While grateful for the explanation, I find myself no less confused.

You sound like you steal from the forest. Abhorrent thief.

Did I misunderstand what "separation of church and state" meant?

Can't say for Tobey, but apparently Daniel Radcliffe did deliberately do something very similar to stymie paparazzi.

edit: Spelling.

When I was in Jamaica, one of the tour guides pointed out the (former, I think?) house of a celebrity. Apparently, you always knew when the celebrity was in town because, quote, "you could smell them smoking."

When he said this, I sincerely thought the guide meant smoking meat until I made a comment about that and everyone started laughing at me.

Yeah, but that one guy who posted about accidentally owning five identical grey cats really skews the numbers.

So what's the meal?

Impressive that they were able to generate a pull request with blank screens.

... You must be one of my co-workers. Except that we just delete ours rather than labeling them.

When I started at my current job, I had basically no familiarity with AWS. Someone tried to explain how AWS networking worked to me and did so by drawing this on the whiteboard at the office.

Plus it puts on a Santa hat around Christmas.

Well this was just depressing.

This isn't exactly 100% relevant to your story, but it is related and an anecdote I enjoy sharing.

I recently moved to a small town and hired an electrician to make some changes to my house. After showing him around the house, we went to look at the fuse box to determine what changes could be made.

As we were looking, he said "I know those fuses are original." When I asked how, he pointed at the labels and said "because that's my father's handwriting."

Kinda cool to have a legacy like that. The electrician did do good work, so far as I can tell, so it was likely earned as well.

That sounds like the kind of thing that could easily, and perhaps should, be automated.

I mean ... As long as communication and intent are clear in both directions, being willing to get married isn't a red flag. My now wife wanted to get married a long time before I did and made that clear. We are now happily married with a child and both happy with that development because she made sure I knew what she wanted and I only disagreed with the timeline.

If this post is true, I'd say it's a good thing, at least without any context. Now the poster knows that

• if they do plan to propose, they don't need to worry (which should be a prerequisite to any marriage proposal)
• if they don't plan to or hadn't even considered proposal, they can start thinking about that
• if they don't want to get married at all, they can start discussing that with their girlfriend (and yes, get out of the relationship if their life goals aren't compatible)

One of my favorite limericks:

Little Johnny was a scientist
Little Johnny is no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4

I know those words, but I don't think they're being used in a manner to which I'm accustomed.

Oysters are, indeed, vastly unappealing as food; however, they're not trash - they're excellent water filters.

The last time I left a bowl on my porch, literally the first group that came took all the candy and threw the bowl into my lawn. It disincentivized from doing so again.