Oh sorry, I forgot pain au chocolat and danish were invented in the US. Surely no one but filthy Americans eat sugar in the morning. I think pop tarts suck but we’ve got bigger problems than pastry. If the health care system gave access to preventative medicine it’d go a long way toward fixing shit.

desert

Also, is this you whining about someone’s typo in another thread? Maybe shut the fuck up about minor spelling mistakes. Fucking prescriptivists, I swear to fuck. Who do you really think you’re helping with those comments, seriously?

Beyond magnet schools, there are private schools that students need to apply for and/or test into. Like magnet schools, there are a wide variety of them and some are crappy and religious, but a lot of others are essentially schools for smart kids that focus on getting them into good colleges (usually called prep schools when this is the main goal).

Some can be very expensive and cost more than many colleges, but because of that you can find ones with a ton of money (sometimes into the billions) that accept students based on their testing and application alone without considering their financial status, called need-blind acceptance (that article only mentions colleges but it applies to these private schools as well). If a student is accepted need-blind and can’t afford tuition the school covers the entire cost. Other schools that aren’t need-blind offer varying levels of financial assistance for students who are accepted.

In terms of sports, prep schools (especially the wealthier ones) tend to have a lot of different ones, even sports that aren’t usually offered in public schools (crew aka rowing is an example). Check out this list of sports from Phillips Academy, for example. College admissions in the US includes looking at “well-rounded” students, so competing in (time-consuming) sports while maintaining academic performance is one way to show your ability to handle time-management, etc. This means you might get kind of jocky type students, but they aren’t really the dumb variety you see portrayed in movies.

Nope, didn’t work. I tried zapping elements with ublock but it wouldn’t load the business hours.

Haha I wish

I really just need to get off google entirely but I’m also very unmotivated/lazy/ADHD, and the common alternative FOSS maps just don’t provide the same level of detail, especially in non-US or English speaking countries.

Batman has been shown to consider Bruce as the alter ego. I believe he even once was under wonder woman’s lasso of truth and revealed his true identity as batman.

3 months isn’t 3 years. First I heard of this

Yeah, either that or at least if everyone on the blocklist was like nazis or something it seems like he would’ve had at least half a leg to stand on. But the fact that the most random and benign users showed up on it and he was still trying to justify it as “making the experience better for the fediverse” showed that he was just some asshole completely convinced of his own righteousness.

It’s just whatever culture you’re familiar with. I grew up with a ton of different pasta names as well but I didn’t know the difference between dumplings like gyoza, shumai, xiaolongbao, and wontons.

I absolutely despise the continued american assault on language.

I’m sure words have never once changed meaning in your country.

It’s not all pasta. The small bead types or star shapes aren’t generally called noodles. But otherwise what’s wrong with calling an egg and flour mixture in a string or ribbon shape a noodle? It’s a generic ingredient/shape descriptor. Is it only Asian cuisines for you?

Mike Birbiglia (comedian if you haven’t heard of him) said his now wife’s phone fell out of her pocket and into a river from a bridge the first time they kissed. She’s a poet and she wrote a poem about how she still gets prank calls from fish

I first heard about it on reddit but it was before the API exodus, so…

Oh right, typo. I meant 0.01

I think 0.0 is stupid too, but the one benefit is since it’s so obvious if driver’s been drinking they don’t have to bother with open container laws. Like in Japan the passengers can drink in the car

Some counties are 0.0%. My friend in Japan slept in his car after a night if drinking and got pulled over the next morning (I think cops had seen him in the car and were waiting). He had 0.1% 0.01 and got deported

I downloaded whatsapp because one friend back home used it and within the same day I was getting spam texts for the first time ever. Fortunately I convinced him to switch to signal and deleted that shit asap

Except then you’d have to see chuck norris’ face

Around 2000 I remember a guy at the computer store telling me that 20 gigs was a ton and how would I even use it? Well, one pirated 700 Meg movie at a time is how (most pirate copies tried to keep movies to 700 mb so they’d fit on a burned cd)

SAY WHAT AGAIN!

NO SERIOUSLY, SAY IT AGAIN, I COULDN’T HEAR SHIT!