tiredofsametab

More is better. Dry pasta and white rice store very well for carbs and don’t take up a ton of space.

This has been a thing for centuries at this point, though it seems to be falling out of faction. You can find it in style guides already just after the turn of the 20th century and the practice certainly dates back further. Some publications online have stopped doing title case in favor of sentence case, but I’m not sure in physical media. Title Case sets the title apart, may be clearer or catchier at a distance (good for newstands and newsies, I guess?) and I find it easier to read in some cases. Some argue it stems from German which capitalizes all nouns, but I doubt that since this is done everywhere in German and not just in titles.

Basically, it seems that way since, afaik, no free ID is a available that meets the requirements.

Even if it were free, getting it would still definitely be harder for the disadvantaged, but I have no idea how the courts might see that in isolation.

It is a once-per-10-years spend. The renewal fee is the same. I’m not sure about RealID-complient ID prices since that all happened after I left the US.

Americans having access to healthful food and time to cook when working two jobs is a whole other thing (this disproportionally impacts people of lower income). Also, as I mentioned in another reply, trying to get all of the documents together to do this and the time and transportation to do it (remember: public transit is absolute shit, if even available, in a lot of the US) is a whole other problem.

It seems like it’s either $130 or $165 (130 + 35) for a first time applicant according to the web. Keep in mind that many US households couldn’t bear a sudden $400 expense and this is even worse amongst the working poor.

Not the easiest nor cheapest to obtain. Also, only like 1/4 US citizens have a passport last I checked.

Nope. Especially in poor communities. Not only may someones parents be shitty and getting the documentation alone be hard, but working multiple jobs, not driving, and needing to spend hours (and money) getting to a DMV (and, in some cases, on the ID itself?) isn’t an easy task.

I was on BBS, Compuserve, and eventually AoL and others. I forget when I first saw it, but it felt later to me. It’s possible it just wasn’t popular when and where I was around and that meant I didn’t see it until much later, but I don’t remember it. I remember being confused the first time I saw it, wondering what it might stand for.

I am somehow one step removed as XD feels young to me 8-)

But what is a meme if it doesn’t miss GenX. Whatever. (I assume here that the ‘I hate my wife’ is meant to be a jab at boomer humor, but I may be wrong).

I saw it twice that I can remember in person in my ~30 years growing up and living in the US. Can’t speak for the last decade as I’ve only spent a couple weeks in the US in that time to see family.

Jetstream 0.5. Probably 5 is the closest. I still have a box of 2 floating around.

Hey, you’re the one fucking this goat; I’m just holding the horns.

I don’t know how that works considering they can fly directly to US bases. I guess it could potentially stop them going off base, but i don’t know how that would be enforced. I’m basing this off of some familiarity with military folks in Japan I’ve met.

In many parts of the world, shoe sizes are unified (cm or mm). They still use the labels for men and women for style but, so far as I know, they’re otherwise the same (unless the widths differ, but those are also standardized in many places so you might get like a 25.5e for 25.5cm width e)

Red Leicester, cheddar, etc. are not real cheese? 0.o

Several cheeses included anatto and other similar things, so the association may come from that (which can dye the cheese) as much or more than the color itself.

It could be that, despite many (most?) pizzas having more white cheese, the white cheese is more prevalent but, particularly in the US, cheese is often associated with yellow/orangish tones so they included it to match that expectation. They’re a big company and these came out in the '90s IIRC, so I imagine it was researched and focus-grouped to death before launch and, since two cheeses are almost certainly more expensive than one, there’s probably a reason there are two.

Lead, mercury, and other (mostly heavy) metals. Look up mad hatters. Also phosphorus and match girls

sigh don’t make me get the spray bottle; you know you’re not allowed on the table in here

I disagree with the broad brush as not all westerners nor easterners would fit into that (see rural areas that suddenly got disposable travel income), you are right that Japan is far from perfect but we could all benefit from some exchange