Funny, I have your same background basically, and I’m a person who uses “white privilege.”

The Koreans have a word for this. shibal biyong. Or, “Fuck-it expense”. Meaning long-term prospects seem bleak, so buy that cabride/fancy meal/outfit.

Oh, we understand them. And we know that giving into their wants is a fools errand.

Yeah, I think this is how the olds are doing it now. Everyone show up at the same bar over Christmas when you’re already visiting your folks anyway.

The new Francis McDormand flick looks great though.

I’ve been saying this for a while. We already defunded the police of rich people. 

It’s one of the big reasons that I can’t hang with the ultra lefties, that whole “racism will be addressed after everything else” and “women are great! we should empower them to make me a sandwich” and “ew gays.”

I said basically this below: focus on foreign language if they already have some and then foundational stuff like math and reading.

Your points are all excellent.

This is something of a thing with me. I had already started “afterschooling” (doing enrichment on the weekends/breaks when school was not doing the trick) before covid, and I’m finding that I’m using a lot of the same ideas.

I did this last year. This results in a better bird, but also freaks out people who aren’t accustomed to the juiciness. My guests were like WHHHHAAAAA??! and I think they thought it was undercooked.

Because they like it.

The 70 million are not wearing masks during a pandemic, and many of them are old and obese.

It only took that long, plus 250,000 needless deaths AND a lost election to start using the word “lie.”

I think that’s an overly general definition, and that’s the only reason you can use it for evidence. If you get into it more thoroughly, e.g., in an encyclopedia, it clarifies that the leafy part is raw. From Britannica:

I’m actively against salad and I’m not that sort. I hate salad because so much of it is only just a hair removed from the gross concoction you describe.

The whole “just make what you have in your fridge/pantry” thing always sounds so reasonable and great until you consider that most people don’t know how to cook. Recipes are what we all lean on because you don’t have to know that stuff, how things taste together, what substitutions you can make, etc.

Conversely, I like semicolons because they offer a boost of clarity. Complicated lists are complicated. A semicolon can ease the reader’s path. And as to using them as a hinge between independent clauses, I’m a big fan of mixing up sentence length and structure. A semicolon can create variety within a paragraph that…

I grew up with Screamin’ Jay. He’s a delight!

To be fair, that seems to be finally happening. Maybe not Big Mama Thornton (via Elvis), but it was nice to see the Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith biopics.