As others have said, these European tourists aren’t helping the system by doing this.

They are however, getting to enjoy acting like the very worst Americans - the ones who don’t tip and feel smug about it.

What does ‘in the middle’ look like? Getting vaccines for some things and not others?

As someone who is an expert in one area and as dependent as anyone else in others, and who also hates appeals to authority -

To me, the correct stance is that any should be able to question things that don’t make intuitive sense or that one suspects might be a perspective motivated by financial considerations instead of expertise.

Note that I said question. Not invent your own replacement fever-dream explanation.

Questions require good-faith attempts to find information and understand.

Not pitch something where its main virtue is that it makes ignorance feel good actually.

But that ball is not shaped like a foot

Gut bacteria divide rapidly because they are constantly getting flushed out.

If you remove half, I think your gut would recover in like 15 minutes.

You are probably removing a far higher proportion any time you eat a really high fiber meal

Thanks to *her

The main thing I know that people like to do here with guns is drive out to BLM land and shoot at targets in between going off-roading

I hope this takes off so DDG improves their search engine. I’ve tried to switch, but 2/3 of the time the results are off target and I end up back at Google anyway.

They might appreciate that - an instant indicator that they are different (“better”). Even if it makes it impossible to hide.

The most painful thing we can do to them is take their money and make them live like the rest of us.

I think this just annoys everyone.

Obama possibly among most of all.

Until November.

In your 40s you become a hobbit. And truly enjoy it.

Snarking not infrequently about the silliness of non-Hobbits who don’t understand safe, simple pleasures.

When I visited Berlin, I heard a theory that these Soviet era units were why the cost of living was still accessible to creative-types so a big part of why the city is culturally thriving.

Why not both?

Because we can still stop tomorrow’s deaths in Gaza, technically.

The perpetrators are still effectively the same people who committed the crime.

The terrorists of 50 yo are likely already dead, the entire topology of their cause changed. It is pointless.

I mean, how many civilians are the IDF shooting in Gaza per day now? Especially with their new execution law?

Why are we supposed to get worked up about 26 deaths over 50 years ago given that context?

A lot of young men seem very confused about something patently obvious -

Young women are the final arbiters of what is “cool” and what isn’t.

And they always have been.

Finally, a third worst option.

Star Wars guy might tell you to fuck off, give bad info over confidently, or expect something in return for their help

But God Emperor guy will lead you to a dark alley to shank you to protect the future gene pool from your weakness, and feel good about it.

Do you understand aggregate descriptors? That it is quite typical and appropriate to talk about groups based on their average or median value, even if it is acknowledged that there is a proportion of exceptions?

As someone who only speaks English, the cognitive map made by that language is kind of disgusted to think of toes and fingers interchangably.

Fingers are (or should be) clean, and are allowed to touch many things. I am perfectly comfortable touching many things with my fingers that other people’s fingers have touched.

But toes? Toes are gross. They are not interchangeable with fingers. Unless I’m in the shower cleaning my toes, if my fingers touch my toes I probably need to wash my hands after. And other people’s toes?..

No - toes and fingers are not the same thing. My toes are great, I’m glad to have them for balance while walking or running. But they are not fingers, or vis versa