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I’m not a fan, though.

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

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David the Gnome

One hand vertically in from of sternum, wry expression.

Wikipedia is, yes.

Spain. Prosciutto’s okay but jamon iberico blows it out of the water.

No, both social. “Social media” means content is provided by the users, not the website proprietor.

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I wait tables. I see a hundred faces a day.

Yes, many times.

The older I get, the more the answer is hips and shoulders.

Yeah, if my finished attic could be fully renovated tomorrow instead of the half-denolished limbo it’s been for most of a decade, that’d be fine.

It depends on how that government is chartered.

In democracies, it’s to enact the will of the people (within the bounds set by human rights, because any government that does not respect human rights is illegitimate).

In representational forms of government, the balance shifts towards the good of the people but is still informed by their will.

In completely non-democratic forms of government, it should be informed entirely by the good of the people but historically has been informed instead by the will and desires of the rulers, typically without even the necessary respect for human rights.

Comparing it to parenting is not a good analogy, because parents normally love their children and are better informed and wiser than them, whereas governments have little reason to love their citizens, and are only rarely better informed or wiser.

I don’t trust democracy, but it’s a good sight better than autocracy. Representative governments do something to curb the worst excesses of both, in my opinion.

Put down a towel and mess around.

A watch stuck at 2:30.

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Encryption also prevent malicious actors from inserting data, and helps prevent malicious actors from impersonating you.

I grew up where Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota cone together.

The thing is, they’re not really offering to do your errand for you. They’re noting that they could and asking if you want them to. And if you genuinely need it, you can then ask them to, but, and this is crucial, there’s a cost. They’ll be doing you a favor, and you will need to act like it, ideally by both apologizing for the trouble and repaying the favor at a later date.

It comes back to the idea of not asking people to do something unless you’re reasonably sure they’ll say yes. You can do this either by making gambits like the ones above to try to assess their preferences (polite) or by applying pressure (pushy). Because the only thing more rude than saying no to a request is putting someone else in a position where they have to say no to yours.

I went over a decade where my only haircuts were handing a pair of scissors to a drunk girl at a party and pointing to a spot on my ponytail.

Worked great.

They’re right about the “I’m grabbing a ___, do you want one?” though.

Contrast with “I suppose I could grab a ___ for you next time I go to town” to which the correct response is “Oh, no, I wouldn’t want to put you to the trouble, I’m going into town soon myself anyway” because they’re not actually offering to do it, just trying to feel out how important it is to you.

It’s quite often a viable solution. It’s rarely an ethical one.