I had a coworker like that! His going away meal was sushi lmao.

When asked why he didn't say pescetarian he said he just didn't like the word (?). Whatever the hell that means. Guess he wanted some kind of vegetarian street cred lol.

There are some lol, United 93 and Nic Cage's World Trade Center were released in 2006.

Also,

That's probably a better use of your time anyway.

If you skip all the side stuff it's still long but about 200 hours shorter.

Lol, same thing here. I told my partner "I've died about 5 times to the first enemy, so it seems pretty good so far."

I've been enjoying it so far, but this opening area feels very empty. it's a bit of a shock coming from the base game. A lot of people seemed to think the base game was too big / too empty, those same people would probably say shadow of the erdtree is a horseback riding simulator.

With the fascists he gets his news from, they always start with a grain of truth

Even Rush Limbaugh (may he rest in piss) used this strategy. It's honestly kind of impressive how right wing personalities can segue from easily agreeable things to outright conspiracies in just a few breaths.

You're right about the Snopes article. It does do a decent job of pointing out that a lot of this reporting is rumor based.

This first anecdote (also highlighted by Snopes) is amusing

Double-hit cases" have been around for decades. I first heard of the "hit-to-kill" phenomenon in Taiwan in the mid-1990s when I was working there as an English teacher. A fellow teacher would drive us to classes. After one near-miss of a motorcyclist, he said, "If I hit someone, I'll hit him again and make sure he's dead." Enjoying my shock, he explained that in Taiwan, if you cripple a man, you pay for the injured person's care for a lifetime. But if you kill the person, you "only have to pay once, like a burial fee." He insisted he was serious—and that this was common.

So is it Taiwan or the mainland with these wild laws?

Another false claim about China, it seems.

Any particular reason? I know almost nothing about Indonesia, but between the Jakarta method, literally needing to move their capital due to climate change caused by western industrialization, and even more recently with the massive pro Palestine rallies, it seems like an awkward time for American companies to make moves there.

There's probably a lot of American companies already operating there though, and i don't know what their government is like. As someone with little to no context Indonesia would just be a surprising choice.

What a mess of an article, so much repetition that really just made such a mess of this repetitive article.

If the quality of the bbc's output is this low then I don't understand the surprise people have when hearing tiktok is a major news source. At least a tiktok would get edited.

Does anyone know of anything labor unions do to keep whistle-blowers safe? Seems like an obvious service for a union to provide but my search didn't turn up anything labor union related.

That's dope, do you or your bf practice with swords? Looks like it would be fun exercise/competition

Unrelated 3rd party gets mad at 1st party for transaction with 2nd party. 4th party (neighbor of 2nd party) steals transacted item on behalf of 3rd party. Seems legit.

I figured US sanctions in this case would just limit which companies can interact with US based companies and within US borders, isn't that how sanctions on Cuba work? Obviously the US just does what it wants but it's not clear to me how this was legally justified, if at all.

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