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Renrijra Krin
16hr ago
I mean for little girls, I remember reading Beverly Clearly’s Ramona books as a kid, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High. Those aren’t woke and would probably be interesting to a girl.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
If you get to immigrate one day, DM me, I'll take you to an off the beaten path place for brisket. And shooting.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
16hr ago
Same. As is likely true for most people living in large metro areas in the US.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
16hr ago
I've got no strong feelings about Asahi, it's alright. I only chose it because it's the only beer I had twice this trip, and thus noted the price. I think the British version is okay, nothing to write home about.
I normally drink Tennent's, or ciders, but I'm really not picky about my liquor.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
I mean, Trump looks likely to send out 'doge rebate checks' or something similar in september of '26. Peronism, here we come.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
16hr ago
I'm not sure exactly when it disappeared, but that sounds about right. I know the laws still allowed it in some cases through at least 2000, but I never saw it myself. My parents have stories of it happening.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
17hr ago
Whereas if I see a mountain lion in my US neighborhood, I have something mildly unusual to post about on nextdoor. Occasionally a mountain lion even makes its way into the heart of a major city, though that makes headlines when it happens.
Family stories? The school I attended had corporal punishment into the late 80s. The teachers who practiced it are still living, and the last cohort of students to experience it are only in their 40s.
ETA: I had those same teachers in later years. They found some creative alternatives to the paddle and the rod once those were banned. I think I might have preferred a quick paddling to the more protracted punishments they used instead.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
I'm registering my support for a 'smoke the whole pack' rule- a rule that particularly inflammatory posts by users who make a habit of it are required to respond in depth to every argument, no matter how banal or trite.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Well maybe when he gets back from his ban...
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
I also rarely see a mob of investment bankers torching a hotel.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Homeless shelters are often located at the center of the city because that is where the people who need their services mostly are.
No jokes in this post unfortunately. Around 10 years ago Asahi beer was still imported to the US for certain sizes (1L and 2L cans, interestingly enough), tasting it side by side with the US brewed licensed swill gave an insanely obvious difference. The Italy-made swill isn't like old US-licensed swill, but similarly it's not at all like Japanese Asahi.
The level of difference is like the difference between Bud Light -> Guinness - it's not even the same category of beer.
Do the inherent population and cultural differences between Canada and the US really justify that?
At a quick glance the murder rate is 2.5-3x lower in Canada compared to the US. So a lot of the force of that number is cut down immediately.
I've also seen arguments that legal systems play a role: stronger protections in some domains mean that the US must use incarceration as a relatively blunt tool rather than catching people early.
I think the more likely truth is that the US is well past the point of diminishing returns when it comes to prison capacity
Based on? The post-Floyd loosening of the justice system's grip made things notably worse. It didn't lead to a massive exodus of unfortunate bike couriers caught with a blunt from the jails, instead criminals showed themselves.
Corvos
17hr ago
Is this actually true? I thought it tasted different in the UK but I assumed it was just a vibe thing.
SkoomaDentist
17hr ago
No, really! She was carving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given to her by Svenge, her brother-in-law.
Asahi
It might only be a small thing, but I have to break it to you. Asahi anywhere outside Japan is simply low-quality Italian Peroni beer made in Italy and with the Asahi logo slapped on it. It tastes absolutely nothing like Japanese Asahi beer and imo is a waste of money. I hear Britain has alot of domestic beer options but idk shrug.
Ironically "Peroni" sold in the USA is actually domestic Coors labelled as Peroni, while "Asahi" sold in the USA is actually Peroni made in Italy. So "Asahi" in USA is actually the Peroniest beer even more than the stuff that says Peroni on the label. Anyways I hate how trademarks can simply be bought and sold and slapped on whatever as long as the money grubbing conglomerates can make a quick buck. Imo trademarks should exist to protect consumers not corporations, so this should be illegal. See also: "Yashica" Y35.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
17hr ago
I'm glad you enjoyed your weekend, and this is an excellent write-up. You have a good eye and have now possibly seen more of 2025 London than I have.
Thank you, I appreciate the timely advice given to me as I was adrift in Tottenham. Helped me get my bearings right quick.
I think a huge amount of the cost growth in central London is due to non-doms on semi-annual migration paths
I'm not sure I follow? Are they working seasonally?
For complicated reasons I am staying in a nice block of flats there temporarily and I check the parcel collection regularly for a delivery that I am expecting; I have never seen an English or even a European name on the parcels.
What's that about? Tax fraud? BTW, if you're ever free, I would love to catch up over drinks. Presuming it's not a place where the drinks are even more ludicrously priced than average, they're on me. It sounds like we can both agree on Wetherspoons haha.
I suspect also that there was a pent-up suspicion that London could tolerate higher prices and that COVID provided the excuse to let 'er rip and see the limits of what the market would tolerate. As a result locals seem to have mostly accepted that pubs and meals out are a treat and not a lifestyle, and go maybe once a week while penny-pinching the rest of the time. This may skew prices and (God I hope) they may come down as the market decides it prefers regular attendance to spiky high profits.
It does seem to be tolerated. At the end of the day, the bare minimum for human habitation is subsistence, and it takes a lot to make people truly give up and flee their homes. And there's no shortage of people hypnotized by the London Dream, not to mention a steady influx of tourists. Of course, I wouldn't have met the people who decided that London was too rich for their blood and fled. Anyone there is there by choice, or simply has none.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
17hr ago
I feel like this is missing some obvious "thirteenth tribe" joke, maybe in reference to the great Mormon work of literature Battlestar Galactica.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
17hr ago
I know a Jewish family that has carefully acquired and maintained multiple passports across generations rather openly based on the lived experience of their parents (and grandparents, and great grandparents) during WWII. The cynics would say "rootless cosmopolitans" here (and maybe there is an element of that), but having heard their Holocaust stories second-hand, I see why they care so much.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
17hr ago
Moose bites can be pretty nasti
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
17hr ago
Just three? I was there for several hours, and if the blurb was accurate, the damn thing looped every 17 minutes.
Rest assured I quickly stopped paying much attention.
TIRM
17hr ago
My school teachers are not trusted to make good judgments. They'd screw up corporal punishment. In a better world we'd have reliable teachers who could correctly determine who needs a paddling. We don't live in that world.
OK, horse riding codes rural in America more than upper class. At least in Texas. And upper class housewives do not iron their husband's suit, they take it to the dry cleaners.
Upper class housewives pay(as in enter the credit card number) for private school, they manage IRA contributions, they maximize tax exemptions, they pay the contractors. They host dinner parties. What they don't do is, uh, housework. There's Mexicans for that, as in the Georgian era there were the lower classes for it. It has always been thus.
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