I actually know the why of that, as I was at an emergency response seminar that discussed it. You see, an effective explosive isn’t just something that makes a big boom, but one that can be stored to go off on command. That massively narrows down the list of candidate explosives, so a few simple chemical traces can…

This seems to be somewhat taking WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic) cultures as the norm for child involvement in family responsibilities. Hell, I hit a few of these just having an autistic older sibling.

One of the nice things about American business culture is that including photos of yourself in a job application is heavily stigmatized.

Meanwhile, mine has diarrhea all night if the commercial dog food I give her is, I’m guessing based on characteristics, not high in fiber.

Huh, my experience was that they are so similar goats that they’re herded together and often just lumped into the name “shoats” by wildlife researchers.

Also, to what purpose?

Now I’m wondering what the smallest car you can get (semi-)new on the US market with a third row (6+ seats) is. Are there any classified as passenger vehicles (rather than light trucks) or shorter than 5' tall (in car rather than SUV territory)?

Maybe, but they could still try to do something distinctive, experimental, or just particular to the different lines to aid differentiation (like showing a ton of tiny home gimmicks into the Taos).

Probably the most famous procedural franchise of all time is about a defense attorney, and it’s plenty digestible (if completely bonkers).

I wish there was a setting that could calculate bike-transit combos, either guiding you to bus routes with bike mounts or letting you indicate that you’ll have a bike for some leg.

It’s probably figure skating, as that sport has constant fights between whether it’s a sport (measuring athletic prowess) or dance competition (measuring artistry). The current fight seems to be about how scoring rewards jumps using long windups, leading all the competitors to circle the rink interminably.

“Massive”

So he was hired for a non-tenure-track role and is surprised that he hasn’t gotten tenure?

I was expecting physical, occupational, and psycho-.

If I’m passing, I’m doing it in the passing lane and will choose the speed at which I feel safe to do it. Occasionally, that can be technically slower than the car I’m passing because the road is turning left just that tightly.

That’s my wife. I had to drag her down to the car and threaten to take her keys away when I got in my car and found the high beams set to on after she’d been driving at night one too many times. She claimed to have no idea what I was talking about. She also doesn’t signal or check her mirror when pulling out and then…

While my background (public health bio-statistician) and current job (insurance analyst) are kind of built around thinking of physicians as morons (they’re the surgeons of diagnosis, or to me as nurses are to them), I think the main issue is that they’re still technically in a customer service position and Karen wants…

Telling someone they really need to look into the trust issues they have that are causing all this suspicion and jealousy before you think you can trust them again is gaslighting

And then there’s the question of what the difference between what’s presented as gaslighting here and just telling someone he’s wrong. “I never said that” is completely legitimate if you never actually said “that.” The lack of a distinction here has lead to a common problem I’ve noticed where “gaslighting” is any case…

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