Just don’t stress so much. Take the time to enjoy your hobbies or just relax. Your body needs it.

Also, find an extra 4 hours every day to exercise, meditate, and get a full night’s sleep. But also make sure to socialize with friends and family. Oh, and eat right. And clean up a bit, your environment is a big factor.

But don’t stress!

Nice rock. Sorry your taxes are so high under there.

That’s a hard steamed egg, though…

Wow, I expected this from the US, Canada, or the UK.

I thought having clear rules for an efficient society was Germany’s whole thing.

Yeah, wouldn’t the increased surface area increase the release of gas making everything ripen faster?

And do you vote in a 2 party system where one of them is following through on threats of dehumanizing immigrants, non-white citizens, and LGBTQ?

Classic conservative math.

Tax rate is 35%? That’s basically half!

He has a trans son, who he supports

No, he objectively does not. Tolerates on a local level, sure, but not supports.

“I love you, son! I’m so proud of you for being your true self,” he yelled from outside the burning building, holding the door shut, “but you’re on the insurance policy, so the payout is better if you die!”

I’m partial to the Anthony Vincent tune swap version

Jolene - Duality

If there’s right wing and/or established American indoctrination to parrot, he sings like a little bird.

My dental hygienist actually explained it to me one time.

It has nothing to do with “toughening up your gums” like I used to think. Food gets trapped, bacteria grows, and your gums become inflamed to combat the bacteria. So now your gums are constantly full of blood protecting you from infection and when you do floss (or someone flosses for you), they’re going to bleed a lot.

I started flossing habitually every night and wouldn’t you know it I’ve only ever bled or felt pain from flossing when I miss some stupid popcorn shell thats wedged itself down low (which also goes to show, you don’t event need to do a particularly good job flossing for it to work 99%)

A bonus tip for folks that don’t like garotting their fingertips every night by wrapping them in 6 loops of floss just to get some tension: tie a short piece into a loop, double knotted, and you just pull the loop tight between two fingers. No finger pain, no extra appliance, and it uses less floss.

Extra bonus tip: get proper butlerweave floss. The plastic ribbon bullshit is absolute nonsense. Like trying to wash dishes with a zip lock bag…

Do you remember LoZ Wind Waker? Maybe it’s the nostalgia goggles, but ripping through the open water just felt good. I don’t even think it was particularly mechanically fun. Maybe it was just the music.

Its okay lil guy, I don’t know either

Why are we even reading what you have to say?

You’re conflating the severity of the consequences to the likelihood of it happening.

The likelihood of getting in a crash is not higher if your feet are on the dash. The likelihood of your injuries being worse, way worse, is. That’s the point of plenty of plenty of precautions.

Do you think seatbelts aren’t necessary because they don’t make you less likely to crash?

I still don’t understand.

It sounds like you’re saying we should not be concerned with putting our feet up on the dash because we could fall off a ladder.

Don’t put your feet up on the dashboard because an unlikely crash could shatter your hips.

Don’t step on the top of a step ladder because a less unlikely fall could break your spine.

Why are we comparing them like it’s incompatible to practice basic safety for both? Absolutely, there are many other more common dangers in the world you should guard yourself against. But not putting yourself in a position to severely worsen your injuries in the event of a car collision is one of them!

What are you talking about?

“I’ve never got into a crash, so go ahead and put your feet up on the dash if you like because people get injured from ladder falls and sports.”

First of all, and this is an issue I’m trying to impress on my 7 year old too, no one intends to have an accident, that’s why it’s called and accident. Just because you’ve never been in a car collision doesn’t mean it won’t happen.

Then, in the event that a collision does happen, you really don’t want your feet up because it will be worse. What may have been some heavy bruising to your face and chest turned into one shattered femur and one ripped right out of your hip.

That’s the lesson, and it’s not “over cautious”. It’s absolutely an appropriate level of caution.

Real estate is a good example of the trickiest thing about “simple” wealth tax.

I bought a house, and 20 years later I have to pay more taxes because my neighbourhood is more desirable?

Okay, easy solution, you get one free house you need to reside in for x% of your time per year.

But say I bought a painting from a local artist, even a friend, and decades go by and they’ve gone on to become ultra famous. Do I now have to pay more tax because I possess something that has become valuable?

Obviously thats a very unlikely scenario, but you can see the principle issue.

Brain: I’d have to be crazy to have a baby…

Biology: No problem!

I’ll play devils advocate here. We have no audio and no testimony from the victim or witnesses in the article. He only exits the van when she walks away.

He could have been unjustifiably distracted, hit the girl, was collecting himself to get out of the van, and then she just walked away. So he gets out and says, “what the hell, you can’t just walk away from something like that. We need to call an ambulance or get you to a hospital or something” and her, being a teenager who would rather not engage at all would brush it off with “no, I’m fine, fuck off”.

What do you do? You can’t detain the girl. So she leaves and what? You call the cops and say “I fucked up and hit someone with my van.” Who does that help? Now shes lost in the crowd. You can’t just stay there, so you drive away. What else is there to do?

He’s 100% guilty of hitting a pedestrian who was plainly walking in a clearly marked crosswalk where it is likely busy with other highschool students as there are clearly others in the video. Don’t get me wrong, fuck that guy. We can fairly judge him on that account. And that verbal interaction absolutely could have been him victim blaming, but that is conjecture. I’d believe any first hand witness over him, and pretty much any secondhand retelling from someone a witness spoke to. But we have no evidence whatsoever about what was said.

That’s a ragebait title.