My state is one of the few that guarantees paid time off. At minimum we get 1 hour of PTO for every 40 hours worked, so that works out to about a week and a half of combined sick leave and vacation.

There was also a large influx of money as Europe rebuilt after WWII, but that also a one-time-thing.

Unless…

To be faaaaaaaair, he’s not inbred, he’s a result of a prior relationship before his mom married the prince.

More like elevated white trash, really.

Part of the problem is that we’ve got a hodgepodge of roads, built at different times, to different standards. Rail crossings are also complicated, because the train companies own the rails and the land under them, so cities are largely unable to force them to make changes to their property.

In this particular instance, the tracks would need to be redone for a few miles on either side of the bridge to raise it, and the North Carolina Train Company just isn’t willing to front the cost and eat the downtime. There’s only so far you can dig down before you hit groundwater problems, so the city can’t do much to lower the road under the bridge.

Historically, rich people have been able to alter what people consider attractive too. There were multiple cultures across the globe that painted their teeth black because being able to eat a lot of imported sugar made your teeth rot.

Straight up health problems being romanticized just because it was a problem only affecting the rich.

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Not the person you were asking, but I got kicked out of youth group for saying evolution and the bible could co-exist. There’s that verse about how a thousand years is like a day for god, so clearly the 7 days of creation means evolution could have been god’s mechanism of creation, right?

The youth group leader just told me I was wrong and said I could leave if I wanted to disagree, so I left.

A few years after that, I quit the church for good because they didn’t want to help the community after a tornado because said community was full of demon worshipers (aka, catholics). It made me realize the bible was full of shit, because the pastor was able to believe that god somehow loves sinners, and but also we shouldn’t help sinners, because god wants them to suffer for not loving him back the right way? If heaven is full of those people, I really don’t want to go there.

On the other hand, I have known many hard dicks in the past.

Sure. If you enjoy broccoli on a burger, who am I to say you’re enjoying it wrong?

I hate to tell you this, but fiction is also something people make up.

As a counterpoint, I’ve been with my partner for 15 years, and we started as a one-night-stand. It’s backwards from how it usually happens, but he was particularly cool so I took him to breakfast the next morning, and then we got to know each other better. We became FWB, broke it off, dated other people, then got back together for real and haven’t quit since.

Yes, sex can’t be the only reason for love, but you can start there and find mutual interest after.

I thought gnu was another name for a wildebeest. How do you even put a wildebeest on your computer?

https://kpel965.com/flushable-wipes-sewer-warning-louisiana-kaplan/

Oh, lame, it asks which one I want to use on my phone. Their app is okay, but there’s some rough spots still. It also doesn’t help that you have to read multiple articles in order to get a full picture, since they split off the history of the British Raj from the overview.

The Treaty of Versailles shook it up a bit and there were various revolutions that softened British rule, but the Brits were there until the 40s and formed Pakistan on their way out.

I didn’t downvote you, for the record lol.

The tl;dr is that India and Pakistan used to be a dozen different countries until foreigners showed up with guns and decided to redraw the map. All those international tensions didn’t evaporate, and it’s more or less the equivalent of trying to put angry cats together in the same bag. The British didn’t cause the tensions, but their fuckery absolutely made it worse.

The article also doesn’t cover the Sikh separatists, but they’ve also been around since the East India Trading Co merged their empire with India, and the current Indian government has been assassinating supporters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj

You don’t live where it snows or rains?

I’d say those are keyboard shortcuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_(given_name)