I start considering price, value, but also have to consider if it’s a garbage product or not, oh hey, do we need dried noodles

Yeah, none of that is bad, but when my partner decides that it takes five minutes a product for each decision, I get annoyed. If you can’t figure it out in five seconds, the differences are obviously not a big enough deal.

Lol, I don’t even have a map in my head. I walk the same route every time, because I get the same items every time. If I want variety or spice in my food life, I can go to a restaurant once a month. The rest of the time food can be as bare, repetitive, and thus simple as possible.

And in the US, jail can be up to just short of a year.

I’d like to point out, ‘proper’ jail, for misdemeanor level offenses, is ‘up to a year,’ but I personally know individuals who have been in jail (where people awaiting trial stay, in addition to people convicted of misdemeanors) for over three years now, still waiting on their trial.

Wait… isn’t ~1,000 per 100,000 much closer to 1% than 2%?

It’s still mind boggling, not trying to minimize it.

Dehydration is a common cause for cats to be ‘ill’ and brought to the vet,* so it could be that their piss reeks because they are having to concentrate it so much in the first place.

*source: a dimly remembered conversation with a vet friend when I asked her why she was adding water to the already wet food for her cat. She said her cat could never be encouraged to drink enough, so it was her way of staving off the annoyance of giving iv fluids to her own animal someday.

Damnit! My secret-keeping low volume speakers have foiled me again!

My mind somehow meshes the ideas from butcher’s dresden books, where your belief in an icon as a symbol of the faith matters more than its actual connection to the religion, and lackey’s high magic (compared to the wild magic) where the collective energy of the populace can be collected and stored to be used. So I end up with this idea where the catholic church has collected a vast amount of energy to be used, and the utterance of latin is the individual’s (in this case constantine’s) personal symbolic link to the catholic church to harness that energy.

That always made me do a double take in hades. Everytime he was called ‘prince zed’ by sisyphus I had to take a second to think about what was being said.

You’re gay and canadian? Notice me, senpai!

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You did drop the t to a glottal stop in your last glass of water, though, just saying! :P

Wait until you learn why it’s called epinephrine. Then you’ll really roll your eyes.

Don’t you dare say waddling is from across the pond. Here in america, more than 60% of our population waddles about!

I once thought the females of the species had one opening for both. Growing up on a farm means you have some wicked advanced knowledge compared to other kids your age, but can introduce some really hilarious beliefs…

I never thought about why I thought women were more like our chickens than our horses/cows, but eh, some things just pan out.

Blowing bubbles is always the first thing I taught kids when they were learning to swim.

…that seems like it must have been faked. Even if the nerves had been burned off, that’s serious damage. Nerves are in the dermis, and if that gets burned seriously enough to make all the nerve endings dead, you’re going to have a bad time. Just because the pain isn’t being felt also doesn’t prevent further damage.

The globe? Sure. A region, or even a country? It’s more common than you think. Sales, ‘professionals’ with conferences, and people that work for large companies that have people meeting… these all move large amounts of folks around for work, and hotels are easy to book, invoice to the company, and are generally next to a conference center or have it in the same building.

I mean, sort of, yes, but also no? It’s another tool of power for a tyrannical government to wield, even if it is against companies I dislike.

Sadly, most of the instances seem to be completely nonfunctional. Nadeko.net seemed to be the only one working for months.

Yamaha is definitely in tune with the music. I never remember which is which, but their logo is tuning forks and depending on the product the tuning forks can extend past the circle. I think their motorcycles have it extending past.

I mean, just look at their example. Level 17+ for the math? Holy shiiiiiit. At levels 15+, you’re basically living legends that are about to start conquering kingdoms singlehandedly and fighting gods. That’s not “a talented musician,” that’s the dude who leads month long rave parties that brings in all the nobility’s children and starts a religion that is then used with said children to start coups in the continental region.

To further clarify expr’s explanation, most people are familiar with new york only by way of new york city. Shockingly (/s), new york city, a city confined by small island and shoreline with a population of 8 million+, is an entirely different beast than the entire state with a slightly larger population. So people generally differentiate upstate new york with the moniker to explicitly refer to how it is different; mainly being rather rural outside of the ‘minor’ metropolitan areas like albany. The ‘up’ part is because most folks think of north as ‘up’ due to maps being oriented that way.