The number of tankies in this thread is just epic

Navy SEAL is an acronym. Doesn’t count.

Article 1, section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises […]

Isn’t “Arbeitsnehmer” one who takes labor? I would think the worker gives his or her labor, and the industrialist takes it.

It’s not a social construct, it’s a legal concept

… and other fairy tales

That would be my reaction too. Who says “unsubscribe to” instead of “unsubscribe from”?

I can’t stress how important this is: babysitting does not, in fact, involve sitting on baby.

For real. Once I retire in a decade or so, I’ll try to live off social security for as log as possible, but once I need to dip into my savings, I’m just tapping my kid’s inheritance. At that point, death is the only financially rational option.

I assume that anything in slang or music that I don’t understand is either about sex or drugs.

For the hard of reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

The fact that energy stays energy doesn’t mean it’s useable energy. See: the heat death of the universe

Yeah, that’s not a danish, that’s an entire cake. It’s 14 ounces.

Around 2004-5 I regularly stayed at a large chain hotel near Tucson airport (something like Doubletree, but I’m not sure if it was that one). They charged a daily fee for the phone in your room. Not for using it, mind you, just for the phone being there. And no, they did not have rooms without phones.

Pretty sure Hilton will just sell you one

I’ve left it at the default

“Aside from people who [benefit from self-checkout], it’s hard to see who benefits from self-checkout.

I don’t think the step- relations are to hide incest. I think it’s a lazy way to create situations where two people are alone together. Otherwise you’d have to go to tired tropes like pizza delivery, or visiting plumber, etc.

They really are disgusting aren’t they

I’m at 17, no lie.