Quoth the Internet:  “Duh.”

Don’t forget how most of that effort actively undermines real efforts to end actual sex-trafficking, and does nothing about the real thing in and of itself.

Unfortunately it’s easy enough to become a Notary that this wouldn’t slow a lot of abusers down too much.

That would be raises to Middle Management, the literal gate of the gated community that is the 1% in America.  And maybe a few scraps to everyone else just so they aren’t obviously rewarding the people riding herd on their serfs and nobody else.

IKR? I had a picture of Kansas as being one of those states where it was functionally impossible to get an abortion because you needed things like a doctor certified to perform surgery in every hospital in the country while standing on one foot and whistling Dixie, permission from your parents 12 months in advance…

No, but any individual store may the instant someone mutters the word “union”within 100 feet of the place, just like Wal-Mart does whenever someone gets the idea.

I must have been told the wrong thing. There’s no Google-able evidence to support any relationship between Dill and Ragweed. They’re the same Clade as far as scientific classification goes, but other than that, no.

Which, of course, was the plan all along.

Rich person + Flimsy Excuse = No Conviction.  What country do you think this is?  Reasonable doubt is for poor people.

I’m sorry, I look back at what I wrote and I meant it more literally than it sounded.  You are, actually, factually, lucky.  That wasn’t code for “that was a poor decision IMO”.  I’ve been in almost that exact situation (flu, not homeless but definitely starving college student one check from eviction and with parents…

There’s a very interesting distinction being glossed over in her answer: “It depends on how much you have to give.” The bit about most people having been sick and therefore not having a very full GI tract? That’s modern day, mundane death, in hospital, of senescence or chronic illness.

Technically I shouldn’t eat dill or dill pickles, since it’s part of the Ragweed family and I’m allergic. Although, I’m told I’m only allergic to the pollen. I’ve had dishes with dill flavoring (sauce, etc.) and not been bothered. I’ve had dill pickles and not been bothered, though I can’t say it’s ever been a huge…

You’re lucky you didn’t contaminate the whole office.  Norovirus is fairly contagious.  Even assuming you washed your hands scrupulously, everyone who used that bathroom until it got cleaned with bleach was at risk.

Here’s the thing: Japan isn’t the U.S. The people and culture are significantly different. And, I’d wager, one of the ways they are so different is in bathroom ettiquette - never mind diet.

Follow with me here: “I don’t think homosexuality is natural” “I think it’s a sin.” These are points you can discuss, which do not denigrate or treat people as less than human. No reason to call someone a bigot here.

Actually, nobody in the government - right now - is fighting state provisions for gay marriage. Maybe there should be a federal law, but in the meantime not interfering with the state level when it goes permissive is better than nothing.

LOL at ruining a billionaire’s life. As if that could even happen for anything less than a feud with another billionaire, and usually not even then.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal described it something like this way:

Somehow I must have royally screwed up my language, because several people like you apparently think I’m arguing in favor of discrimination. I dunno how I messed up that bad but I am ill right now so maybe not as articulate as normal.  I’m just going to go ahead and apologize.  It’s certainly not my intent to justify…

It’s not absolute, and it’s NOT about relative morality when you’re talking about permission to live in peace as you would like to.