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Honking IS how you contact nearby vehicles.

Real life is not math.

Tell that to graph theory.

why have you done this to me so early in the morning?

Hey, I’m glad you’re making advancements! I know your previous situation was very frustrating. I think setting expectations with your charge is good, but I’d avoid mentioning those two by name if you can. Maybe you can’t! But explaining your expectations and needs comes across better than saying “I can’t work with these two people specifically.” But you’re in the situation and I’m not, so do what you gotta and good luck.

tell me if you find one

Ah! IDK if it’s legal in CA but here in Chicago many small businesses used to charge the credit card fees to the customer. That was made illegal a year or so ago, so those stores switched to charging 4% higher prices but offering a 4% discount for cash.

If it’s not every store, they might be charging you that CC processing fee.

Is there sweetened drink tax?

Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if a ready-to-drink beverage counted as prepared food.

People aren’t starving because of the food eaten by others. People are starving because of the food that gets thrown away.

It’s been a minute but IIRC either vim or one of her close daughters allows us of the vi keys even when typing in Dvorak - if the trigger is bound to the keypress and not the character it’s trivial.

They didn’t bother with the pretext. They disappeared gays, Blacks, and political dissidents as well as Jews. No outgroup was safe.

I have four sets. It’s always a gamble if any are clean, and even if they are, whether I can find them.

It’s a conductor’s baton.

She wants advice as to which of these music options should be the soundtrack for her day.

I see what you’re saying but I have to disagree. Figuring out the secret rules behind everything is a interesting puzzle. In fact, once I’ve mastered the secret rules of a workplace or social group I often rapidly lose interest because it’s no longer a challenge. That’s why I love my public-facing job, new people to figure out every day.

If this is your first one, it’s a lot easier to build a desktop computer than laptop computer.

I really must stress though that they both are computers and subject to the same concerns about parts and AI.

Oingo Boingo — “No One Lives Forever”

There are a bunch of what are called “mainline” Protestant denominations in the US, which typically includes Lutherans, Methodists, Church of Christ, and by tradition Episcopalians (among others). These churches are part of a larger denominational heirarchy that provides them support but also sets bounds on their doctrine or behavior.

Evangelical churches are typically one-offs with no greater body of faith to report to, reducing accountability and oversight, and often no overhead organization providing funding, meaning they need to constantly raise money to be financially solvent. They also typically have a greater emphasis on evangelism, because they need to constantly recruit to maintain numbers, hence the name.

Mainline churches display a gradient of attitudes on social issues, from very progressive (United Church of Christ) to the very conservative (one of the Lutheran synods) but typically a church professing that denomination will fall into the same stripe as other churches in the denomination.

Evangelical churches are all over the place, though typically radical in some way. Most are very strict on sexual purity, but other than that it’s hard to predict. Some have women in leadership roles, some only allow men to preach. Some reinforce class heirarchies and some sel to abolish them. Some prioritize good stewardship if the earth and her creatures, some advocate dominion over it. Without a greater structure, it often comes down to the priorities of the founding members of that specific congregation.

Now to compare with the Roman Catholic church in the US. The RCC seems to vary somewhat from archdiocese to archdiocese with some leaning more progressive than others. When they do lean more progressive, it tends to be in areas like economic justice, ecological protection, and defense of immigrants (who make up a lot of the RCC in the US these days). They are still very backwards on anything related to sexism, misogyny, and reproductive health.

Ronan Farrow is the biological offspring of Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen.

Disapproval continues to be appropriate until they repent. Resentfulness harms only yourself, and should be avoided if possible. Overall I think you’re walking the line pretty well so far.

I’ll be honest, none were good enough to name.