When I was in Germany nobody tried to talk Spanish to me. When I was in sweden they didn’t either. nor did they in India. If you are to be well traveled you quickly learn to find English speakes everywhere - because that is the language of travel it is enough. A second language is only useful if you limit your travels to the area they speak it.

many kids in foreign countries take years of english but they can’t speak is. Those who thy speak it well and they stick in groups thus not knowing how bad the rest of the class really is.

I haven’t triee others extensively enough to comment.

Firefox doesn’t always generate a password for me. I have never figured out when/why but sometimes it won’t

A 20% jump in something that is only 5% of costs is not a 5% jump. It will hurt but not kill most.

Fuel is a tiny cost of restaurant meals. It isn’t zero, but it is much less than 5% of the costs. So even if prices are going up, it is easy to hide them in the profit margin in the short term. Long term of course it affects more and more things indirectly and eventually something will give and raise prices forcing something else to give.

Woah - there was good reason to get rid of those ‘mental hospitals’. There were terriballp abusive. On the streets was more human for most.

The us is trying. We had shelters for many years and the abuse in them was far worse than anything on the streets. Sure a few freeze to death on the streets which isn’t good, but don’t forget how much worse it was / can be.

don’t let that be an excuse for not doing better either but don’t lose sight of the possibility for worse.

That is entirely possible however plenty have found it doesn’t work. I know a girl who drank hand sanitizer because she ‘needed’ her alcohol so much (it was not the kind that had alcohol in it, she just barely realized that and call 911 in time before she passed out, somehow they saved her life)

They don’t. they are people jus like anyone else. They hang out with people who are genuine and figure out who isn’t fast. They have limited numbers of people they want as friends just like the rest of us (you run out of time to spend with them if there are too many).

The genuine is why they hang out with only rich. A few are not and they seek out the rich and famious, so as protection the rich hide. too many people make real death (rape, kidnapping…) threats to risk being easy to find.

but in the end they are humans just like the rest of us seeking genuine friendship.

You don’t have to be. If anyone finds out it spreads.

There are differences in favor of breastfeeding. You can look them up if you care to. However encouraging breastfeeding has killed babies when mothers tried to force it despite the below making it impossible. Thus fed is best applies even though breast feeding is better - the difference is stastically there but not that much.

However breastfeeding is hard! Most don’t appreciate how hard it is in the modern world. It was 'designed for a world where mom was never more than a few steps from babp. Women’s work is historically (acoup.blog has a whole series on this) defined as the work mom can do while breastfeeding and thus mens work is anything that can’t.

modern offices don’t allow for mom to take the baby to work every day. Many have private spaces to pump which can work, but not well. Problem is you need to manage supply which is hard to do correctly. also when mom gets home they want to switch to breastfeeding but baby is used to the bottle and doesn’t suck hard enough to get fed. It is too easy to give up on the whole thing because it is so hard.

on top of that formula makers are sending free formula samples those first hard months - use those a just a couple times in a row and mom dries up forever. (Or until next baby)

finally not all mothers have nutrious milk, some babies histrically died because mother was porducing ‘water’ not milk. Also some babies are allergic to milk. These are both rare cases overall but they happen.

Water is very common. Others might or might not work. Most ofthe others are rare. (Amonia is not rare, I have no idea how useful it might be)

Water is extreemly common in the universe. It also enables a lot of useful chemistry that complex molecules need. In turn it is reasonable to expect water is part of all life - not a given but most of the other options rely on something far less likely to occure.

This assumes there is life. Not a debate I’m touching. Although if there is physics is against us ever discovering it. Even if earth is an extreem outlier in taking so long to develop intelligent life and every other star has it in a few hundred years few will never detect another lifeform

I managed to do this once on mbin - but I have no clue how. This is a commonly requested feature.

Depends - what don’t you like about your current instance? The ui will be different on each but that isn’t good or bad so much as what you like. (No project has a real ui designer)

They are really hard to find ripe. They don’t ripen until picked - but unfortunatly there is at best one day between ripe and rotten. That is at best, if they bruise at all while handling they will got rotten fast.

Not really worth buying if you don’t live where they grow - about half of the ones I buy are rotten before we can eat them - and I pay 5 times the cost as they go for in a tropical location.

Money is easy to ship anywhere. Things are much harder. Thus everything worth doing is going to be local. Various options have been mentioned. Your local food shelf may have a place for this as well.

Your odds of finding the winning ticket on the sidewalk about about the same as buying it. So I walk around once in a while looking for winning tickets. I haven’t found one yet, but who knows. Bonus - I get some much needed exercise in the process.

one will close - but everyone will go to the other 3 on the intersection thus saving them for a few years. Then another… and soon the one across town closing helps those left.

the average car is 12 years old so there is a lot of life left in gas stations even after all new cars are ev. once you have a station a lot of the costs are sunk costs so you won’t close just because demand drops a little. Chains will build less as the numbers stop working but they will build in places for a while while closing other locations.

There are still a few stations without that, but it has been the norm for new or remodled stations for decades in the us.