my internal concept of baking cookies, because I could buy pre-cut cookie dough and a cookie sheet on my way to a house and make delicious, warm cookies in 20 minutes while wearing a suit. No apron, no cleanup, just an increasingly tight pair of suit pants.
Isn't that just the definition of a parasocial relationship?
Boiling gets the sweet carrot flavor out of the carrot and into the stew. It's like onions and celery, the point is not to have mushy bits of formerly flavorful vegetables, but to have those flavors in the food. If you're making a mirepoix for soup or stew, it is a mistake to leave big chunks or slices of carrot intact.
Roasted carrots are different, though, I agree.
I'm not reducing anyone to anything. Conservativism is always exactly the same, which is why it's called "conservativism." If a conservative isn't conservative, then they are something else.
It's not a generalization, it's the name for the phenomenon.
I don't disagree with your reasoning, but both of them are in their forties.
Is it still hooked up? You can draw some power from the line and hook up some low power leds, or maybe run a trickle charger for rechargeable batteries. If it's disconnected, it would make a decent hidden vault with a cat-shaped key.
You could also plug in an old phone and get a landline.
He's a conservative. Conservatives cannot be held to any sort of philosophical or ideological consistency, because their positions on any issue are entirely negotiable. There are no fundamentally conservative values beyond "is this good for me?" That's why it's so appealing to conservatives to have a personal savior who fully accepts your apology and offers divine forgiveness for any transgressions.
Well if this isn't just exactly what I imagined, I don't know what else it could be.
Well, Gaston isn't really attracted to anyone but himself. He's a classic narcissist, and his pursuit of Belle is purely to feed his ego. If he could have sex with himself, he would. Vigorously, and somehow selfishly.
Le Fou, on the other hand, is an effeminate sycophant. The live action explicitly makes him gay, but the animated version merely suggests it. Singing about how handsome and manly he is, and how much everybody wants to wrestle with Gaston with the biting and the spitting and the hair-covered inches.
As silly as it looks, there's a good reason for this. You can't just have a blank page because the user is going to wonder if something is missing. You have to say that the page is blank on purpose, at which point it's no longer blank. They could say "The only thing on this page is this sentence explaining that there is nothing else on this page" but that seems somehow more ridiculous.
The Democrats need to stop waiting for the perfect pitch and swing the fucking bat.
The water charge did elicit an eyebrow raise from me, but tourism in the Greek isles is a bit different. I haven't been to Corfu, but I know some smaller islands don't have potable water service. Some places will provide filtered pitchers of water, and others will provide bottles on request. Maybe they were offered tap water and insisted on bottled water, resulting in the charge? I know Athenians are particularly proud of their tap water. Maybe they insulted their hosts by suggesting their water wasn't good enough? I'm just spitballing, but I agree that being charged for water is not something I would expect from an all-inclusive hotel.
When it comes to food and hospitality, I would not be surprised at all to just be served a variety of food without explanation, just like Yiayia used to make. If you ask what the food is, they'll happily describe it as long as you aren't like "ew, what's that?" Greeks are big on hospitality, and rejecting or criticizing the food they prepared for you would be deeply offensive.
I mean, anyone would be offended, but Gordon Ramsay would just tell you to fuck off and forget you ever existed. A Greek host would furrow their brow, walk away, and curse the eyes of your grandchildren. Their tombstone would say "Loving wife and matriarch, who made the best rice despite what that one μαλάκας said."
So the unlabeled buffet isn't that weird, and all of the food she described sounds like typical Greek fare. I also know in my family, there are a lot of superstitions about what time you eat certain types of food. Like eating heavy proteins or carbs like bacon and eggs for breakfast will make your chest hair gray or some shit.
The second room key is another weird one. Sounds to me like the hotel is just being cheap, but are they actual keys? Like if it's a fancy three dimensional Mondoshawan style key, maybe they don't have spare copies? If they are key cards, there's zero reason to not simply make two. Again, this makes me think the hosts were being deliberately inhospitable, which supports my μαλάκας theory, but that's still a reasonable complaint.
It just feels like she didn't do her research and had a miserable time, and the legitimate complaints are overshadowed by whinging about things that were her poor choices.
I think it's just the font, but XKCD would have recreated the table and added a subtle, obscure reference to acknowledge in the alt text.
Her descriptions make the hotel and the food sound lovely.