I think it depends on the area and how you handle money in your family. If cars are a needed provision for a family member at any given time, you have to kick in (in my area, a bike, maybe a longtail if I want chores, would be the better option, and I could be persuaded to kick in on a Super Cub). If you never gave to…

Unfortunately, prices have kind of kept pace with inflation AND how long the cars last. That’s fine for most adults and second cars, as you can save up over the time it takes to wear a car out, but puts teenagers in a tough place because they have such a constrained time to earn.

While it was older, so some of the complaints might be out of date, one of my public health podcasts (I think Public Health Review?) went into real issues with vaccine mandates, noting that it created a sort of test that couldn’t be passed in vaccine deserts (which I guess could be stretched into a “Jim Crow” argument…

And what makes Blacula such an iconic part of the Blaxploitation and vampire canons is how the movie uses his displacement in time to illustrate how the legacy of anti-Black racism reaches into the present to inflict harm on people in different ways.

I mean, I have heard that European norms are why Ashkenazim found religious grounds for outlawing polygamy while Sephardim didn’t. Of course, that was still in the context of marriage, and pretty rare in practice.

It’s always interesting to compare descriptions of “toxic masculinity” in the topic of emotional self-regulation to “mindfulness” and”meditative practice,” as they’re very often the same thing with a different tone. All three are pretty basic emotional maturity, not letting your emotions overwhelm you or cloud your…

Its main problem is that is was constructed in the same manner as a late-career Frank Gehry building: mashing shit together as random.

It never made sense the First Order had the kind of resources it did in that movie, so who knows what kids of reserves it had.

I don’t think the film actually communicates this, though. I’m not sure Johnson even thought of it while he was mashing the film together like Gehry designing buildings.

My issue is that Johnson made the thing like Frank Gehry designs buildings: mashing a bunch of whims together at random and them making interns try to actually make them combine into a comprehensive whole.

Even though it was 100% unnecessary, as she wasn’t actually contributing to the maneuver. She could have been replaced by a brick.

I think one issue with Poe is that he was demoted for damage he didn’t cause, as the only order he disobeyed was to stop trying to hit a prerequisite for stage 2 of the plan. He hit that prerequisite, so the only blame for the losses from stage 2 should go to the idiot who approved the plan in the first place.

“Pardon my French” is a good case of just not enough research, as AskHistorians showed multiple sources having the phrase used in mockery of those using (and often misusing) French as a period version of five-dollar words. Basically, it’s the joke it sounds like.

I see that sometimes, and my parents have a version of it. It breaks up the sea of yard and gives some feeling of privacy. That many trees and a full rosebush is odd, though.

And then there’s most popular foliage in California, as they create a fire risk.

For some reason, I thought that “delta” meant it had come from a prominent river delta.

The closest estimate I can find is 24,000 in 1882, but my use of “then” clearly indicates that I meant the dichotomy shifted with the destruction of Europe’s community. It was the source of the unofficial “treaty” with the early state to keep the Rabbinate out of American religious affairs.

Yeah, that’s just straight out an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

Does it? It looks more like Jews got their homeland back just like Africans did, and racists are obsessed with how terrible it is that they did in Zimbabwe, Israel, and South Africa.

One thing I’ve seen is that Turner retweeted some posts that were insensitive at best toward Jews, drawing the ire of Cleveland Cincinnati’s influential community (it’s the historic capital of American Judaism, particularly reform, against the influence of European then Israeli authorities).