I can imagine him just living a hippie life, not putting labels on things, just shagging whomever he felt like.

Kidnapping and locking someone up wouldn’t be a crime on purge day either, but that wouldn’t automatically make it ok to still have them locked up the next day.

But I’m genuinely curious what that is. Doesn’t look like a city manhole cover, which would have some identifying markings on it.

It felt so creepy when I saw the picture and got a flashback of dreaming that bathroom. It got doubly creepy when I found a comment about it already. But I’m not American.

It shows all downvotes first, then all upvotes.

No, the kid’s answer is not “just as right”, it is the correct and expected answer. The teacher’s answer is wrong and proof the teacher doesn’t understand the question. The entire point of the question is understanding that fractions of a whole are relative to that whole and you can’t directly compare fractions from different wholes like that. 5/6 > 4/6 doesn’t mean Luis ate more pizza than Marty, it means Luis ate a larger share of his pizza than Marty ate out of his own.

Must be a small desk to only fit a draw. Larger ones can fit drawer. Industrial sized ones fit drawest.

This is Cyanide & Happiness. They’re in the body shame everyone camp.

we should go do X

we should stay in and watch a movie and snuggle

That’s not small talk, that’s planning what to do today. You can open the same conversation with “hey, what do you want to do today?”

you’ve found out what their opinion on free will and almost every other deep conversation you could have with them in the first few years

I met my wife when we were 16-17. We are in our 40s now. It’s reasonable to expect that our opinions on such subjects have changed since then.

But there are plenty of subjects to talk about. How is the current environment in the US going to impact our kids’ lives going forward? Even if we know each other’s general perspectives on life, the universe, and everything, that doesn’t mean we can also predict opinions on complex scenarios and situations.

talking about things with very low impact or consequences

Isn’t that the definition of small talk?

The free will question is much closer to the conversations I was having with my wife before we got married. We were talking for hours every day, I can’t imagine spending hours on small talk.

If the purge were real there would be a whole industry around purge-proofing homes. Also rental purge-proof shelters.

I have aphantasia. I definitely cannot rotate a cube in my mind. I can with great effort and concentration kind of do what you describe, follow where individual edges and vertices would be in space relative to each other, but normally it would just be the idea in my head “there’s a cube and it’s rotating”.

My go to test for aphantasia goes like this:

• “Imagine a circle”
• “OK”
• “What color is it?”

People always answer with color and many times with a more detailed visual description, like texture, material, the surrounding scene, etc. I personally would very stumped by that question because when asked to imagine a circle, I just imagine the concept of a circle. It has no color, no texture, no substance.

Paradox of tolerance

4U2PN2 - “for you to pee into”

The serial number is on a urinal.

What happened to her dress?

I was wondering how Lord of the Flies fit in the Idiocracy circle.

Wouldn’t not ok be at the bottom and very ok at the top?

I never owned a 486 either. My first upgrade after the 286 was a Pentium.