As somebody who used to weigh over 350 pounds, you need to be the thing that stops you. I promise, losing the weight is harder than just not buying that cake in the first place.

As somebody in a conservative county with kids in school, that is the point to them. They frame it as "parent's rights" but the purpose is to try to out closeted Trans kids to their parents so the parents will "fix it". To them it is all upside. The kids with supportive parents? They consider them a lost cause anyways. The kids with unsupportive parents they hope they can "fix", or at least force them to hide it.

That is because one party at least tries to be ethical most of the time and the other doesn't even have the courtesy to pretend. Ethics shouldn't be a party issue but here we are.

Honestly, him dying is very real concern to me. If Republicans keep the House and he passes away, I can certainly see somebody trying to do something to Kamala Harris, as the Speaker of the House is next in line after the Vice President.

That said, I'd vote for Joe Biden if he was fucking 110, if the other option was Donald Trump. Or any Republican honestly.

Do you not have a kinoplex?

No shame. Today was the day you learned something new! We all had to learn it for the first time at some point

It was Epic exclusive on PC I believe

Speaker For the Dead is kind of like this. The MC is hated for actions taken in a previous book (Ender's Game). That said, the main character travels under his real name as opposed to the pseudonym he was known under when he did the things that made people hate him now. Also, due to time dilation from traveling at near light speed, his actions were ~3000 years in the past. As a result, he is basically a mythical evil figure in the general consciousness, but is not hated in his day to day life because people don't know who he is.

Not sure if this is close enough, but it is the only thing I could think of.

I can't speak for OP, but some people sleep through alarms if they haven't slept enough. My oldest will legit just sleep through his phone alarm if it has been less than 5 hours since he went to bed. I've just heard his alarm go off in his room for 20 minutes straight before I walk in there and shake him awake. Shit is a problem.

I've worked adjacent to customer service people in a call center. Honestly, they might not have known. Call centers are frequently terrible about giving their reps news BEFORE customers start calling in about it. Plus, low level call center reps generally aren't exactly star employees and may or may not pay attention when told things.

I recommend using Tor browser as an alternate option. For anybody who can't use a VPN or doesn't want to.

Running. Not as expensive as a lot of the things posted about here, but my shoes cost ~$150 and I have replaced them a couple times a year. I'm planning to get in to trail running soon (as opposed to running circles in my neighborhood, so now I want to add a running vest and a GPS watch, which is not cheap.

Considering that in theory all you need to run is your body and an open space, I feel like I have spent a lot of money.

EDIT: I forgot the ~$140 bone conducting headphones I bought! I for sure feel safer with them than my old headphones though, since I have been doing almost all of my running till now on the road.

Obviously you do or else you wouldn't live there

Very much not true. Moving to another country full time is not particularly easy for a lot of people.

Haha, sorry! I didn't share because as of now there is only the one post (about this word). Plus, I'm honestly unsure the best way to link a community so people can easily access it.

That said, it is ILearnedAWord

https://ttrpg.network/c/ilearnedaword

for people who just learned a neat word and might want to share it. Truthfully, I don't super expect it to grow to be more than just me posting in there, but I think it would be a fun way to keep track of fun words I learn and a better way to learn words than a word of the day calendar. The lack of seeing words in use on those drives me nuts, cause the sample sentences are usually boring af.

While I don't agree completely (servers cost money), the way so many wikis use ads is absolutely horrible. If you have so many ads it makes your website hard to use, we have a problem.

That said, I try to contribute to any sort of ad free resource I use on any sort of regular basis. I like when people are not trying to see me anything besides what I asked for, and I see it kind of like buying use of their product.

You just taught me a new word! Puissant!

The word was so fun I decided to make a new community where people can share fun words they just learned. Thank you!

Closed. I have an 18 year old who has been working the closing shift a lot this summer. I don't want to be woken.

I am pretty sure he didn't actually promise it. I know he said he supports decriminalization and getting it rescheduled to Schedule 2, but I am pretty confident he never went out and said "I will get it moved to schedule 2" or anything along those lines.

I have seen a lot of people say about what he promised to do while campaigning but I am pretty sure it is mostly people taking him saying he wants to do something and reading it as him saying "I will do this". Joe Biden has been in politics a very long time and knows what the president can and can't do, I doubt he overpromised.

It isn't like he ran as a progressive, he didn't make a ton of big promises while campaigning. It was basically him saying "I will make things somewhat normal" after the Trunp presidency.

But...but....the Simpsons did it

But pretty much only on !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz