Are dowries (or similar) common in China? I feel like the couple who had the one daughter in the village could clean up.

That’s the death I was referring to. I actually don’t think they need to keep it - I didn’t think it made sense in the book. It felt forced and unnecessary for Katniss’s emotional journey. But that said the book was not well executed so if they keep it but do it better (which they managed with the third movie) then I…

I’m curious what they might change... like That Death and the final arrow shot?

Well I called him out every time he did it, which is kind of zero tolerance, but I wasn’t going to dump him for not instantly changing a behaviour. I don’t know... relationships are basically figuring out what you can compromise on and what you can’t, right? And that sometimes takes trial and error.

It can definitely be hard to change behaviour, and I certainly think people get some leeway in terms of taking time to adjust and saying “Oh sorry, I know that bothers you, I’m still working to break that habit.” I think it’s more about taking someone else’s feelings seriously than necessarily being able to magically…

Wow... that’s just... wow. Not a great sense of appropriate settings.

I just think anyone who hears “Please don’t do that it makes me uncomfortable and I don’t like it.” and doesn’t change their behaviour is an asshole.

PSA: If someone asks you to stop doing something to them, and you don’t stop doing it, you’re an asshole and a bully.

Off topic but sometimes gifs just seem like black magic to me. Like I think I understand how they work/how people make them and then I see this and it makes my brain explode. FUCKING GIFS! HOW DO THEY WORK?

I’m not even really a dog person but this photo made me awwwww.

My friends were two hyphenated lastname people and they picked one of the four.

Oh, see, jackets are my jam. But pants? Pants don’t agree with me. I have a low waist and short legs and own no dress pants. I do have the same pair of jeans in four colours (Old Navy Rockstar. *shrug*).

Well... yes... but still. Actually I have a jacket that’s almost similar. Closer than the H&M one, but I got it at a shop in San Francisco that I don’t know the name off.

AND THEY HAVE A GET THE LOOK FOR LESS LINK

There are pretty mixed reviews about the church’s response to the Holocaust. At the time both the Allies and Axis thought the church was supporting the other side. They definitely helped a lot of people, but as far as I’m aware the Pope never actually condemned the Nazis or Hitler, just made general comments about how…

I really firmly believe that over its 1500+ year history the Roman Catholic church has done far more harm than good. Not to write off the good that individual Catholics have done, but as an institution it has rarely (maybe never?) been on the right side of history.

I hadn’t read any of the Defenders comics and when I was reading about the Netflix shows I assumed that Danny Rand was Chinese (or from some kind of fictional Asian country equivalent to Wakanda). When I was corrected I was not that surprised, but definitely a bit disappointed - I mean, like, appropriation much? I…

Yeah, they test lots of things in NZ before wider release because it’s a good representative sample but on a smaller scale. I would love to scrap the queen and put another woman on there - she’s already on all the coins, I would think that would be enough for one person!

Both? The basic elements of the NZ notes haven’t changed in 20 years, just some updates in layout and security features.

New Zealand has another woman on their money - suffragette Kate Sheppard is on the $10 note. Compared to all the old white male politicians on Canadian and US money I’m pretty happy with the NZ notes:
$5 = explorer/mountaineer/humanitarian Edmund Hillary
$10 = suffragette Kate Sheppard
$20 = Queen Elizabeth (meh - you…