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I would love to hear stories about how you came up with whatever unique name you call your SO. Nothing graphic and don’t doxx yourself, I just think some nice stories like that would be fun for everyone in these ridiculous times.

Banks are estimating 65% odds, people are dumping us Treasury bonds, there is reporting of a purposeful weakening of the dollar, and I'm seeing the first price hikes enacted. Any suggestions for how to prepare for the shitstorm that's coming?

For example I was talking to someone and they basically took over and started monologuing..

Part of what they said was "I don't know what your situation is, whether youre born here or not, we have many problems here etc etc etc etc"

But like he didn't leave me a gap to answer so I'm guessing that meant he didn't actually care about the answer right?

Just trying to make sure I reacted appropriately. He then continued talking for a long time.

I'm a fan of braunschweiger on butter crackers. Top-tier snack food.

Since the 1960s America has taxed light trucks being imported. Because America didn't have to build light trucks to compete internationally they lost the international market on light trucks. Now nobody wants to buy American cars and trucks because they are not as good as what others countries build. So now America has put up high tariffs to make itself even more isolationist, since they can't compete.

I imagine this didn't even cross the Orange Idiot's mind.

If you're not middle aged, pick a younger age, IDK

In old plays and stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, poisons are depicted as being fairly fast acting.

Would they really have had access to such poison, or was it simply creative license? What would a realistic depiction of a poison of that era be?

Stuff like "god damn", "fucking hell", etc. Anything that stems from religious sources. That includes fudged varieties like "jeez/geez" and "heck".

And to clarify, this isn't some attempt to avoid blasphemy or anything. I'm not particularly religious and would rather rewrite the neural pathways for those "defaults", but haven't been able to come up with satisfactory alternatives so far.

*To clarify further, I'm all good with most other curses (shit, fuck, ass, etc). I'm not trying to be inoffensive, just non-religious.

Got the parts to fix my air conditioner in my car, and a used phone, and a retro handheld I had been putting off.

All used, of course. I'm not contributing back to this corrupt hell government.

I heard that the egg prices are out of control due to bird flu and greed. How did this situation impact the chicken meat prices?

It's hard to google local prices actual people pay in other countries for commodity goods like chicken and bread :/

Anyone use or know of a good news aggregator app or website that can pull stuff globally and has a live update headline feed?

For me, it’s tortilla chips and ketchup…

Edit: Alright, if I get sick of your fault

It looks like they’re actually tier 1 (they seem to be standing on a white platform), but what, if any, weight is each layer above them? I can see narrow platforms, but are they all taking most of the weight?

I’m not sure whether this was meant as an athletic or purely aesthetic display – since they’re billed as ‘acrobats’, I assumed skill was involved, so what would be the best and worst case scenario those 8-10 in the narrowest tier would be supporting?

e: was there any kind of structural support in this? I’m not finding much about it.

Here’s a Snopes article about this event at the 1980s Olympics in Moscow.

I need some new earbuds, and live in a place with severe winters. I want to be able to access the controls using gloves or mittens if possible.

The online reviews I've seen all assume that you can just touch the earbuds with bare hands, but when it's well below freezing, that sometimes isn't possible. If I have to take off a mitt to use my earbuds my hand might not warm up until I can get back indoors again. Earbuds that work with touchscreen-capable gloves aren't good enough either. I've never seen touchscreen-capable gloves that keep your hands warm at -40C.

Any suggestions?

Female primary psychopaths are very rare. Psychopathy is a neurological condition that people are born with. Is the use of gangstalking by normal people or a governmental agency something they would do to better understand the mind of a primary psychopaths?

You know how their faces contort when hitting certain notes or rhythms? Why is that triggered in the face? Is it an emotional response? Communication by facial expression? Vestigial from some other process?

Feel like everyone's been telling me it's the best thing since sliced bread. I'm just a hobbyist with like a single big project I'm maintaining but I'm starting to hate the code and idk maybe I should rewrite it in rust. Idk