Last year I read “The Fifth Season” by NK Jemison. It’s a trilogy, but this is the name if the first book. Very interesting story, very weird and kind of depressing. However, what makes me suggest it here is that it’s written in second person, so it’s like the reader is the main character and the narrator is telling you your own story that you forgot. “You picked up your things and went out the door.” I’ve never read a novel written that way before and it was really cool.

Towns like this do still exist, but they are getting very rare. When we were looking for our house we specifically tried to find a town like you described, and we did. The elementary and middle schools are about 10 minutes walk from our house, and about 3/4 of the kids in town walk to school. The farthest walkers are maybe a bit over a mile away. Because they are all used to that walk for school, it also translates to the rest of life. My kids will walk or ride their bikes and scooters to the pizzeria or ice cream shop, the town pool is just a few minutes farther, and there are 3 parks within a 5 minute walk. I’m so incredibly happy with our choice and would recommend looking at these things when choosing a place to move to.

Ooh, don’t say that out loud, citizens united might hear you

Well, most people there are…

He has enough kids already, no need to encourage him

I feel like I was the only person who liked vista. XP looked like shit, so I used win 2k instead and switched to Vista, never had any issues with it at all.

What are they eating, a whipped cream sandwich?

Zelensky is the strongest man in the world to be able to hold himself back from attacking these ass holes.

Half and half is the standard where I live. Or people say cream and get half and half because cream is a faster word to say.

That must just be a coincidence, because he’s never heard of project 2025

Luckily the department of education is getting dissolved soon

Look at his official president photo, he wants to be an evil mastermind

The problem is that it has been a bubble for most of its public trading existence. It was highly overvalued 10 years ago, the stock price has never made sense, so who knows when it will finally correct.

That’s really expensive! Why not just make your own iced tea at that point? It’s a very easy drink to make in big batches since you drink it cold.

Trump said something incredibly stupid? Wow, that is news!

How about “pasta” then? That way it’s explicitly Italian instead. Or casserole? That actually kind of works, it’s a bunch of parts you mix together and bake to get something cool at the end.

The term wasn’t about Japanese drivers, it was about Japanese cars. They were called “rice burners” as in they were fueled by rice, not gasoline. I guess that was someone’s joke that became wide spread.

You’re right that it was sort of derogatory to refer to cars that had all their customization on things like giant exhausts, huge wheels, neon lights, rather than performance improvements.

I’ve never heard the term used to refer to the ethnicity of the driver, just the ethnicity of the car, so I don’t think it’s racist, shrug.

This post is a great example of what OP is talking about. OP gave no political opinion on anything and you are calling them out for not being a real leftist?

If you use refind why bother with grub? Isn’t it superfluous?