Does a No. 2 pencil count as one or two?

It’s true, I can’t deny that vegans approve of protecting the universe’s seals.

Come on mothers throughout the land

Pack your boys off to Vietnam Canada

Come on fathers, don’t hesitate

Send your daughters off before it’s too late

Be the first one on your block

To have your kids come home in a box

And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?

Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn

The next stop is Vietnam Canada

And it’s five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates

Yeah, there ain’t no time to wonder why

Whoopee, we’re all gonna die

Well parts of some are above projected sea level rise, none are safe from the rising tide of fascism. I wish I could say /s

Several; Aleutian Islands, Hawaiian islands, California’s Channel Islands, and the Florida Keys all are archipelagos.

Almost every place I’ve worked I’ve had to deal with people as you describe. If you want to advance you need to develop strategies to deal with disruption. Depending on the situation you could; explain you are trying to learn a specific topic and ask them for their experienced insights (a little flattery never hurts and they might share helpful information), enforce your boundaries and say the question is a bit personal and makes you uncomfortable, say the day has you frazzled and you need quiet time to concentrate/regroup (again maybe flattery, I don’t know how you are so calm on a day like today), redirect the question back on them (you don’t actually have to care and listen, just some fake active listening nodding, say really, wow and make some eye contact), occasionally give some tidbits to appease them and not appear too stand-off ish, could be real or just make shit up) Consider what Jordanlund said, it might be their way of dealing with pressure, be more understanding, everyone has different coping mechanisms. Also tell yourself the situation is temporary, it is a stepping stone to your next goal and you will not have to deal with them forever.

Not taking away from your larger point but mostly not inflation but profit taking. Early in COVID corporations holding functional monopolies learned demand was inelastic and commenced to price gouge.

Dang ol’ photosynthesizers man that gad dum oxygen I tell you what

I use the name Donner to make restaurant reservations just to hear them say, “Donner, Party of four”

Hens don’t need a rooster to lay eggs. Farm fresh eggs is a marketing term that means nothing. Take another shower and try again.

Granted you said cigarette not cigar, but Red Arbuch disagrees with you.

Extra judicial killings are also known as lynching. Why the quotes on murdering, that is exactly what it is.

No emperors either. Would be perfect if the thieves wore inflatable suits to disguise themselves.

The war 1812 and the burning of Washington were the first.

Meh

Both the paintball gun and letting cats roam freely are wrong. Everybody’s an asshole (except the cat, can’t blame them) in this story

TIL, I was just trying to make a crab rave joke

But people rave about them